Star Wars 7 shit talk

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My gf had no idea that it existed, so I started playing it for her last year. She had a hard time believing it was real. Understandably.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link

i saw it for the first time over thanksgiving, truly mind boggling

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link

poor Boba Fett, he was just a sap with daddy issues

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link

if JJ Abrams were truly cool, he'd embed an obscure allusion to the christmas special somewhere in 'the force awakens'

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

maybe a cutaway to a wookiee family gathering

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

My wife and I watched the Rifftrax version over T'giving, although I do also own a bootleg DVD of it.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

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.

jmm, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

I remember having no idea who 'Boba Fett' referred to even after having seen all the films a couple of times. I still don't get why he's such a big deal.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link

his costume is cool/badass

Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link

wears a helmet, has a wrist rope, sucks dick

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link

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

μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link

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.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link

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.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link

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.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link

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.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link

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

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link

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

akm, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link

but enough about scott walker

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link

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, 15 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link

that ellen video is amazing, carrie fisher is rad

Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link

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?

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link

it was really skinny

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link

Its biological composition was largely low-grade foam.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link

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

ogmor, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

he's Fetty Wap's dad

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link

We called him Bubba Fat when we were kids.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link

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.

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link

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

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link

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

glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link

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.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link

it's actually a streetlight xp

μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link

EU?

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link

Get out.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link

j/k. Expanded universe. Novels, etc.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link

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 burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link

The very first Star Wars figures were "mail away"

the pedantry

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link

Do you expect any less itt

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link

xxp

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

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

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link

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.

silverfish, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link

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

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link

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

schwantz, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link

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.

silverfish, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link

https://lightsaber.withgoogle.com/experience

μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link

so how big is Adam Driver's lightsaber?

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link

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!

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link

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

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link


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