Star Wars 7 shit talk

i think w/the first star wars films (esp the first and second) he was really inspired and imaginative w/r/t setting and using real-world terrain to create alien landscapes, but he later became devoted to either revisiting previously trod-upon ground bc of fan service or simply creating uncanny valleyish new worlds wholesale out of CGI.

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yeah but how much does he really have to do with the second one? I mean if it weren't for Empire's imaginative scenes and great shots and character arcs and stuff, Star Wars would be this one gigantic hit movie, not a universe. Like Jaws or Jurassic Park where by and large the public forgets there even were sequels, and it's a distinct "movie" not a "universe" or w/e. I think Star Wars is totally fantastic in itself, a real blast to watch... not knocking Lucas's work on that one. Though I guess you could argue that he kind of lucked into awesome performances from Guinness, Ford and Jones, and without those it would probably be a much flatter space adventure picture, weighted so far towards effects and visuals that it's hard to watch for anything else.

The ads for the new Lucas fantasy movie look like he's finally made his dream of chittering, farting, bleeping wee imaginary creatures come true.

Ah, I saw the commercial for that out of the corner of my eye and didn't realize he was involved.

'story by' then three other writers on the screenplay.

Exec producer too.

oh here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9iLfD6xus

hoping the scene following the 'from the mind of george lucas' card was a deliberate choice by a less than admiring editor.

i watched "american graffiti" again recently, and i really think it's a marvel of popular filmmaking, and really well-directed. what happened to that dude?

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he got divorced, estranged from his filmmaking posse, and got delusions of grandeur

Ha! Sounds extremely plausible. xp

imo THX-1138 works because it's mostly empty, it's a very aesthetic film with no real meat and leans heavily on the visual design and Walter Murch's work

"I was expecting something a little.... more." "What?" Amazing stuff.

That trailer does the thing where it cuts out the music to deliver a killer line like 8 times.

omg how LONG can a trailer be? what a disorganized pile of moments and bits.

the parts that make SENSE just make you not want to see the movie, as you just know the tedious fucking story beats it represents.

27% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a surprisingly generous review from The AV Club, which calls it "the Moulin Rouge of animated features."

(NB: director Gary Rydstrom is a very close friend of Lucas, and a 7-time Oscar winner for his sound work.)

I saw a video of George Lucas on some morning show where he was (rightly) talking about how the Academy is garbage, he's not a member, how Hollywood needs diversity before movies can be rightly diverse and I was nodding...

...but cringing every 30 seconds because he had to mention RED TAILS constantly. I probably should watch that movie! But his plugging and "I get diversity... RED TAILS" was pretty much him to a t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbbzaS8rcak

wish scorsese would grow back the beard

wish lucas would grow enough beard to cover his neck

But that's how he keeps track of where his jaw bone should be.

His current beard that is:

http://i2.wp.com/blog.gadgetsandgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/George-Lucas-The-Ewok1.jpg?resize=%2C

"I get diversity... RED TAILS"

#grocerybag

so this is Epic plus Arthur & The Invisibles except incredibly shit?

don't forget ferngully

http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/ships-activities/onboard-activities/deck-parties/star-wars-day-at-sea/

"galaxy"

Disney fostering disease transmission in a setting different than those recently publicized

Since joining Apple, Ive has occasionally taken on outside projects. In 2001, he created a white polystyrene box to house a book by Paul Smith. In 2013, an aluminum desk that Ive and Newson designed for the Project Red auction sold for $1.7 million. And Ive once sat next to J. J. Abrams at a boozy dinner party in New York, and made what Abrams recalled as “very specific” suggestions about the design of lightsabres. Abrams told me that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” would reflect those thoughts, but he wouldn’t say how. After the release of the film’s first trailer—which featured a fiery new lightsabre, with a cross guard, and a resemblance to a burning crucifix—I asked Ive about his contribution. “It was just a conversation,” he said, then explained that, although he’d said nothing about cross guards, he had made a case for unevenness: “I thought it would be interesting if it were less precise, and just a little bit more spitty.” A redesigned weapon could be “more analog and more primitive, and I think, in that way, somehow more ominous.”

https://vine.co/v/OJLnidqlPq2

JJ Abrams -_-

The Star Wars universe is getting its first LGBT character added to the official canon with the release of author Paul S. Kemp's upcoming novel Lords of the Sith, Big Shiny Robot reports.

The character, known as Moff Mors, is described by the website as "an Imperial who has made some very serious mistakes," but is still considered to be "an incredibly capable leader and spends much of the book working hard to prevent absolute failure." It's noted that "[Moff Mors] also happens to be a lesbian."

did... did they have to call the lesbian character 'moff'

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Moff

yeah that's not what i was getting at

At least they didn't make her a submarine commander

Moff Mons

Grand Moff Diver.

this is the thread where I admit I have been watching Star Wars Rebels (the animated thing) and, while not really written as well as some of the Clone Wars episodes, had a pretty decent payoff

Yeah, Rebels started off slow, then pulled an Agents of SHIELD and went out strong for the season. Seems like the animation got better towards the end of the season, too.

(spoilers) bringing back the best original character from the Clone Wars show was a good move

Star Wars creator George Lucas surprised employees at New York’s Midtown Comics in Times Square when he stopped by the store to pick up some new comics.

“He came in and was browsing the store, looking at the Star Wars stuff,” a Midtown employee told Page Six. “He was only in for about 15 minutes, his driver was waiting outside. Fans were pretty excited to see him and he signed a comic book. He was saying he hadn’t read any of the new Star Wars comics.”

Lucas apparently plans to change that, as he left the store with copies of Marvel’s new Star Wars, Darth Vader, and Princess Leia series, as well as some vintage Heavy Metal. You have to wonder what Lucas thinks of the new stories.

http://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2015/03/george-lucas-at-midtown-126821.jpg

lol, i think i know that guy on the left
lucas lost a lotta weight! to get up that steep times square midtown comics stairway, he would kinda have had to.

The first issue of the new "Star Wars" is actually really fun.

all of the comics so far are pretty decent imo!

I haven't seen any of them yet, mostly because I don't have quick and regular access to a comic shop at the moment. It also seems like Marvel has just completely disappeared from any chain stores, like all of the local Barnes & Nobles are just DC only. Did they scale back on their distribution or was there something else I missed?

I just get mine via the Marvel app, so not sure what's going on with their hard copy distro. But yeah, all three titles are good!

Leia a badass imo

cool, thanks.

Star Wars: Rogue One, starring Felicity Jones, directed by Gareth Edwards, written by Chris Weitz announced today: http://www.starwars.com/news/rogue-one-is-the-first-star-wars-stand-alone-film-rian-johnson-to-write-and-direct-star-wars-episode-viii

It's a crazy day for announcements. Wow! God, I hope they're better lit than Godzilla.

Monsters was unmitigated crap and I didn't see Godzilla, so I am less than optimistic. Still, "Rogue" is an X-wing pilot call sign in the SW universe, so if we get like Star Wars Top Gun I will watch the hell out of it.

I really liked Monsters, but it's literally impossible to see Godzilla so of course you didn't.

all 3 Marvel titles so far are HELLA fun. amping up my excitement for the film coming later this year in a big way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=89&v=PN_CP4SuoTU

this is pretty rad