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
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
― 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
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
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watto
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 15 July 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
― "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
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
gotcha
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
balls are funny lol : D
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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'
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i think that's why everyone hated them nabisco
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
so a couple of giant nuts swinging to and fro onscreen would naturally be the most hilarious thing imaginable to them xp
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
adding a candy-ass scream to luke's climactic fall in Empire so that his suicidal rejection of darth becomes "OH SHIT, I SLIPPED!"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe he was just psyched to be getting away from his freak dad
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
han solo stepping on tiny jabba's tail in episode iv
^
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
making people call star wars "episode IV: A New Hope"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^
that, too me is the greatest crime
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
omg totally
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
A New Hope that Lucas will stop fucking with Star Wars
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
it sounds like some corny-ass mandy moore flick about the summer after high school
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
haaaaa xp
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
this is kinda funny: http://www.starwarsuncut.com/
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
The CGI "celebration sequence across the galaxy" in Return of the Jedi, the updated version. Like the Ewok song was bad enough George.
― pj, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"death sticks"
― Grip Tape And Some Wikked Trucks (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
can't imagine what a kid who's already seen I-III would think of "A New Hope." But then any kid that actually sat through I-III without the memory of the original trilogy is already unfathomable to me.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
ya i mean, if you watch them "in order" does it make any kind of sense?
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's weird to think that someday (if not already) there will be folks who will naturally gravitate towards watching the six films in numerical order
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
like doesn't it completely undercut the big darth is luke's father reveal??
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep drilling my 8 year old son over and over again that Empireis the best, but Ep III is his favorite. "Anakin's annoying.""So what, he's cool. And I like droidekas."
― pj, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
droidekas?
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:09 (fourteen 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