Star Wars 7 shit talk

It detracts from your wallet.

seeing the battles on a tru IMAX screen (we only have a few in FL, one of which is conveniently located near my house) is awesome. that battle on Jakku was boner-inspiring

not sure your equipment is functioning properly if that's happening to you at star wars.

just wrapping up Special Edition ROTJ with my son, and hoo boy, it is clearly the worst of the Special Editions by a mile. So much badness added to the Jabba the Hutt sequences and the horrible, multi-planet ending, now I know why I haven't watched this since it came out.

The ending is poopshits

Never watching the special editions of the OG trilogy is one of the best unimportant decisions I've ever made.

there are a few annoying changes in Special Edition Star Wars (Jabba scene in particular), but it is mostly pretty good. The changes to Empire are pretty negligible. The changes to Jedi are off-the-chart bad.

The change to the Emperor's hologram in Empire really throws me off bc it seems more subtle but I am too old school I miss that weird chimpanzee-faced witch version. The dialog was altered too.

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

Bring back Clive Revill's and the chimp eyes!

yeah the gf and i just watched 4-6 (the special editions) this past week and ROTJ is so much worse than i remember it being.

I still have that special edition widescreen VHS box (non special editions obv) and it made me wish I had a functioning vcr.

psst the despecialized versions are en la bahía del pirata

eh the insertion of the new Sidious is the only change I approve. I think it works.

It's the least glaring scene, at least

IMO the worst thing about the "special" edition is that their rewriting of history even extends to the soundtracks. A while ago I thought it'd be cool to listen "Jub Nub" (i.e. the Ewok celebration song from the end of RotJ that was replaced by some general orchestral music in the special edition), and guess what? You can't buy it. All the RotJ soundtrack CDs in print and the digital versions available don't have it, they just have the new soundtrack with the new ending tune. ("Lapti Nek", the disco tune in Jabba's palace is also replaced by "Jedi Rocks".) It's hard to find the extended soundtrack version of "Yub Nub" even on Youtube, the only version I could find was sped up so that Youtube's copyright robots won't delete it.

I ended up ordering an used 80s German CD of the RotJ soundtrack, and now I can listen to it in its full glory. But it's ridiculous that at this day and age, where pretty much every obscure 1980s nostalgia item is rereleased, I had to go through all this trouble. Since Disney now has the rights, why don't they reissue the original movies and original soundtracks? Surely they must realize there's a whole bunch of 30+ geeks who would love to own the version of the movie they saw as a kid?

The negs for the originals literally no longer exist; Lucas collaged them with various revisions, and the original pieces are in terrible shape. Disney would have to go through the same magpie process from multiple prints as the fan-made "despecialised" versions to bodge together masters.

(Also don't Fox still own the first movie?)

googled: Fox not only have "episode 4" forever, they have the other five until 2020.

luckily this wonder exists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrOSuY12Rrs

So there's a fair guarantee Disney will release new HD "despecialized" editions in 2021. It's not as if they don't have the resources to do it or are ignorant of the demand.

I just got a few packs of "Force Attax" cards for my kids and they feature characters from the original trilogy and Force Awakens but not the prequels lol

I have also just spent half an hour vainly searching for instructions on how to play. Kind of shocked that 1) I can't figure out a card game for kids and 2) that a Disney/Topps Star Wars merch gambit doesn't have either official instructions online anywhere nor forums/geek chat spelling it out

it's these, though I bought them at a corner shop - http://www.toppsdirect.com/star-wars-force-awakens-tarding-card-collection.html

xxxp So wait, does the poster in that Youtube video mean Luke was gatecrashing the equivalent of Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore?

i have to say these are p sweet too - http://www.toppsdirect.com/star-wars-journy-to-multipack.html

Does this help?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/83089/star-wars-force-attax

The game is designed for two players. Each player must have 12 cards in their unit (deck), with the following deck building rules - at least 4 different character types, only 1 star foil, only 1 force master.

Players lay their cards (all 12) faced down, and flip a coin to see who goes first. First player pick the card to play with and the type of action (defense or attack). Second player responds with his own card of choice. Player with higher number wins the turn. There are 12 turns in the game. Played cards are discarded and the game continues with remaining cards, until all 12 are played (12 turns). Winner of the game is the player with the higher number of winning turns.

Yes kinda! but there are also "strike force" cards, which I don't know what they do - affiliated to the Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, the, er, Ewoks, and unaffiliated ones with the new black TIE fighters on one side. I THINK you can collect a group of these in order to amplify the stats of your main cards somehow. I also see 'Power Boost' cards featuring Chewie and Captain Phasma, which will also boost stats. But how and when these are played I have no idea..

lol, linked from that page:

Dear Chums

Can a Strike Force, if held, be used multiple times to boost different Character Cards within a game, or just the once?

Also, am I right in presuming that these cards are counted separately from your main hand of 12 cards?

Yours confused
Ig

Posted Tue Nov 2, 2010 10:04 pm

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Ok I got a big 'starter kit' w/binder and instrux and I'm not really any further towards getting it. I think it's just a poor game. On the other hand, and I think this is the point, the cards are awesome!! Plus there were these useless/rad A-4 sized inserts:

http://f.cl.ly/items/0W1B3D2d093S0H1s2H3l/IMG_3803.jpg

http://f.cl.ly/items/1o3s1p3X031P1g0l113z/IMG_3802.jpg

I don't recognize the stormtrooper in lower left though?

lol there are 200-something possible cards in the set; the binder holds a maximum of 198

snowtrooper iirc

his name is Steve

MOD EDIT: SPOILERED

dude spoilers

Heh I wasn't thinking of it that way but uhhh yeah can someone move this post to other thread

there's a deleted scene featuring a chase with snowtroopers apparrently

‏@JesseThorn
I couldn't be more proud of my wife @TheresaThorn, who did not recognize the Millenium Falcon, and was confused and annoyed by the applause.

What a dumb tweet.

if you say so

How is dude named "Jesse Thorn" and he's not behind the counter at Zumiez?

http://www.keikari.com/english/wp-content/pictures/2013/06/Interview_with_Jesse_Thorn_at_Keikari_dot_com.jpg

that dude gets clowned on the reg in the menswear thread (for obvious reasons)

You seventh graders really circle the wagons over this pitcher show, huh

(xps. that snowtrooper is actually a flametrooper, btw)

mea culpa

xp Thorn looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets and annoying character traits.

You seventh graders really circle the wagons over this pitcher show, huh

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 4, 2016 5:37 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(xps. that snowtrooper is actually a flametrooper, btw)

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Monday, January 4, 2016 6:22 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thought at first these were both morbs posts

You seventh graders really circle the wagons over this pitcher show, huh

This is in response to three posts about Jesse Thorn, that do not mention Star Wars.

but they're inherently about the crimes against the Jedi perpetrated by Thorn and/or his missus, sic

The Millennium Falcon isn't a jedi

i think i hear the recess bell, so i'm goin in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDUU2juM
it's like they know me