Star Wars 7 shit talk

but who pretended to be queen amidala? was there a real padme? someone once told me one of the padmes was keira knightley. is that true? why doesn't norma care that her sister's in the black lodge?

System you're supposed to warn me about xposts!

i can see rewatching the canonical original trilogy if it's with a child who hasn't seen it before.

except that's no longer possible, right?

@NickPinkerton
If you were a kid in the 70s, I can understand why Star Wars is important to you. Baffling otherwise. In that respect it's like KISS fandom.

^he's a film critic

with the internet, all things are possible.

guys, amidala was the white swan; I never understand why everyone gets this confused.

Why do they have different accents if they're the same person?

― jmm, Monday, December 1, 2014 1:54 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was a callback to Carrie Fisher's performance in the first film.

Huh, Sofia Coppola was a handmaid as well.

I mean just look at this screencap

lol well played

relevant resource: http://royalhandmaidensociety.org/

John Simon called Leia "Organic Lay."

except that's no longer possible, right?

? I just re-watched ESB and ROTJ with my 7yo daughter, it was her first time seeing them. ESB is p good ROTJ is stupid, and even the Ewoks/Endor gave her pause.

xp

Guys... what if there were actually three Queen Amidalas?

https://cinema1544.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/young-triplets.jpg

http://lindsaymarsh.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/wpid-link_loz_triforce.gif%3Fw%3D640

http://www.royalhandmaidensociety.org/decoy_queen.html

Producer Rick McCallum did nothing to help our cause during on online chat with fans. Here's the text of the Lucasfilm chat from June 7, 1999:

ASKLucasfilm: Jedi-Al says: Rick, was it a separate actress that played the "fake" queen, when Natalie was Padme on screen? I didn't see her name in the credits.

RickMcCallum: No, it's Natalie that plays both parts.

Thanks a lot Rick!

all the handmaidens rule together; they just take turns with the makeup+hair

Shakey, what I meant was the PURE, unfucked-with-by-GL original-release versions are not unavailable unless you have some videotapes from the '90s.

ah. yeah I don't have those.

I got that on VHS somewhere at home but it has commercials

I have those but only in P&S format

I remember picking the silver color too over the gold color one (the letterbox) at Shoprite

What a fool

you kids and your aspect-ratio problems

Shakey, what I meant was the PURE, unfucked-with-by-GL original-release versions are not unavailable unless you have some videotapes from the '90s.

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Two-Disc-Widescreen-Theatrical/dp/B000FQJAIW

IIRC, for those "special feature" reissues of the untouched OG trilogy, George Lucas pretty much just played some of his old Betamax copies on a shitty TV and videotaped the results.

http://instagram.com/p/wAacTQRhRe/

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Two-Disc-Widescreen-Theatrical/product-reviews/B000FQJAIW/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

IIRC, for those "special feature" reissues of the untouched OG trilogy, George Lucas pretty much just played some of his old Betamax copies on a shitty TV and videotaped the results.

Yep. They look TERRIBLE. Like one-fourth the size of whatever screen you view them on, blurry, just awful.

In a Reddit interview with fans, when asked who shot first, Harrison Ford's reply was simply, "I don't know and I don't care." In a 2014 photo posted by Industrial Light and Magic's Twitter feed, the actor is shown holding a piece of paper that reads "I shot first."

been covered in this thread many times but anyone who cares abt this stuff need only search for "star wars despecialized" in the right parts of town

rewatched Empire last night

thank god for this thread - you guys, it turns out this movie BLOWS! my whole life i never knew

mind=blown

i'm not even the biggest SW fan or anything but this shit is pretty infuriating:

http://originaltrilogy.com/Lucasfilm_PR_response.cfm

* lightsaber lit *

The Empire Strikes Back is first-rate and the only reason the SW universe has any mythos or shows of feeling.

I think VG is trolling but ya never know.

btw are they gonna manage to get digitally resurrected Alec Guinness into this one?

As you may know, an enormous amount of effort was put into digitally restoring the negatives for the Special Editions. In one scene alone, nearly 1 million pieces of dirt had to be removed

i want to know their methodology for counting the number of pieces of dirt

special Vacu-Droid w/laser cannon iirc

xxpost Nah, he's a practical effect this time around. A marionette, I believe.

max has written a thing:

http://defamer.gawker.com/i-will-see-all-the-star-wars-movies-because-i-am-a-hope-1665238831

Good piece

The thing that is gonna be weird for me is that I basically grew up with the SW extended canon before even watching the movies

Like one of the first SW books I read (after ADF's novelizations) was Timothy Zahn's the Last Command which itself was the final part of a three part series

Well it probably would've been less time and energy to just clean off the dirt instead of stopping to count all of the pieces!

Goddammit Karl Malone beat me to the joke.

I had probably put away 5-6 books + spent about 50 hours on X-Wing's first mission that I could never beat before even getting a chance to buy and see the series on VHS (Can quite clearly remember the morning I finally watched SW)

It's gonna be hard to just point my finger at that stuff and say "that's not canon" and accept the new movies as overwriting them

O well

It's kinda like the Marvel movies. I just accept that they're a variation of the stories I'm used to. Which is cool as long as the movies bring it.

I will probably lose my fucking shit and start bawling like a child in the theater if Grand Admiral Thrawn makes even a small cameo

Bantha poodoo.

omg leaked photo of Adam Driver's character

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081126192732/starwars/images/4/4a/Nien_Nunb_JKTCG.jpg

You know, the best way to describe this new lightsaber is that it looks like something Kevin J. Andersen would have come up with

That fucker

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dual-phase_lightsaber

Records from circa 400 BBY indicate that Keiran Halcyon constructed a special dual phase lightsaber that could go from the standard 1.3 meters to a length of three meters with flick of a switch.

And he didn't even have to take any pills or learn any special exercises

as I've said before, I want to shoot geeks out of a cannon when i hear "canon"

Any other reaction wouldn't be Morbs canon.