RamonAtila Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 It was underused. We coulda seen it devour a star, create a black hole! stars wars woulda been on a whole new level. instead what they gave us was 5 planets being blown up that was less climactic than 1 planet being blown up in ANH. And to make it worse they could have given perspective of what was being blown up. All we got was a few minor shots of people watching from a balcony that didn't give you an idea of where they were and juxtaposed with the rest of the scene, like some cutaway to the PT. that city part just didn't feel right. Will they balance it out with more cities in the new trilogy? Well that's another topic. Your thoughts on Starkiller Base? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 You know what we really needed to sell this? A couple scenes on one of the planets that got blown up. Let us see the place ... meet the people. I feel like this is where ANH lacked as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 You know what we really needed to sell this? A couple scenes on one of the planets that got blown up. Let us see the place ... meet the people. I feel like this is where ANH lacked as well This is one of my biggest criticisms of the prequels - not spending time on freaking Alderaan. I really, really, really hope Rogue One gives us some Bail Organa and Alderaan. I thought Starkiller Base was fine. It's a plot device, nothing more. And I'm probably the only person who loves Hux's speech to pieces. Such a ham! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 No you're not the only one that speech was sheer epic awesome sauce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Even if they had just left the planet as Coruscant that would've at least had some sort of impact on the viewer, being familiar with it from the prequels. I don't understand why it was changed. But yeah, a few scenes on whatever the name of that planet was would've made it more worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Maybe it was changed because it's in the hands of the First Order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Honestly, I kinda wish Starkiller base didn't exist. Or at least didn't have the power to destroy a planet and was just a stronghold of TFO. The main focus of the climax is the stuff happening on the planet, rathr than the attack on the base. Just beef up the stuff ON Starkiller base. Have there be a daring escape after the saber fight is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbleh Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I think it annoyed me because I just wasn't happy with something that immense being a mere plot device (still undecided about Hux' Hitler moment), and I think TFA would have been a better movie if it had kept its focus on the race to find Luke (it is completely integrated in to the movie and serves a lot of functions and facilitates a lot of things though, like Kirk v Kruge redux... with lightsabers! in the dark!... TFA is like one of those puzzles where taking out a piece that you want to remove also removes a piece you don't want to remove) I don't think many people will feel the same as me, but I hate seeing cities / civilisation in Star Wars movies (it's like having a shot of New York in a Western) and I like that balcony scene a bit less every time I see it (JJ wanted to blow up Coruscant but he wasn't allowed to; I wish he had been allowed to blow it up because then it wouldn't be a location any more) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I think most movie goers probably just assumed it was the same city planet they saw in the PT and if Coruscant is a location going forward it would cause confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 And JJ wasn't allowed to blow up Coruscant because......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbleh Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 It's just something I've seen said a few times in various places (because it's too important / lucrative to destroy), might not be true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quetzalcoatl Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I think most movie goers probably just assumed it was the same city planet they saw in the PT and if Coruscant is a location going forward it would cause confusion. Yeah. Up until clicking on this thread just now, I always thought that was a shot of Coruscant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 They said the name in the movie but I can never remember it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 The Assian system or some shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Hosnian, which, appropriately enough, is Huttese for "some shit" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Even if they had just left the planet as Coruscant that would've at least had some sort of impact on the viewer, being familiar with it from the prequels. I don't understand why it was changed. But yeah, a few scenes on whatever the name of that planet was would've made it more worthwhile. just watched ROTJ with the kid. His exact words upon seeing Coruscant in the end celebration: "Dance now, your planet's getting blown up eventually." I didn't correct him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wader Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 When I first saw it, I thought the Hosnian system was just the system Coruscant was in. I think bleh is right, it was meant to be Coruscant but for whatever reason they've changed it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 It makes more sense to be Coruscant. Out with the old and in with the new. Perhaps the new guy wanted it in his movie. We may need a referendum on trade routes or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 HosnianAssian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I'm probably the only person who doesn't think Hosnian Prime looks like Coruscant. Hosnian had water, and the railing of that balcony looked too old. Coruscant was modern. It also makes political sense why the New Republic didn't settle on Coruscant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 The only thing that makes sense is JJ being told he couldn't blow up Coruscant because it would be too much of an FU to Lucas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Yeah that. I get what Mara is saying but if it was specified as Coruscant and everything else about that scene was the same ... everything thing she said could be rationalized. "The owner of the building aged the balcony to look retro, the water was part of a Central Park ish development project" etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Doesn't Tank claim that the directors will be able to do whatever they want story wise? In this case, I agree with him. If JJ wanted to blow up Coruscant, he would have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 It's a baffling choice either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Darth Hunter Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 You know what we really needed to sell this? A couple scenes on one of the planets that got blown up. Let us see the place ... meet the people. I feel like this is where ANH lacked as wellI agree on TFA, but not on ANH. My feeling is that when ANH was released in '77, we had never seen anything on this scale before. Seeing a moon-sized battle station flying around the galaxy with the ability to blow planets up was scary stuff back then. To top it off, the shots of Alderaan looked like earth. So when it's destroyed, it was easy to relate. Fast forward to today and it's been there, done that. Seeing a couple of scenes taking place on the Hosnian planet would've added weight to the destruction. And from what I've read, there were going to be scenes of Leia sending her emissary to this planet to talk to the New Republic government about the growing threat of the FO. The woman we see in the balcony right before the planet blows up was supposed to be this character. But I think they deleted these scenes because of the PT backlash of having too much politics in the films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts