Star Wars 7 shit talk

midnight showing of attack of the clones is one of the best movie tickets i ever bought, so many laughs, great times

I'll watch Starcrash again if I want a laugh.

'Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone' AKA "What if we try and rip off Star Wars and Mad Max at the same time, with Molly Ringwald?"

Battle Beyond the Stars will be better than whatever atrocity Disney shits out for this next iteration

The dodgy outfit Sean Connery was wearing in 'Zardoz' will be better than anything in these sequels.

midnight showing of attack of the clones is one of the best movie tickets i ever bought, so many laughs, great times

man, attack of the clones at mann's chinese in hollywood was incredible. huge screen, pristine imagery, some of the best FX ever, astronomically epic lols for 2+ hours.

Some of the best FX ever? FX looked like a game IIRC.

Harrison on fine (if knackered looking) form here. hope he doesn't have to do too many stunts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgtjDX6fZdQ

GET OFF OF MY PLANE!! OUT OF MY HOUSE.

GET OFF MY PLANET

haha Ford's looking all "I am way too high for this shit!"

Mark Hammill Reddit AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vvul8/mark_hamill_here_in_an_ama_far_far_away/

Older Luke Skywalker: beard or no beard?
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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 2009 points 2 days ago
Well based on what has gone before, I have a feeling it's beard, but I have no confirmation of that. My wife said if you grow a beard, you'll cover up your cleft chin. That's not something that occurred to me. But I can only guess. I've never read any of the novelizations or anything but someone said to me, 'you're married, you have children.' Based on Obi-Wan I would have guessed I'd be living in an igloo or something. He was more spiritual, he didn't have a wife or children. And when you find out one of the only eligible women in the galaxy is your sister, it really cuts down on your odds of hooking up with anyone.

What was your reaction when you first met Harrison Ford?
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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 1721 points 2 days ago
Well I'd seen him in American Graffiti, and I did the screen tests with him. We just fell into our character roles. Luke idolizes Han Solo, it was such a great role because Hans was the cynic, he was the modern role in this fairly tale. It was just the right element in the stew for all the cynics in the audience.
I just thought Harrison was fantastic, so perfect for the part. We fell into the role of mentor/student. they couldn't have made a better choice, and he can do no wrong. He's got a great sense of humor, it was fun to try to make him laugh.

not hamill but this comment gave me a huge giggle fit

[–]franzieperez 454 points 2 days ago
I actually had a huge argument with a friend of mine about (Han Solo's) name when we were younger. My friend was convinced it was "Hans Olo". His rationale was that the character had a 'normal' first name and a 'spacey' last name like Luke Skywalker or Ben Kenobi

Carrie Fisher summed it up well when she said "I'm not famous, but I look like somebody who is famous."

Wookies or Droids?
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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 560 points 2 days ago
Just for the sake of loyalty, it would have to be R2 and C-3PO. Hans had the Wookiee. I love the fact that C-3PO was so unhappy being thrust into these adventures. He’d be so much happier working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What's the Inside of a Taun Taun like?

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[–]RealMarkHamillMark Hamill[S] 2498 points 2 days ago

You know, warm and cozy. I also got inside a Bantha, those creatures that were outside the cantina. The inside of it was pasted over with newspapers and glue to give it substance, I thought, 'This is really odd.' I also got inside of Jabba, which was like a sauna bath, because it's like a big rubber enclosure. All the puppeteers had gone to lunch and I wondered, 'I wonder what it's like in there.'

he seems like such a good dude. his interview on the Nerdist podcast was pretty great too, I thought.

When I saw him at SW Celebration VI he really was just super cool and funny, willing to talk at length about SW or anything at all. Doesn't seem to have a mean or negative bone in his body. Ian McDiarmid is like that, too, interestingly enough.

What's the Inside of a Taun Taun like?

I thought the answer was "Luke-warm"

Up in them guts

omg schwantz thats terrible

I hear Han Solo operates a bologna stand

http://www.empireonline.com/features/star-wars-episode-vii-facts-rumours-mysteries/p1

Wonder what George Lucas thinks about the new film being shot on film instead of digital.

glad this isn't being shot in 3d

according to Harry Knowles Jack Reynor is in this. Guy has gone from a couple of small Irish movies to starring in the new Transformers and Star Wars in a couple of years. Hope it doesn't ruin him

Good news that they're doing lots of location shooting.

that aspect alone means it will be better than the prequels

ya can't wait to see han solo picnicking in central park

oh you

or gorging on cupcakes at magnolia bakery!!!

I hear they're going to use LARPers in the parc in Montreal as extras

tamtams ewoks

the film opens on earth, where luke skywalker is a successful and cynical corporate lawyer who has forgotten his past and lost whatever....force....drove him.

this page says he's been in meetings to come back, but thought they'd killed off the Emperor in Ep.6?

http://www.empireonline.com/images/uploaded/mark-hamill-star-wars-rumours.jpg

doesn't mean he can't haunt everyone

there will never be any good news about this movie

Call me a fool or a fool who follows him, but I genuinely think it could be decent.

There is almost no way it can be worse than the prequels, but of course the same kind of logic compelled me to see all three prequels despite all the evidence suggesting that they would continue to be lifeless, boring trainwrecks.

There is almost no way it can be worse than the prequels

oh ye of little faith

I also stand by this:

This is a good thing. #1: reduces george lucas's ability to do any more damage, #2: odds of proper DVD release of ORIGINAL THEATRICAL STAR WARS go up immensely, #3: horrible anonymous disney sequels actually DILUTE impact of the prequels, substantially eroding their seeming claim to be an integral piece of the saga...they instead get lumped together with the other postmillenial Shitty Star Warses. And maybe the design work for the new spaceships and robots and monsters won't suck so bad.

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i think the primary problem w/the prequels is the cast was channeling post-jedi skywalker sad bastard acting and i barely recall any "han soloing" as it were. part of the appeal of star wars was the slow discovery of the force's full power and people left and right (empire and rebellion!) taking the piss out of it and calling it a sham. we go into the prequels with the jedis just there and the force just a thing that everyone accepts and no one even has the chance to clown it because everyone is reciting force-scripture the entire time.

Yeah, I mean more generally: the Force is banal, lightsabers are ubiquitous, the Jedi are basically bureaucrats, the clone wars are a consequence-free CGI sideshow, being trained by Yoda means getting through your 2:00 class when you didn't have time to grab lunch, tragic downfalls are rejected soap opera B stories, and absolutely everything is just boring and ordinary. I think we've hashed this out more on the "crimes of George Lucas" thread, but that's kinda the long and short of it, plus incredibly uninspired direction. Thing should have been sent back for retooling as soon as the storyboards came in.

despite that i still think ROTS was a very good movie and maybe even a touch better than ROTJ in some respects. at least it was humorless because everyone was getting killed.

maybe even a touch better than ROTJ in some respects

Like what, postproduction color or something

i remember being really impressed by the visual style and fx and settings, though yeah i mean i don't think it's better than ROTJ overall really.

I'd rather watch the prequels again than rewatch those bland new star trek movies.

i hope SW 7 isn't focused on a villain whose only motive is he's creating "chaos" as a teachable moment