Bingowings

In Blade Runner it’s deliberately ambiguous if there is something of a rape nature going on. Rachel is saying no based on experiences that aren’t hers, her facility to say no under those circumstances is the point of the scene. So is he abusing her or liberating her and yes we are meant to feel uncomfortable contemplating either possibility. It’s nuanced and adult and trillion light years away from Prometheus.
Indy’s under-aged sex subplot thankfully is largely removed from the final film.
That leaves the typical “I’m not interested in you” (lie) love story trope in ESB. It might be a bit wobbly but compared to creepy sex looks Anakin or anything to do with sand it’s William Shakespeare innit?

Thank heavens for Witness.

Parking this old thing here for later :

I suspect the next one will be Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth and Indy will be rejuvenated and played henceforth by whoever gets to play young Han.

Wilf should do the Portugese 😄
It would be funny if we could get so OTers as pilots.

I just found this and thought it might be a fun inclusion into one of the big battles of the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7zDfGVh74

TV’s Frink said:

I’m sorry but you’re wrong.

Anakin should do it though.

What you are describing here sounds suspiciously like the targeting systems for the Vipers from Battlestar Galactica. I think the fighter craft in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century also had a similar system.
You might have caught one of those and merged your memories.

Congrabulations Mr and Mrs Split.

He could also ask if Vader’s murders are leeeegal.

I think they should do a film where Condorman and Boba Fett make babies called Condorfett and Bobaman.

Like this : http://theblockheads.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=19581&d=1422968346
to this : http://www.midamericaflightmuseum.org/images/planes/T-6.jpg
to this : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Folland_gnat_xr991_arp.jpg

^I second that emotion.
Plus when one of the other Feds gets killed Nute could ask him if he is braindead.

Most fan-editors seem to think the final saber duel is the only bit of TPM worth keeping.

This replicates it to some extent.

It might be possible to re-purpose some of it for alternate shots but it would only be tinkering with the only bit of that film some people like.

Personally I don’t rate the fight in TPM because everyone is silent, other than (and Frink has already improved this) Obi-Wan screaming, “noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo”

What I like about the OT duels is the real fight is taking place inside the minds of the characters. The real swipes and jabs are the dialogue. In TPM (like all the dueling in the PT) it’s just experimental dance. They might as well all wear unitards.

I imagine this film was made by people with PT nostalgia (young people seem to be getting older every day, it’s very odd). In terms of what’s happening it doesn’t make sense.
Maul surprises the council when Qui-Gon informs them about him, they assume the Sith to be extinct and have no known reported missing Jedi or reported saber slain Jedi.

By the time they do know about him he is killed before he can kill another Jedi after Qui-Gon. (Oh yeah that he survived as a crotchless spider is now canonised “sigh”).

Any way the fan film would have worked better if we saw Maul fight non-Jedi, Like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9UEV-b2Ws4 (only less silly). A fan film where he helps put down resistance on Naboo would be fun to watch and useful for fan-editors.

joefavs said:

I’d give the superweapon to the good guys. Ethical quandaries all around.

TV’s Frink said:

Why would you bother (or not bother, as the case may be) with the digital version of you already have the Blu?

So they could watch it without a blu-ray player.

Just like George Michael

Obsessive Apophenia happens.

As I say dark doesn’t necessarily equate with bad to those who use the dark side, there are positive uses of the term in everyday English.

The Sith use the same terminology as the Jedi but that doesn’t follow that they believe themselves to be evil.
Batman doesn’t think he is a villain when he doesn’t dismiss the term “Dark Knight”.
There may be honour in controlling and using the not immediately seen, the hidden, the nocturnal side of the Force.
When Luke says “There is good in you, I have felt it”, Vader could easily retort, “Yes I am Good, I am serving the people by giving them stability and order, there is good in you too, join me”.
He as good as offers this to Luke in ESB.

In those scenes Luke is telling Vader that he believes there is good (the light side from a Jedi perspective) in him still.
Vader says that Obi-Wan (the friend and mentor he murdered in the first film) once felt the same.
He isn’t acknowledging at this point any sign that what he has been doing is wrong or evil but necessary because his master is too strong to dethrone without help and the galaxy needs strong leadership.
To some extent they share the same ambition (getting rid of the Emperor) but their intended next moves are different.
Vader wants to become the Emperor for the sake of the galaxy and would probably be a more stoic and militant leader than the jolly old prune faced master strategist currently running the show. Luke wants to save his father and hand the rule of the galaxy back to the chaos of democracy, because stable government just isn’t fair, and he want’s to hang out with his friends.
My only suggested changes would be (if possible) change the line on the landing platform on Endor so Vader says : “Your mother once thought as you do” as it makes more contextual sense and evokes the memory of a female character in an almost men only trilogy.
It still works as she was someone like Luke, Vader cared about and lost as a necessary evil for the ‘good’ of the Empire.
It might not be possible but adding some line along the lines of : “What I am is for the good of the galaxy” But then leave Vader ruminating on what he might have to do and if he really believes his own words. It might strengthen what’s already there.
As they currently stand I don’t have a problem with those lines. There are lots wrong with ROTJ but those lines isn’t one of those.

Ronster said:
R2-D2 electrocues himself… Beeps wildly smoking his head spinning Chewie tries to help him

It’s debatable if Artoo is actually alive or not but seeing as he is clearly still functional after this he couldn’t possibly have electrocuted himself 😛

This got a call out in The Guardian : http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/05/star-wars-fans-restoration

When I saw it in the cinema I thought Hosnia was Coruscant.
I thought this was rather a bold move considering the role the place played in the PT and the EU but too much like JJ Vulcan, which itself was a riff on Alderaan.

For me the only problem I have with the film is it set the bar to a level that demanded to be held or raised further and none of the films that have come since have.

I’m still anticipating a theatrical re-issue between Rogue One and Episode 8 with a few scenes popped in an attempt to push TFA over the Avatar mark.