Episode II: Attack of the Ridiculousness ***NEW 14 MONTH ANNIVERSARY DVD NOW AVAILABLE*** — Page 4

Bingowings said:

I think the Dooku choke works but perhaps it could be intercut with shots of Star Wars characters drinking to avoid repeating too much footage of Dooku.

You could even use some of Ewan's Moulin Rouge stuff to instigate a duet of sorts.

How does rotoscoping his mouth from Captain Invincible footage or maybe putting his Star Wars beard onto material from that film grab you (too much like hard work)?

It would help with the lip synch.

Adding a beard on here would make it useable during the conference scene.

The Wicker Man is full of little bits of dialogue which would be useful it also has more songs.

Like you said, too much hard work.

doubleofive said:

Came up with an idea this morning:

Replace all of Dooku's dialog with Saruman. Or at least a few lines. I'm imagining "Your love of the Halfling's leaf has clouded your mind" could be used in a few places.

Already considered that.  I like it, but I really like the idea of Dooku singing only.  Not sure what to do here....hmmm....

Akwat Kbrana said:

I thought that "The Saga Begins" worked really well in The Ridiculous Menace, and would love to see Weird Al songs incorporated into the next two edits, too. Some ideas:

-"I Think I'm a Clone Now," track 5 on Even Worse. Could work well when Obi-Wan is being given a tour of the Kaminoan's cloning facility.

Already planned on that one.

-"Yoda," track 5 on Dare to be Stupid. Might go well either with Yoda's duel in this movie, or in the next.

 

Probably will save this for ROTR.

darth_ender said:

Use the Japanese track sped up a tad during the sword fights, like a badly dubbed kung fu movie.

What do you mean, the Japanese language track on the R1 DVD?

TV's Frink said:

Bingowings said:

I think the Dooku joke* works but perhaps it could be intercut with shots of Star Wars characters drinking to avoid repeating too much footage of Dooku.

You could even use some of Ewan's Moulin Rouge stuff to instigate a duet of sorts.

How does rotoscoping his mouth from Captain Invincible footage or maybe putting his Star Wars beard onto material from that film grab you (too much like hard work)?

It would help with the lip synch.

Adding a beard on here would make it useable during the conference scene.

The Wicker Man is full of little bits of dialogue which would be useful it also has more songs.

*corrected Freudian slit.

Like you said, too much hard work.

The roto work might be hard work but the other ideas might not be.

In the chancellor's office when Mace is defending Dooku against being behind the attack on Padme, one of the alien senators could claim Dooku is a master of disguise and could be any of them.

You could later give one of the Separatist leaders a subtitle that bemoans how the Count's disguises are rubbish which would allow you to have him grow a beard, lose a beard, grow a longer beard, wear an eyepatch etc

That way you could use raw Christopher Lee footage from all over his career.

The idea of making Episode 2 a musical could have legs.

How many actors in the film have had singing roles?

doubleofive said:

 

TV's Frink said:

Already considered that.  I like it, but I really like the idea of Dooku singing only.  Not sure what to do here....hmmm....

Singing all the time? Like the whole movie?

 

Exactly.

doubleofive said:

ALSO: Frink, have you seen this, it reminded me of your work:

http://filmrot.com/post/16121945809/hello-the-lionel-richie-classic-as-spoken

Ha-ha. that's awesome.

doubleofive said:

I was not aware Christopher Lee had such a large repertoire.

Neither was I.  Someone on FE suggested I search youtube for "Christopher Lee sings."

There should be a funeral montage to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwQbPgouUYo

 You could sync up Yoda's jumps in the lightsaber fight with Dooku to the "Jump Around's" in the refrain, and even cut away to the Yoda dance easter egg from the ROTS DVD for a music video feel. : P

 P.S.: I've watched The Ridiculous Menace and really enjoyed it, but I keep putting off a written review. I'll write it up soon. Keep up the good work, TV's Frink!

Edit: New link provided. Old was taken down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRMX4vtS7cE

Some of this was heavily influenced (or outright stolen!) from AEmovieguy.

xhonzi said:

I know the Friday song works in the long drive across the desert... but think how awesome this would be:

http://youtu.be/TWucYbAp8Lk?t=3m

Oh man, I love this.  And I already own the song - BONUS!!!

I probably will find a different place for it, however.

TV's Frink said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRMX4vtS7cE

Some of this was heavily influenced (or outright stolen!) from AEmovieguy.

Funny!

Opinion time...

Originally I planned to drop the bit where Obi refers to himself in third person. However, people seem to love it, and frankly I do too. Tonight I had an idea to take it one step further and have him do it to other people as well. I think it's a fun idea but it will be a ton of work...not to mention how choppy the audio becomes (which was a deal-breaker for many people in TRM). Here's an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWfUdeXjC0

I'm leaning towards abandoning this. Thoughts?

Personally I suggest you stick just with self-reference.  Like you said, the choppiness was off-putting for some, so you don't want to make it excessive, and the same goes for the joke.  It's probably funniest just leaving it in reference to Obi-wan.  But please keep it for himself.