Star Wars 7 shit talk

I hear Chewie has a dance number called the Wookiewaken

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i figure this new movie can't be too bad if you keep expectations low. i just re-watched the "original trilogy' for the first time in > 25 years so my expectations are suitably diminished. (that isn't a dig. i like the first one especially. but they are certainly not deathless masterpieces. the production design and effects are consistently stunning, though. i want to visit bespin.)

10 minutes of Yub Nub wouldn't be so bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ebjptd6Kgo

i don't think 'empire' is the best film (depends on by what standard you're judging of course) but it certainly is the handsomest. the filmmaking isn't too flashy but the compositions are consistently more graphically engaging than in the other two films. (that said there are a few moments of interesting depth staging/rack focus in the first one that show some of things lucas is good at--other than world-building, of course.)

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Thread delivers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ROyNyRukQ

I just remembered that there's a Star Wars character who's actually named Droopy McCool.

looking forward to dling this as soon as it leaks.

The screening was an hour ago. I missed it b/c work and food poisoning (I didn't want to underestimate the dark side of the Force).

My jam when I was 5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOp04pxm7ro

I'm excited to see these guys. Hopefully they get to kick some stuff.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/12/13/star-wars-the-force-awakens-iko-uwais-and-yayan-ruhians-roles-revealed

Huh, wtf are they dressed as cowboys? Disco might not have sucked, but it was still pretty weird.

xpost Oh man, costume changes! And it gets weirder!

Sometimes I think Lucas is actually history's greatest and most successful troll, giving background characters "names" that are never spoken onscreen or used anywhere than on toy packaging or Wookieepedia, just to see how people will react.

he sure played a long con. 30+ years of "Star Wars is all written out, it's 12 movies long!" while just making stuff all along paid off mightily in the end.

My jam when I was 5:

I was surprised not to hear that Meco track in the movie, since it was on the radio constantly when the film finally came to my town late in the year. (Also remember being puzzled at my realization, 20 minutes in, of the absence of any opening credits.)

Droopy McCool.

the best character name is still Salacious B. Crumb!

also, further evidence that either lucas is some kind idiot-savant or is a magnificent troll:

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

Wait, Salacious has a middle initial? How has that escaped my notice?

I wish I could've gotten a job recommending character names to Lucas. Sludge Fartpants. Smirk Hamhands. Fidget O'Dicksplitter.

or at least a job with MAD Magazine

Same diff.

Wait, Salacious has a middle initial? How has that escaped my notice?

― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:19 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the real question is, what does that middle initial stand for? disney ought to address this before the new film is released.

Sometimes I think Lucas is actually history's greatest and most successful troll, giving background characters "names" that are never spoken onscreen or used anywhere than on toy packaging or Wookieepedia, just to see how people will react.

― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:52 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

am i wrong that boba fett (sp?) isn't actually named in the original trilogy? he's kind of the ultimate example of this.

he is referred to numerous times simply as "bounty hunter" as i recall.

In Jedi during the fight around the Sarlacc, you can just hear Han Solo say, "Boba Fett? Where?" He's definitely not named on-screen in Empire, but he was in the cartoon segment of the Holiday Special, which preceded it. So a borderline case.

so is the holiday special canon?

i was describing it to some friends recently, and they didn't seem to believe me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq_HmkE6Dmc&feature=youtu.be&t=1m20s

1:20s

send them the youtube link, amateurist!

well that depends on how you feel about Bea Arthur xxpost

My gf had no idea that it existed, so I started playing it for her last year. She had a hard time believing it was real. Understandably.

i saw it for the first time over thanksgiving, truly mind boggling

poor Boba Fett, he was just a sap with daddy issues

if JJ Abrams were truly cool, he'd embed an obscure allusion to the christmas special somewhere in 'the force awakens'

maybe a cutaway to a wookiee family gathering

My wife and I watched the Rifftrax version over T'giving, although I do also own a bootleg DVD of it.

I love how Boba Fett's death is so cartoony and ignominious, befitting the fact that he's a complete non-character, when his 'origin' in the prequels is this very momentous scene.

I remember having no idea who 'Boba Fett' referred to even after having seen all the films a couple of times. I still don't get why he's such a big deal.

his costume is cool/badass

wears a helmet, has a wrist rope, sucks dick

Vader is firm with him, among the other bounty hunters, about not killing Skywalker, implying he's ruthless or something

also that whole carbonite freezing thing

I love how Boba Fett's death is so cartoony and ignominious, befitting the fact that he's a complete non-character, when his 'origin' in the prequels is this very momentous scene.

yeah i thought about this as i was rewatching the 'original trilogy.' i don't actually follow this stuff closely, but i get the sense that his role in the star wars world was enlarged in various auxilliary/ancillary narratives (comic books, tv shows, etc.) in the time between the two trilogies.

i sometimes wonder what it'd be like to watch the prequel trilogy first, and only then watch the original trilogy. i imagine there are any number of young (and not so young?) kids who had this experience. i imagine that there's lots in the original trilogy that would seem truly inexplicable if not perverse in light of the metastasized backstory of the prequels.

y'all have read this, right?

http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/2015/star-wars-episode-one-the-phantom-menace-1999-episode-two-attack-of-the-clones-2002-episode-three-revenge-of-the-sith-2005/26568/

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

A good friend of mind just did exactly that in prep for this movie -- watched all the movies with his son in numerical order. He said his son was really, really freaked out and upset by the end of Episode III, so he had to assure him that it gets better, then they watched the original trilogy.

Boba Fett was a big deal in large part because they went out of their way to make him a big deal long before Empire was released.

I've read somewhere about people who watch all of them in numerical order, and they say the original trilogy becomes gibberish as a result. So much of those films depend on the great great twists, so a lot of it becomes a slog when everything has been spelled out in advance.