the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

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!

the demuppetification of yoda.

hahaha the best was the 5 seconds before i realized what happened

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

hahaha the best was the 5 seconds before i realized what happened

Agreed. I was just "...wait, what?"

i think the china-town sounding trade federation dudes said something like that in ep 1

yeah i was like

Co-incidentally, someone was here to read the meter this morning.

does anyone have a cite to the real individual building meter data from Ep. 2? is that on the DVD?

"Begun this data scrub has."

i am dying at my desk here

promising to make "small, personal" films only to immediately return to raping our childhoods with his big cgi dick

no matter how much i do like spielberg, i downgrade him for pulling a few of these lucas-style moves in his career, too.

totally... ET gun/walkie thing

also to answer the thread question

http://www.ketzer.com/movie_props_replicas/pepsi_watto.jpg

i've never forgiven george lucas for starting yourprops.com

cannot BELIEVE lucas tried to make us get individual building meter data

i was talking about the baseball hat

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"

well if the point of the thread was to start a poll over what was specifically the worst of his crimes, people might

The rest of us just get a yourprops.com logo placeholder.

i think the china-town sounding trade federation dudes said something like that in ep 1

^^ 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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watto

lucas and spielberg represent a lot of people in hollywood who apparently think the audience just can't handle moderately edgy shit anymore.

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, July 15, 2009 1:54 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

let us not split hairs and have this dumb argument, everyone knows what i meant. can we just keep laughing about the meter thing

i have GONE OFF about this before, but what really drives me nuts is that the basic scenario laid out in the prequels is really interesting! but they are still horrible. it's like someone made three really horrible movies out a great novel about a despot's rise to power. except there's no such novel. it's the weirdest thing.

xp yes wtf how can u introduce the idea of SLAVERY in the universe and then not address it ever again

lucas and spielberg represent a lot of people in hollywood who apparently think the audience just can't handle moderately edgy shit anymore.

― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:55 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and yet you see a transformer's balls in TF2 :(

not splitting hairs, slocki, the observation wasn't earnest

gotcha

balls are funny lol : D

nb I am usually less morally "offended" by ethnic-type aliens (though there's maybe a bit of that with Watto or JarJar) and more just aesthetically offended, like ... please actually make up a fucking alien from your head and not just animate some CGI Central Casting Stock Mildly Offense Ethnic Archetype shit

knowing what little i do know about producers via my limited interaction w/them, i can say that they're mostly total retards who get bored by difficult films like 'heat' and 'the departed'

yeah i think that's why everyone hated them nabisco

so a couple of giant nuts swinging to and fro onscreen would naturally be the most hilarious thing imaginable to them xp

adding a candy-ass scream to luke's climactic fall in Empire so that his suicidal rejection of darth becomes "OH SHIT, I SLIPPED!"

maybe he was just psyched to be getting away from his freak dad

han solo stepping on tiny jabba's tail in episode iv

i have GONE OFF about this before, but what really drives me nuts is that the basic scenario laid out in the prequels is really interesting! but they are still horrible. it's like someone made three really horrible movies out a great novel about a despot's rise to power. except there's no such novel. it's the weirdest thing.

^

to be fair, swinging close-up IMAX testicles would be marginally funny for 30 seconds or so, and will probably feature in a Baron-Cohen movie at some point

making people call star wars "episode IV: A New Hope"

^^^^^^^^^^

that, too me is the greatest crime

omg totally

like seriously, from teh coolest movie title ever (at least when you're a kid), STAR. WARS. to... "a new hope."

or making Raiders into Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

A New Hope that Lucas will stop fucking with Star Wars

it sounds like some corny-ass mandy moore flick about the summer after high school

her name is "hope" in the film

Anakin: I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals. I HATE THEM!

haaaaa xp

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.”

i do not remember that btw

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

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...

It would certainly explain the gratuitous number of hardcore droid-on-droid scenes so liberally sprinkled throughout the series.

lol journal of the whills only mentioned in a couple of novelizations

Only too late does the journal keeper realize R2 was Darth Sidious all along

https://media.giphy.com/media/Z8uqXqZaNT4n6/giphy.gif

Damn it, should have double-checked that gif

nah that gif seems v thread-appropriate tbh

That cup is where he keeps his whill

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.

Not surprised.

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.

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

I just saw a 'May the Fourth be With You' sign in the window of a funeral directors.

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

Me screening THX-1138 for the first time ever yesterday when the bit with the hologram of the cop beating a guy came on

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/033/487/rick.jpg

"MR. SELF-DESTRUCT"!"

(To tie this back more directly to the thread topic: Whoo boy do those circa-2004 F/X 'upgrades' stick out like a sore thumb)

so boba fett probably died of old age, i just realized

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little)

as it turns out he crawled out and....became the avuncular local politician we never knew we needed to set things right?

"Whoo boy do those circa-2004 F/X 'upgrades' stick out like a sore thumb)"

One thing that puzzled me about the DVD of THX-1138 is that nowhere in the commentary track does George Lucas acknowledge that it was a special edition with extra CGI. It's as if the studio did it without his knowledge, and then told him that he had to accept it. And yet apparently he was involved in the process, according to this interview, so who I am.

I saw it first when it was on Alex Cox's Moviedrome, and someone has preserved the introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYPwrvfN7M

I remember it started with a clip from Buck Rogers, or Flash Gordon, and the credits went the other way, but both of those things were taken out of the DVD version. It's actually pretty good as a typical early-70s dystopian sci-fi film. A bit like Phase IV but with a more coherent ending. "But it doesn't have ants", ah but the people are like ants - bald, and the wear white suits, just like ants.