Strange Brew audio cut to Star Wars footage
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― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.peoplevsgeorge.com/
― latebloomer, Saturday, 16 February 2008 08:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Most certainly a dud in all ways possible.
― mehlt, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
This new film coming out: uh.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
ugly looking animation
― latebloomer, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
In the climax of Episode IV as Vader's TIE fighter zooms up behind Luke's X-Wing fighter, Vader feels out throug the Force and detects the power of his opponent. His first reaction is to shoot R2-D2.
Given that Vader is known to be unconcerned with his enemies carrying blasters or lightsabres as they confront him, isn't this a bit of an overreaction for a piece of hardware as humdrum as an astromech droid? Not if he is an instrument of the Force, and a power capable of reshaping the destinies of kings.
― Z S, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, anyway:
“I am amazed at how it continues,” he said on his way into the afternoon screening following a quick photo shoot with members of the cast and crew. “It’s not something I expected to happen, and not something we spend a lot of time thinking about trying to expand. This was created because I wanted to stimulate kids' imaginations, inspire them to be creative and to think outside the box. I’m like the tar baby … I’ve gotten into the toy box and now I can’t get out.”
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm like the tar baby"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
okay there are enough uses of that term that are unambiguously racist that we don't also need to also jump up and down and act all shrill about the ones that aren't
― HI DERE, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The 'toy box' thing is the more unsettling (but also more unsurprising) comment anyway.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
calista flockhart has never seen star wars.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
why do you think Ford was attracted to her?
― tuomasters at work (blueski), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Wonder if Ford's ever seen Ally McBeal.
― chap, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
wonder if she knows who kevin smith is
― and what stillman (and what), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
The Sgt. Pepper's of movies, with all that implies: A state-of-the-art audio/visual feast that split the world open when it was released, and is unfortunately destined to be commemorated in every year ending in a "7", until the end of time.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ratemyeverything.net/image/837/0/Owen_Lars_and_Aunt_Beru_Charred.ashx
― Dr. Phil, Thursday, 23 April 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
this looks terrible btw. can't bring myself to start a thread on it
http://i.enewsi.com/g/albums//Entertainment/Fanboys/fanboys-the-movie-star-wars%20(1).jpg
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/3001030202_49e31f24d4.jpg
― Dr. Phil, Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
even the Wayans brothers are appalled by this
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently, there's never been a thread on this guy:
http://supershadow.com/
― BRTO (Mexican Sleeping Pill), Thursday, 23 April 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Fanboys did finally get a pathetic release at some point, right? Man, even sadder is how that trailer cuts out Veronica Mars...
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 April 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
we had some fun with supershadow on another thread, i forget which.
still,
Bigfoot doesn't realize the Russian Spetsnaz are real, who don't know the United States Shadow Government exists, who don't know the Illuminati are real, who don't know time travelers from the future are actual, who don't realize extraterrestrials are a fact, who don't realize the supernatural immortals exist. Ultimately, who watches the watchers? This is the paradoxical irony of reality that has no explanation.
The unlimited Multiverse is so massively infinite that individual expanding Universes can NEVER collide.
SuperShadow: The number one rated SS.com update of all time in history ever approaches
― Facebook users and Chinese scholars (latebloomer), Friday, 24 April 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
seems to be taking his cues now from this thread:
TOP SECRET: da troof
― Facebook users and Chinese scholars (latebloomer), Friday, 24 April 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://failblog.org/2009/03/20/baby-name-fail-2/
― Millsner, Saturday, 2 May 2009 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh, that Fanboys poster. Parody or not, the 40 Year Old Virgin-style poster thing is PLAYED THE FUCK OUT.
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 May 2009 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://wildammo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/3576703162_c2c1c59585_b-675x450.jpghttp://wildammo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/3551772099_cbc5f739d3_b-675x450.jpghttp://wildammo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/3493855156_79ae00578c_b-675x450.jpg
from here http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/sets/72157616350171741/
― DavidM, Sunday, 15 November 2009 14:20 (fourteen 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!!
"Lucas dreaded returning to the writing process, which he has described as painful and tedious. For Star Wars II, he turned to Leigh Brackett. Brackett was a legendary writer of pulp science fiction in the 1940's and 50's, a writer of crime novels, and screenwriter for Howard Hawks-- their pairing seemed like a natural formula for success. In fact, her husband was Edmond Hamilton, also a noted science fiction author, whose story "Kaldar, Planet of Antares," published in Weird Tales magazine in 1933 and reprinted in paperback in 1965, has been thought to have been an influence in the development of the lightsaber since it features one-- Hamilton's version was called a "lightsword." Brackett was brought to Lucas' attention by a friend, who handed him an old science fiction novel and said, "Here is someone who wrote the cantina scene in Star Wars better than you did."
--Michael Kaminski, The Secret History of Star Wars
― tricked by a toothless cobra, Monday, 16 November 2009 10:16 (fourteen 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."
The bar-of-aliens idea was also used in the French sci-fi comic Valérian and Laureline before Star Wars came out, can't remember in which book though. Considering that the Millennium Falcon looks very similar to the spaceship Valérian and Laureline have in the comic, it seems quite likely that it might've served as an inspiration to Star Wars. The Wiki page for Valérian and Laureline has this to say about the similarities between V&L and SW:
Several commentators, such as Kim Thompson of The Comics Journal,[28] film critic Jean-Philippe Guerand[29] and the newspaper Libération,[30] have noted certain similarities between the Valérian albums and the Star Wars film series. Both series are noted for the “lived-in” look given to their various settings and for the diverse alien creatures they feature. Particular instances of similarities between the two series, which the above have cited, include:
* The design of Valérian and Laureline's XB982 astroship and the Millennium Falcon spaceship that appears in Episodes IV-VI of Star Wars. * A scene in Empire of a Thousand Planets (L'Empire des Mille Planètes) where Valérian is encased in a liquid plastic and a scene in The Empire Strikes Back where the character Han Solo is encased in a substance called carbonite. * The slave-girl costume worn by Laureline in World Without Stars and the costume worn by the character Leia Organa in the scenes where she is enslaved by Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi * A scene in Empire of a Thousand Planets where one of the Authorities removes his helmet to reveal his burned and scarred face underneath and a scene in Return of the Jedi where the character Darth Vader removes his helmet to reveal the burned face of Anakin Skywalker. * The alien Shingouz and the character Watto seen in The Phantom Menace.
Mézières' response upon seeing Star Wars was that he was “dazzled, jealous... and furious!”.[31] As a riposte, Mézières produced an illustration for Pilote magazine in 1983 depicting the Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa meeting Valérian and Laureline in a bar surrounded by a bestiary of alien creatures typical of that seen in both series. “Fancy meeting you here!” says Leia. “Oh, we've been hanging around here for a long time!” retorts Laureline.[32] Mézières has since been informed that Doug Chiang, design director on The Phantom Menace, kept a set of Valérian albums in his library.[14]
― Tuomas, Monday, 16 November 2009 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link