Star Wars 7 shit talk

Wookies or Droids?
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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 560 points 2 days ago
Just for the sake of loyalty, it would have to be R2 and C-3PO. Hans had the Wookiee. I love the fact that C-3PO was so unhappy being thrust into these adventures. He’d be so much happier working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What's the Inside of a Taun Taun like?

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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 2498 points 2 days ago

You know, warm and cozy. I also got inside a Bantha, those creatures that were outside the cantina. The inside of it was pasted over with newspapers and glue to give it substance, I thought, 'This is really odd.' I also got inside of Jabba, which was like a sauna bath, because it's like a big rubber enclosure. All the puppeteers had gone to lunch and I wondered, 'I wonder what it's like in there.'

he seems like such a good dude. his interview on the Nerdist podcast was pretty great too, I thought.

When I saw him at SW Celebration VI he really was just super cool and funny, willing to talk at length about SW or anything at all. Doesn't seem to have a mean or negative bone in his body. Ian McDiarmid is like that, too, interestingly enough.

What's the Inside of a Taun Taun like?

I thought the answer was "Luke-warm"

Up in them guts

omg schwantz thats terrible

I hear Han Solo operates a bologna stand

http://www.empireonline.com/features/star-wars-episode-vii-facts-rumours-mysteries/p1

Wonder what George Lucas thinks about the new film being shot on film instead of digital.

glad this isn't being shot in 3d

according to Harry Knowles Jack Reynor is in this. Guy has gone from a couple of small Irish movies to starring in the new Transformers and Star Wars in a couple of years. Hope it doesn't ruin him

Good news that they're doing lots of location shooting.

that aspect alone means it will be better than the prequels

ya can't wait to see han solo picnicking in central park

oh you

or gorging on cupcakes at magnolia bakery!!!

I hear they're going to use LARPers in the parc in Montreal as extras

tamtams ewoks

the film opens on earth, where luke skywalker is a successful and cynical corporate lawyer who has forgotten his past and lost whatever....force....drove him.

this page says he's been in meetings to come back, but thought they'd killed off the Emperor in Ep.6?

http://www.empireonline.com/images/uploaded/mark-hamill-star-wars-rumours.jpg

doesn't mean he can't haunt everyone

there will never be any good news about this movie

Call me a fool or a fool who follows him, but I genuinely think it could be decent.

There is almost no way it can be worse than the prequels, but of course the same kind of logic compelled me to see all three prequels despite all the evidence suggesting that they would continue to be lifeless, boring trainwrecks.

There is almost no way it can be worse than the prequels

oh ye of little faith

I also stand by this:

This is a good thing. #1: reduces george lucas's ability to do any more damage, #2: odds of proper DVD release of ORIGINAL THEATRICAL STAR WARS go up immensely, #3: horrible anonymous disney sequels actually DILUTE impact of the prequels, substantially eroding their seeming claim to be an integral piece of the saga...they instead get lumped together with the other postmillenial Shitty Star Warses. And maybe the design work for the new spaceships and robots and monsters won't suck so bad.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the primary problem w/the prequels is the cast was channeling post-jedi skywalker sad bastard acting and i barely recall any "han soloing" as it were. part of the appeal of star wars was the slow discovery of the force's full power and people left and right (empire and rebellion!) taking the piss out of it and calling it a sham. we go into the prequels with the jedis just there and the force just a thing that everyone accepts and no one even has the chance to clown it because everyone is reciting force-scripture the entire time.

Yeah, I mean more generally: the Force is banal, lightsabers are ubiquitous, the Jedi are basically bureaucrats, the clone wars are a consequence-free CGI sideshow, being trained by Yoda means getting through your 2:00 class when you didn't have time to grab lunch, tragic downfalls are rejected soap opera B stories, and absolutely everything is just boring and ordinary. I think we've hashed this out more on the "crimes of George Lucas" thread, but that's kinda the long and short of it, plus incredibly uninspired direction. Thing should have been sent back for retooling as soon as the storyboards came in.

despite that i still think ROTS was a very good movie and maybe even a touch better than ROTJ in some respects. at least it was humorless because everyone was getting killed.

maybe even a touch better than ROTJ in some respects

Like what, postproduction color or something

i remember being really impressed by the visual style and fx and settings, though yeah i mean i don't think it's better than ROTJ overall really.

I'd rather watch the prequels again than rewatch those bland new star trek movies.

i hope SW 7 isn't focused on a villain whose only motive is he's creating "chaos" as a teachable moment

Joker the Hutt

http://cdn-images.9cloud.us/92/freddie_mercury_amp_darth_vader_189275798.jpg

ROTJ absolutely clobbers ROTS, no question in my mind, and I recognize all kinds of glaring faults in Jedi. Even just the creation of Jabba the Hutt, by himself, displays about a hundred times more imagination than anything in Sith. Or the weird voice disguise thing Leia has in that one scene, the Rancor, the cool Jedi stuff Luke does (notably not done completely to death)... yeah, it's all kinda downhill after the Jabba sequence (which in itself already has a slight lack of inventiveness: why are we back on Tatooine?), but there are some rallying moments at the end, and even if everybody is a little too confident and competent (my girlfriend called it a "senior slump" movie), there's still more human drama and charm and interest to the acting. Sith has the Emperor, Obi-Wan crying out in rage and disappointment, and....ehh, not much else that impresses itself on the memory or holds the attention on the screen. IMO!

Attack on the Death Star is one of my favorite action sequences of all time

slow discovery of the force's full power and people left and right (empire and rebellion!) taking the piss out of it and calling it a sham

otm, and the general "we're not really sure what's gonna happen here" attitude of the characters, and the story in general. in short, it had less on its shoulders, which no movies that come after can ever really duplicate. The prequels felt like perfunctory telling of lore, rather than organic unfolding of epic adventure. Technically, I can't blame them, but hoping the sequels aren't saddled with so much heavy "significance", AND can somehow present great characters to carry their stories.

hope luke's grandkids have laserbikes

not to be all prometheus-y but they could go the "sometime much later in a galaxy that happens to be this one" route.

"yesterday, in st. paul, minnesota, u.s.a..."

real talk i will see this movie because i am a bad and dumb person

a young jj abrams-looking kid with an E.T. hat is brushing off what looks like dinosaur bones in a quarry. pull back to reveal the outline of an AT-AT walker.

vader and leia, walking through times square

oh god nooooooo

I hope they do a Death Star III.

To save Tatooine from an alien probe, Luke Skywalker and his rebel crew must time-travel to 1986 San Francisco to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

this is going to be a shot-for-shot remake of Singles, only with Star Wars characters

"Touch Me, I'm Wicket"