Star Wars 7 shit talk

Vader is firm with him, among the other bounty hunters, about not killing Skywalker, implying he's ruthless or something

also that whole carbonite freezing thing

I love how Boba Fett's death is so cartoony and ignominious, befitting the fact that he's a complete non-character, when his 'origin' in the prequels is this very momentous scene.

yeah i thought about this as i was rewatching the 'original trilogy.' i don't actually follow this stuff closely, but i get the sense that his role in the star wars world was enlarged in various auxilliary/ancillary narratives (comic books, tv shows, etc.) in the time between the two trilogies.

i sometimes wonder what it'd be like to watch the prequel trilogy first, and only then watch the original trilogy. i imagine there are any number of young (and not so young?) kids who had this experience. i imagine that there's lots in the original trilogy that would seem truly inexplicable if not perverse in light of the metastasized backstory of the prequels.

y'all have read this, right?

http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/2015/star-wars-episode-one-the-phantom-menace-1999-episode-two-attack-of-the-clones-2002-episode-three-revenge-of-the-sith-2005/26568/

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

A good friend of mind just did exactly that in prep for this movie -- watched all the movies with his son in numerical order. He said his son was really, really freaked out and upset by the end of Episode III, so he had to assure him that it gets better, then they watched the original trilogy.

Boba Fett was a big deal in large part because they went out of their way to make him a big deal long before Empire was released.

I've read somewhere about people who watch all of them in numerical order, and they say the original trilogy becomes gibberish as a result. So much of those films depend on the great great twists, so a lot of it becomes a slog when everything has been spelled out in advance.

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:07 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mascot of a chain of shrimp restaurants IIRC

he was a legendary action figure because he got recalled (removably rocket was a safety hazard)

but enough about scott walker

xpost Just like the Death Star (whose trash compactor was filled with razor-sharp shrapnel before they replaced it with a low-grade foam).

that ellen video is amazing, carrie fisher is rad

xpost Just like the Death Star (whose trash compactor was filled with razor-sharp shrapnel before they replaced it with a low-grade foam).

― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:17 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on that note, remember that weird creature in the trash compactor? the one that almost kills luke? how did that creature survive the compactor being, well, compacted every few hours?

it was really skinny

Its biological composition was largely low-grade foam.

boba fett helmet was one of the rejected prototypes/concepts for vader's helmet iirc

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

he's Fetty Wap's dad

http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/s320x320/e35/11821835_1468638283441868_966741553_n.jpg
the internet.

We called him Bubba Fat when we were kids.

Boba Fett's "rep" during the original trilogy was totally established by stuff outside the film - he was the first action figure you could order via "mail away", for ex.

The foam in the trash compactor was in the mini toy version iirc

Boba Fett's "rep" during the original trilogy was totally established by stuff outside the film - he was the first action figure you could order via "mail away", for ex.

The very first Star Wars figures were "mail away"

Let's not forget that Boba Fett's spaceship is a big metal elephant head, too

Trying to remember what ultimately happened to Boba Fett in the EU and realizing that I'm way more excited about snagging my copies of Tales Of Mos Eisley/the Bounty Hunters/Jabba's Palace from my mom's house over Christmas than I am about seeing the new movie.

it's actually a streetlight xp

EU?

Get out.

j/k. Expanded universe. Novels, etc.

Let's not forget that Boba Fett's spaceship is a big metal elephant head, too

― glandular lansbury (sic),

and it was called SLAVE-1

The very first Star Wars figures were "mail away"

the pedantry

Do you expect any less itt

xxp

i kind of imagine BF listening to this in his spaceship on repeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzybwwf2HoQ

I remember really liking Boba Fett's spaceship.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the spaceships and other vehicles in those movies (AT-ATs, etc.) were the main thing that I liked about them.

the Millennium Falcon was quite well detailed. I used to recreate the fight on Jabba's Sail Barge on the roof of the Falcon.

This is comprehensive and incomprehensible: http://screenrant.com/star-wars-journey-force-awakens-guide/

I definitely spent a lot of time trying to recreate these spaceships with my legos. I think the only ones I managed to do reasonable well were Tie Fighters.

https://lightsaber.withgoogle.com/experience

so how big is Adam Driver's lightsaber?

EU?

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the spaceships and other vehicles in those movies (AT-ATs, etc.) were the main thing that I liked about them.

the character and technology design of the original trilogy is nonpareil -- completely stunning -- i think people who dismiss these films think these things aren't important. but it all depends on how you look at it!

the world-building of the og trilogy is still pretty mindblowing even now, it's so immersive

the character and technology design of the original trilogy is nonpareil

lol i was picturing that too

One small bit in TESB I've always liked: after the Imperial troops have entered the Hoth bunker and Vader leads the way and the scene builds to the possibility of his and the gang's interacting but it doesn't come. It's the kind of small but essential storytelling touch that Kershner had that Lucas didn't.

xxxp tried four times, gave up.

i was intrigued by Kasdan saying he went off w/ Kershner to do his draft of the script. We forget that WGA credits and who wrote what don't often match up.

I'm sure this was posted way up thread but just in case any ship geeks missed it

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1NEKrnWO--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xe0yjmmjhdedgykt0a1j.jpg

http://imgur.com/gallery/Zt9Y4

(massive gallery of models from the OT)

i was intrigued by Kasdan saying he went off w/ Kershner to do his draft of the script. We forget that WGA credits and who wrote what don't often match up.

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a good rule of thumb to presume that, credit or no, a director had a lot to do w/ shaping a film's narrative. unless one has evidence to the contrary.

leigh brackett's credit is widely viewed as a courtesy. i haven't read her draft (which is out there) but most people suggest it doesn't have a ton to do w/ what eventually became 'empire'.

The world building in Star Wars is definitely the main thing of it from the point of film history. For better or for worse. At some point 'amazingly build world' became 'hodgepodge of marketing posibilities'...

heh, that point was in 1977 (or before)!

i mean star wars was always about marketing! i don't think it's particularly cynical, either -- the marketing possibilities just dovetail with the world-building ambitions.