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"open image in new tab" takes me to collider.com home page

― Gland Of Horses (sic), Friday, 12 December 2014 04:58 (eleven years ago)

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-oscar-isaac-poe-dameron.jpg

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 05:07 (eleven years ago)

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-bb-8.jpg

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 05:07 (eleven years ago)

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-stormtroopers.jpg

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 05:08 (eleven years ago)

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-x-wings.jpg

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 05:08 (eleven years ago)

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-millennium-falcon.jpg

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 05:08 (eleven years ago)

can we pedant about other things now

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 05:09 (eleven years ago)

you guys sure ate up that sith.

Has anyone unearthed which of these VII characters are the progeny of the original trio of leads?

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 December 2014 06:27 (eleven years ago)

Some of these names, like "Poe Dameron" or "Finn", sound curiously English, so I think it's time to bring up this question again:

Are the people in the Star Wars movies humans?

― Tuomas, Friday, 12 December 2014 09:37 (eleven years ago)

Is there really no other nationality that the name 'Finn' makes you think of?

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 12 December 2014 11:45 (eleven years ago)

HAHA

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 12 December 2014 11:47 (eleven years ago)

lol

― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 12 December 2014 11:49 (eleven years ago)

"Finn" is not a Finnish name. There is an archaic female first name "Suometar", which translates roughly to "Finlandess" (as in "lioness"), but I don't think anyone's been given that name in decades.

― Tuomas, Friday, 12 December 2014 11:57 (eleven years ago)

Finn's not an particularly English name either - it is apparently top 10 in Germany - have you tried www.ilxor.de ?

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 12 December 2014 12:15 (eleven years ago)

What's the source for that? I've never met or heard of a German with the first name "Finn"...

― Tuomas, Friday, 12 December 2014 12:19 (eleven years ago)

A minute's Googling, and this: http://www.firstnamesgermany.com/

Though it's only fair to point out that I'm really not that invested in this beyond pointing out that Luke (and possibly Ben?) are the only English names in a series known for ridiculous names, AND that this isn't really a reasonable link to your 43rd theory of point-missing.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 12 December 2014 12:34 (eleven years ago)

It's Gaelic isn't it? Finn MacCool!

― Frederik B, Friday, 12 December 2014 12:34 (eleven years ago)

pointing out that Luke (and possibly Ben?) are the only English names in a series known for ridiculous names

Also Leia (a variant of Leah), Owen and Lobot.

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 12 December 2014 13:03 (eleven years ago)

How many English people know someone called Poe?

― Mark G, Friday, 12 December 2014 14:30 (eleven years ago)

http://www.teletubbies.co.uk/en/images/pic-meet-char-po.jpg

― how's life, Friday, 12 December 2014 14:35 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z8NP0eI4Og

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 12 December 2014 14:35 (eleven years ago)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/98/48/bc/9848bc0d9c45fafe394262de5fc77279.jpg

― gr8080, Friday, 12 December 2014 15:03 (eleven years ago)

the internet is vast

― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:23 (eleven years ago)

I can;t see a single one of VegemiteGrrl's pics; not sure why she bothered, tbh

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Friday, 12 December 2014 23:42 (eleven years ago)

because like you i love frittering away my time on a messageboard

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 December 2014 23:57 (eleven years ago)

Don't link to Collider.

They posted them here:

http://www.starwars.com/films/star-wars-the-force-awakens-digital-trading-cards

― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Sunday, 21 December 2014 05:24 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/IJv4XKD.gif

What Is JJ Abrams Doing

― 龜, Sunday, 28 December 2014 19:40 (eleven years ago)

._.

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 December 2014 20:00 (eleven years ago)

star wars episode iv: a new boak

― bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 28 December 2014 22:18 (eleven years ago)

Fake, there is no plumbing in the Star Wars universe

― GUARD YOUR EARS!!! ...with Gorman's. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 December 2014 00:13 (eleven years ago)

han spewed first

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 29 December 2014 08:30 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

more good news

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/george-lucas-disney-didn-t-use-my-ideas-for-new-st/368133

― piscesx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:34 (eleven years ago)

those lucas ideas in full:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/145/380385105_7095bf7ed8_z.jpg?zz=1

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:41 (eleven years ago)

i watched "american graffiti" again recently, and i really think it's a marvel of popular filmmaking, and really well-directed. what happened to that dude?

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:40 (eleven years ago)

it's p obvious what happened

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:42 (eleven years ago)

He was finally able to afford those neck implants and they subsequently cut off his oxygen.

― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:49 (eleven years ago)

his obsession with FX really killed his genuinely good eye for imagery i think. there're some framing and shots in the first SW that are really excellent, particularly in the Tatooine scenes.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:56 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, and I was genuinely shocked at how good THX was when I watched it for the first time a couple of years ago.

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:15 (eleven years ago)

i think w/the first star wars films (esp the first and second) he was really inspired and imaginative w/r/t setting and using real-world terrain to create alien landscapes, but he later became devoted to either revisiting previously trod-upon ground bc of fan service or simply creating uncanny valleyish new worlds wholesale out of CGI.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:18 (eleven years ago)

he initially had a good eye for design and framing - it's everything else about filmmaking that was a problem for him. I'm not that enamored of THX-113 (a monumentally empty film with an incredibly deflated, stupid ending) or AG tbh.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:44 (eleven years ago)

i tried to watch ag but i think i may have seen too many of the coming-of-age films that followed it

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:46 (eleven years ago)

in the same sense where if someone saw the matrix for the first time today, the action sequences - since normalized by countless other action films - would stick out less than the leatherwear

― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:46 (eleven years ago)

yeah I watched Diner first and it made AG unwatchable.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:48 (eleven years ago)

i think w/the first star wars films (esp the first and second) he was really inspired and imaginative w/r/t setting and using real-world terrain to create alien landscapes, but he later became devoted to either revisiting previously trod-upon ground bc of fan service or simply creating uncanny valleyish new worlds wholesale out of CGI.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but how much does he really have to do with the second one? I mean if it weren't for Empire's imaginative scenes and great shots and character arcs and stuff, Star Wars would be this one gigantic hit movie, not a universe. Like Jaws or Jurassic Park where by and large the public forgets there even were sequels, and it's a distinct "movie" not a "universe" or w/e. I think Star Wars is totally fantastic in itself, a real blast to watch... not knocking Lucas's work on that one. Though I guess you could argue that he kind of lucked into awesome performances from Guinness, Ford and Jones, and without those it would probably be a much flatter space adventure picture, weighted so far towards effects and visuals that it's hard to watch for anything else.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 23:29 (eleven years ago)

The ads for the new Lucas fantasy movie look like he's finally made his dream of chittering, farting, bleeping wee imaginary creatures come true.

― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 22 January 2015 03:19 (eleven years ago)

Ah, I saw the commercial for that out of the corner of my eye and didn't realize he was involved.

― american tail/american pie (how's life), Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:16 (eleven years ago)

'story by' then three other writers on the screenplay.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:37 (eleven years ago)

Exec producer too.

― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:52 (eleven years ago)

oh here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9iLfD6xus

hoping the scene following the 'from the mind of george lucas' card was a deliberate choice by a less than admiring editor.

― ledge, Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:40 (eleven years ago)


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