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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuaziquestGM" data-source="post: 6790556" data-attributes="member: 22559">For me, it felt like a Star Wars movie and looked like a Star Wars movie.  I liked the attention to detail in the First Order base. The wall panels and background details looked like what an Imperial base should look like. I agree with the criticism that the  Resistance should have sent more than 3 people in the ground strike team, but we got to see them literally throw the plan together in 4 minutes.  Maybe the commando squad wasn't in town....My problems are related to Starkiller base, the new X-wing design, and one photography/3d conversion error. In reverse order.1) Photography problem.  I'm glad the film didn't make the same stupid choice that seems to be in every other modern sci-fi and fantasy film: back ground blur on what should be a smooth "fly-by shot".  If there is an interesting background, why don't they let us see it?  I'm glad they didn't do that. Which makes it infuriating that they screwed up a "interior reveal" crowd shot at the "cantina".  "Don't stare." "At what?" Any of it."....And we couldn't stare because as soon as they walked though the door everything became distorted for 5 seconds....Was this a problem with the 2d print of the 3d movie? Or just the copies sent to Indonesia?  I've seen it in 2 different theaters and both had this problem.  The scene before they walked in, and the "look at the aliens" shots where fine, but the walk-in was an unwatchable mess.   Did anyone else notice this?  2) The T 70 <img src="https://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/xwing.jpg"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="xwing" title="X-Wing Miniatures Game    xwing" data-shortname="xwing" />.  This was something I noticed during the film, but thought, "No, I'm looking at it wrong. It will make sense when I see the model/toy" and then went back to enjoying the film.  But then I looked at the model and I'm back to "That can't be right. The modeler most have forgotten/not known about basic turbine/turbofan design and just made something that looks cool".have a look:<a href="http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/09/x-wing-episode-vii-miniatures-x-wing-tie.html" target="_blank">http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/09/x-wing-episode-vii-miniatures-x-wing-tie.html</a>How can you cut a turbine/turbofan in half across the axis of rotation? If it just looked like an air intake I'd accept it without question, but it looks like a jet turbine engine.  3) StarKiller base.  My main problem is the timeline for construction.  They didn't have the full 30 years to make it.   That can be handwaved by saying that it was a repurposed terraforming project, or an repurposed alien/ancient artifact, or something the old Empire started that the First Order just finished. But it didn't look like they had enough people to build it, or enough time.My second is that they fired it once, and were going to fire it again, and didn't "eat" a star the first time.  Maybe it has a slow charge and a quick charge mode, and the slow charge works like a passive solar cell.  As for the active mode, my thinking during the film is that it didn't eat the star, but took enough energy for the surface to cool and dim.  There isn't enough room in a planet to hold the plasma of a star.... unless they have a way to hold it in a hyperspace area...But then they didn't eat a star for the first shot....As for the planetary arrangement of the Hosnian system, I think that the cantina planet was on in the habitable zone not far form the targeted planet, and the other visible target "planets" were either moons or smaller planets in the L-zones.</blockquote>

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