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
http://www.kotzendes-einhorn.de/blog/wp-content/gallery/adventuretimestarwars/finn-skywalker.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 12 December 2014 13:49 (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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z8NP0eI4Og
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 12 December 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/98/48/bc/9848bc0d9c45fafe394262de5fc77279.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 12 December 2014 15:03 (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
― 龜, 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
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
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
― 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 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
Ha! Sounds extremely plausible. xp
― how's life, Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
"I was expecting something a little.... more." "What?" Amazing stuff.
― jmm, Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
That trailer does the thing where it cuts out the music to deliver a killer line like 8 times.
omg how LONG can a trailer be? what a disorganized pile of moments and bits.
the parts that make SENSE just make you not want to see the movie, as you just know the tedious fucking story beats it represents.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 January 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
27% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a surprisingly generous review from The AV Club, which calls it "the Moulin Rouge of animated features."
(NB: director Gary Rydstrom is a very close friend of Lucas, and a 7-time Oscar winner for his sound work.)
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
I saw a video of George Lucas on some morning show where he was (rightly) talking about how the Academy is garbage, he's not a member, how Hollywood needs diversity before movies can be rightly diverse and I was nodding...
...but cringing every 30 seconds because he had to mention RED TAILS constantly. I probably should watch that movie! But his plugging and "I get diversity... RED TAILS" was pretty much him to a t
― mh, Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbbzaS8rcak
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
wish scorsese would grow back the beard
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
wish lucas would grow enough beard to cover his neck
― #Research (stevie), Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
But that's how he keeps track of where his jaw bone should be.
― Evan, Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
His current beard that is:
http://i2.wp.com/blog.gadgetsandgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/George-Lucas-The-Ewok1.jpg?resize=%2C
― Evan, Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
"I get diversity... RED TAILS"
#grocerybag
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
so this is Epic plus Arthur & The Invisibles except incredibly shit?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
don't forget ferngully
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link