Star Wars 7 shit talk

I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life - join the Rebel Alliance!

some bad news for you

can't wait for the DC vs Marvel vs Star Wars era of moviegoing sounds like exciting times of explosions and fighting

Patton Oswalt's filibuster come to life

Eventually the prequels will be more and more appreciated for their idiosyncratic tendencies. There's no way these new ones won't be incredibly watered down.

nowhere to go but up for the prequels

Eventually the prequels will be more and more appreciated for their idiosyncratic tendencies. There's no way these new ones won't be incredibly watered down.

― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

watered down? like in terms of... ideology? philosophical content?

In terms of being made by committee vs. entirely the whims of a single man.

George Lucas not having complete control over this is a very good thing.

Yeah I think plenty of people have a far better idea of what made Star Wars good than him.

lol the best things about the original movies were made by a committee, the worst by george lucas' "whims"

I don't know, I keep seeing things that keep me optimistic. Like that video they released of JJ Abrams talking about donating to the new foundation to win a cameo in the flick, they had an old Jim Henson looking puppet creature walk through the frame. Not some CGI bullshit thing. It's touches like that that leave me hopeful.

yeah they do have a pretty comprehensive blueprint of what not to do

I dunno. I think the world is gonna be more than okay with watered down space-economics

i tried to show a homie the redlettermedia takedown videos and he got visibly upset about 8 minutes in, he really loves the prequels and it was shitty of me to put on a youtube of some guy doing a character voice saying he was an idiot for it

I dunno. I think the world is gonna be more than okay with watered down space-economics

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, May 23, 2014 3:32 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BUT WHAT OF THE TRADE FEDERATION

lol

can we place bets on which ethnic stereotype will provide a model for new alien character(s)? They already covered Jamaicans, Jews and the Chinese, I'm gonna go with Indians.

Cowboys

back to the british hopefully

yeah that OG Death Star roundtable was basically just tinker tailor soldier spy's "the circus" with a vader cameo.

They already covered Jamaicans, Jews and the Chinese, I'm gonna go with Indians.

― Οὖτις, Friday, May 23, 2014 4:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wat

what this greedy hook-nosed merchant with a thick eastern european accent didn't remind you of anything

http://www.jewornotjew.com/img/people/w/watto.jpg

seriously fuck this franchise forever

watto, morelike

didn't know macklemore was in that one

watto, morelike

― how's life, Friday, May 23, 2014 5:41 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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although i thought i remembered watto being despised for being an ~arab~ stereotype, rather than a jewish one? idk

I don't recall - def coded as Jewish to me when I saw it

i see there's (only) an anti-semitism subsection on the watto wikipedia page, carry on

Looking back now, pretty much all of those horrific ethnic stereotypes were trotted out within the first hour or so of the first movie, right? By halfway through Episode I you'd been introduced to Jar Jar, the Trade Federation and Watto. Were there any notable examples in the later two movies (that weren't additional appearances of these characters from the first one)?

but also, from that Wiki:

Patricia J. Williams of The Nation stated that Watto was also described as a stereotype of Arabs, but that he was "more comprehensively anti-Semitic -- both anti-Arab and anti-Jew."

At least the ethnic stereotypes in the original trilogy relate back to ethnic stereotypes from with the high adventure genre films on which SW is based, i.e. jabba the oriental despot, tusken raiders as excitable natives, etc.

Whereas the prequels seemed to be going out of their way - out of their genre - to reach out, point and laugh at Jamaicans.

Jabba's an "oriental despot"?

i never got that jabba was oriental. i thought he was just fat.

he was originally an Irish geezer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/FordandMulholland.jpg

http://rt.com/news/jabba-lego-anti-islamic-138/

As far as I know, Jabba's a gangster, not a terrorist. They do have a point about the hookah and the mosque though.

jabba is sydney greenstreet y'all

Yeah thats what I took as the inspiration too. I guess there are some evil sultan sorta trappings.

He's one of my favourite characters in terms of design.

there are a couple echoes there. "the Hutt" vs. "the Hun", Gamorrean Guards vs. eunuchs

Yeah but at least he's like a vaguely-inspired distillation of old tropes, if Lucas had made Jedi in 1999... I shudder to imagine.

If Lucas had made Jedi at all.

"More proof that Star Wars VII will be blessedly CG light"

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2IQa_IPS--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/z9yqaq90qm2iugaiolfe.jpg

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Jtt0_T0D--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/i1aq2fuvuijrd4rc6bzh.jpg

stop making me do fangirl cartwheels I CAN'T GET EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE YET, DON'T MAKE ME DO THAT

It is your DESTINY

http://www.51allout.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Emperor-Palpatine.jpg

This just in from the Star Wars front: Episode VII has cast 12 Years a Slave Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o and Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie. From the studio:

Lupita Nyong’o joins the recently announced cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. This year, her breakthrough performance in 12 Years a Slave earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Gwendoline Christie, currently starring in the hit television series Game of Thrones as Brienne of Tarth, has also been cast in the production. She can next be seen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. “I could not be more excited about Lupita and Gwendoline joining the cast of Episode VII,” says Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “It’s thrilling to see this extraordinarily talented ensemble taking shape.”

goddamnit JJ don't you get my hopes up and fuck this up

must

remain

cynical

You could place bets now as to how many minutes of screentime til he does the Mystery Box twist reveal

jeff garlin sith lord

Yeah I was thinking to myself "Sure, they're cast, and then they'll have as much screen time as Jimmy Smits in Episode II."