Star Wars - Classic or Dud?

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The force is illogical. - Spock 3:16

― David, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

B-b-but! What about Lord Of The Rings, eh? Surely the next few years will be CLASH OF THE GEEK TITANS! Who'll win?

― DG, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Trust me, after I saw LOTR, I thought George was nearly blown out of the water. And I still do -- AOTC will be make or break, I think.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I should say! make or break in the sense of whether or not Star Wars is still *thee* Holy Grail of Film Geekdom. Right now I'm sensing a three way tie between it, LOTR and The Matrix...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am still really looking forward to AOTC!

― jel, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

I was six (I think) when it came out (77?), and all I know for sure about the effect Star Wars had (on me) was that experiencing the first couple of minutes of the legendary Cantina scene somehow *changed everything* - this might sound cheesy, but it was as if a whole new world was realised, a place where supposed aliens weren't just guys in rubber suits, they were really ALIEN. Not to mention how fucking hyper that crazy mutant jazz music could make a little kid get.

-- Kim (grimstitc...), June 18th, 2001.

It was called "Lapti Nek" and I can still sing it (phonetically)!!!

― mei (mei), Monday, 4 August 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

First movie still classic in it's original 1977 version that I saw the day it was first released = classic classic classic

I've always thought that it should have stopped there. I don't care for Empire... and everything past that is garbage.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link

"I don't care for Empire..." Err, I should like to humbly submit evidence that should immediately and unequivocally expose your disdain as utterly unfounded. M’lud, exhibit A:

― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:10 (twenty years ago) link

"No disintegration"

― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link

i assume Gareth still hasn't seen it. i've known two other people who never saw it - one was a French guy, quite possibly the French version of Gareth (except he liked psychedelic trance and chocolate BNs) and the other a Surrey girl of no particular distinction

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:17 (twenty years ago) link

We won a game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit at the weekend. Therefore: Classic

― robster (robster), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link

leaked spoiler script for episode III!

WARNING!! contains the climactic "blunt-smoking" sequence!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link

nine months pass...

"According the Brtish tabloid The Sun, Star Wars III will carry the name 'Birth Of The Empire'. This will be announced soon according the article. Also it describes one of the highlights of the movie: 'A thrilling lightsabre clash between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker while surfing on lava.' Can't wait till May 15th 2005!"

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my god

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Urgh, it comes out on my birthday.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

And you can even return it!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

And you can't even return it!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Oops, sorry.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

there must be some way we can sue George Lucas to block the release of this film.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Surfing on lava. This one simple statement eradicated any hope of this movie restoring the franchise.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw a bit of the Clones on TV the other day. This is possibly the worst movie ever made.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

as long as it's like the fan-script i read it will be okay. Clones is better than Menace.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.icv2.com/images/72551Mace-2X3-(SOL)lg.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

oops
http://www.blister.jp/shop/item_html/pic/540000060799.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHA That seriously is the best bust ever created.

I want a picture of that bust surfing on lava.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I want a picture of that bust barfing on lava.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

(Have I ever disclosed that I've seen that bust in person at a comic book store? It's even more frightning than the picture would lead you to believe.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I should note:

According the Brtish tabloid The Sun

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

And you didn't buy it????

x-post

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

That thing is EXPENSIVE! Plus my wife would murder me in my sleep by stuffing it down my throat.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

That's why it has no arms, to ease forced swallowings inflicted on the morans who buy it.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It's expensive? The mind boggles.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a certain joy in not being a total fanboy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I am afeared of that statue. It reminds me of the cover to the second Prodigy album.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://calebband.org.uk/files/sw.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

a film's essence summed up by an emoticon: truly we are living in the future

― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I rather like being here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.fungod.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=334

the lost Biggs/toshi station/luke in gilligan hat scenes from ANH

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 June 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

>a film's essence summed up by an emoticon<

no, we're talking about 1977's Star Wars The emoticon is not worth a popcorn kernel left on the theatre floor.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link

the emoticon is better in that it actually made me feel something

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxPIkjG3J0

Strange Brew audio cut to Star Wars footage

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Was the Death Star attack an inside job?

2) Why did Grand Moff Tarkin refuse to deploy the station’s large fleet of TIE Fighters until it was too late? Was he acting on orders from somebody to not shoot down the rebel attack force? If so, who, and why?
...
4) Why has there not been an investigation into allegations that Darth Vader, the second-ranking member of the Imperial Government, is in fact the father of the pilot who allegedly destroyed the Death Star?

5) Why did Lord Vader decide to break all protocols and personally pilot a lightly armored TIE Fighter? Conveniently, this placed Lord Vader outside of the Death Star when it was destroyed, where he was also conveniently able to escape from a large-sized rebel fleet that had just routed the Imperial forces. Why would Lord Vader, one of the highest ranking members of the Imperial Government, suddenly decide to fly away from the Death Star in the middle of a battle? Did he know something that the rest of the Imperial Navy didn’t?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a certain joy in not being a total fanboy.

Ned Raggett (Ned) on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:20 PM (2 years ago)

so otm

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.websurdity.com/2007/02/28/uncomfortable-questions-was-the-death-star-attack-an-inside-job/

^^^^^
mega roffles

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I should repost my transcription of the lyrics from the theatrical edition Ewok victory song here huh

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

TOE ROCK
HE IS
MAAADE
OUT OF ROOOOCKS
HE IS
MADE OUTTA ROCKS
HE IS
MADE FROM ROOOOCKS
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROCK! (toot toot)
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROCK! (toot toot)
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROOOOOOOCK

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

rewatching the old skool on DVD finally made me realize (similar to what Ned said somewhere about Ben Burtt's sound work) - there's a lot of sequences where the editing and combination of score, dialogue, special effects shots and sound design all together reach that level of mastery that makes it look so easy you don't notice. The trench run, the AT-ATs, and the speederbike chase are all still absolutely terrific, like bullitt/french connection class of How Do I Shot Some Intense Fucking Velocity In A Color Talkie.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Why was the rebel pilot who supposedly destroyed the Death Star reported to be on the Death Star days, maybe hours, prior to its destruction? Why was he allowed to escape, and why were several individuals dressed in Stormtrooper uniforms seen helping him?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Ewok song lyrics OTM.

― chap, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

George Lucas is a sad, sad man

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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have been watching the original trilogy for christmas, those "despecialized" versions

great stuff

this scene really is too sad ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q19IGr-xeuA

― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link

When an Ewok dies, he murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives

― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:38 (four months ago) link

the original Dobby

― Natural Wine • Danny Devito • Virginia (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 December 2023 01:11 (four months ago) link

two months pass...

Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in. pic.twitter.com/wC7N2vPNvv
— Windy 🛸 (@heyitswindy) March 2, 2024

― President Keyes, Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:10 (one month ago) link

The Truly Special Edition

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:37 (one month ago) link

There is more. It's making this film watchable.

Palpatine You Have To Stop. You Smoke Too Tough. Your Swag Too Different. Your Bitch Is Too Bad. They’ll Kill You pic.twitter.com/rAbW8xUawQ
— Windy 🛸 (@heyitswindy) March 2, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 09:37 (one month ago) link

this is the funniest fucking thing ever oh my god https://t.co/XXDzkmxuON pic.twitter.com/spMRtArFvb
— Ren (@StanNajimi) March 3, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 09:39 (one month ago) link

Someone shared that with me yesterday and I couldn't breathe.

Right down to the cheesy jingle

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:16 (one month ago) link

what are you talking about that's one of the most powerful commercial jingles ever made

― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link

I've been singing "Cerveza Cristal" in that rock voice all day!

There is a Chilean restaurant kinda near me that I haven't been to for a while and I wonder if they have that beer. Might have to go.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link

I have to say that, as amazing as this concept is, I'm a little disappointed that they apparently only utilized it in advertising Cerveza Cristal. Like why not a shot of Darth Vader in his chamber lowering his helmet and pulling on a pair of Depends pañales para adultos.

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:07 (one month ago) link

i love the implication that everyone in star wars have secret beers hidden everywhere and are constantly riding a 3-beer buzz

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:32 (one month ago) link

"Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasnt helped you conjure of the stolen data tapes!... "

*smacks lips, eyes start absently scanning the room, tilts head back to "casually" peek under nearby chairs*

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:36 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

The Empire Strips Back
A Burlesque Parody

https://theempirestripsback.com/san-francisco/#instafeed

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 26 April 2024 22:57 (six days ago) link

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