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
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.
^
― 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
This is probably more of a good thing than a crime, but that the key battle scene between Anakin and Obi Wan Kenobi appears to be entirely modelled on the Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690
― Keith, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster this will be for whatever young mutant would actually watch them all for the first time in numerical order
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
you'd like to think by halfway through Clones they'd just put on some brokencyde and play a video game
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
ya im just sayin!!
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess what really pissed me off is that when i watched the original trilogy i there were passing mentions of a young anakin/vader, i always imagined this amazing charismatic, grim, kinda sociopathic dude who would be played by some epic actor, but then they toss it to some asshole who comes off like a fratboy killer from some episode of csi: miami.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"and there"
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
that's almost too complimentary to hayden christiansen
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
what bugs me even more is that young badass obi wan turned out to be such a drip... he really should have been the han of hte series...
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i mean alec guinness was kind of weirdly imposing, right? and ewan mcgregor came off as kind of...short?
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god yeah crime no. 35235: Obi-Dan Fogelberg
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The alterations made to the Jabba's palace scene...ughhh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQzJlL1wqs
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
they always implied that obi-wan was a real loose cannon and his recklessness is sorta what "made" darth vader
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Darth Maul sure was thrilling, though, no? With his Mudvayne make up and everything?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
insertion of Hayden Christensen ghost at the end of Jedi was particularly grating and is a handy symbol for the new films poisoning the old ones.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh remember when obi wan and liam neeson double-teamed him? that was so cheap!! they also double-teamed count dooku, an elderly man
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it's such a basic rule, the GOOD GUYS are supposed to be outnumbered
Its been hinted at, but it needs to be said - CGI Jabba.
Motherfucker had GRAVITAS when you just assumed that he was moved by people, based on his influence. Now, thanks to Colonel Neck Retention Chinstrap's merciless fucking about, Jabba is a slug, skirting around freighter bays on Mos Eisley.
― I got it. I'm gone. (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
half the OG characters were these free-wheeling assholes too, and everyone in the new trilogy was really inert and studied.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
god when i saw those remastered/restored star wars movies... digital jabba made me really sad xp
― ian, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
― I got it. I'm gone. (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:16 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
totally totally
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link