SilverWook

Anchorhead said:

SilverWook said:

Wish we had Alamo around here, they continue to sound awesome.

And yes, Yoda was supposed to have a pet snake. Wonder if he ever had a name?

Now that I think about it, I remember Luke moving it away from the stew pot.

One more Alamo deal. They have a pretty extensive menu and serve during the film. Each seat has a small table. For Star Wars, they had a themed menu and this menu card was on each table. Kept mine.

Wookiees are vegans? I guess they forgot that scene in Jedi where Chewie takes the Ewok bait. The less said about the makeup crew putting eyes and teeth on what appears to be a roadkill deer butt the better. 😉

It could always be a hologram recording. Especially if he thought he might not come back from confronting Kylo.

Maybe Han’s death was an illusion? He could have landed on something soft. 😉

imperialscum said:

SilverWook said:

It would be an interesting experiment for someone who has never seen the OT to watch TFA.

It would most likely ruin his Star Wars experience. I would feel guilty simply if I did not try to convince a friend to watch OT first, let alone purposely do some “interesting experiments”.

Someone is bound to drag their non fan boyfriend/girlfriend or relative to see it. You’d have to be living in a cave not to be slightly familiar with the basics of Star Wars. There’s hardly anyone who doesn’t know of Darth Vader or what a stormtrooper is.

And lest we forget, the original film dropped us into the middle of a conflict we knew little about.

It would be an interesting experiment for someone who has never seen the OT to watch TFA.

TV’s Frink said:

Incidentally, for those who saw it in 3D, what did you think of the 3D? It seems to me that conversions have come a long way, and that this made for a really enjoyable 3D experience.

Having said that, I’m also looking forward to watching it in 2D this coming weekend.

There were issues I had at my theater. The little floor lights at the end of each aisle were like cell phones flaring into my peripheral vision outside the edges of the glasses. (I thought it was some jerk checking their phone as I was trying to watch the movie and not look away.) Annoying as hell. I suppose there are safety concerns preventing them from dimming those things during the movie.

The downside of a slightly older theater converted to stadium seating is people’s heads can cast shadows on the screen when they get up. The push button recliners were a new experience to me, and pretty nice. Took a while to find the button though. 😉

Anchorhead said:

I got to the theater about 30 minutes early. As usual with Alamo Drafthouse, the pre-film adds and such are tailored to the feature. In this case it was a bunch of old Kenner toy adds from the late 70s/early 80s. Crazy what a cultural phenomenon it’s been for so long. One was for the toy Yoda Is Your Father has as his avatar. I never did understand that snake part.

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Here it is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YSe8szgi9zo

Wish we had Alamo around here, they continue to sound awesome.

And yes, Yoda was supposed to have a pet snake. Wonder if he ever had a name?

Possessed said:

I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Other than one or two instances of what I would describe as ‘trendy’ humor (none of which are bad, annoying, or immature… They just sort of feel out of place in star wars where everything is timeless. But they work and are in no way bad) from fin, it’s amazing.

Those 70’s hairdos in Star Wars have aged pretty well. I was disappointed we didn’t see any First Order guys rocking with sideburns. 😉

I know it’s difficult to separate two films plot joined at the hip, but for the benefit of others trying to remain spoiler free, keep Episode VIII speculations and rumors in their own thread whenever possible.

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Episode-VIII-Discussion-SPOILER-THREAD/id/18125

I know it’s difficult to separate two films plot joined at the hip, but for the benefit of others trying to remain spoiler free, keep Episode VIII speculations and rumors in their own thread whenever possible.

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Episode-VIII-Discussion-SPOILER-THREAD/id/18125

And yes, this old Wook liked it. It was much better than Cats. 😉

Thursday was just a mess of stress and things going wrong almost up until I left for the theater. (That some idiots elsewhere spoiled Han’s death the night before didn’t help any.) I will be much more relaxed next time around. And I want to see it in 70mm Imax eventually. Who knows if that will even be an option in a few more years?

There was a line about Luke looking for an ancient Jedi temple or something. Wormie had a plan, we just won’t know what it is until 2017.

If that was Coruscant that blew up, they forgot the ever present air traffic it had in the prequels. At least I didn’t see any.

Actually, it’s space opera. 😉

You’re thinking specifically of The Dam Busters, released in 1955. Peter Jackson has been planning a remake for a while.

Did he like your pancakes?

The next time you wince or groan over certain character names in the prequels, check out these character names from the 1925 silent version of The Wizard of Oz. 😉
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016544/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Lady Vishuss

Prince Kynd

Prime Minister Kruel

Ambassador Wikked

BTW, this movie is seriously messed up, and bears little resemblance to the book. (I also suspect drugs were involved.) It must have been mercifully forgotten about when MGM decided to make the 1939 film we all know and love.

As we just had our first TFA bootleg spammer, I’d like to emphasize if you see such postings, report them to the mods immediately. And don’t click on any links in such posts, as they could be dangerous to your computer. Thanks!

Special note. Please refrain linking to TFA clips of any camcorder theater bootlegs or anything else legally suspect. We really don’t know what the new Mouse Overlords might do, and we’d rather not find out. Thanks!

Well, blowing up and upscaling nearly 40 year old SD video to 16:9 HD must really look like crap! Where’s Jim’s ghost to knock some sense into these people!

As Ma Otter likes to say, “I’d really appreciate it if you’d…fall off the dock!”

This was my Mom’s favorite Christmas special too. : (

A lot can happen in 30 years.

I must admit I thought Carrie’s voice sounded odd. She sounded more like Leia when she did Robot Chicken, but that was five years ago.

Hope you have a good time Warbler! 😃

Not to sure we should have links to clips from an obvious bootleg. And holy hell that was quick if the whole movie is out there already.

Someone at Lucasfilm or Bad Robot has clearly been taking notes about fanediting around here. 😉

I like this idea!

TK-949 said:

Don’t love it. But I really, really, really like it. I won’t go into detail, because everything I could say has been said before and better.

I think a lot of questions that came up with this movie will be answered in the next one. Rey’s vision for example. The first thing that happens when she touches the lightsaber is, she finds herself in the Cloud City corridor where Luke and Vader duel when Luke reenters the building after being thrown out of the window. It isn’t her past or her future, or is it? Is she Lukes offspring?

http://www.yodaquotes.net/through-the-force-things-you-will-see-other-places-the-future-the-past-old-friends-long-gone/

There very well could be a psychological aspect to putting on the mask. And Kylo hero worships Vader, not Anakin.

I think they did, but had to drop out to make repairs? Then Han finds them.