I despise critics who give away the plot. And what a bitchy review! Pun not intended.
200 pages and 5000 (and one) posts! Congrats Frink! :)
It was the 10th anniversary poster, so most fans probably knew how it ends by then. ;)
This late '83 poster for the film does give it away more blatantly though.
JEDIT: What the heck is Artoo doing to Threepio! O_O
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Ever accidentally go over the hidden electronic boundaries supermarkets have on their carts that makes them lock up? Imagine that happening, only with exploding Imperials or prisoners.
How would you set the proper range? If something happens to your base ship and you can't get back, you blow up?
I think the potential for the Rebellion to figure out a way to blow up every Imperial officer throughout the galaxy by hacking the system, would outweigh the smaller risk of defections.
What, no Laserdisc version? ;)
Wow, RowMan! I don't think I've seen you around in a long time. Where have you been hiding? :)
Poita, clear out your inbox, again! ;)
The character who ultimately became Yaddle apparently started out as concept art for a younger Yoda...
And she(!) remains a puppet in the current version of the film.
Thanks for the heads up, and welcome to the boards. You mean Sept. 8th of course. ;)
IIRC, the last two times TCM ran THX, it was the 2004 version. Can anyone record it, just in case?
DuracellEnergizer said:
Ah, Thunderbirds ... I haven't seen a single episode of that show since the '90s. Didn't that show have a bald villain who could hypnotize people with his eyes? That always used to creep me out.
Pleasant dreams! ;)
They built a totally new puppet, with silicone skin instead of latex. Attempting to make Yoda look younger is where things went south.
Mostly harmless?
Depends greatly on one's point of view. Mine is you don't digitally chop a dead Shakespearean actor's head off 22 years later, and replace it with someone else. ;)
Gael said:
generalfrevious said:
TV's Frink said:
Darth Zannah said:
I wouldn't worry about it...nothing can be worst than PM and AOTC...EVER
I've gotten plenty of PMs that were better than ROTS.
To be fair, most of us thought before seeing Episode I that George Lucas couldn't make anything worse than Howard the Duck.
I had totally forgotten about the existance of Howard the Duck, until now! (and was a better person for it!)
He's never been totally gone from the comics all these years, (a new HTD solo book was launched in 2015) and Howard even had a cameo in a certain blockbuster Marvel flick last summer...
generalfrevious said:
SilverWook said:
Lucas did not direct Howard.
But he produced the film, Willard Hyuck and Gloria Katz were involved with American Graffiti and Temple Of Doom, and it was a passion project of his (even before Star Wars), so it is 100% a George Lucas film.
I've read different accounts that he only stepped in as producer to help Hyuck and Katz out. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Anyway, if it been produced by say, Samuel L. Bronkowitz, the reaction would have not been so harsh.
So, a wretched hive of scum and villainy then? ;)
Lucas would have cast a youthful actor as Anakin in ROTJ, if he actually had that concept back in 1982. He cast someone in his late 70's instead.
It wouldn't have been any harder to make a younger actor look older as well as scarred when the helmet came off.
Hard to say, since Kubrick didn't live to see DVD become the dominant video format.
He might not have wanted some of the behind the scenes materials that have appeared in the traveling exhibit to pull back the curtain on his techniques either.
The films have been released twice on Blu Ray so far, so Warner's is going to want to have something big for the inevitable anniversary editions.
Kubrick allowed the longer U.S. cut of The Shining to remain available long after he cut the film down to two hours for it's European release.
Lucas did not direct Howard.
Most numbers seen or spoken in movies and tv have the fictional 555 prefix, so people don't get weirdos calling them up. Of course, if your number is similar to a certain hit 1980's song. you're screwed. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo
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Can we please keep the thread safe for work? This isn't off topic. Thanks!
Akton said:
SilverWook said:
I actually got the finger as a present back in 1982. I blame the complete lack of Dark Crystal toys on the market for this. At least it was more screen accurate than some of the other E.T. toys back then. The official plush toys were hideous.
And apparently somebody thought it would be a good idea to revisit this with the whole hand!
I blame my nearly life-long, deep-seated hatred of yappy little dogs on my exposure to this thing on the silver screen at the tender age of four.
Anyone who doesn't love Fizzgig is clearly a Skeksis sympathizer. At least he's housebroken! ;)
I don't think that has any relation to SOTS at all.
