Star Wars - Classic or Dud?

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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

― 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

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 on Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:30 (5 hours ago)
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so so otm and beautifully put. really i mean that.

MAN i'm going to watch the trilogy box this weekend i think.

― pisces, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell's a Color Talkie

― Ste, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i just watched the original trilogy on hbo. what the fuck is lucas' obsession with digitally inserting tiny, squeaking robots and tiny, squeaking animals being eating by larger, burping/farting animals? but the first three still hold up well, for me.

also - were r2 and chewbacca the secret leaders of the rebel alliance?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I raved to my dad abt the bar full o'aliens and the mutant jazz, shortly after SW came out ? to prove to him that it was the BEST FILM EVER MADE (as I slightly inexplicably tht: I RAN all the way home after first saw it, so hyped wuz I, abt two-three miles ? I had not, admittedly, seen many films at that age). My dad demurred: and sed (re bar-of-aliens and jazz), "This is a very old idea."
But is he right or was he on crack? I can think of no occurrence of EITHER idea in SF prior to this, and these days I sometimes KNOW WHAT I'M'TALKING ABOUT!!

I think this scene was influenced (or at least predated) by a similar alien cantina scene in the French sci-fi comic Valerian, but I can't remember which particular book it was in.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Lego Star Wars 2 arrived for my GC this morning!! Excited!!

― Sarah, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

[image]http://www.websurdity.com/images/thepetbantha.jpg[image]

― stevie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.websurdity.com/images/thepetbantha.jpg

― stevie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Räkä räkä!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I second one of the comments on that websurdity site:

#Spiritualized Says:

This needs a cheesy video on YouTube, using the Loose Change background music.

PLEASE somebody make one. Please?!

YES.

― Roz, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

[quote]also - were r2 and chewbacca the secret leaders of the rebel alliance?

haha: It is my contention that R2-D2 is the fulcrum upon which the plot of the entire saga pivots, and that this is made possible because R2-D2 is a direct instrument of the Force

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Personally I always was more comfortable with R2-D2 as an avatar of Krishna.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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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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