impossible to make a coherent list of offenses
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Reducing the Clone Wars, which seemed like the coolest idea ever when they were hinted at in the original series, into a bunch of boring bullshit involving "trade federations" and such.
― gayest flash mob pillow fight yet (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
looking like this
http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/10/09_lucas_lgl.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
midichlorians
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
tehse are all good
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Greedo shooting first - it totally messes up the impression that the first time audience has about Solo. Han shoots first = sketchy character who you're not sure about for the whole movie.
― Gark M (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
mrs skywalker dies of heartbreak
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Indiana Jones vs. The Lame CGI & Goddam Aliens Ferfuckssake
― gayest flash mob pillow fight yet (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking up howard the duck (or is that pre-90s?)
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
the kid who played anakin skywalker
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Why is the thread question in plural? His biggest crime was making more movies.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
when Anakin becomes Darth Vader and then looks up at the camera in the sky and goes NOOOOOOOOOO
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:41 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes smart guy we know but it's more fun to pick at the insane little details
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
― goole, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:38 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
if i made a thread called "the crimes of hitler" i dont think anyone would complain that it shouldnt be in plural because his crime is "the holocaust"
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
not at least trying out a few alternate solutions to whatever is going on with that beard and his chin
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Please note that utility data for the entire campus is also included. This was the only data made available with the application, and in order to accurately estimate and verify savings, individual building meter data will need to be obtained from the campus.
^^^this, far and away. its one thing to churn out crappy product, lots of aging directors do that (hell, young ones too!), but deliberately screwing up your past work - so that NO ONE can ever enjoy it again, that's a whole other level of unforgivable.
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
what a weird quote
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I still love the Patton Oswalt bit about how Lucas fucked up all these awesome characters by showing them as whiny kids, "you like Angelina Jolie, right? here's Jon Voight's testicle!".
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont remember anyone saying THAT xp
hahahahah oh man
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
shoudve been this: probably the biggest for me, fuckign with the original movies and then getting rid of the negatives (allegedly)
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
fart jokes in episode 1
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha that is totally the highlight of my day so far
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
is that his pitch for a campus sex comedy?
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
btw if anyone wants some campus utility data hit me up yo
what drove me NUTS is how he passive-aggressively included the real movie as a "special feature" on the dvd release but not the anamorphic version. SUCH a bitch move.
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i am giggling like crazy at shakey's c&p gaffe
especially, "^^^this, far and away."
I don't think we can accurately judge Lucas' output without individual building meter data!
― Mariela Ure (jeff), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
the demuppetification of yoda.
― For other uses, see Cornhole (disambiguation). (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha the best was the 5 seconds before i realized what happened
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought it was some obscure nugget about lucasfilm's data output and how that proved the originals didn't exist any more or something
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Agreed. I was just "...wait, what?"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the china-town sounding trade federation dudes said something like that in ep 1
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was like
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Co-incidentally, someone was here to read the meter this morning.
― Gark M (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
does anyone have a cite to the real individual building meter data from Ep. 2? is that on the DVD?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"Begun this data scrub has."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i am dying at my desk here
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
promising to make "small, personal" films only to immediately return to raping our childhoods with his big cgi dick
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
no matter how much i do like spielberg, i downgrade him for pulling a few of these lucas-style moves in his career, too.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
totally... ET gun/walkie thing
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
also to answer the thread question
http://www.ketzer.com/movie_props_replicas/pepsi_watto.jpg
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i've never forgiven george lucas for starting yourprops.com
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
cannot BELIEVE lucas tried to make us get individual building meter data
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i was talking about the baseball hat
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
well if the point of the thread was to start a poll over what was specifically the worst of his crimes, people might
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
The rest of us just get a yourprops.com logo placeholder.
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ this, far and away -- if you can't get individual building utility data out of the application, how are we supposed to verify savings?
oh no I mean: the prequels had maybe a bit much of sorta ethnic-typed aliens, which I think we've discussed plenty before
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
As far as I've seen, these are the first specifics George Lucas has shared about what his vision of Episodes 7-9 would have been. This comes from @insighteditions awesome companion book to "James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction series" on AMC: pic.twitter.com/Wtlw8zlrqv— Livio Ramondelli (@LivioRamondelli) June 12, 2018
wow george, that really would have been something.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Micronauts-1.jpg/250px-Micronauts-1.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
I think Lucas was only able to make the prequels because he didn't work consistently enough after SW for the world to realize how bad his ideas are.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Like I'm convinced that a Lucas who was productive through the '80s and '90s would've decisively burned up all of his capital a la Shyamalan.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
If the Force is powered by the Whills, the Sith must be powered by the Whonts.
I read that post hearing the voice from Patton Oswalt's routine about time-travelling to kill Lucas pre-prequels.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
lmao ‘this story would have been shit and everyone would have hated it but at least it would have been complete’
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
“I regret not getting to stink up that public restroom like I intended to”
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
the best creative ethos
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
http://500daysasunder.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-2-05-27-pm-e1349978764535.png?w=694what you talking about, whills?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
tbf to lucas though at least he had a new idea for the series even if it was terrible - i don’t get much of a sense that disney have much interest in doing something innovative
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
gee really
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
dunno what could've given you that impression, was it the trailer for Tim Burton's live action Dumbo?
Disney stopped being concerned with innovation about 15 years ago
lol sparkle motion
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
would rather see microbe wars than Star Wars The Regurgitated Jedi
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/940/mockingspongebobbb.jpg
― Eliza D., Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
So if I'm connecting the dots correctly, Lucas's original idea for episode VII was tweaked to remove all SW references and ultimately filmed as
http://oneguyrambling.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/216033.1020.A-202x300.jpg
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
When Is Someone Gonna Make A Sci-Fi Show Or Movie Without Any People In Them?
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
i mean the original draft for star wars was called journal of the whills or something, right? but if those microbiotic creatures are supposedly operate differently than us, what use would they have for journals?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
they weren't microbes thenthe great thing about those embryonic SW versions is how they are really just these collections of cool evocative names and titles with the actual story and character matter unstable as fuck. i love that.
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
It was triumph not journals iirc
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
It's almost, almost, as if Lucas considers storytelling to be the least important element of telling a story.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
which can be totally awesome! if only he had the boldness to make truly ornamental/ambient SF in that mode
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
I agree! I wish he could've realized his strengths and played to them more.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
just edit the prequel trilogy to just the cutscenes and i think you'd have it.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 June 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
"This is the story of Mace Windy, a revered Jedi-bendu of Ophuchi, as related to us by C.J. Thorpe, padawan learner to the famed Jedi."
Cool and evocative names, eh?
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
"ophuchi" sounds like something you'd hear this guy blabbering
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Cornholion_in_Holy_Cornholio.jpg/250px-Cornholion_in_Holy_Cornholio.jpg
― Eliza D., Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I assume it's a fuckup of Ophiuchi, an actual constellation
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 15 June 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
lol wins
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 15 June 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
padawan learner to the famed Jedi
this is a cool turn of phrase
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
just found out about this:
On the set of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Lucas shared his ideas with animation director Rob Coleman, when Coleman arrived for his first day. As Chris Taylor relates in his fantastic book How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, Lucas told Coleman “his ultimate framing device.” Taylor writes:“The entire story of Star Wars is actually being recounted to the keeper of the Journal of the Whills—remember that?—a hundred years after the events of Return of the Jedi by none other than R2-D2.”
“The entire story of Star Wars is actually being recounted to the keeper of the Journal of the Whills—remember that?—a hundred years after the events of Return of the Jedi by none other than R2-D2.”
i do not remember that btw
― omar little, Monday, 11 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
lmao
r2d2 just beepin' and bloopin' for hours at a time to some low-level functionary who needs to keep stopping him because his wrist is getting tired from writing in the journal with a space fountain pen
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
Is r2d2 a reliable narrator? This now makes me suspicious of the endless # of scenes where r2d2 slides up and coolly saves the day while everyone else is panicking like idiots...
― One Eye Open, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
It would certainly explain the gratuitous number of hardcore droid-on-droid scenes so liberally sprinkled throughout the series.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
lol journal of the whills only mentioned in a couple of novelizations
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Only too late does the journal keeper realize R2 was Darth Sidious all along
https://media.giphy.com/media/Z8uqXqZaNT4n6/giphy.gif
― jmm, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Damn it, should have double-checked that gif
― jmm, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
nah that gif seems v thread-appropriate tbh
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 March 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
That cup is where he keeps his whill
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
Not directly SW related but this is the most relevant thread I can find: The redlettermedia review of the latest Marvel movie calls Brie Larson a virtue-signalling, sexist, racist bitch for saying that most movie critics are white men. The critics of the Plinkett reviews were right -- they are awful people.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
Not surprised.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Few phrases are as inadvertently self-descriptive as 'virtue-signalling' (see also: 'social justice warrior' as a pejorative). Like when you start to casually malign aspirational behavior I think you technically qualify for villain status.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
I have zero reason to watch the narrative video version of clickbait that passes for commentary on youtube
a few years ago I watched a few short clips doing that sort of thing and it was entertaining as a one-off novelty but everything's gone down the path of "this movie is a failure because it has a political agenda" or "top ten plot holes!" where a plot hole is anything that has an implied offscreen action that wasn't spoon-fed to the viewers
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
I just saw a 'May the Fourth be With You' sign in the window of a funeral directors.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 5 May 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
xp: it is the world's worst promotional tie-in product ever; a giant lollipop shaped like a tongue in a case shaped like Jar-Jar's head with a plunger on the back you have to push in to make it open, meaning that eating the lollipop requires french-kissing a Jar-Jar Binks toy
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:58 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have a still-unopened one of these buried somewhere in a pile of junk in my house, because when I saw that thing it was just too hilarious for me not to purchase it
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:58 (eight years ago)
^^^ you're not the only one... (NSFW obviously)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-drxdYedUU
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link