Darth Id

DominicCobb said:

ATMachine said:

Hopefully now that John Boyega is the male lead of Ep7, Star Wars casting agents will at last get bold enough to let more than one person of color be visible on-screen per movie.

Personally, I'm still holding out for Asian actors to show up in the live-action GFFA. After all, GL did want to get Toshiro Mifune as Ben Kenobi..

Oscar winner Lupita Nyongo is in TFA as is newcomer Maisie Richardson, both black. Don't know how big their roles are though (AND DON'T WANT TO). It's also worth noting that Oscar Isaac is hispanic.

The lack of asian representation is strange, especially considering the heavy Japanese influence on the saga. Maybe in another new movie. Wasn't there a rumor about a martial arts actor getting cast for Rogue One?

 I think this type of stuff should be put in the TFA Spoiler Thread.

That's what it's for.

This thread is for "random"--not "leaked just now..."

Hal 9000 said:

EDIT: Removed non-cromulent word choice

 How very embiggened of you.

Totes agree with C-Glove.  Glorified '80s materialism = bad moral-of-the-story.

Leonardo said:

It's like the man doesn't have time to Google anything.

 I'll have you know that I did indeed googol "black lacquer dildo"--EXTENSIVELY--and not a mention of your precious "daleks".

Leonardo said:

 Daleks.

 Lemme guess: the giant black-lacquer dildos left on the cutting-room floor during the editing of Barbarella?

Whoa--is that what the Interrogation Droid looked like from the front?

From the angle in the movie, I always thought it was a floating black orb with hypodermic needles for arms.

Guess it was more of a giant black-lacquer dildo-totem...

TIL.

pablumatic said:

Right now I'm of the opinion that the originals will be released on blu-ray/4K for the 40th anniversary in 2017. If not then it'll never happen.

 Then again, there's always 2027!

The only blu-ray version of Friday is the embarrassing "Director's Cut" that has several endless, pace-stalling, timing-decimating quasi-improvised rants by John Witherspoon at the beginning and end, as well as a pat "happy ending" deus ex machina at the last minute that ruins the ambiguity about Craig's job loss present in the theatrical.

I wouldn't rule out a future double-dip with the cleaned up theatrical release down the road though, since the director has never made some megalomaniacal proclamation about "his movies" and "his vision" and such like doggerel.  But for now, it's unfortunate.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I've never held a SW marathon, but if I did, there'd definitely be leather, chains, whips, a rack, and at least one iron maiden involved in the proceedings.

 All of that certainly would be a welcome relief from the on-screen torture...

I find nothing even "mildly interesting" about this ill-conceived, aesthetically offensive double-dip of rancidness.

Stupid, lame, pointless, insulting, terrible, hideous, useless kick-in-the-forehead.

I pretty much stopped buying blu-rays when The Big Lebowski got waxed over and the OT was SE-only (and further desecrated, at that!).

AFAIC, the studios killed the format by compulsively "improving" movies in the transfer process, rather than simply creating HD transfers.  When I think about my excitement about the blu-ray format when it was introduced, I weep at the tragically squandered promise.

SilverWook said:

Way to go and stereotype Star Wars fans. :/

Heaven forbid! That was a dig at Kohl's shoppers!

Yes and no.

Depends on whether you consider Truth expressed in jest "serious."

TV's Frink said:

The quotation marks are typos.  Ahhrghugh means "rip an arm out of a socket" in Old English.

 Mistakes, yes.  Typos, no.  Just another instance of the systemic sloppiness that hangs all over that shirt design like the BO of the shirt's obese wearer most certainly does after it gets tossed into the hamper to await mom's laundry day.

The intent was clearly that "Hrryauhg" or whatever was a Wookiee-language substitute for an English-language predicate that would grammatically parallel the rest of the captions.  Much like the Bee-yoop for R2.  But note the embarrassing inconsistency between the un-quoted R2 phrase and the quotation-mark-marred Chewie phrase.

Just an absolute mess is this shirt, really.

TV's Frink said:

Ackbar's is missing the word "say."

 And R2 is missing the prefatory article, "Chirp!"

Aside from that, the fact that the first two make no grammatical sense sort of deflates the running gag.  Whoever ordered the portraits failed to Establish the Rule before Breaking the Rule for Comedic Effect, making the whole thing too confusing.

Based on the "official" preview and promotional material available, it's actually hard to parse spoilers from non-spoilers.  For instance the press release surrounding the teaser trailer gave all kinds of factoids that were not actually established by the trailer--such as planet names, character names and some character background--and in one case actually spoiled a surprise that I think the teaser tried to set up (regarding the desert setting--I'll leave it at that). 

I have a feeling that closer to the release date, both trailers and press releases will become increasingly "spoil-y."  It's easy for me to avoid the "official" spoilers (since I don't have cable or an antenna on my dedicated blu-ray display device) but I'm wary of forum users considering such unbagged cats as "not a spoiler because it was in a released trailer."

So maybe it is best that all the news goes to the spoiler thread rather than this one.

So serious question from someone avoiding the spoiler thread (where all the news seems to be getting aired).

Will the spoiler policy remain in effect after the release?  Cuz I probably won't see the movie until it hits blu-ray, and I would be mildly irked it the "so-and-so dies" thread titles show up at 2 am on the release date...

Neglify said:

I half expect the next Termy movie to reveal that every single person in the world was changed to a cyborg.

 Except for Skynet, which is actually the last surviving male human in a control booth, remotely attacking the replicant robotic masses in a last stand to protect his wife and child...

whoa I just blew my mind...

darklordoftech said:

Darth Id said:

George's original conception was that the evil Empire was more or less timeless, and the whole Star Wars universe was based on the for-all-intents eternal struggle of the forces of good against the Empire.

I don't think there is anything in Star Wars, ESB or even ROTJ that necessarily contradicts this.  Ben's yearning reference to a time "before the dark time, before the Empire" could be a reference to something extremely ancient and remote.  There's no reason it wasn't 200 or even a thousand years before the events of SW, and Ben was the last of a long dwindlage of torch-bearers.

In that case, how old was Ben supposed to be? 

Also, according to http://boards.theforce.net/threads/dark-empire-article-series-in-insider.50032523, Veitch initially wanted to write a comic about the Great Jedi Purge, and when Lucas rejected that, Veitch wrote Dark Empire instead.

 Ben looked to be about 65 to 70 to me.

The Emperor, on the other hand, indeed appeared to be roughly 200-1,000, so he could still be the First Emperor even if the Empire was ancient--what with the force of Magicks and whatnot...

George's original conception was that the evil Empire was more or less timeless, and the whole Star Wars universe was based on the for-all-intents eternal struggle of the forces of good against the Empire.

I don't think there is anything in Star Wars, ESB or even ROTJ that necessarily contradicts this.  Ben's yearning reference to a time "before the dark time, before the Empire" could be a reference to something extremely ancient and remote.  There's no reason it wasn't 200 or even a thousand years before the events of SW, and Ben was the last of a long dwindlage of torch-bearers.

RIP Dr. Z.  Great picture, FanF.

darklordoftech said:

SilverWook said:

Disney has released edgier fare for decades under other studio labels, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, etc. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit? has always been a Touchstone film, even though Roger has a presence in the theme parks.)  They don't have to put the Disney label on the Star Wars films any more than they do Marvel.

However: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/disney-bans-smoking-in-all-future-films-including-star-wars-and-marvel-comics-10107312.html

 Waaaaaah!  My stogie!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAH!

SilverWook said:

Oh come on! Nobody is going to want to smoke because of these guys...

 Although now that you bring my attention to it, that intoxicating beverage in Snaggletooth's paws looks mighty refreshing!

DuracellEnergizer said:

Meh. Aside from his stupid name...I have nothing against Cad Bane....

 What else could you possibly need?  "Cad Bane"?  Are you serious?   That can't really be a character name.

Do they have a "Jerk Awful" yet?

How about a "Meany Monsterman"?