Star Wars 7 shit talk

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can we pedant about other things now

you guys sure ate up that sith.

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

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?

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

HAHA

lol

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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How many English people know someone called Poe?

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

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the internet is vast

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

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

Don't link to Collider.

They posted them here:

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

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What Is JJ Abrams Doing

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star wars episode iv: a new boak

Fake, there is no plumbing in the Star Wars universe

han spewed first

more good news

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

those lucas ideas in full:

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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?

it's p obvious what happened

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

yeah I watched Diner first and it made AG unwatchable.

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.

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.

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

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

Exec producer too.

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.

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?

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

Ha! Sounds extremely plausible. xp

imo THX-1138 works because it's mostly empty, it's a very aesthetic film with no real meat and leans heavily on the visual design and Walter Murch's work