I wanna know how those Threepio cornflakes taste.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 October 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
solder and cinnamon
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 October 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
there's a suggestion that computers and robots gossip with each other as well - "R2! how did you know the hyperdrive had been disabled??" "tweet twiddle beep" "the city's COMPUTER told you???" "twooooot"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2015 09:31 (eight years ago) link
Just realised the lame battle droids and destroyer droids might've come off a bit better if all their dialogue to each other had been subtitled bleeps and buzzes rather than that awful high-pitched Dr. Nerdlinger accent.
― nashwan, Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:06 (eight years ago) link
Out of grim interest I just looked for a video of the droids and came across the battle at the end of TPM, my god the CGI looks so basic it reminds me of something on an N64.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
well i know what Tombot is getting for Christmas
http://www.dvd-covers.org/d/82005-3/3123Flash_Gordon_Conquers_the_Universe_vol_1.jpg
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
flash gordon shamelessly copping a feel there
― the illicit unit slid tantalizingly across the waxed tile (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 29 October 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link
That Flash Gordon set is in my Amazon cart as we speak. I've heard good things.
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
Is kylo ren Luke's son?
― calstars, Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
It would be kind of cool if one of the standalone star wars movies would feature an all-droid cast and all the dialogue was subtitled bleep-bloops
― silverfish, Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link
it would be even cooler if they didn't subtitle it - just a bunch of trundling trashcans burbling incomprehensibly to each other in the desert for two hours
― the illicit unit slid tantalizingly across the waxed tile (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
I always liked how the movies let us know what R2 and Chewie are saying without resorting to subtitles. I dunno if that's at all original to Star Wars.
― jmm, Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
xpost A la Chewie's family in the first half hour of the Christmas special.
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
(Which I started playing for my girlfriend last year because she didn't believe that such a thing even existed. I don't think she was any more convinced of its existence after actually seeing it.)
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
the selling line for both was "pastiches of old movie serials"
The Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon movie serials had a nostalgic revival in the 60s, as did the newspaper strips ... when young George wasn't cruising around American Graffiti style, maybe he was making notes in the margins of this:
https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/575547.jpg
― Brad C., Thursday, 29 October 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
I dunno, it's pretty much the same thing they as when you only hear one side of a telephone conversation in a movie or tv show, basically just repeating what the other person just said.
― silverfish, Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
http://famousdude.com/images/harry-corbett-06.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
i think the FG serials were probably run endlessly on TV in the '50s when GL was a yute
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
(or maybe even smalltown matinees in the neigborhood bijou)
"What, Lassie? Old man Jenkins is trapped at Cedar Bluff??"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
xp iirc after his car accident, he was laid up watching a lot of old TV and that's exactly where he saw them.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Anniversary-McQuarrie-Hasbro-Collector-Collectible/dp/B003GQQDQ0/ref=pd_bxgy_21_img_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0NT0A5FGJA6PXYZ1YHG3
mcquarrie designs turned into action figures
― akm, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/711qUPcLRWL._SX522_.jpg
― akm, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
I have the McQuarrie Luke, Vader, R2-D2 and C-3PO figures at home. They're really well done.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
do you get a lot of quality playtime out of them
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 October 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
Luke didn't have to hear R2, a translation pops up on his console.
When he's not in his ship, he can only understand the droid thru tone.
"If you're saying coming here was a bad idea, I'm beginning to agree with you."
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 30 October 2015 01:01 (eight years ago) link
He understood those bleeps and bloops, he was just gaslighting R2 like a dick
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Friday, 30 October 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
Dicklighting
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 30 October 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
One thing about the Despecialized versions is that you can see far more errors, especially after watching the blooper reels. Fr'stance, the hooded PA crouched behind R2 at the Jawa sale and who had to give the droid a push, since they apparently didn't account for wheels on desert
The cut scenes are klunky as fuuuuuck, but they set up a lot of shit about Luke well, so his immediate jump to hyper-excitement when C3P0 mentions the Rebellion is far more of a piece when you've seen the interaction with Biggs mentioning his plans to go AWOL from the Academy to join the other side.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 30 October 2015 01:09 (eight years ago) link
"Tibanna Gas-mining" is the preferred in-universe term, I believe
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Friday, 30 October 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Biggs Dicklighter
― El Tomboto, Friday, 30 October 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Gaslightsaber
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Friday, 30 October 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
Luke actually doesn't understand language, he just forms vowel and consonant shapes that get mistaken for monologue
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 30 October 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 October 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
All of these people dressing up as these new Star Wars characters for Halloween will be really embarrassed if this movie is all about racists
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 31 October 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Or if the characters turn out to be really into bestiality
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 31 October 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
The hero of the prequels was a mass murderer of children, didn't really cause much shame at halloween
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Saturday, 31 October 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Citation required that anyone ever went out as Anakin for Halloween.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 31 October 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
You do realize that Darth Vader and Anakin are the same person
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 31 October 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
But also people dress as the Grim Reaper during Halloween, so no idea where this "shame for killing fictional children!" idea comes from
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 31 October 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
http://bunburyinthestacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Darth-Vader-Nooooo.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 October 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
Wasn't Darth Vader the hero of the original movies?
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Saturday, 31 October 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
All of these people dressing up as these new Star Wars characters for Halloween will be really embarrassed if this movie is all about racists― Spencer Chow, Saturday, October 31, 2015 4:59 PM
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 October 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Hulk Hogan
― The Once-ler, Saturday, 31 October 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link
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Alderaan was sheltering a massive kiddie porn ring iirc
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 31 October 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
Blowing up Princess Leia's planet of perverts for the good of the galaxy
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Saturday, 31 October 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
You couldn't see it but a single tear rolled down Vader's cheek inside his mask as he whispered "for the children..."
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 31 October 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
while the Cantina band quietly strummed "Luka"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 31 October 2015 23:02 (eight years ago) link
Can I just
(see the mention upthread about Halloween costumes for characters we don't know anything about yet...what if you're unknowingly dressing your kid up like a space racist???).― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Thursday, October 22, 2015 7:30 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Saturday, 31 October 2015 23:09 (eight years ago) link
http://darthjarjar.com/
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 November 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link