you know i really like Hamill, especially in Empire.. he's called onto to do a lot of different stuff emotionally and pretty much the entire thing is carried by him. he's the star and hero of the best loved set of movies ever and i'm baffled why he doesn't get more credit. i'm sure this has been discussed at length elsewhere. maybe everyone else likes him too?
― piscesx, Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
I always considered him a total - and wonderful - ham in Empire. Even as a kid, I laughed by ass off at "that's not true, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!". That said, I genuinely believe his voice work on Batman/Justice League is top quality.
― Nhex, Friday, 9 November 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
I can't find the direct quote, but Sam Fuller directed Hamill in Big Red One and said that Star Wars ruined the dude, in terms of wasting what Hamill could do vs what he was pigeon-holed into
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Friday, 9 November 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
His Joker gets a lifetime pass from me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA
Listened to Hamill on that Batman podcast that Kevin Smith is doing (by far the best thing Smith has ever done). He's really a pro, very much a technician when it comes to performance.
― 45 DOWN: "NYPD Blue" actor ____ Morales (R Baez), Friday, 9 November 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
In terms of a script, there has to be gold somewhere in the hundreds of SW universe novels.
― calstars, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
you'd think that
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
Bring in the rabbit dude from the comics.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i-95vNxdcS4/TRuufaqEElI/AAAAAAAAAoI/PwsUt1ufmVw/s1600/Droids%2B1A.jpg
― sug ones (omar little), Friday, 9 November 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
Responding to something Shakey said upthread, you can make compelling stories in this universe(I've given three examples at least), but the more important thing game-wise is that it will never, ever NOT be fun to force-throw a stormtrooper dude off a gangplank to his screaming death
I wonder how the purchase will affect Star Wars 1313, still in development.
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Friday, 9 November 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLXu28Kyle0
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Friday, 9 November 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
Hamill never bothered me much, except the timbre of his yelling voice. Also he had a bad traffic accident between the first 2 films, couldn't have been an easy time.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 November 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure you mean a wampa accident.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 November 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
Bring in the rabbit dude from the comics.― Ned Raggett, Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not familiar with the comics. Was it one of these little guys that Chewie's rescuing?
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070715013152/starwars/images/9/96/PlanetOfTheHoojibs-BookAndTape.jpg
― how's life, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
nah, it was this dudehttp://www.snowbuni.com/yabbfiles/Attachments/MISC_jaxxon.jpg
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
if you want to go down the rabbit-hole, so to speak
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaxxon
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, that's so much worse! I had really been looking forward to a fourth Star Wars movie with Hoojibs in it. I've never budged on my love for Ewoks either. But that rabbit...lord, almighty.
― how's life, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
Leporidist.
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
I've never budged on my love for Ewoks
I've always liked Ewoks too. The bit where one is shaking his dead mate to see if he'll wake up always gets to me.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
The Ewoks are cool. I mean even some of the crappier CGI creations in the prequels might have been tolerable if they were actual puppets or whatever
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Jaxxon was a quick-witted Lepi smuggler from Coachelle Prime. The most rambunctious of his family's thirteen children, he left his homeworld at an early age, after stealing an unprotected freighter. He made his way to Nar Shaddaa, where he began to perform odd jobs, quickly becoming familiar with the important elements of fringe culture.
hipster bunnies?
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 9 November 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
Coachelle Prime.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
I've never budged on my love for Ewoks either.
I never in my life thought I'd see this sentence
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Jaxxon in the comics was hilarious/awesome. accompanied by big-tittied human sidekick iirc
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 November 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
AMAIZA FOXTRAIN
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 November 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
I know it's long past time for this but: Whiney OTM
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 9 November 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
yes because god forbid on a website dedicated to obsessing over the minutia of popular culture we start drawings lines around which are acceptable
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
"my nerdery is more acceptale than your nerdery"
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is wrong with my keyboard
I really don't understand why you react to vague non-serious teasing as if it was a personal attack
also: "Amaiza Foxtrain" <--- I mean come on
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think she's been confirmed for the new movie yet but we can dream
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
lol i'm so not taking it personally, i'd say the same thing in any other thread where someone decided to equate nerding out over something to people wanting to fuck cartoon ponies
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
if you'd said "lol star wars nerds" i'd be okay, but you were otming Whiney's trolling post
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
bronies vs. star wars nerds is the new trekkies vs. whovians
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
not really, at all. unless the whovians actually produced daleks that they could fuck.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
lol i'm so not taking it personally, i'd say the same thing in any other thread where someone decided to equate nerding out over something to people wanting to fuck cartoon ponies― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, November 9, 2012 1:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, November 9, 2012 1:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Jon, I take offence to your notion that being a brony is all about the fuckin'.
― how's life, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
... I don't see how that joke was inappropriate, coming as it did after the reveal of big-titted human sidekick Amaiza Foxtrain
tbh I am glad we are having this conversation because just typing "Amaiza Foxtrain" is cracking me up
ps: Amaiza Foxtrain
xp: you haven't seen the picture of 70s companion Jo Grant nude and draped over a Dalek, I take it
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jxO0UwZwWXw/TV08Sa5vp-I/AAAAAAAAAPs/k6X6YtJWhfw/s1600/dalek.jpg
built for lovin
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol, that i have not seen. and no, i'm not defending the kookier/crepeier corners of star wars nerdery either.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
i know i really shouldn't be surprised, but the level of detail in every article on wookieepedia, it's mindblowing.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ Merdeyeux otm
funny, even as a star wars stan i had never spent much time on that before it was brought up itt
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
i mostly just like when it reminds me of the old comics i haven't read in 20+ years
ftr I love Star Wars and Doctor Who and Star Trek
My Little Pony can fuck off though, unless it's that cracked-out "call upon the Sea Ponies" video
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
I discovered this wondrous bit of prose on wookiepedia a while back. I never tire of reading it
The remaining IG-88 uploaded his consciousness into a computer core destined for Death Star II. He succeeded in being uploaded, and was preparing to activate his program to take over all droids in the galaxy when it was destroyed. With his consciousness in the Death Star II, he would literally become the Death Star.[3]Emperor Palpatine was the only known person on the Death Star to suspect something was wrong after the uploading of the computer core with IG-88 inside. Before the station's destruction, he noticed a series of doors in his throne room opening and closing sporadically. IG-88 did this to show the Emperor that he was not all powerful. However, IG-88 was utterly baffled when it appeared that Emperor Palpatine used some unseen force to attempt to push the doors open. However, IG-88 exerted more force and was able to continue to keep the Emperor locked in, until he grew tired of the game and unlocked the door.[3]
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
big green rabbit is only scratching the surface of the range of wacky characters in the comics
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
that's the kind of gold you get in the expanded universe novels btw
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Number None, that is amazing
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
the only expanded universe novels i've ever read were those Zhan Thrawn trilogy books.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait, i had a book of short stories about the bounty hunters at one point, including one about IG-88 but it didn't tie in with Number None's story.
I read one of the Han Solo books, it had a blue cover? I remember it was super boring, then amazing, then boring again.
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://brunching.com/images/geekchart2.gif
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
It just occurred to me that I can no longer remember anything about the plot of this movie. I remember a few moments in it -- Rei walking on walls or something, a basement scene with a diminutive creature and some kind of magical memory awakening, images of middle-aged leia and han, Adam Driver yelling, John Boyega breathing a lot, Oscar Isaac maybe crashed? Or was that John Boyega?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
awkward co-parenting scenes with Han and Leia
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
I'll give you a hint about the plot: it was exactly the same as A New Hope
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Oscar Isaac and John Boyega stole a tie fighter, which was the best part of the movie imo
That and the magic bread-puff
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
this movies biggest/only legacy in my household is the line "ONE QUARTER PORTION""
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
Magic bread puff was actually a practical effect I think! They inflated it from below.
― Kim, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link