― Kim, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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!!
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
However, I think it HIGHLY unlikely that my dad had Ra in mind (or had even heard of him in 1977). He meant movies and (even more) pulp 50s books.
It's funny mark, I remember my dad raving to *me* (after going by himself first, the bastard) about the aliens etc., I think he went to see it at the drive in, something like four times that summer. We always did have a ridiculous amount of sci-fi books around the house, he was a real fan, so I think he'd been waiting for that kind of scene for his entire life - and if *he* thought it was a film revolution, I'm inclined to believe.
― Kim, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally C, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
http://www.guitarpunk.com/SW-85DV-close.jpg
http://www.guitarpunk.com/VADER-ZO%20with%20Soft.jpg
That means Star Wars is cool, no?
I can see a certain very cool cat playing one of these, but by god would he have to be cool. Something in the vein of goofpunk that is not necessarily goofy; just a band that has no image projection and acts stoopid. I could see the Dwarves playing this back in the day and getting away with it. Or the Dickies.
― Nude Spock, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kim, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― adam, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jel, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
-- Kim (grimstitc...), June 18th, 2001.
It was called "Lapti Nek" and I can still sing it (phonetically)!!!
― mei (mei), Monday, 4 August 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link
I've always thought that it should have stopped there. I don't care for Empire... and everything past that is garbage.
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― robster (robster), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
WARNING!! contains the climactic "blunt-smoking" sequence!
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Skottie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
I want a picture of that bust surfing on lava.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
According the Brtish tabloid The Sun
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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
Maybe this is common knowledge to Star Wars fans, but I only found this out a couple of days ago and I keep thinking about it, regarding the origin of the name "Darth Vader", from wikipedia:
Other words which may have inspired the name are "death" and "invader",[12] as well as the name of a high school upperclassman of Lucas's, Gary Vader.
Gary Vader
― silverfish, Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
um sorry a circular turd with no obvious weld line would be pretty amazing, i would at least tell my closest friends if not my fb feed
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 2:12 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think about this post often.
― jmm, Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
pretty sweet poster
Happy Star Wars day! Poster art of the Star Wars cantina, by Bill Selby, 1978. https://t.co/GGm5KG7UXk pic.twitter.com/nE3RxBUkMD— Covered Dish People (@doctorow) May 4, 2020
― nashwan, Monday, 4 May 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
Extremely cool, although I wish it had Lak Sivrak in it.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Monday, 4 May 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
Some news:
https://www.starwars.com/news/taika-waititi-announce
Academy Award® winner Taika Waititi, who recently won Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit and directed the widely-acclaimed first season finale episode of The Mandalorian on Disney+, will direct and co-write a new Star Wars feature film for theatrical release.Joining Waititi on the screenplay will be Academy Award® nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917, Last Night in Soho), who received a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year on the three-time Oscar-winning film, 1917.In addition, Emmy®-nominated writer Leslye Headland (Russian Doll, Bachelorette) is currently developing a new untitled Star Wars series for Disney+. Headland will write, executive produce, and serve as showrunner for the series.
Joining Waititi on the screenplay will be Academy Award® nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917, Last Night in Soho), who received a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year on the three-time Oscar-winning film, 1917.
In addition, Emmy®-nominated writer Leslye Headland (Russian Doll, Bachelorette) is currently developing a new untitled Star Wars series for Disney+. Headland will write, executive produce, and serve as showrunner for the series.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 May 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Awesome news!!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
i feel like some posters here will enjoy this. Tuomas in particular i remember wanting something like this.
https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
Oh and I found this for you all
https://i.imgur.com/BCwGQCG.jpg
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
I can’t stop laughing at the idea that Wookies are about as smart as dogs but Han Solo doesn’t know that because he’s an alien so he just fully treats him like a man and Chewbacca has like 30% idea what’s going on and meanwhile Han is letting him drive a spaceship— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) August 3, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 August 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
There's a great follow up tweet to that as well, something like - "that's why Chewie doesn't get a medal, and why Leia thinks Han is a moron."
― chap, Monday, 3 August 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
https://uploads.poplyft.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/23030207/Volkswagen-Dog-Star-Wars-Theme-3.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 August 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
We were watching New Hope last night and had the brightness on the TV pumped up all the way and saw something new: Vader’s eyes (Proswe’s eyes) clearly visible through his dark crimson visage in at least two scenes, notably during the final Death Star run. Weird
― calstars, Thursday, 24 December 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
have been watching the original trilogy for christmas, those "despecialized" versions
great stuff
this scene really is too sad ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q19IGr-xeuA
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link
When an Ewok dies, he murders some part of the worldThese are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives
― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:38 (four months ago) link
the original Dobby
― Natural Wine • Danny Devito • Virginia (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 December 2023 01:11 (four months ago) link
Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in. pic.twitter.com/wC7N2vPNvv— Windy 🛸 (@heyitswindy) March 2, 2024
― President Keyes, Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:10 (two months ago) link
The Truly Special Edition
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:37 (two months ago) link
There is more. It's making this film watchable.
Palpatine You Have To Stop. You Smoke Too Tough. Your Swag Too Different. Your Bitch Is Too Bad. They’ll Kill You pic.twitter.com/rAbW8xUawQ— Windy 🛸 (@heyitswindy) March 2, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 09:37 (two months ago) link
this is the funniest fucking thing ever oh my god https://t.co/XXDzkmxuON pic.twitter.com/spMRtArFvb— Ren (@StanNajimi) March 3, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 09:39 (two months ago) link
Someone shared that with me yesterday and I couldn't breathe.
Right down to the cheesy jingle
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 March 2024 15:16 (two months ago) link
what are you talking about that's one of the most powerful commercial jingles ever made
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
I've been singing "Cerveza Cristal" in that rock voice all day!
There is a Chilean restaurant kinda near me that I haven't been to for a while and I wonder if they have that beer. Might have to go.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2024 15:49 (two months ago) link
I have to say that, as amazing as this concept is, I'm a little disappointed that they apparently only utilized it in advertising Cerveza Cristal. Like why not a shot of Darth Vader in his chamber lowering his helmet and pulling on a pair of Depends pañales para adultos.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 March 2024 16:07 (two months ago) link
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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
The Empire Strips BackA Burlesque Parody
https://theempirestripsback.com/san-francisco/#instafeed
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 26 April 2024 22:57 (one week ago) link