Star Wars - Classic or Dud?

I thought they smelled bad on the outside.

best bits of the film where no-one is talking

- AT-AT tumble
- Yoda moving the X-Wing out of and across the swamp
- shot of the bald dude with those coms devices on his ears staring towards camera
- Vader's silent rage as the MF jumps to hyperspace at the end

-Luke looks out at twin suns
-lights going over Yoda after he says "There is another"

with with Star Wars and strangulation anyway?

what's with

Trouble with your droid?

Lando has so many cool lines...

Lando: "I'm sorry, but I've got problems of my own."
Han: "Oh, you're a real hero..."

Also some of the worst pick up lines...

Lando (to Leia): "you truly belong with us here above the clouds"

...I guess that they don't have Colt 45 in the SW universe.

Lando's not a system he's a man.

This is no cave.

Never tell me the odds.

okay just this one since i'm already here

It's not my fault

^^^ I love that line, since it's said by both Han and Lando at different points in Empire.

the Han one is better. Ford just runs the whole show.

THEN I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!

he is clumsy as he is stupid

ooh and of course,
"Apology accepted, Captain Needa."

could go on all night with vadar..

Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses.

I'm realizing I can just about quote the entire movie, so I'm gonna stop now, except:

"My hands are dirty."
"My hands are dirty too. What are you afraid of?"

the dialog is so much better in this movie than either Star Wars or ROTJ!

astroids line has the bonus of featuring the hologram of the one captain flickering out as he dies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/quotes

Centauri: Alex, I want you to know that it was for the greatest good that I brought you back. Of course... it never hurts to be rich.
[dies]

One thing I occasionally have to remember about SW is that great stories are still told with it, you just can't have Lucas involved. At all, preferably.

Three stand out bits of narrative for me are the two KotOR games, and Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series. Shit, with the latter, you even have some folks taking characters & concepts & plot bits from what one could say is the nadir of the film series and making something compelling and worthwhile with them.

I don't have much to say about the novels or the comics, b/c other than Tim Zahn's initial trilogy in the early 90s, I haven't read any of them, with the exception of the "zombies on an abandoned star destroyer" of _Death Troopers_. That had its moments.

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

heh

loooollll

hahahahahhah

Have you guys seen the Red Letter Media 70 minute long Phantom Menace review? Even more Star Lols..

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

I remember going to see star wars at the Odeon on Oxford street (Manchester) when it was released, I was upset at the strangling of rebel scum man by Darth at the beginning being so young an all, but was so absolutely engrossed by it all i forgot and just wanted to be a part of it. Afterwards, we went into Debenhams, I saw a lightsabre and completely freaked out and demanded one, my parents, not having much money said we'd spent up on the cinema and I'd have to wait. This was not acceptable to a me, so i decided to throw a massive tantrum and roll about the floor crying demanding just one lightsabre. I didn't get one, i just got picked up and took home.

i guess i'm saying, the "original" star wars classic.

oh and my behaviour as a child, dud. sorry parents for embarrassing you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmTpOQrqoO0

Mock trailer for Empire Strikes Back as a 50s b-movie. Cleverly done.

That is really great.

BEAUTIFUL.

Brilliant.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIbJoF9otUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVYOCMpJRY

The introduction to the Millenium Falcon is a pan-right that finishes its move upwards, a reverent use of camera angles. The Falcon, as the central embodiment of spirit (if Star Wars has a mytho-religious form it is this spacecraft), is framed uniquely throughout the film inside a shape 2.33:1, the projection ratio of the Panavision system. In its reverse we see both Ben and Luke pass through these background frames as if they are entering a new portal, a different state of the film. The Troopers that arrive to arrest the heroes are likewise framed within these frames (he even creates deeper, smaller frames behind them in the same ratio) they seem to shoot at the ship from a subtly crafted film-within-a-film. The Falcon's name suggests it is older than its owner and organic passengers, and its shape is unique: a saucer (a throwback to the 50's UFO cycles) with a front fork (resembling wings swept forwards) and a cockpit placed bilaterally right, the cone/tube form that began the film with Artoo and has since extruded endlessly (escape pod, restraining bolt, sabre etc.), now it combines with the saucer to form what might be labeled eternal. Lucas suggests by combining forms properly one can make a ship (shape) that has an essence, it is by no means beautiful but it is eternal. Perhaps impossible to destroy. The Empire Strikes Back might be subtitled The Search for the Millenium Falcon. The Falcon is the only ship in the Star Wars canon that is named after a being that flies.

http://www.mstrmnd.com/log/1332

Really wish he had paid a little more attention to formatting/placement of the images with the txt as he did in the Shining one. It makes this a much more difficult read! Still, quite worth the effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac
This is amazing

Two minutes to render a simple wireframe construction for a frame of film . . . yikes. Amazing what this dude was able to do given those kinds of limitations.

So cool to watch him draw piece-by-piece the Death Star trench!

A work of art, on the level of the Whitney family.

That vid reiterates that the design of the original trilogy is pretty much flawless down to the smallest detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9jz0G-RrDs

2011 Blu-Ray box set will have oh yes! deleted scenes.
Here's the *new intro* to Jedi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJ0E7HbTKc

saw the beginning of rotj last night, this is a well-deleted scene

special edition fucks up jabba's deal the worst i think, totally different vibe + terrible

lol @ "Luuuke...Luuuke". you can certainly see why it was deleted but i appreciate why there was all that fanboy shrieking at the showing all the same.
odds on this bit will be going back in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POD8-_VVtf8

"you should wear girls clothes all the time" lol

Woah that lightsaber scene is badass!

Hope they include those ANH scenes where Luke is hanging out w his asshole friends.

LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKE
LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKE
LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKE

LUUUUUUUUUUUUKE (YEAAAAAAAAAAH!)

i didn't get why people cheered when they cut to luke

was it cause hey luke is on the screen?