he seems like such a good dude. his interview on the Nerdist podcast was pretty great too, I thought.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 January 2014 07:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Saturday, 25 January 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
What's the Inside of a Taun Taun like?
I thought the answer was "Luke-warm"
― schwantz, Saturday, 25 January 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
Up in them guts
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
omg schwantz thats terrible
― eric banana (s.clover), Monday, 3 February 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
I hear Han Solo operates a bologna stand
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 3 February 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
http://www.empireonline.com/features/star-wars-episode-vii-facts-rumours-mysteries/p1
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Wonder what George Lucas thinks about the new film being shot on film instead of digital.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
glad this isn't being shot in 3d
― akm, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
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
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Good news that they're doing lots of location shooting.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
that aspect alone means it will be better than the prequels
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
ya can't wait to see han solo picnicking in central park
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
oh you
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
or gorging on cupcakes at magnolia bakery!!!
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
I hear they're going to use LARPers in the parc in Montreal as extras
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
tamtams ewoks
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― Dominique, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
doesn't mean he can't haunt everyone
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
there will never be any good news about this movie
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Call me a fool or a fool who follows him, but I genuinely think it could be decent.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
There is almost no way it can be worse than the prequels
oh ye of little faith
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
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
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
maybe even a touch better than ROTJ in some respects
Like what, postproduction color or something
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:45 (ten years ago) link
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.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
I'd rather watch the prequels again than rewatch those bland new star trek movies.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
i hope SW 7 isn't focused on a villain whose only motive is he's creating "chaos" as a teachable moment
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Joker the Hutt
― 龜, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn-images.9cloud.us/92/freddie_mercury_amp_darth_vader_189275798.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
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!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
Attack on the Death Star is one of my favorite action sequences of all time
― 龜, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Dominique, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link
hope luke's grandkids have laserbikes
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:25 (ten years ago) link
not to be all prometheus-y but they could go the "sometime much later in a galaxy that happens to be this one" route.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
"yesterday, in st. paul, minnesota, u.s.a..."
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link
real talk i will see this movie because i am a bad and dumb person
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
vader and leia, walking through times square
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
oh god nooooooo
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
I hope they do a Death Star III.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
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.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
this is going to be a shot-for-shot remake of Singles, only with Star Wars characters
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
"Touch Me, I'm Wicket"
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
"Where are the anthems for our youth? What happened to music that meant something? The Max Rebo Band at Jabba's Palace, or The Ewok's aat the Victory Celebration... Where is the "Lapti Nek," where is the, is the "Jedi Rocks"... Where is the "Mad About Me" of today?"
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Is my force too small for you?Sometimes...
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link