vader's pretty awesome in empire
― balls, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
The Abrams trek flicks are kinda pathetic in how they're unable to forge an original path imo. And the whole alternate timeline thing is such bs.
― nomar, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
much love for grand moff tarkin also fwiw
― balls, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
Imperial Walkers had some serious design flaws
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
Vader kills half of his officers.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:52 (eight years ago) link
the emperor is a lesser prototype for dourif's wormtongue
― nomar, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:52 (eight years ago) link
"It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here."
I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to Vader's chosen managerial style
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
the only effective empire military officer was afaik the general who led the hoth attack
― nomar, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
Vader tends to ice people quicker prior to 3 years of vesting service so he can roll their pensions back into the plan
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
there's a recurring shot of g.m. tarkin in profile, fingers to chin, watching the battle of yavin, that pops into the battle sequence from time to time and iirc is also the last or second-to-last shot before the death star blows up: i love this shot
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
Love how Kershner shows Vader without a helmet w/out, again, explaining. He could have filmed Vader kickin it with a scotch in his chambers; instead we realize Vader is human after all.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
That scene w Vader putting his helmet on was insane.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
as a kid I thought, "Aw, he didn't even know he was killed."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
in the early '80s mega franchise sweepstakes, rank the following:
KhanDarth VaderGeneral Zod
Vader's unhelmeted orange-tinted melon head gave me nightmares as a kid
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link
vader often mordantly funny in empire. pray i don't alter it any further.
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
i know! in star wars he's this kinda free agent muscle that tarkin let's off the leash, in rotj he's a chump but in empire he manages this total scary fucking relentless powerful evil that will outsmart you at every turn at cloud city while also being horrible at management. he's basically jordan and all those officers are kwame brown.
― balls, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour),
and Lando touches his throat -- Vader sending the faintest of Force squeezes.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
http://33.media.tumblr.com/21ce6cbd19aeba30a7138f4029c284f5/tumblr_mpvwh6UMOb1rtthw6o1_500.gif
― nomar, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
so pro
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
i know! in star wars he's this kinda free agent muscle that tarkin let's off the leash
from what I know of the published slash fic this is kinda what happened: the Emperor's top officer killed erased the line between military and this helmeted dude with the sorcerer's ways. At that point he officially became second in command.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
also love how in ESB Vader completely loses interest in Leia after obsessing over her plans in the previous movie.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
rots is awful but i did like seeing some dude at the end that was supposed to be muppet baby tarkin
― balls, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
My dad fucking lied to me when I first watched Empire as like an 8 year old and said that Hamill's hand really got lopped off in the film and they gave him a prosthetic but he didn't care cos he was rich now
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
he was rich in the Force
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
Way off-topic and late to the preview game but is Luke's lightsaber basically Excalibur/the One Ring in this next chapter?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
the only star wars macguffin that matters
http://thestarwarssagacast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/042GloveofDarthVader.jpg
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
one thing that's so weird about the incest thing is the luke-leia kiss and 'no, there is another' were in the SAME movie. like dude work that out. it's not like there was that much romantic tension between luke and leia in star wars to overcome (it was obv as hell the pirate and the princess would end up together).
― balls, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:03 (eight years ago) link
also worth noting how the movies save Vader's lightsaber prowess for epic duels. When I was a kid this stoked anticipation ("when's he using it? when's he using it?").
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:03 (eight years ago) link
lol smell the glove
NO disintegrations.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:05 (eight years ago) link
i think the reason ROTS (being the 'darkest' of the three prequels) infuriated me so much is that it took a huge shit on Vader's mystique. After years of speculation and hypothesizing about the myriad of events that actually led Anakin to become Vader, he find out the little whiny fucker joined the dark side cos he had a coupla bad dreams
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:10 (eight years ago) link
Don't forget purple lipstick
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
kenobi talking abt the clone wars in the og trilogy was this wonderful hinting at a grand history, seeing it depicted was like taking a time machine to a bad day at hot topic in 1999.
― nomar, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:06 (eight years ago) link
It's funny since Star Wars seems to be the most unashamedly self-cannibalizing nowadays.
did you see the last Star Trek movie?
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
One of the really effective bits for me in Jedi was when Luke finally snaps and just starts wailing away at Vader. We finally see him be a warrior.
The film opening with the shot of him in a cloak building his lightsaber would have improved things.
Unfortunately, Marquand died before he could do his commentary track.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
Man it's weird watching the cut footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qyXxLIXLw
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:20 (eight years ago) link
i didn't, bcz it was made by some unimaginative canniabalistic hater
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:25 (eight years ago) link
And heeeeeeere's more Lobot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQEiNJnkQAw&t=10m36s
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/legostarwars/images/c/c1/Lobot_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121216171718
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
Star Trek Into Darkness is such a garbage movie
― nomar, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
Pretty much, yeah
Also, go to 10:35 in that ESB vid I posted for the Lobot. ILX doesn't like YT timecodes.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 04:28 (eight years ago) link
Also good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cLRKVT2IHg
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 06:34 (eight years ago) link
Luke's sister was originally meant to be a new character, who was named in Leigh Brackett's draft of the Empire script (Vader wasn't Luke's father at this point either). They only decided on using Leia during the writing of ROTJ
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 06:46 (eight years ago) link
In the new canon the opposite has happened - the Emperor summons him and explains that he's second only to him in the Force, but he's also the highest-ranking survivor of the biggest military disaster in history, so he'll be reporting to General Arsehole for the forseeable.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 09:48 (eight years ago) link
What's with all these 'actor posts reaction on internet' vids? Seems a bit set up to me.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 09:49 (eight years ago) link
they are actors tbf
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 10:22 (eight years ago) link
I mean set up by the general production team, or marketing gimmick etc
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 11:13 (eight years ago) link
.. they're kids. Kids do this stuff a lot.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link