Supposed to be some BTS footage or something on Disney XD this weekend. Watched most of the Rebels marathon yesterday, but didn't see anything.
It's still playing in 2D at my local bargain cinema, but I don't think they would appreciate my taking screenshots with my phone. ;)
Speaking of ol' Smaug. He did some press for the movie. ;)
http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/
And in case that doesn't work, since I know people outside the states can get blocked from the videos...
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrTcdsOgYtUZecA0.gPxQt.?p=Colbert++smaug&fr=&fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
walking_carpet said:
adywan said:
GlastoEls said:
Disney does not want what just happened.
Boos for Greedo. Muttering at Jedi Rocks. But the ENTIRE theatre yelling and jeering Hayden SO loudly...
Oh, i wish someone could have recorded that
The horrendous re-cut that mixes vader going to a star destroyer (alert my star destroyer, blah, blah, blah) in ESB is horrible too. did the crowd boo at that? people always say ESB had the least changes, but that one is one of the worst
It is, but as it's mostly an editorial change, (cobbled together more from stock footage than new FX) it does slip by a lot of people.
The James Earl Jones impersonator with a bad head cold really sticks in my craw.
You could always get a fake internet girlfriend like Manti Te'o did. ;)
Another thought. The rogue senator who pulls a Max Headroom during official Imperial broadcasts looks amazingly like David Niven. It can't be a coincidence?
My cable company added a bunch of channels this week, (or finally unscrambled them) and it's taking a while to figure out what's what. I tend to leave the tv on when I'm out, (just to keep the illusion someone might be home) and rushed off while a PG rated film was playing. What I didn't know was that channel was Cinemax, and they still play soft core smut after ten.
It's a damn good thing my curtains were not open! ;)
I know I'm really late to the party on this. My cable company inexplicably added Disney XD and a lot of other channels a few days ago, so I was able to watch the marathon this weekend. (Alas in SD, and sometimes not even letterboxed.) This show is a lot of fun! Seeing background aliens and vehicles right out of the Kenner toy line just makes me smile. Not to mention the Star Tours references.
The prequel references are subtle. Little things like a clone trooper helmet sitting behind a bar is how you acknowledge them without hitting viewers over the head. The abandoned Clone Wars era base with it's derelict vehicles was cool too.
Speaking of that cantina, Imp propaganda running on the viewscreen has got to be a Holiday Special reference. ;)
The only nit I can pick is most of the Imperial officers so far are really too far into being two dimensional mustache twirling dastards. It's a bit jarring after TCW, and it's many shades of gray. And what is up with the one's who look more like the undead?
Disney could have really neutered this, so it's refreshing to see Stormies getting it, sometimes even at point blank range. The potential for this show to get darker later on is certainly there. Dead Jedi as bait is pretty grisly and sad, and Ezra's inadvertent brush with the dark side was handled well.
There is an interesting theory as to the identity of the mysterious Fulcrum. (Someone has played around with the voice to remove the distortion.) I won't spoil it here.
And Chopper is such a little bastard! ;)
Why isn't there a standalone BD player that can play 3D discs back in 2d? Would solve a lot of problems.
There's no accounting for taste, or an audience knowing what version of a film is actually being shown. ;)
I doubt Stuart Baird watched any TNG episodes at all before making Nemesis.
He has directed a lot of episodic television. I didn't like the live action Thunderbirds, but it was well made from a technical standpoint.
And we already had a Trek film with a director who was allegedly so unfamiliar with Trek, they thought Geordi was an alien! ;)
I'd like to see Frakes get the gig. He's qualified, and seeing all the online naysayers eat a super size serving of crow would be sweet as well. ;)
adywan said:
GlastoEls said:
Disney does not want what just happened.
Boos for Greedo. Muttering at Jedi Rocks. But the ENTIRE theatre yelling and jeering Hayden SO loudly...
Oh, i wish someone could have recorded that
Let's hope some Disney people were in attendance and taking notes.
I'm betting this little droid will inspire someone at NASA. :)
Ryan McAvoy said:
SilverWook said:
Hasbro has been using Saga Legends since before Lucasfilm applied a new meaning to Legends.
Spoilsport! ;-) It still gave me a little chuckle while I did my shopping.
Isn't that the new post-Disney-aquisition packaging though? Did Hasbro not get the new "Legends" message then?
Saga Legends is the 2013 line. The Legends announcement didn't happen until earlier this year? The current line is skewed more towards Rebels now.
adywan said:
So the ball droid (BB-8) isn't CG, but a real prop , as confirmed by Mark Hamill. In bet the whiners on the net that were saying the ball droid was "bad Cg" are going to be a little butthurt about this one ;)
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/mark-hamill-on-playing-with-the-star-wars-the-105015597302.html
Perhaps we have all lowered our expectations a tad as to how these things are done. ;)
Hasbro has been using Saga Legends since before Lucasfilm applied a new meaning to Legends.
Actually, I was looking at the Sinead O'Connor impersonator on the right. ;)
Even Elan Sleazebaggano? ;)
And holy crap, I didn't realize the guy who played him was Mouse in The Matrix!
No, it's not from the Kenobi movie. ;)
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/69760
Since Sir Alec's Obi Wan was once interpreted by some as being a Christ like figure, Ewan playing Jesus is kind of interesting.
I thought that name sounded familiar!
NeverarGreat said:
- John Boyega is Finn
The first thing to enter my head...
Darth Id said:
walking_carpet said:
chyron8472 said:
...everything you could every want to know about what this flick did in 1977 ...this poster has it.
Yeah! Scoop necklines, lotsa gams, and pecs pecs pecs 'til next Tuesday!
...oh wait, Star Wars had none of those things.
Sorry but that poster is utter crap. The real classic was the one with Luke pointing the blaster at the viewer, surrounded by the other characters. The one above is the square-peg-round-hole weird incongruous exploitation misstep.
That happens to be the poster fans of my generation first saw, and was most closely associated with the film for most of it's original run. Even Kenner used it's imagery. It's an idealized, stylized representation of our heroes, (quite common in classic movie posters of the day) something even I understood in 1977.
And I doubt Mark or Carrie are complaining. ;)
Glad it's nothing serious then.
