the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-5AMapzFWg

there are no crimes being committed in that video, unless awesomeness is a crime

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.

is THX 1138 his best movie...?

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.

is THX 1138 his best movie...?

Nah.... American Graffiti and Star Wars are better imho

It'd be kinda cool if Lucas went back and digitally added nudity to American Graffiti.

Most active thred gets this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDB8Q15iUIE

Rats. Wish Lynch had said yes

what jabba would have done to poor leia in a lynchian ROTJ doesn't bear thinking about

a completely anticlimactic ending.

love the ending! final shot is superb

also wish he did not digitally fuck w/ it

what jabba would have done to poor leia in a lynchian ROTJ doesn't bear thinking about

*shudder*

the Ewoks were the beginning of the end for moi

he showed me many animals and things
then he took me for a ride in his ferrari
for a lunch

I love how it's totally "I knew George Lewcas -- he was the man who made the star war."

i admire george lucas very much, my lawyer tells me he does wonderful things with bears

Ewoks included, ROTJ is still better than Dune.

what jabba would have done to poor leia in a lynchian ROTJ doesn't bear thinking about

total "too much time on ILX" moment here

;)

"don't you fucking wookie at me!"

Ewoks included, ROTJ is still better than Dune.

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..

dune is a much, much prettier movie to look at tho

rotj is kinda fugly in some spots

important in an f/x heavy sci-fi epic ya know!

dune is 10000 times better to watch stoned

better soundtrack too

did people get offended by the ewoks when they were kids watching ROTJ?

no. and after watching Caravan Of Courage i immediately rewound the tape and watched again.

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.

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

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.

Like, I taught you to use the remote and this is how you repay me?

did you let them watch the prequels first?

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.

Really, all of the movies are too long and slowly paced for him to really get into yet.

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.

emperor is pretty scary with the flashing and the lightening and being old and all

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.

or just switch off his stairlift halfway down. but his magic was good.

The bit in ROTS where he turns into Paul Daniels is pretty frightening.

he really looks like Gary Oldman in Dracula during the transition to Emperor. that whole stretch is preposterous but actually quite entertaining.

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!"

Vader takes off his mask... and it's the lovely Debbie McGee.

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.

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.

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.

LOL - that is my kid's favorite scene from that movie! Do you think he'll turn out weird or something?

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".

dune is 10000 times better to watch stoned

^^^

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.

Empire is easily the best designed. I think it's a very elegant movie, visually.

on the money. It looks wonderful.