Star Wars 7 shit talk

Imperial Walkers had some serious design flaws

Vader kills half of his officers.

the emperor is a lesser prototype for dourif's wormtongue

"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

the only effective empire military officer was afaik the general who led the hoth attack

Vader tends to ice people quicker prior to 3 years of vesting service so he can roll their pensions back into the plan

much love for grand moff tarkin also fwiw

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

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.

That scene w Vader putting his helmet on was insane.

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

as a kid I thought, "Aw, he didn't even know he was killed."

in the early '80s mega franchise sweepstakes, rank the following:

Khan
Darth Vader
General Zod

Vader's unhelmeted orange-tinted melon head gave me nightmares as a kid

"It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here."

vader often mordantly funny in empire. pray i don't alter it any further.

Vader kills half of his officers.

― 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.

vader often mordantly funny in empire. pray i don't alter it any further.

― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour),

and Lando touches his throat -- Vader sending the faintest of Force squeezes.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/21ce6cbd19aeba30a7138f4029c284f5/tumblr_mpvwh6UMOb1rtthw6o1_500.gif

so pro

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.

also love how in ESB Vader completely loses interest in Leia after obsessing over her plans in the previous movie.

rots is awful but i did like seeing some dude at the end that was supposed to be muppet baby tarkin

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

he was rich in the Force

Way off-topic and late to the preview game but is Luke's lightsaber basically Excalibur/the One Ring in this next chapter?

the only star wars macguffin that matters

http://thestarwarssagacast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/042GloveofDarthVader.jpg

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).

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?").

lol smell the glove

NO disintegrations.

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

Don't forget purple lipstick

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.

It's funny since Star Wars seems to be the most unashamedly self-cannibalizing nowadays.

did you see the last Star Trek movie?

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.

Man it's weird watching the cut footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qyXxLIXLw

did you see the last Star Trek movie?

i didn't, bcz it was made by some unimaginative canniabalistic hater

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

Star Trek Into Darkness is such a garbage movie

i didn't, bcz it was made by some unimaginative canniabalistic hater

Pretty much, yeah

Also, go to 10:35 in that ESB vid I posted for the Lobot. ILX doesn't like YT timecodes.

Also good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cLRKVT2IHg

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).

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

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.

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.

What's with all these 'actor posts reaction on internet' vids? Seems a bit set up to me.

they are actors tbf

I mean set up by the general production team, or marketing gimmick etc

.. they're kids. Kids do this stuff a lot.

Having read John Boyega's Twitter for a while, I have no doubt that reaction was real and unprompted. He's a fanboy who got into the franchise and couldn't be more excited.

I wonder if there's a Star Wars torrent release in which someone took out any bad changes George Lucas made for the special edition/dvd/Blu-ray releases of Star Wars and edited in deleted scenes or music that should of been kept.

There is! Google the "despecialized" editions