Star Wars 7 shit talk

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can we pedant about other things now

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 12 December 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link

HAHA

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

lol

bizarro gazzara, Friday, 12 December 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link

"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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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

Frederik B, Friday, 12 December 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

How many English people know someone called Poe?

Mark G, Friday, 12 December 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link

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

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

the internet is vast

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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

What Is JJ Abrams Doing

, Sunday, 28 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link

._.

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

star wars episode iv: a new boak

bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 28 December 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

han spewed first

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

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 (nine years ago) link

those lucas ideas in full:

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

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

it's p obvious what happened

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

yeah I watched Diner first and it made AG unwatchable.

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:37 (nine years ago) link

Exec producer too.

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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, January 21, 2015 3:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he got divorced, estranged from his filmmaking posse, and got delusions of grandeur

mh, Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link


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