SilverWook

Is that from the new season? I missed that riff.

And speaking of MST3K…

We have threads for discussion of the new films, so let’s not stink up this one. Irrelevant posts will be deleted at moderator’s discretion.

Yeah, a Threepio and Artoo cameo would be pushing it. I wouldn’t mind seeing Bollux and Blue Max though, as a nod to the Brian Daley novels.

iamweasel said:

SilverWook said:

iamweasel said:

I’m glad you decided to drop the prequels. Those movies can’t be fixed. At least not to what we wanted / expected them to be.

My 2 suggestions to ROTJ-R:

1. When Vader grabs the emperor, make some of the lighting coming from the emperor reaches Vader (if possible with some sparks from Vader’s device in his chest, to suggest it was broken by the lighting). This way it gets more clearer Vader’s sacrifice and why he died (saving Luke cost him his life support). The way it is now in the movie it seems like he “lost his will to live” 😉

2. I think Luke should have gone back to Yoda to finish his training after ESB:R. Between the ESB and ROTJ Luke finished his training. While that was happening, the empire chased the rebels and when ROTJ begins, they are in really bad position, with the empire close to a final victory. That will increase the drama in ROTJ. A new crawl can set this to the audience.

Vader lighting up internally like a Christmas tree, the scorched smoking armor, and the “iron lung” clearly sounding like it’s damaged doesn’t sell it enough for you?

I may be mistaken, but IIRC you can’t see any lighting reaching Vader coming from the emperor, so I must assume he were using cheap chinese eletronic that broke for no reason.

iamweasel said:

I’m glad you decided to drop the prequels. Those movies can’t be fixed. At least not to what we wanted / expected them to be.

My 2 suggestions to ROTJ-R:

1. When Vader grabs the emperor, make some of the lighting coming from the emperor reaches Vader (if possible with some sparks from Vader’s device in his chest, to suggest it was broken by the lighting). This way it gets more clearer Vader’s sacrifice and why he died (saving Luke cost him his life support). The way it is now in the movie it seems like he “lost his will to live” 😉

2. I think Luke should have gone back to Yoda to finish his training after ESB:R. Between the ESB and ROTJ Luke finished his training. While that was happening, the empire chased the rebels and when ROTJ begins, they are in really bad position, with the empire close to a final victory. That will increase the drama in ROTJ. A new crawl can set this to the audience.

Vader lighting up internally like a Christmas tree, the scorched smoking armor, and the “iron lung” clearly sounding like it’s damaged doesn’t sell it enough for you?

I knew a guy in college who was a surfer and they sounded exactly like every surfer dude you ever heard in an 80’s teen comedy. Actually got him to do a voice for one of my video projects back then because he sounded perfect.

Yeah, Robot Chicken did the Sebastian turning into Hayden thing already.
https://youtu.be/_dkhJmClMVc

That clip does remind me that the some bloodied Imperial armor lying around the Ewok village would be so wizard! 😉

CatBus said:

NeverarGreat said:

CatBus said:

Warbler said:

What do you mean Republicans are saying the name of their party wrong?

“Their” in that context meaning the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party. As an exercise, go through any official Republican press release, speech by a Republican national candidate, or opinion piece by a Republican political operative, for the past ten years, and see if you can find even one saying the words “Democratic Party” when talking about their opposition. Just one reference using the actual name of a major US political party in the age of the Internet when anyone can look anything up, shouldn’t be a problem, right? Yeah, not so much. Now go back thirty years, and the same exercise is easy.

They once got it right every single time, and then suddenly they all got it wrong every single time. Staying on message is one thing the Republicans tend to do very well, even for petty name-calling. Shit, look at Freedom Fries or Death Taxes or whatnot. They even rode with Homicide Bombers for a week or so when even their own people couldn’t bear how stupid it sounded from the get-go. They practically have their own Newspeak division.

Although calling them the ‘Democrat Party’ was an insult by Republicans, it has been so ingrained in their speech patterns that they probably think theirs is the ‘proper’ way of saying it. There’s some sense to that after all. The Republicans and the Republican party are the same word, so it makes sense that the Democrats and the Democrat party would follow the same rule. It’s stupid, sure. But at least there’s some consistency in that thought.

Oh I get that after so many years, it’s ingrained and people have even been raised never knowing it by another name so it probably sounds wrong when it’s said correctly. But the point is that it was a conscious choice to do things wrong, in an attempt to goad Dems into wasting their time being pedantic and correct instead of talking about issues. You think Dubya didn’t really know how to pronounce “nuclear”? That was as rehearsed as his fake Texas accent, designed to make him seem the poor everyman, beset by the mocking self-righteous intelligentsia. And it worked.

So when you make fun of Trump, don’t do it about the P’s and Q’s. Just stick to the pee.

Not defending Bush, but it is possible to pick up the local accent if you live somewhere long enough. In the early 2000’s I talked on the phone once with someone I knew in the 80’s, and I absolutely did not recognize their voice. They had picked up a southern accent in about a decade.

That’s how I felt. Sorry about that.

Saw John Williams trending and feared the worst. He’s fine and conducting at the Hollywood Bowl tonight. Damn you twitter!

It’s the possibility he misspells lunch as launch I tend to lose sleep over. 😉

This concept for a nuclear powered(!) flying wing from the 1950’s looks kind of familiar!

Although I doubt the cockpit rotates.

The Dark Empire said:

ZkinandBonez said:

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2017/09/snokes-mega-class-star-destroyer-and-n-resistance-ship-revealed.html

Looks like a B-2 bomber to me. Does not look like a Star Wars stardestroyer. Even the J-type diplomatic barge looks better.

Don’t you mean a Northrop XB-35 flying wing?

Or a YB-49?

Or a Horten Ho 229 for that matter?

Pretty sure AMC has run Conan recently. No idea what edited for tv version it was though.

moviefreakedmind said:

Stupid person was too stupid to know who a critically important historical figure was. Welcome to earth!

EDIT: I remember a bunch of people defending the people Handman interacted with that were too ignorant and devoid of cultural awareness to know who Frank Sinatra was. I don’t know how anyone could not be at least annoyed by ignorant clowns who don’t know who any president is before Bill Clinton and don’t know where Europe is on a map and have never heard of Elvis Presley. Fuck them.

That’s when you tell them Elvis was president before Clinton and Europe is off the coast of New Jersey. 😉

Don’t forget he was in Forbidden Planet.

Oscar Goldman was the best boss a bionic agent could ever have.

The Empire painted their droids that way too. Which begs the question is the company that makes them supplying both sides?

It wasn’t even Walt Disney Pictures when that was made. It was Walt Disney Productions well into the 80’s.

NeverarGreat said:

Goodbye ever sleeping again!

These are probably the same sort of idiots who believe Pizzagate is for real. Facts are meaningless to them.

A female Davros would be pretty terrifying. 😉

Tantive3+1 said:

Michael Winslow from the Police Academy movies doing SW sound effects.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWmcmIfN98

I wonder if Frink could make use of that?

Hardware Wars done Lego style.
https://youtu.be/_Roe4gtsD_8

TV’s Frink said:

More.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/30/evangelical-leaders-release-nashville-statement-on-sexuality-rejecting-gay-marriage/?utm_term=.0771b7772a36

The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood was founded in 1987 to “to help the church defend against the accommodation of secular feminism,” according to its website. The council focuses on outlining the differences between male and female roles in the home and church. It supports the biblical teaching that men must be Christlike leaders at home and in the church, and upholds wives’ submission in marriage.

The group asserted its belief in these separate gender roles in its 1987 manifesto, “The Danvers Statement,” which affirmed a “complementarian” view of gender roles in a push against secular feminism and egalitarian marriages.

It came in response to an increasingly feminist society (and church), where conservative leaders feared men and women were losing their biblical distinctions,” according to an article in Christianity Today, a prominent evangelical publication.

So they we stuck in the 50’s then and they are still stuck in the 50’s now. How lovely.

Wow. And I thought Goreans were weird! 😉

I’m sure city officials are thrilled with the possible negative effects this is going to have on tourism.

https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw