It’s a cliffhanger ending. And ESB was by no means wrapped up at the end. In fact, one criticism people had back in 1980, (who were no doubt unfamiliar with the old movie serial structure Lucas was emulating) was that it was only “half” a movie.
This is fantastic.
http://gizmodo.com/worlds-most-useful-robot-prints-and-immediately-burns-t-1793747437
@BurnedYourTweet is a robot and a Twitter account which prints and immediately sets fire to Trump’s 140-ravings. It films itself spitting out POTUS’s groundless accusations and whimpering loser bullshit onto what looks like receipt paper, sheers them off with scissors, sets them aflame, and gingerly drops the burning embers into an ashtray. The resulting video is then tweeted at Trump himself.
It’s like something out of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.
I know I don’t have the fastest internet in the world, but life’s too short for a gif that takes 20 @#%*&$! minutes to load. That sucker was 92 megs! Have pity, Frink!
And who ever made that gif needs to learn about file compression.
Yes.
I have no idea what the hell started the latest drama, but it had better end now. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.
Given the Daily Mail’s history, this is nothing new for them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
LOL!
And I thought foreign Star Wars posters were weird!
JEDIT:As the original source doesn’t like hotlinking it seems.
The Death Star computer reacts to Artoo “plugging in”. Take the smiling computer screen from Airplane II, and put it up on one of the DS control room screens. Yes, I know this one is a bit naughty. 😉
It would be hilarious and sad if Mar-a-Lago was crawling with Russian bugs and spies.
The collapse of the media was a global phenomenon, but it was a little more spectacular in the US. Consider the BBC–yeah, it has a bit of a stodgy conservative editorial bias, but it generally avoids the strident ideological stuff that’s common in the US. Plus you get to read about Big Cat sightings on occasion, so you get that 😉 Der Spiegel (yes, there’s an English version), kinda the same strain as the BBC really, so pretty nice. The Independent (UK) is pretty lacking the editorial restraint department, but it’s a good left-of-center counterbalance to the Beeb. Honestly wish there was a large left-leaning news source with good-quality editorial control, but haven’t found one. In the US, the Washington Post seems to be trying to stake out their position as the only large centrist media outlet, with pretty decent editorial control too, but we’ll see how long that lasts.
This is BBC 1. We’re stodgy, and proud of it!
(And yes I know that’s an ancient logo, but I’m fond of it for all the times it appeared on Monty Python.)
Sorry I never got back to you on this, thxita. I’ve been spread out too thin lately. Glad you got it funded. 😃
If you’re trying to track down the DTS discs, Jetrell Fo is your man.
SilverWook said:
Vader probably relished a chance to cut loose on some Rebel scum.But he casually walks in and looks around at the dead troops like it’s just another day at the office. I see what you mean but the whole thing feels like the obligatory lightsaber moment. It’s trying too hard to be badass seconds after a sombre ending.
How much time has passed between the end of R1 and the beginning of Star Wars? Hours? Days? Vader could also be looking to see if there’s anyone important lying among the cannon fodder.
Dominic, I see what you mean; of course his presence is not necessary. But you said in your earlier post that he “does not belong in this movie.” That’s a bit hyperbole, I think, and implies that his presence is damaging. I just wonder in what way you think his presence is damaging to the film.
It depends what you consider damaging. Vader’s scene is the most obvious reshoot material because he never meets the heroes face to face. It comes across as a very last minute addition (which it is). It also overturns their sacrifice by making the audience root for him instead. If he was written into the story effectively it might work, but it’s just an effects scene. To me Vader isn’t the sort of character who would even consider using his lightsaber this way, he’s too cool and collected. The ending should be about people with shades of grey feeling they have achieved something bigger than their own selfish ideals. Instead it’s just a spectacle, they hug, they die, now here’s a epic as hell lightsaber massacre ohhhooo yeaaahhhh. Oh but hope. It’s about hope.
So cool and collected, he snaps the captain of the Tantive’s neck, throws the lifeless body at a bulkhead, angrily yells at Leia, and Force chokes an Imperial officer just for mocking him.
Vader probably relished a chance to cut loose on some Rebel scum.
A lot of those were done to fill out a timeslot, (when there were less commercials) or make a movie into a two night “event”. Cable tv and VHS eroded the novelty of watching a theatrical film on broadcast tv by the mid 80’s.
Movies on broadcast networks are a rare thing these days, and basic cable allows nearly everything short of the F word and full nudity now.
I think feature films still shoot alternate scenes for the “airline version”, since cursing and nudity are right out.
AFAIK, nobody is directly under the hammer at the moment. Try to keep it that way.
The New Republic probably misjudged the threat the New Order posed. Starkiller being built into a planet was an effective disguise. The fleet around the core worlds gave a false sense of security, as it probably had not been directly challenged since the end of the Empire. So long as the N.O. doesn’t seem to be building another battle station, why worry?
I would think there’s a massive power vacuum to be dealt with in TLJ.
For future reference. Don’t threaten to report someone, just report them. Mods don’t see every little infraction around here. We’re not that omnipotent. And threatening to report, intentional or not, comes off like that one kid in elementary school that was forever going OOOOOOOH! I’m going to tell on youuuu! Don’t be that kid.
And unless you’re buying dinner and gas, keep out of the backseat. 😉
Hardly a new phenomenon. 😉
Maybe there will be a new SE where Vader storms the Blockade Runner instead of sending in his troops first. You know, to match that stupid Rogue One
endingmovie.
We didn’t see Vader board the ship in R1. The troops could have come in first. It was a much larger ship, and badly damaged. The troops had probably fanned out searching everywhere, and Vader found the fleeing rebels first.
The Blockade Runner was captured, mostly intact, and resistance was to be expected.
For further critiques of R1, take it the the appropriate thread.
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Rogue-One-Spoilers-Thread/id/49191
Valeris in Star Trek VI was supposed to be Saavik, but they decided against it at the last minute.
That would have been a more shocking betrayal.
P.S. If you ever wanted to see Valeris taking a hot shower, the 1992 Rutger Hauer action flick Split Second is for you. Kim Cattrall made it right after VI, and still sports her Vulcan haircut. 😉
It is a shame nobody is doing 2D anymore outside of tv.
I wanted to pull an Elvis after watching Siskel & Ebert more than once back in the day. They did sing the praises of Laserdisc over VHS though. 😉
Some of Ebert’s reviews can be mind boggling, (especially viewed from the distance of time) but I don’t think he was taking anything under the table. He often went against the grain on movies that were ultimately very popular, or otherwise well received by other critics.
I liked it overall. The good parts outweigh the plot nitpicks. And how great was it to see Sarek again back in '84? Amazingly, I didn’t get spoiled that he was going to be in the movie. I didn’t appreciate how much the character meant to some people until a fellow fan I knew from college was terribly upset at Sarek’s final fate on TNG.
You’d think Starfleet brass had seen and experienced enough strange phenomena to accept the possibility that McCoy wasn’t going nuts. And how did the general public find out about the whole Genesis incident before the Enterprise even got home? The cynic in me felt at the time David was being thrown under the bus, because now that TWOK proved Trek movies had legs, the new kids had to go. (And Savvik was gone, never to be heard from again after TVH.) Kirk’s reaction to David’s death is probably one of Shatner’s finest moments in all of Trek.
I still get a little choked up at the Enterprise’s destruction. (Setting the self destruct is almost word for word from the third season episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield) That wrecking the Enterprise has been done one time too many over the years, has not robbed this sequence of it’s power.
Just about everybody gets great moments in this. (McCoy’s reaction to learning what Spock did to him is priceless.) Sulu gets to kick butt, and Uhura can lock me in a closet anytime. 😉
