oojason

Sougouk said:

I have the Single of Batman (1989) soundtrack on cassette. It had Batdance & 200 Balloons.

Batdance! Such a cool album back then - remembering just how hot Kim Basinger was, and how cool it was to have a Batman film out back then 😃

Weirdly, it wasn’t until a lot later than began to fully appreciate Prince - a very underrated guitarist in his own right.

TV’s Frink said:

I had that in college, sold it just after getting out of college. Still love a few songs, especially Looking Glass.

An album of our age, likely 😃

Love Timeless Melody, Way Out and Feelin’ too - many a late Saturday night chilling out back at someone’s flat or room and trying to impress the girls back in the day…

Cast did some pretty decent stuff late on too.

^ what Fo says makes a lot of sense - spending some time with them, sharing in their happiness may give you extra information, insight and empathy with the path they have chosen. And to be there for your brother in time of a big decision from him will hopefully bring you even closer together too - as well as his fiance.

Best wishes to you and your family Mike O 😃

Mocata said:

oojason said:
The CinemaSins people will hopefully be doing their take on Rogue One soon 😃

Eww

I like the sound of the bell they use - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvkZ8sCd5EI - ting! 😃

It’s no Earthling Cinema with Garyx Wormuloid, but what is? - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLghL9V9QTN0hRWpPpyh6T7_V2Nmah6rHj

^ beautifully done - really good work - and a very cool idea too 😃

Hope it makes it into the Edit - definitely adds to her character and foreshadows her abilities shown later on.

CinemaWins ‘everything great about Rogue One’ video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJuF9n2c248

The CinemaSins people will hopefully be doing their take on Rogue One soon 😃

Alderaan said:

oojason said:
Wait a minute… you didn’t like Rogue One

Correct.

oojason said:
the whole idea was stupid

Wrong. The execution was laughably bad. It had some good ideas.

oojason said:
and thought it was a bad movie?

It was.

oojason said:
This is brand new information. You should let others know immediately - and in case they don’t acknowledge your views - keep on repeating it ad nauseam.

Actually, in case you don’t know how to read, my post was a compliment for Doug Chiang. The Yavin 4 sets looked authentic. Even the new designs were mostly nice looking.

as stated ‘Maybe, to keep things ‘fresh’ add a line about vaguely liking something from it - I mean, you wouldn’t want to become the forum bore now, would you?’

The fact that you can’t stand any criticism of this movie, and expect this to be a fan thread, or a safe space, and even the sight of someone who dislikes the movie stopping in to compliment one of the artists involved in making it, makes you lose your mind, shows how deeply insecure you are about the quality of the movie you profess to be so good.

lol. If you don’t like it say why, other people have managed to do so, haven’t they? Quite well and thoughtful criticisms too, no? - though they don’t inanely repeat it so much as you it seems.

‘A safe space?’ ‘a fan thread?’ ‘lose my mind’? ‘insecure about the movie I profess to be so good’? ‘can’t stand any criticism of the movie’? Nice reaching and projecting from yourself there - but as already stated above (and previously) others have critiqued it quite well, or just put over how they felt about it, about what it lacked for them, the bad or dull points/bits, what aspects disappointed them, how’d they have liked to have seen it be different, or be improved upon etc - which is, and has been, fine by me. Which nullifies your ‘facts’, as you put it, no?

Now, congratulations on becoming the forum bore - but unfortunately in achieving this goal of yours - you have forgotten that very little of what you say is of interest, to the point where its just so boring and repetitive and I just can’t be bothered to even finish what I was going to say…

Sometimes it seems they are taking the mick with this 40th anniversary celebrations - they should really go with having the 20th anniversary Special Edition celebrations instead…

Or maybe have future anniversary celebrations for the later '04 & '11 versions as well - meaning more opportunities to sell the franchise/merchandise to fans (the same fans who can’t buy the version of the film that kicked the whole Star Wars thing off 40 years ago, and counting…)

Issue 172 (May 2017) of ‘Star Wars Insider’ doesn’t seem to mention the 40th Anniversary much at all…

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Insider_172
 

Issue 173 does feature 20th Anniversary articles on the Special Edition versions, of course…

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Insider_173

Alderaan said:

oojason said:

Star Wars: Celebration 2017 - 10 Things We Learned From Doug Chiang’s Rogue One Panel:-

http://www.starwars.com/news/swco-2017-10-things-we-learned-from-doug-chiangs-rogue-one-panel

Doug Chiang did a good job in this movie. I think K2SO’s design was over the top, and the temple extraction stuff was stupid looking, but that whole idea was stupid anyway. Just goes to show you that competent people can do good work in an otherwise bad movie.

Wait a minute… you didn’t like Rogue One, the whole idea was stupid and thought it was a bad movie?

This is brand new information. You should let others know immediately - and in case they don’t acknowledge your views - keep on repeating it ad nauseam.

Maybe, to keep things ‘fresh’ add a line about vaguely liking something from it - I mean, you wouldn’t want to become the forum bore now, would you?

^ 😃

Rogue One team talks about the tricks they used to make the film authentically Star Wars…

https://www.polygon.com/2017/4/14/15306190/making-of-rogue-one-star-wars-celebration?

SWCO2017: 5 Things We Learned from The Making Of Rogue One Panel…

http://www.starwars.com/news/swco-2017-5-highlights-from-the-making-of-rogue-one-panel

Felicity Jones and Forest Whitaker interview SWCO2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDzHbhRgGQ

TV’s Frink said:

oojason said:

George does not look happy to be there.

I can’t remember the last time I saw a Star Wars photo op that he was happy/smiling in. Seems a bit selfish / self-centered not to even try and smile out of respect for the others there, especially given more and more people involved in those films are no longer with us. Though maybe he just doesn’t like smiling these days…

Just my two penneth.

Jetrell Fo said:

oojason said:

Jetrell Fo said:

oojason said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Napolitano wrote on March 16: “Sources have told me that the British foreign surveillance service, the Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, most likely provided Obama with transcripts of Trump’s calls.”

Notice he uses the words “most likely”. That is not him saying “it was absolutely” what happened. If anyone here thinks for one second that there is absolutely NO possibility beyond a doubt, that this couldn’t happen between close allies, you’d be kidding yourself. I never said it happened this way either but I do believe that the possibility that it did is far more likely.

There is no way allies would tell the world they committed a “treaty violation” to help out another nation. They would not want anyone to be considering such a thing that is why they wouldn’t want someone saying it publicly … it would put them in a spot they were trying to stay out of by being quite about it.

“Jetrell Fo said:
Why did they deny it vehemently when the story first broke but now they own up to it?”

Then there is nothing to own up to then at all, no? Despite your words clearly claiming ‘but now they have own up to it’)…

Well mate … there’s these … what do you make of them?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/andrew-napolitano-legal-analyst-first-claimed-gchq-asked-wiretap/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia

Well, one of those articles was one of the three I posted originally. So what are you asking exactly?

I am only asking your opinion on their content, nothing more.

Ok, thought you may have wanted the contrast between the two.

The Telegraph piece highlights the ex-Judge’s unsubstantiated and uncorroborated claims - and seems none of his ‘three intelligence sources’ had much of an idea of what was actually going on - so much so it is surprising an ex-Judge, who apparently ‘an experienced legal affairs expert’, went ahead with those claims which were basically ‘hearsay’.

The Guardian piece is an account (like a fair few others around that time) of how British Intelligence tipped off the US, and other allies, about strange patterns of meetings between Russian agents (or suspected Russian agents) and some of Trump’s people, after monitoring/spying on the Russians.

Quite how you managed to link the 3 original pieces I listed to what this ex-Judge has incorrectly claimed recently (and then wrote ‘Why did they deny it vehemently when the story first broke but now they own up to it?’) is beyond me - I thought you were being deliberately ignorant or obtuse, were on a wind-up, or seemingly hadn’t read the full articles - as I’m struggling to come up with other reasons as to how/why you did.

As I stated I before…

'I thought the accusations from weeks ago were of British Intelligence spying on Trump/ Trump Towers on behalf of the American Security Services? Whereas the news linked by me is of the British giving a heads-up to their US counterparts after trailing/spying on Russian counterparts and possible Russian agents - going back some time - and as to a pattern emerging over meetings with Trump’s people (along with article that has the ex-MI6 Chief thinking that Trump may have borrowed money from Russia to help keep his empire afloat around the time of the financial crisis in 2008(-ish)).

I think they are two very different things - and the British Services were correct in denying that were spying on Trump/Trump Towers on behalf of the US Services.

The US and Brits, along with other allies often keep each other abreast of information and goings on (though likely keep the really interesting stuff from each other 😉)’

Thankfully, it seems we’ve moved on to other subjects.

from https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/65k8ms/this_group_picture_is_amazing/

a cool retro feel video of The Last Jedi trailer…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfWCIRr0IqU

^ The La’s by The La’s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHgN6mWUHD8

^ stiffer sentences for buglers!

Jetrell Fo said:

oojason said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Napolitano wrote on March 16: “Sources have told me that the British foreign surveillance service, the Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, most likely provided Obama with transcripts of Trump’s calls.”

Notice he uses the words “most likely”. That is not him saying “it was absolutely” what happened. If anyone here thinks for one second that there is absolutely NO possibility beyond a doubt, that this couldn’t happen between close allies, you’d be kidding yourself. I never said it happened this way either but I do believe that the possibility that it did is far more likely.

There is no way allies would tell the world they committed a “treaty violation” to help out another nation. They would not want anyone to be considering such a thing that is why they wouldn’t want someone saying it publicly … it would put them in a spot they were trying to stay out of by being quite about it.

“Jetrell Fo said:
Why did they deny it vehemently when the story first broke but now they own up to it?”

Then there is nothing to own up to then at all, no? Despite your words clearly claiming ‘but now they have own up to it’)…

Well mate … there’s these … what do you make of them?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/andrew-napolitano-legal-analyst-first-claimed-gchq-asked-wiretap/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia

Well, one of those articles was one of the three I posted originally. So what are you asking exactly?

Rebels season 4 trailer…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7GAhnVwhA

You’ll Never Walk Alone by Sean Taylor

with quite a different arrangement to the usual versions out there…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SSYgmtb5cU

^ 😃

Darth Cracker said:

SilverWook said:

Maybe he’s someone we should tweet at when we do the open letter thing?

Good idea.

And has anyone here got the mad skills to repurpose the Rogue One trailer so that it depicts a rag-tag team of rebels trying to steal the Original Theatrical cut from the Evil Empire? That might go viral! 😄

That’s a cracker of an idea, Darth 😃

Star Wars: Celebration 2017 - 10 Things We Learned From Doug Chiang’s Rogue One Panel:-

http://www.starwars.com/news/swco-2017-10-things-we-learned-from-doug-chiangs-rogue-one-panel

Mark Hamill’s Tribute to Carrie Fisher Panel - FULL - Star Wars Celebration 2017:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yaOp1mYdw (53m)

Day 1 Celebration 2017 Coverage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqY1Zo5QTcM (5h 45m)

Day 2 Celebration 2017 Coverage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxO6mQI9k0 (6h 44m)

Day 3 Celebration 2017 Coverage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvrArQPbjU (10h 12m)

Day 4 Celebration 2017 Coverage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfRx3l2uHJM (5h 54m)

40 Years of Star Wars Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI5QodTtlME (1h 31m)

The Last Jedi Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4X4N-8fEM (1h 06m)

Rebels Season 4 Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPm-X5M-DrA (50m)

Hamill Himself Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCzcHWUf-8 (54m)

Championships of Cosplay Contest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWHN3q93Gs (1h 3m)

These Are the Droids You’re Looking For Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1MhfUp97GY (47m)

Ian McDiarmid interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58xjtNARA4E (7m)

Denis Lawson (Wedge) interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MzDOCN8ZYU (9m)

Felicity Jones (Jyn) and Forest Whitaker (Saw) interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDzHbhRgGQ (7m)

The Heroines of Star Wars Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0vzRbNUvk (48m)

Closing Ceremony Full Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pjYXvv4_zE (43m)

Lots of videos from the various Panels - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYtStMnqPtT86BWQA11ywKA/videos

Live Stream for Celebration 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvrArQPbjU & http://www.starwars.com/