SilverWook

I think GOTG deserves it's own thread. Who's with me?

Like Star Wars didn't have parallels to the real world in it. ;)

TheBoost said:

SilverWook said:

A Jedi who left the order and lost faith in the Republic had the potential to be an interesting, complex character. Lucas didn't do much with it, and the mystery of whether Dooku was really a bad guy didn't last long.

I wonder if Lee was as peeved with his miniscule screen time in ROTS, as he was being left on the cutting room floor for the theatrical cut of Return Of The King?

 Well, he did only film for like, two hours in ROTS, so at least he wasn't surprised. 

 To set this character up, and then kill him off in the first 15 minutes of the next movie made Dooku seem like a throwaway character. (Almost a bigger waste then Maul, whom fans were nuts about.) I guess action figure sales of an old geezer weren't up to expectations.

Nice to see 35mm still has a pulse in 2014. :)

A Jedi who left the order and lost faith in the Republic had the potential to be an interesting, complex character. Lucas didn't do much with it, and the mystery of whether Dooku was really a bad guy didn't last long.

I wonder if Lee was as peeved with his miniscule screen time in ROTS, as he was being left on the cutting room floor for the theatrical cut of Return Of The King?

Leonardo said:

SilverWook said:

Mike O said:

Fuji are dead and Kodak will be by the end of the year. 

 Odd, as I see more 35mm film for sale in drugstores and the like than I did a year ago.

Should I hoard as much as I can, and store it in the fridge?

 Shit, you just reminded me, I have two (already out of date before I put them in the camera) rolls of film still to develop!

I sure hope something shows up!

 There was an old Kodak instamatic camera with a half shot cartridge in it sitting in a drawer in my family's house for years. I was wondering if it could possibly be developed. (No idea who or what might be on it.) Either the black hole swallowed it, or my parents tossed it at some point in the last decade, because I can't find it now. I undertook cleaning out the drawers this past spring, and it was like an archeological dig.

A third party took up manufacturing Polaroid film both modern and vintage, (alas it's not cheap) so I don't think 35mm is going to vanish.

^Yes.

Airplane II: The Sequel.

I can name two movies with talking raccoons in them, and one is an old Disney live action film. ;)

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/08/08/give-jaxxon-his-own-star-wars-spin-off-2174094

If only this could happen! ;)

Not even for a Scooby Snack? ;)

^Yeah, I've been debating warning people about that. I almost bolted from the theater when I saw the Planet of the Apes reboot a couple years back. The caregiver scenes with John Lithgow's character poked at wounds that were still pretty raw. I even had problems with the death of a character in Trek 2009 when my wounds were still gushing, but I still saw the movie about three times.

I weathered the GOTG opening scene a lot better than I thought I would.

There was a Christopher Lee horror flick I saw on tv in the 70's the title of which eluded me until TCM ran it one Halloween a few years back. All I was able to recall of it for years was a castle full of people being turned into statues by a mad scientist fellow.

As for GOTG itself. You'll believe a raccoon can cry. I loved it, and bought the soundtrack same day I saw it. (Nobody told me there was a two disc version with the score though!) See it in IMAX 3D if you can.

Four out of four spherical galactic Macguffins.

"I regret nothing!" ;)

Clive Revill is still around, according to the IMDB. His last credit was from 2012 though.

Another interesting bit of ILM film up for auction. The original ESB emperor, with a bit of camera slate apparently showing the tv monitor the footage was rephotographed off of to get the hologram look.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Empire-Strikes-Back-EMPEROR-FILM-ELEMENTS-Lucas-Director-Slate-1980-Film-Clips-/171395850849?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27e7fd2261

Well, since this thread has been revived, here's the Krampus and that Claus fellow.

You want to tell him he's got a stupid name? ;)

Anakin was already walking down Dark Side Road, so finding out Palpatine was a Sith Lord a little bit early probably wasn't going to make much of a difference.

Palpatine already has his hooks into Anakin. He could just as easily manipulate him from a prison cell.

Ah, Elite Force. I really need to reinstall that. Even more fun with all the mods and custom levels I had downloaded.

BTW, shooting your fellow crewmembers is a fast ticket to the Brig without cheat codes. It's more fun to randomly spawn Borg and let them go to town. ;)

What else can Vader say to Luke to tempt him? Come to the dark side, and I'll buy you a puppy? ;)

How Luke doesn't go nuts with Vader Force messaging him all the time is a miracle. I don't think Yoda taught him the Jedi voicemail trick.

IIRC, wasn't it debated around here whether Vader's lines in that were a recent addition to make that unfinished scene more complete?

Possibly he was in shock from losing his hands and being betrayed.

And would the guy whose arm you lopped off in the last movie believe you anyway?

Once again, Cracked misses the boat. The DS is the size of a small moon, not the size of our moon.

I can't be the only one who has this recurring nightmare. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDFJVUaXUI

Mike O said:

Fuji are dead and Kodak will be by the end of the year. 

 Odd, as I see more 35mm film for sale in drugstores and the like than I did a year ago.

Should I hoard as much as I can, and store it in the fridge?

You should have asked me. I've known about that flick since college. ;)

If it had a theatrical release, I'd be surprised though. Rick Baker's makeup work was superb. I actually came across it being broadcast on a Spanish channel a year or two back.

IIRC, it was made by people better known for making nature documentaries, hence all the animal footage.

There was a Laserdisc released in Japan, but I've never come across a copy.

TV's Frink said:

SilverWook said:

Tobar said:

Bingowings said:

I think 1998's Godzilla is meant to be more like King Kong.

Essentially the creature is a victim. It's biology has been screwed up by what mankind has done to the environment, it staggers around Manhattan in more in confusion than malice. Being shot at by little pink things (mostly) in metal flying things and then it's children are killed.

 GODZILLA (1998) is a remake of THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953) in all but name only.

After atomic testing, fishing boats mysteriously start to disappear and in a pattern that leads toward New York City.

Soon after a giant creature emerges on a Manhattan dock and proceeds to raise havoc and destruction as it wanders the streets.

The creature disappears and the army decides to lure it out by dumping an enormous pile of fish in the middle of the street. The lure works but they fail in their attempt to destroy the creature.

Later on the army is finally successful in killing the beast and it dies in a tangle of collapsing infrastructure.

Now, as an ode to the classic American monster movie I'm quite fond of it.

HOWEVER, as an american attempt on the Kaiju genre, let alone Godzilla, it's an abject failure.

 Seems like a good time to mention this is happening in theaters on the 14th. ;)

http://www.rifftrax.com/godzilla

 They showed a brief preview (test run?) during Sharknado live.  Looks fun, but I can't imagine it would be more fun than Sharknado.

 I've only ever been able to endure the entire movie once, so this is the only way to get me to watch it again. ;)

Can't wait to see what they do to the Mayor and his aide, who were thinly veiled caricatures of film critics Siskel and Ebert.