Star Wars 7 shit talk

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.

I so want that cute rolling droid to be worse than Jar Jar for the sake of that tattoo owner.

http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2014/11/28/7302383/lets-talk-about-the-new-lightsaber-ouch-hands

I want to believe that the lightsaber is called Ouch-Hands.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3imX92IcAAtka_.png

Having to wait a whole year for this is making me IA

some nerd made it into a big fuck off version

http://i.imgur.com/1STDEa3.gif

Looks kinda like Ichigo's zangetsu

If anyone cares, the Despecialized Editions (on P!r@t3 B@y) are pretty sweet HD re-creations of the original SW movies. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY

ugh he/s gotta point about those excess 'magenta tones' wtf man.

I think it's been shrugged off by Lucas, but his ex-wife had some strong contributions to script editing and not just film editing.

This is a really good read:

http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/marcialucas.html

Re: dirt removal, it reminds me of the digital clean up filter that they ran Kind of Blue through, which erased a lot of the brushed snare, which the computer thought was hiss and noise. Special Editions are movie equivalents to that.

there was still tempered excitement about the second and third prequels (i was in high school/college) because people kept thinking some cool stuff had to happen eventually. it was a fun thing to think about. i saw ROTS at midnight on opening day and still remember the total silence as the end credits started, and the palpable deflated feeling in the audience as the light came up.

TPM was my first experience with heartbreak ever (which is why I'm kinda incredulous at Shakey's "everybody loved them at first")

some nerd made it into a big fuck off version

http://i.imgur.com/1STDEa3.gif

Dark Souls: The Movie

I had a lot of arguments about TPM, everybody seemed to want to make excuses for it ("it's for kids!", "but ______ was cool!" etc.)

xp

yeah Mr Veg & I both were flipping out over the early TPM teasers & that cool poster of Anakin with Darth's shadow & Darth Maul looking all badass

and then we saw it & i clearly remember both of us going ok what the fuck was that
my clearest memory was how annoying that fkin anakin kid was & how darth maul was like the world's biggest merch con

i am not even rewriting history when i say my disappointment was palpable

ep2 really hammered that home weeee trade federationzzzzzz

I had a friend call me after an early screening of Episode 2. "You've got to see it!" he proclaimed. "Why," I asked, "is it good?" "No!" he answered. "It's terrible! It actually begins with people walking off a ship and saying, phew, that was a close one, and then the ship blows up! And then it gets worse!"

lol

http://i.imgur.com/mR2EWDc.gif

Does the dude stuff himself in?

spent entire showing of Ep 2 doing Mystery Science Theater commentary with friend.

i am not even rewriting history when i say my disappointment was palpatine

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Star-Wars-7-Rumor-Emperor-Returning.jpg

the emperor's first name is Sheev

lol soda

That Phantom Menace making-of was good. The storm taking out their Mos Eisley set, very gratifying.

Just got to the bit with Lucas and Spielberg trying to fix a battle droid, hahahaha.

"that's gonna be great"

"These guys are just useless"

"Jedis cut through them like butter."

"Corooskant?"

sometimes the butter is cold and hard, and this creates drama.

darth maul was like the world's biggest merch con

Totally, dude looked scary and and awesome but turned out to be a stupid red mute juggalo who gets chopped in half. It's funny that he's like the iconic image of this movie and people have tattoos of him and shit.

Though really Boba Fett is kind lame as the badass icon of the original trilogy. He's basically a UPS guy who delivered a package then fell into a giant sand hole.

Few sounds are as crazy as this one. The base effect is that of an alligator hissing (another animal whose call that doesn’t fit), but this is mixed with the sound of some of the film’s crew’s stomachs having just eaten (pizza of all things).How Burtt decided to do that is anybodies guess, although it does explain the other strange sound the sarlacc makes; the burp was probably just a burp.

xpost plus now he's a bloody kiwi ffs

thanks for the new dn joygoat

lol joygoat

When Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was released, handmaiden fans were hoping we would gain more knowledge about the newest handmaidens and next Queen of Naboo. Unfortunately, their roles were minimized and their scenes deleted.

I'd have an opinion about the trailer except I am way too distracted by the fact that this "hilt" wouldn't do it's job since the opponent lightsaber "blade" would fit inside the corner below the hilt beam and destroy it. It wouldn't block anything. What is this bullshit gimmick? Fucking infomercial lightsabers.

― Evan, Saturday, November 29, 2014 11:53 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I say the beam continues inside the metal hilt part. It needs to be enclosed next to the handle so that you don't scorch your hand.

― jmm, Sunday, November 30, 2014 12:08 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha wow Colbert just went through both of these points EXACTLY on the show tonight. Was pretty good.

I don't really agree with Shakey's "people hating on the prequels right from the start is revisionist history" comments either. Maybe it applies to folks who first saw the prequels as children, and then revisited them as adults... But back in 1999 my friends were in their late teens and early 20s, and I remember every one of them said Phantom Menace was shit, both the Star Wars fans and non-fans.

For example, my flatmate of the time was one of those people who queued for 24 hours to get the tickets to the TPM premiere, and she went there with some geek friends, wearing capes and plastic lightsabers, etc. And when she came back from the cinema, I asked whether the movie was good, she was just like, yeah, it was pretty good, but somehow she sounded way less enthusiastic than before seeing it... Then a couple of days later I saw TPM too, and I said to her, it was actually pretty crappy, wasn't it, and she had to admit that it was.

I think she'd just been so excited before TPM came out that it took a little while for her to get past that enthusiasm and admit that it was awful, and maybe a similar thing happened with other fans, but the processing time we're talking about here was days, not years.