SilverWook

That wasn't some keen insight on Mitt's part. Keeping the Cold War on life support helped justify spending huge amounts of money on stuff we didn't need anymore. I saw a story recently on how the Army has more tanks than it needs, and more are being cranked out to keep a factory open. (That way the politicians can crow they saved jobs.) Not to mention surplus aircraft that go from the factory straight to the boneyard.

Deep down, some politicians are grinning like a cheshire cat at all of this. Nobody will question defense budgets, or talk cutbacks for a long time. Because, the Russkies are back! ;)

Hosting the Olympics, then invading a neighboring country. Sounds familiar...

The "Evil Empire" has returned. The one 80's flashback nobody wanted. :/

I never got the impression Mark wanted to stay away from Luke completely. He spoofed himself on The Simpsons, performing in dinner theater dressed as Luke. And he's done Luke many times on Robot Chicken in recent years.

One could argue his character in the Wing Commander games is a more gritty take on Luke as well.

If he ever resented Luke, he's clearly made peace with it a long time ago.

That "texture" is a freshly painted closet door in my house. The only room with enough space to set up the projector, because it's empty.

The GP rating was long defunct by 1978, so pretty sure this is an original. The '78 trailer msycamore found sometime back fully exploited the Star Wars connection.

Are we sure that hokeyness wasn't Warner's doing?

You haven't seen Oblivion then?

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/THX-1138-preservations-Italian-Cut-available-see-1st-post/post/691439/#TopicPost691439

Do try and keep up. ;)

That's unfortunate, as it's the venue that recently showed a 1970's print of THX 1138.

Hehe, I still want Frink to put one of the Thunderbirds in the cockpit of the fireships in ROTR. ;)

Definitely want Col. Deering in there. And The Last Starfighter would be perfect!

Sorry about that. This kind of thing never happened when I shot on Super VHS. But that was when format standards actually meant something. What a pisser!

He does look like a rebel pilot in that shot.

Perhaps there are characters in other SF movies/tv that Frink does like that could be edited in as rebel pilots?

They did send Slimer inside the grid once in the cartoon, so perhaps it's for research? This is the scientist who tried to drill into his own skull we're talking about.

There didn't seem to be any outages over night.

You really ought to check out Phantasm Oblivion sometime. It gets a bit into Doctor Who territory. ;)

DuracellEnergizer said:

Maybe he plays the armour of Darth Vader, possessed by the spirit of a long-dead Dark Lord who was imprisoned within the armour when it was built and reawakened when Luke cremated Vader on Endor.

 As long as he's not playing the glove of Darth Vader. ;)

http://www.theforce.net/books/reviews/r_glove.asp

This was attached to a different spot, but this is presumably what the GP card looked like when THX was released.

Which tends to be Ebay speak for the seller changed their mind about selling. ;)

Used to be you could make corrections without interrupting the auction.

Doctor M said:

I realized the guide needs a small update.  Apparently the 3D version of Chicken Little is inexplicably poor, which should be mentioned.

I know I haven't given comment to the recent Jungle Book (which seems to be as poor as expected).

Anyone have any other updates they want added or that I've missed?

Btw, just re-watched Chicken Little for the first time in 8 years and was shocked to find it enjoyable.  That wasn't my experience the first time.  No idea why, but it was worth a second look.

 I think when it came out, it was put down mostly for not being a Pixar movie. This was when Pixar was close to the end of it's original deal with Disney, and the mouse was even going to make a Toy Story sequel of their own.

My Mom was actually the one that got me to watch it, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Maybe it was a ILM crew member sending a secret message? There is a precedent for it...

^ I'm always impressed with what Don Coscarelli does on a tiny budget. And I busted a gut at one of the title character's subtitled insults.

Still crossing my fingers another Phantasm installment actually happens. Angus Scrimm isn't getting any younger!

Glad it wasn't anything sinister. Thanks Jay. :)

I thought DV camcorders all used the same codec? It's straight off the tape...

It's a Panasonic PV-GS400.

It's Snake Plissken in his war hero days! ;)

Did we need to know Han's history in order to like him? The original film gave us all we really needed to know.

Look what happened with Boba Fett. Sometimes, less is more. ;)