Star Wars 7 shit talk

yeah but brando goes back to what i was saying about every star turn being sutntcasting - "they had to pay him more than god it was kind of a joke to him" describes most movies he made

it's been a long time since i saw star wars so i can't remember if cushing had a lot to do or if he just stood around all prissylike

― da croupier, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk it was one of the first movies he did purely for the money right?

James Earl Jones! not even on screen, pretty ridiculous casting

Cushing did some great scenery chewing in the "blowing up Alderaan" scene

love this from the stunt casting wiki:

Stunt casting makes roles traditionally played by character actors unavailable to them.[2]

2. Commentary by Carlos Bernard on the season 3 episode "Day 3: 5:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m." of 24

The closest example of stuntcasting I can think of with respect to the Star Wars franchise was when they cast Jocelyn Wildenstein as Yak Face.

Cushing casting mostly just Lucas connecting Star Wars directly to the b movie monster horror and fantasy heritage.

He's basically Dr. Frankenstein, sub Darth Vader for the Monster, and the Death Star for the castle laboratory.

now do Christopher Lee

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/deXK274SW58/hqdefault.jpg

eVACuate? in our moment of triumph??

also an a+ reading of "the regional governors now have direct control over their territories"; too bad he didn't live to class up trade embargo lines.

always liked how that little exchange sketches out this whole recent and soon-to-be-obsolete political system without showing us any of it. you got the whole republic -> empire plot in a nutshell. i'm sure the novels or something run the "regional governors" into the ground of course.

I don't know if Alec Guinness was stuntcasty so much as a bunch of 60s film-school types who'd seen Lawrence of Arabia too many times and wanting to grab as much from that as they could, like using older(cheaper) Panavision cameras, shooting in the desert, and Omar Sharif's look.

Let's talk about the stunt intro text and stunt screen wipes.

Pretty much everything about the b movie was designed for sensationalism. Low budget roots necessitated eye-catching measures.

I enjoy the premise of this joke more than the execution*. It feels like it needs another pass thru for sharpening and ejection of too-easy jokes.

http://humboldt.craigslist.org/rvs/4986649886.html

humboldt >for sale >rvs - by owner

Imperial II-class Star Destroyer (Mad River)

"First come, first serve basis. You are responsible for towing."

*(or Executor, as it may be)

Freddie prinze jr became a writer for the wwe (or whatever they call it now) in the last decade. I think he may just be an enthusiastic nerd.

― da croupier, Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:43 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait really

Wait is wrestling nerdy now I thought it was for jocks

what world are you from? the biggest nerds I know are wrestling nerds

afaik the two biggest wrestling fans I've personally met (held up giant hand-painted signs on cardboard) are now a surgeon and an international economics lecturer/researcher

John D

currently dating a wrestling nerd and it rules. kept this from the beat the champ thread as i didn't want my enthusiasm to look contingent.

I don't know if Alec Guinness was stuntcasty

It's called "getting a star." It helped sell the dopey Force.

kinda unrelated but I heard the guys on the Flophouse podcast summarize Star Wars as "old guy takes a young guy to a bar" and it made me lol

rolling (non-millenials) grabbing the brass ring 2015

about as nerdy as humanly possible

I was being kind of jokey there. Wrestling is totally nerdy. I feel like the word 'nerd' has come from meaning someone persecuted for intellectual or physical differences to someone who enjoys x y z pop media.

Like the reason original nerds were so into Star Wars and fantasy stuff was to escape their shitty lives.

Alec Guinness, box office catnip XP

Yeah, it wasn't that long ago "nerd" and "geek" were insults

Josh Trank fired from the second spin-off movie

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/inside-a-star-wars-firing-792933

what the hell

Trank has several small dogs who were left in a rented house in New Orleans while the film was shooting there. According to sources, as much as $100,000 worth of damage was done to the property.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEGfpq1WoAAMOPs.jpg

The high stakes being will Disney make all the money in the world or all the money in the solar system?

Han Polo (shirt)

High stakes = can they stave off "Star Wars 8 shit talk"

Collectors, start your engines: http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-force-awakens-products-to-arrive-on-force-friday-september-4

Brief featurette on that VF cover shoot shows Adam Driver in costume and new snowtroopers: https://thescene.com/watch/vanityfair/cover-photo-shoots-watch-the-star-wars-cast-on-set-for-vanity-fair-cover-shoot

And Lupita Nyongo in a mo-cap suit.

http://photos.vanityfair.com/2015/05/01/5543ca95801ffcbc36b3417b_vanity-fair-star-wars-01.jpg

+ non CGI aliens

http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/e8/6a/3ac344984aa1b2ff5ab00e0d8edc/star-wars-the-force-awakens.jpg

^^^
Proper Star Wars

Includes at least two classic Star Wars aliens, an Ithorian second from left, and one of the dude's from Jabba's palace near the right, next to the guy in red.

evil dark really really bad adam in a snowscape followed by nu-snowtroopers is really cracking me up

I'm parsing him as Imperial middle management jobsworth rather than evil dark really really bad.

I hope this is really good and everyone rubs it in Lucas's face for the rest of his life (in regards to the prequels of course)

http://i0.wp.com/makingstarwars.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/phasma_big.jpg

I love that. The chrome makes it look like a sci-fi medieval suit of armour.

Game of Star Thrones

HBO's Rome in Space

Brienne of Darth

lol

So Josh Trank got fired from the 2nd spinoff movie that they hadn't even started yet

very publicly too.. he fucked up. hell hath no fury like a studio scorned.