£142.50 is a bargain, even if all it meant was not being spammed every ten minutes with commercials that assume I'm a moron.
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I had some fella trying to flog me sky HD for £50 a month yesterday, which puts things in perspective I'd say. Again, it's not really a crime of George Lucas, but I *bet* he is pals with Murdoch. Or at least likes him, they certainly share a marketing ethos.
― Bill A, Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-5AMapzFWg
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 21 November 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
there are no crimes being committed in that video, unless awesomeness is a crime
― fel (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Rebel: "Commander, Echo Base is under attack by..." <CUT-TO-AD-BREAK> Katie Price covered in cockroaches
I think if I had to come up with the one thing that most confuses me about the UK, it would be Katie Price.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
is THX 1138 his best movie...?
― Owa Tana Siam (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I watched it the other night for the first time in what must be 20 years and its pretty good but kinda empty. struck mainly by two things:
1) even THIS film he had to fuck with. the digitally added stuff is so jarring and glaringly out-of-place. not to mention totally unnecessary. this guy is the most insecure filmmaker of all time.2) what works about this is rather blatantly cribbed from its primary sources - We, 1984, etc. Lucas' major contribution to the genre is almost entirely in terms of design/style. The minimalism, both of the narrative and of the overall look and feel, is great. Of course by the end he doesn't know what to do and just turns it into a stupid chase scene with a completely anticlimactic ending.
― Owa Tana Siam (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 December 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah.... American Graffiti and Star Wars are better imho
― WILLIM GARLOS CILLIAMS (stevie), Friday, 4 December 2009 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It'd be kinda cool if Lucas went back and digitally added nudity to American Graffiti.
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 December 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Most active thred gets this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDB8Q15iUIE
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Rats. Wish Lynch had said yes
― lukevalentine, Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
what jabba would have done to poor leia in a lynchian ROTJ doesn't bear thinking about
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
a completely anticlimactic ending.
love the ending! final shot is superb
also wish he did not digitally fuck w/ it
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
*shudder*
the Ewoks were the beginning of the end for moi
― lukevalentine, Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
he showed me many animals and thingsthen he took me for a ride in his ferrarifor a lunch
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I love how it's totally "I knew George Lewcas -- he was the man who made the star war."
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i admire george lucas very much, my lawyer tells me he does wonderful things with bears
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Ewoks included, ROTJ is still better than Dune.
― Stereo no aware (Daruton), Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
total "too much time on ILX" moment here
― an terror has occurred (sic), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
;)
― jabba hands, Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"don't you fucking wookie at me!"
― unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ROTJ is a serious movie with humour coming naturally out of the situations, and unfortunately with the Ewok cuteness tacked on. I got the feeling that Dune is a sci-fi panto more or less deliberately played for LOLs - ie, Sting coming out of a sauna wearing a Harkonnen crest as a codpiece, BvH's death, etc..
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Thursday, 10 December 2009 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link
dune is a much, much prettier movie to look at tho
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 December 2009 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
rotj is kinda fugly in some spots
important in an f/x heavy sci-fi epic ya know!
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 December 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
dune is 10000 times better to watch stoned
― max, Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
better soundtrack too
did people get offended by the ewoks when they were kids watching ROTJ?
― Smokey and the S'Banned It (history mayne), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
no. and after watching Caravan Of Courage i immediately rewound the tape and watched again.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I just accepted them as coming from the same universe that produced all the weird-assed creatures in the first two movies and I still do.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder what kids who first see the '97 version prefer out of Ewoks and that dreadful song they added to the Jabba's Palace scenes
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
My kid saw the '97 version first (at age 4) and for a few weeks would put ROTJ into the DVD player for the sole purpose of watching the Jabba's Palace song over and over again. I was in hell.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Like, I taught you to use the remote and this is how you repay me?
did you let them watch the prequels first?
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The title of the song is apparently "Jedi Rocks".
xp: I tried to actively discourage Mrs. Kongvsgodzilla from buying the prequels at all, but I failed in that. His favorite Star Wars is Revenge of the Sith.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Really, all of the movies are too long and slowly paced for him to really get into yet.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
any idea what they think the scariest scene(s) out of the 6 films are? sorry, just quite curious. i don't remember ever finding Darth Vader scary for example (much scarier when he takes his helmet off at the end of ROTJ). As I said before, I think limbless Anakin bursting into flames in ROTS would've freaked me out a LOT if i'd seen that as a child.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
emperor is pretty scary with the flashing and the lightening and being old and all
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Palpatine was a fucking joke in ROTJ. Even as a kid I was all like, "THIS is the geezer everyone's afraid of?" Throw him down a flight of stairs.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
or just switch off his stairlift halfway down. but his magic was good.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
The bit in ROTS where he turns into Paul Daniels is pretty frightening.
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
he really looks like Gary Oldman in Dracula during the transition to Emperor. that whole stretch is preposterous but actually quite entertaining.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.galacticbinder.com/images/DarkestMoments/anakin-palpatine-opera.jpg"You're going to like this. Not a lot, but you'll like it. Now say 'Yes Palpatine!' <throws voice> Yes Palpatine!"
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Vader takes off his mask... and it's the lovely Debbie McGee.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
any idea what they think the scariest scene(s) out of the 6 films are?
He professes to not be scared of anything (at all, full stop). This includes Star Wars. I'll have to ask if he thinks there's anything that's scariest.
I know for a fact that he was extremely scared when Fizzgig got thrown down into that hole in Dark Crystal, though.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I, on the other hand, had to be escorted from the theater when I attended Empire Strikes Back as a child because there had been a statue of Darth Vader in the lobby.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
As I said before, I think limbless Anakin bursting into flames in ROTS would've freaked me out a LOT if i'd seen that as a child.
OK, last week I went to that Star Wars In Concert deal. One of the selections the orchestra played was "Battle of the Heroes" from the ROTS score, and it was accompanied by video of the big Anakin/Obi-Wan lightsaber fight, lots of Vader footage from ESB and ROTJ, Anakin killing the sandpeople, etc. Plus there were live fire effects on stage. A little kid sitting behind us, about 6-7 years old, got absolutely pants-wetting terrified. He burst into sobs and was crying, "I want my mommy!" It occurred to me that it's very possible that a lot of little-little kids haven't even seen ROTS.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL - that is my kid's favorite scene from that movie! Do you think he'll turn out weird or something?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, when my Dad took me to see ROTJ, I made us leave because somebody was smoking in the theater and I was afraid it would start a fire.
I was "sensitive".
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 10 December 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
The Star Wars movies I find don't hold up under such sensory-enhanced scrutiny, particularly ROTJ, which at times feels like you are watching a weird daytime TV soap opera.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link