C3PX

Gaffer Tape said:

Yeah, I'll call myself the ACJRPHFRG for short.  Kinda rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? ^_~

And I was cringing when I edited the thing and noticed that horrible chair noise.  I didn't notice it in the least when I was filming.  Oy.

ACJRPHFRG, I like it. Rolls a lot better than IJATKOTCS at anyway. Your whole thing could be taking the finest and most loved movies in cinema history, and pointing out contrivances, weak plot points, and bad ideas in general that have been mostly ignored, or at the very least not dwelled on, due to taking place in a good movie.

When you have a squeeky computer chair that you use all the time, you learn to block it out and ignore it, so no surprise you didn't notice it until you got to the editing stage. I think it adds to the humor of the video. "I'm going to get very close and..." creeeeaaaaaak "tell you..." It could be another one of your things. The Angry, Confused, Jabba Rescue Plan Hating, Film Reviewing Geek with a Creaky Chair. In fact, I rather think ACJRPHFRGWACC rolls a bit smoother than just ACJRPHFRG.

I have owned Rogue Leader for a while now, but I have yet to spend much time on it or beat it. That Darth Vader level sounds cool, but I suppose I am going to have to load up on metals to get it though.

The first Rogue Squadron game on PC and the N64 had a lot of really cool extras on it too. There was a hidden level where you got to control and AT-ST and a code to unlock a Naboo Fighter, and the game came out many months before The Phantom Menace. There was also an unlockable flying Buick.

Working my way through Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader on the GameCube. Why haven't we had any SW games of this quality in the current gen? I guess this gen hasn't really had any Star Wars games to speak of beyond FU, so fair enough.

While shooting Tie Fighters last night, I realized how cool it would be if they made a Rogue Squadron V where you play as the Empire. I'd be pretty cool to play those classic battles from the Imperial perspective, such as the Battle of Yavin, the Hoth escape (or in this case attack), and the Battle of Endor. Wish they'd do something like this.

Now that I am so used to my 360's wireless controller, switching back to the good ol' GameCube, I can't help but wonder, why the hell did Nintendo made the cords so damn short! Even my NES, SNES, and N64 cords are longer! I cannot even imagine what might have possibly possessed them to make the thing as sort as it is. I have to sit on the floor a foot infront of my couch in order the play the thing. Really need to get me grubbies on a Wavebird. Just doesn't feel worth it to me to pay such a high price for a used controller on an outdated system.

Great video Gaffer. I foresee a new youtube series, The Angry, Confused, Jabba Rescue Plan Hating, Film Reviewing Geek. You could give guys like Confused Matthew and The Angry Nintendo Video Game Nerd a run for their money.

And the bit with the chair cracked me up, right before the comment popped up on the video I was thinking, "Wow, he really needs to oil that chair."

Well, now it is out there in the open. As more and more people begin watching this video, they will realize the logical FU that the whole Jabba's Palace bit as been from the very beginning, and begin to talk about it with their friends. I predict the whole thing will spread like a minor epidemic until it finally reaches George. Once George hears of this, he will reveal that it was always in his original vision that the Jabba Palace rescue was intended to be completely logical, but due to technical limitation of the 80's, they had to compromise and go for an illogical plan instead. 

Of course you realize that this means YOU Gaffertape, will be responsible for the extreme changes that this scene undergoes in the new, possibly upcoming, Blu-ray Specialestester Edition of Return of the Jedi.

Janskeet said:

I like it that red was determined as the offical color that represents the Republican Party and blue represents the Democratic Party. Just like in Star Wars, good fighting against evil.

You're way too politically minded for someone so clueless.

What about the fact that the Rebel Alliance uses a red insignia, while the Empire is blue or gray one. Might want to rethink your excitement regarding the lightsaber colors.

Interesting we even bother debating stuff like this. What purpose does adding a holo display serve? The scene was perfect as it was. They are reading off all the important information to us, as an audience we are learning all we need to know. Adding such a display would really be no benefit, it'd merely be an extra thrown in just for kicks and would serve no other purpose than to distract.

As Adywan said, it is adding just to add. Reminds me of when I was a kid and me and my friends would play with our Lego blocks. We'd build something and it'd look great, but we'd see that we still had unused blocks and would always be over taken by an impulse to use them up. As a result the end product would look silly in comparison to the original, now with all sorts of extra bits and pieces hanging off of it, none of them serving any other purpose. We made these changes simply because we had the means to do so.

When I see things like the holo display, it reminds me a lot of my Lego houses with massive chimney's rocketing up into the sky three times the height of the house itself, and extra bits hanging off all corners of the roof, resulting in a very weighted down and impractical looking Lego home.

That said, your video was rather well done Davnes007. Just because I feel it would be adding too much to the movie, doesn't mean I don't think you did an awesome job with what you did.

Yeah, where does this whole pedophile thing come from? I don't see it by a long shot. Pinching little girl's bottoms? Where did anything in the film happen to even suggest that in the slightest? I really fail to see anything creepy or self satisfying in the character in the movie. Care to give a few examples of what makes him seem like a self satisfied punk who likes small girls?

I am really curious in what way the first Spider-Man film is not accurate to the comic, or in what way Toby's Peter Parker is completely different from the comics? The origin of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin are both spot on.

Peter changes quite a lot in the comics, depending on who is writing him. To me, the characters in the film come off very much like they were in The Amazing Spider-Man volume one era.

Ah, yes, the Loudness War. Another example of catering to the uneducated masses and flipping the bird at those with a true appreciation for the material. Reminds me of the whole "Die film grain die! All images must look squeaky clean and be bright like wet colored soap" thing that is going on in the magical world of Blu-ray. Seriously, what is the point in having such a fantastic ability for quality when you are just going to hack it off? Why should I buy a CD of an album, when I am going to be getting a recording with so much detail removed that I might as well be listening to a 96kbps MP3?

Janskeet said:

Can Lucasfilm make anything right these days?

In this case the current standard is being followed. It is just a stupid standard. I am pretty sure George himself has absolutely nothing to do with this.

skyjedi2005 said:

Did you hate the organic webs he shot out his hands instead of having that thing he has in the comics?

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I thought the first 2 films were good films and the third was a bit dissjointed and needed to be edited better.  One two many villains and subplots in the movie. 

Sure Spider Man is younger than he was in the comics and is a total dweeb and a geek.  I like Tobey's spider man because he brings the character to life and makes him almost believable.  This guy is a deeply flawed guy with a chip on his shoulder and has love troubles,lol.

Do you think they should have had Gwen Stacy in the first film and had her killed?

The organic web was the one complaint I had about the movies. It was kind of weird the webs would come out of his wrists. I always liked the idea of Peter inventing the webshooters, and that Peter had to becareful not to run out of web cartridges. The comics often show what a genius Peter Parker is, and that was something that was lost in the movies. 

Spider-Man is actually older in the movies than he was in the original comics, he was fifteen when he first became Spider-Man, in the film Peter is a High School Senior. 

Spider-Man 3 was downright awful. Not only is it disjointed, but it is truely a mess in every way. Not sure they could have made it any worse if they tried. Venom was very poorly done, and they really went out of their way to include him in the movie. Three could have been a great film, but they really blew it on this one.

And with Gwen Stacy in 3! Why? Why decide to leave her out of the story at the beginning and skip right over to Mary Jane, then force her back into the story in an akward way two films later. It would be like making a new series of Superman movies, and skipping right onto having Lois Lane be Clark Kent's love interest from high school, then in the third film somehow throwing Launa Lang into the picture. 

If they had known there would be three films from the beginning, an interesting way to include both Mary Jane and Gwen would have been to have them both in the movie from the beginning. With Gwen being the girl Peter was in love with, and MJ being Peter's aunt's friend's daughter (just like in the comics). Mary Jane could just be Peter's close friend but not love interest, while Gwen plays essentially the same role Mary Jane did in the film. In the second film, he could hit some rocky ground with Gwen, and start to grow feelings for MJ. Then they could have the Goblin drop Gwen and have her die towards the end of the film. The third film could deal with Pete's grief, and by the end of it he and Mary Jane could be together. Still wouldn't have been a spot on with the comics, but it would have been a fair adaption of the early Peter Parker love life IMHO.

To shift back on topic so I don't feel so guilty about derailing this thread,

So, yeah, why didn't Vader see Luke there anyway?

Perhaps the Phantom Menace refers to Palpatine's penis? His phantom penis made Shmi pregnant (what a menace!), which in turn causes her to give birth to the most evil man the galaxy has ever known... errr... well it causes her to give birth to a whiney little brat who stumbles across too much power anyway. Those are some pretty menacing things.

TheBoost said:

rcb said:

TheBoost said:

And we add a "Star Tours" shuttle following Lando and Wedge into the DS.

 

 u gotta be kidding!? maybe the colonial vipers, but the star tours shuttle? hell no! man that'd just look weird.

Not only should we add the shuttle, we should add as much of REX's dialog as we can.

 

Boost, I like your thinkin' buddy! I'm right there with you on this one. Vipers, Star Tours, and REX = Perfect version of ROTJ. Now that I am picturing how fantastic it all would be in my head, I am not sure I can ever stand to watch it without those things. Got to have them! That is all there is too it!

Janskeet said:

I really hope Adywan does something about this. I know it is something that crosses everyone's mind when they watch this.

Lol. Never bothered me in the slightest or ever even so much as crossed my mind before. Luke was really wailing on the old bastard, takes a lot of strength to block heavy blows like that. Luke was drawing from the darkside and being strengthened by it, so it is very reasonable that he'd be able to bring Vader down like that.

@ Gaffer: That was an incredibly insensitive thing to say! For all you know the color pink very well could have killed sky's father. Besides, it is a very offensive color. Extremely bright, draws attention to itself, doesn't really go with anything. Only time it occurs in nature is on flowers and various animal and people parts, and as far as I am concerned, those places are wear it belongs! Most defintately not on Sith Lords lightsabers!

So, anyone use this OS? I've been screwing around with Windows on my MacBook through boot camp and parallels, and been having fits with it. Considering just tossing it and trying out something new. The only reason I keep Windows on there is for a few programs that don't have Mac alternatives.

One of the few things I need Windows for is my Zune mp3 player, (which I love so very much more than my wife's iPod, I am completely sold on the wonder that is my Zune, so no need for any "Why the hell do you have a Zune?" comments, the lack of an OS X version of the Zune software is the one thing I find unforgivable about the thing) Zune has just as much trouble on Linux as it does on OS X, so using that as an alternative would be pointless. Seems the Zune software works great in ReactOS, as do many other Win programs.

So, I am seriously thinking about trying it out. Anyone have any reasons why it isn't worth it? Is it really a pretty decent Windows alternative? Anything I should know about it before I waste time installing it?

Having been a fan of the original Amazing Spider-Man comics for as long as I can remember, I felt the first film was incredible true to the originals, with the exception of Mary Jane, which felt like a fair enough plot convienence to me.

It is a comic book movie, how "deep" do you really need it to be? It is no more shallow than the source material. Also, it was made by someone who had a great respect for the source material (unlike the makers of most comic book movies), and that is really all I could ask for in a comic book movie. My feelings are that the first and second Spider-Man flicks are ideal comic book movies. If the prequels were half as good as Spidey 1 & 2, I would have been thrilled. But to each their own.

Just out of curiosity, what movies do you like?

And yes Mielr, B-movies were low budget. There was a misunderstanding on the part the OP, but it has since been cleared up.

bkev said:

Anyway, I believe in aliens.  It's the human ego rearing its ugly head in thinkign that we're the only "intelligent" life out there.

I think that is a silly statement. I do no believe in aliens, but yet it would be absolutely no bruise on my ego if there were aliens out there. If fact, far from harming my ego, I think it would be really cool if there were aliens out there. Yet, I still don't believe in them. So, no ugly heads being reared here.

Vaderisnothayden said:

I wouldn't insult B-movies by calling the Spider Man movies B movies.

Geez man, do you hate everything?

What is wrong with the first and second Spider-Man movies? For what they are, they are damn near perfect in my IMHO. You a fan of the comics at all, or do you just hate Spidey in general?

Wow, Shim must live in a pretty big city, only four or five stars in his line of sight at a time!!! I live in the city and I can see way more than that at night. Just go camping, if your camp site is even a few miles out of the city, you should be able to get thousands of stars in your line of sight at a time.

Janskeet said:

I always thought B-movies were movies that were cheesy and made kids. Following strict logic and laws of physics weren't what the movie were about. Like power rangers or spider-man. After looking up B-movies, I guess this isn't an accurate description of "B-movies". But even George Lucas said star wars "are just b-movies" and that was his excuse for a lot of the arguments with people who questioned his descisions making the movies.

Did you just call Spider-Man a b-movie?

Huh, that is odd Lucas would call them B-movies. What time frame was this statement made? Before or after the prequels?

B-movies were the training wheels for film makers and actors. They were extremely low budget. A lot of them depicted silly sci-fi events, and were therefore targeted at kids. Today's equal of the B-movie would probably be the sci-fi channel original movie, or other made for TV movies.

George was influenced by B-movies and sci-fi serials when making Star Wars, so I imagine that is what he meant. Nothing wrong with that, B-movies do have a bit of a charm to them, which is what George was going for (and succeeded) with Star Wars. And you might even be able to shove the first Star Wars film into the B-Movie category, but the other five films are anything but.

Davnes007 said:

C3PX said:

Not exactly sure when the episode number became the focal point of the entire title. Has any other series ever done that? I am going to go out on a limb here and say the answer is no.

Well, discounting Star Trek 1-6...what about Leonard Part 6?...or maybe Hot Shot: Part Deux?...Kill Bill: Volume 1 & Volume 2?

;)

Those are just a few that popped into mind.

C3PX said:

Not exactly sure when the episode number became the focal point of the entire title. Has any other series ever done that? I am going to go out on a limb here and say the answer is no.

Notice the words "focal" and "point", they play an important role in my previous post. 

I did not say, "Not exactly sure when movies began getting episode numbers..." Though if I had said that, your post would have been an ideal response.

Ah, you're right. But I think that is still rather different. Terminator, T2: Judgment Day, T3: Rise of the Awful Film. It all flows rather nicely. But consider this,

Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: EPISODE I: The Phantom Menance, Star Wars: EPISODE II: The Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: EPISODE III: The Revenge of the Shite.

For as long as I can remember, the films were labeled that way, Star Wars (then in small writting underneath you had the words "A New Hope", The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (with the small words above the title, "Star Wars"). It flowed perfectly back then. Now it really feels like quite a mangled mess.

Davnes007 said:

"I am your baby's daddy!"

Whoa! That is definitely one of the more unsettling bits of news I have heard all day. I still think some DNA work is in order before I accept it though. But if its true, I will be expecting monthly child support checks.

Gaffer Tape said: I was just happy there was actually a title and people would stop referring to the damned thing as Episode I. Sadly, that never happened...

Hahaha. Yeah, I know what you mean. It has always bugged me too. I still don't get that whole, "star wars EPISODE I!!!!!! the phantom menace" thing. Not exactly sure when the episode number became the focal point of the entire title. Has any other series ever done that? I am going to go out on a whim here and say the answer is no.

Lucas is the one who talked about making a 3D version. Not sure why somebody would be crazy for thinking that he might. I suppose there was a time when you could have said, "If anyone thinks that Lucas is going to make episodes 1, 2, and 3, they are just plain crazy.

I suppose you could also compare it to the sequel trilogy, but that would have been all the hard work of writing new scripts, getting a director, hiring actors, etc. With Star Wars 3D all it would take is throwing money at it to have people set it up for 3D, then rerereleasing it in theaters and raking in several times the amount of money he put into it, assuming it goes over well.

I don't think anyone is crazy for thinking he just might continue to capitalize on his movies. I for one think it is a horrible idea, but I might have to consider myself just plain crazy if I thought Lucas wouldn't do it if he thinks he can make money off of it.