the naive days when we thought the worst of george’s crimes were creating prequels and re-editing decades-old films
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 6 April 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
As far as I've seen, these are the first specifics George Lucas has shared about what his vision of Episodes 7-9 would have been. This comes from @insighteditions awesome companion book to "James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction series" on AMC: pic.twitter.com/Wtlw8zlrqv— Livio Ramondelli (@LivioRamondelli) June 12, 2018
wow george, that really would have been something.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Micronauts-1.jpg/250px-Micronauts-1.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
I think Lucas was only able to make the prequels because he didn't work consistently enough after SW for the world to realize how bad his ideas are.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
Like I'm convinced that a Lucas who was productive through the '80s and '90s would've decisively burned up all of his capital a la Shyamalan.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
If the Force is powered by the Whills, the Sith must be powered by the Whonts.
I read that post hearing the voice from Patton Oswalt's routine about time-travelling to kill Lucas pre-prequels.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
lmao ‘this story would have been shit and everyone would have hated it but at least it would have been complete’
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
“I regret not getting to stink up that public restroom like I intended to”
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
the best creative ethos
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
http://500daysasunder.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-2-05-27-pm-e1349978764535.png?w=694what you talking about, whills?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
tbf to lucas though at least he had a new idea for the series even if it was terrible - i don’t get much of a sense that disney have much interest in doing something innovative
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
gee really
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
dunno what could've given you that impression, was it the trailer for Tim Burton's live action Dumbo?
Disney stopped being concerned with innovation about 15 years ago
lol sparkle motion
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
would rather see microbe wars than Star Wars The Regurgitated Jedi
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/940/mockingspongebobbb.jpg
― Eliza D., Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
So if I'm connecting the dots correctly, Lucas's original idea for episode VII was tweaked to remove all SW references and ultimately filmed as
http://oneguyrambling.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/216033.1020.A-202x300.jpg
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
When Is Someone Gonna Make A Sci-Fi Show Or Movie Without Any People In Them?
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
i mean the original draft for star wars was called journal of the whills or something, right? but if those microbiotic creatures are supposedly operate differently than us, what use would they have for journals?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
they weren't microbes thenthe great thing about those embryonic SW versions is how they are really just these collections of cool evocative names and titles with the actual story and character matter unstable as fuck. i love that.
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
It was triumph not journals iirc
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
It's almost, almost, as if Lucas considers storytelling to be the least important element of telling a story.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
which can be totally awesome! if only he had the boldness to make truly ornamental/ambient SF in that mode
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
I agree! I wish he could've realized his strengths and played to them more.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
just edit the prequel trilogy to just the cutscenes and i think you'd have it.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 June 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
"This is the story of Mace Windy, a revered Jedi-bendu of Ophuchi, as related to us by C.J. Thorpe, padawan learner to the famed Jedi."
Cool and evocative names, eh?
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
"ophuchi" sounds like something you'd hear this guy blabbering
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Cornholion_in_Holy_Cornholio.jpg/250px-Cornholion_in_Holy_Cornholio.jpg
― Eliza D., Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
I assume it's a fuckup of Ophiuchi, an actual constellation
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 15 June 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
lol wins
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 15 June 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
padawan learner to the famed Jedi
this is a cool turn of phrase
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
just found out about this:
On the set of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Lucas shared his ideas with animation director Rob Coleman, when Coleman arrived for his first day. As Chris Taylor relates in his fantastic book How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, Lucas told Coleman “his ultimate framing device.” Taylor writes:“The entire story of Star Wars is actually being recounted to the keeper of the Journal of the Whills—remember that?—a hundred years after the events of Return of the Jedi by none other than R2-D2.”
“The entire story of Star Wars is actually being recounted to the keeper of the Journal of the Whills—remember that?—a hundred years after the events of Return of the Jedi by none other than R2-D2.”
i do not remember that btw
― omar little, Monday, 11 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
lmao
r2d2 just beepin' and bloopin' for hours at a time to some low-level functionary who needs to keep stopping him because his wrist is getting tired from writing in the journal with a space fountain pen
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
Is r2d2 a reliable narrator? This now makes me suspicious of the endless # of scenes where r2d2 slides up and coolly saves the day while everyone else is panicking like idiots...
― One Eye Open, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
It would certainly explain the gratuitous number of hardcore droid-on-droid scenes so liberally sprinkled throughout the series.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
lol journal of the whills only mentioned in a couple of novelizations
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Only too late does the journal keeper realize R2 was Darth Sidious all along
https://media.giphy.com/media/Z8uqXqZaNT4n6/giphy.gif
― jmm, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Damn it, should have double-checked that gif
― jmm, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
nah that gif seems v thread-appropriate tbh
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 March 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
That cup is where he keeps his whill
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
Not directly SW related but this is the most relevant thread I can find: The redlettermedia review of the latest Marvel movie calls Brie Larson a virtue-signalling, sexist, racist bitch for saying that most movie critics are white men. The critics of the Plinkett reviews were right -- they are awful people.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
Not surprised.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Few phrases are as inadvertently self-descriptive as 'virtue-signalling' (see also: 'social justice warrior' as a pejorative). Like when you start to casually malign aspirational behavior I think you technically qualify for villain status.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
I have zero reason to watch the narrative video version of clickbait that passes for commentary on youtube
a few years ago I watched a few short clips doing that sort of thing and it was entertaining as a one-off novelty but everything's gone down the path of "this movie is a failure because it has a political agenda" or "top ten plot holes!" where a plot hole is anything that has an implied offscreen action that wasn't spoon-fed to the viewers
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
I just saw a 'May the Fourth be With You' sign in the window of a funeral directors.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 5 May 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
xp: it is the world's worst promotional tie-in product ever; a giant lollipop shaped like a tongue in a case shaped like Jar-Jar's head with a plunger on the back you have to push in to make it open, meaning that eating the lollipop requires french-kissing a Jar-Jar Binks toy
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:58 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have a still-unopened one of these buried somewhere in a pile of junk in my house, because when I saw that thing it was just too hilarious for me not to purchase it
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:58 (eight years ago)
^^^ you're not the only one... (NSFW obviously)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-drxdYedUU
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link