Lucas was prescient about one thing - the kids who grew up with Jar Jar love him. Who knew.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 08:23 (four years ago) link
But the Ewoks were cute. And competant!
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 08:25 (four years ago) link
Ewoks weren't stepping in dogshit and tripping over their own body parts. They were expert hunters and warriors.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 08:26 (four years ago) link
people who hate the ewoks are just displacing their guilt over america's instigation of innumerable wars of imperialist aggression
this is canon
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 08:59 (four years ago) link
The saddest part in any Star War is when an Ewok tries to wake up his mate who's been killed by a laser.
― chap, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
This is true, yeah.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
star war is hell
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
xxp: definitely.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
I would've gone with 'Jedi Rocks' as the saddest moment but I guess I can see where y'all are coming from.
― A Cheetah Drenched in Applesauce (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
Star Wars Episode 7 The Rise of Skywalker. The Emperor lives.— Gabriel Garcia (@GabbyG41) November 22, 2012
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/LAf0QnLFS7Q
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
Vanity Fair's Episode IX issue is out, as always with these issues including a photo shoot by Annie Liebovitz.
Cover story: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/star-wars-cover-story
Photo gallery: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2019/05/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-exclusive-photos
Who Are the Knights of Ren? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/star-wars-the-knights-of-ren-make-their-long-awaited-return
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5ce426151c0b0773cacd1121/master/w_800%2Cc_limit/star-wars-feature-vf-2019-summer-embed-05.jpg
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
Composer John Williams conducting the Star Wars score, drawing on themes and motifs he has woven across four decades. “I didn’t think there would ever be a second film,” he says.
i like to imagine he said that with a long, drawn-out sigh of grim resignation
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
They don’t do it that way because it’s easy. Abrams and his crew had to build miles of road into the desert. They basically had to set up a small town out there, populated by the cast and extras and crew—the creature-effects department alone had 70 people. The Jordanian military got involved. The Jordanian royal family got involved. There was sand. It was coarse and rough and irritating and it got everywhere.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
“This trilogy is about this young generation, this new generation, having to deal with all the debt that has come before,” Abrams says.
otm
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
He needed Leia to tell the story, but Abrams didn’t feel like a digital Carrie Fisher could do the job, and there was no way Lucasfilm was going to re-cast the role.But then a strange thing happened. Abrams remembered that there was some footage of Fisher left over from The Force Awakens, scenes that had been changed or cut entirely, and he dug them up. “It’s hard to even talk about it without sounding like I’m being some kind of cosmic spiritual goofball,” Abrams says, “but it felt like we suddenly had found the impossible answer to the impossible question.” He started to write scenes around the old footage, fitting Leia’s dialogue into new contexts. He re-created the lighting to match the way Fisher had been lit. Bit by bit, she found her place in the new movie. “It was a bizarre kind of left side/right side of the brain sort of Venn diagram thing, of figuring out how to create the puzzle based on the pieces we had.”
But then a strange thing happened. Abrams remembered that there was some footage of Fisher left over from The Force Awakens, scenes that had been changed or cut entirely, and he dug them up. “It’s hard to even talk about it without sounding like I’m being some kind of cosmic spiritual goofball,” Abrams says, “but it felt like we suddenly had found the impossible answer to the impossible question.” He started to write scenes around the old footage, fitting Leia’s dialogue into new contexts. He re-created the lighting to match the way Fisher had been lit. Bit by bit, she found her place in the new movie. “It was a bizarre kind of left side/right side of the brain sort of Venn diagram thing, of figuring out how to create the puzzle based on the pieces we had.”
i have a bad feeling about this
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
if there's one thing abrams is known for, it's his uncanny ability to successfully navigate and resolve narrative puzzles
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
lol Zorri Blissanother nice costume thoshit I forgot Richard E Grant signed up
― nashwan, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
“There’s a loss of innocence, a sense of innocence that existed in the 70s that I don’t think to any extent exists today,” Kennedy says. “I think that has to permeate the storytelling and the reaction to the stories and how they’re set up. It has to feel differently because we’re different.”
At the end of May, Disneyland will open Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, a massive, 14-acre, $1 billion attraction where you can fly the Millennium Falcon, be captured by the First Order, and drink a blue milk cocktail (it’s actually nondairy) and Coca-Cola products out of exclusive BB-8-shaped bottles at the cantina.
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Disney presumably using the proceeds to commission all those experimental films George Lucas now finally has time to make
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
Ah yes, the famous post-Vietnam-&-Watergate innocence.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
xp since they own LucasFilm lock, stock, and barrel he'll presumably be creating GeorgeFilm and shopping his new work around to multiple distributors
― mh, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
(it’s actually nondairy)
this is the lost innocence part
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
It is however a heavily-dyed beef slurry.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
I refuse to drink it if I don't get to fill a bottle from the teat of a weird sea creature,
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
― beard papa, Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
well, innocent in that those things still seemed like relative outliers in the historical landscape for many people and not, like, a tuesday
― mh, Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
“There’s a loss of innocence, a sense of innocence that existed in the 70s that I don’t think to any extent exists today,” Kennedy says.
check out the juxtaposition of the quote and who said the quote
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
haha
― mh, Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
Kennedy graduated from Shasta High School in Redding, California, in 1971.
On October 30, 2012, she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for over $4 billion.
― mh, Thursday, 23 May 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Stupid fan theory as likely as any here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzeOrA2in1c
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
is anyone even going to care about star wars beyond this one
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
That leads to his crazy fan theory!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
I’m not gonna watch a video to find out what the crazy theory is, and I don’t really care about the conclusion to the Skywalker Saga. I’m only interested in Star Wars movies directed by Rian Johnson from now on
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
It's a funny video. Anyway, crazy fan theory (only partly tongue in cheek) is that having hit a narrative dead-end, JJ Abrams and the writer (who did Batman V Superman and Justice League, double ugh) will just dive in and go time travel. Their two big predictions, based on next to nothing but instinct, is that 1) Luke will return more powerful than ever a la Gandolf, and that 2) stopping the bad guy from doing the thing will involve going back in time. Who knows? Who cares?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
The correct spelling is Ganondorf.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
Ganondorfongolf.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 06:30 (four years ago) link
I was reading on my phone, so I didn't even realise it was a RLM video - get the fuck out of here with that!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link
Are they bad? What happened? I liked all their other Star Wars stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
What will the stars do with their time when they are no longer at war?
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
(It just occurred to me that they put Death Stars in 85% of these movies to make the series title something more than a vague reference to space battles.)
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
What will the heroes do with their time when they are no longer at war with the (Death) Stars?
They should make a sequel from the perspective of the Death Star.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
Yes Planet Wars would be a more accurate name for the franchise.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
Or 'Planet Fights'.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
Astroid Grudge
― akm, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
Kylo Ren tearfully visits the gravesite of millions of fallen Death Stars, taken before their time.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Speaker for the Death
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1T3HxHd7Y
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link