General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 110

generalfrevious said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

darklordoftech said:

Did Lucas intend the Jedi to be so stupid in the prequels or is Lucas himself actually as stupid as they are?

Well, he is an ageist jackass who thinks "old" methods of filmmaking (silent, B&W, 2D) are inferior to "modern" ones (sound, colour, 3D), so I doubt he's the sharpest crayon in the box.

 I think he was born with a large portion of his brain missing. I think he was too stupid to even come up with the original star wars film (remember, he just wanted to rip off Flash Gordon).

 Actually, I - this might sound idiotic of me, but I'd put it down to senility. The fame went to the poor man's head and he tried to dumb down what made it so popular. Either that or he tried too hard to appeal to children....

That would really be fodder for discussion in the Episode VII thread.

I don't trust a word of it however those guys made a claim that Christian Bale was going to be in the sequel to Man Of Steel.  Proven false since Ben Affleck was actually hired.

Its just rumors not journalism.

darklordoftech said:

What if they hadn't made Palpatine a Force-user?

 Dear god, man! DO YOU THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE!?!?!?!?!?!

I can't find any hi-res copies of the publicity stills used on the backs of the UK 1992 VHS covers - can anyone help me find them?

Mark Hamill just finished an AMA on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vvul8/mark_hamill_here_in_an_ama_far_far_away/

Interesting stuff, especially this:

I'm not really somehow who goes back and re-watches old stuff I've done. I haven't seen any of the films since they were in the theater - originals or prequels. I thought the prequels are amazing by the way. If we were a garage band, they were a philharmonic.

Can someone tell me if there is a collection of all the McQuarrie art? In all versions. Because I love this page and want to know if there's anything like it anywhere else.

http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/2014/01/14/an-annotated-guide-to-the-star-wars-portfolio-by-ralph-mcquarrie/

We know stuff on SW.com never lasts long.

SilverWook said:

You mean like these?

http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/StarWars/index.html

http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/Empire/index.html

http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/Return/index.html

Not sure why the pages aren't linked anymore.

I always wondered what that structure was used for - apparently it's an aerostatic control vane which controls airflow. It would be super cool if Adywan were to show all three of these in the wide shot, then slowly zoom in on the tiny figure of Luke.

SilverWook said:

You mean like these?

http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/StarWars/index.html

http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/Empire/index.html

http://www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/Return/index.html

Not sure why the pages aren't linked anymore.

 I will treasure these. I just wonder why stuff like the original Alderaan is so hard to come by.

SilverWook said:

1978(?) British 2001 reissue poster with a quote from a certain director.

Source:

http://blackholereviews.blogspot.com/

I would disagree with him. :)