SilverWook

Yes, but the real Jaxxon looks over my shoulder at the most inopportune times and sees this stuff. ;)

Yes, but the Lepus Carnivorous came first.

Jaxxon...not Bucky...

What bugs me is even CNN looks to TMZ as a source these days. TMZ isn't much better than the sleazy tabloids of the past, except you can't line a birdcage with them.

IIRC, there is mention in Once Upon a Galaxy of a gossip reporter conning their way onto the Empire set to interview Carrie, They were more interested in digging dirt on her mom than asking anything about the movie.

Once the movie gets underway, there were probably be paparazzi under every manhole cover, and people diving through Disney's dumpsters in the dead of night. Mr. Abrams will have his work cut out for him keeping the same veil of secrecy over the film he's managed to do with the Star Trek sequel.

Mrebo said:

Jack the Giant Slayer

It was great fun. A healthy number of scenes obviously made with 3-D in mind (I saw it in 2-D). All the characters were the flattest of archetypes but it didn't matter. The Princess Bride came to mind in terms of story-telling, superficially the framing, and obvious silly tone (though it didn't have the quality of characters and wit). There were definitely laugh-worthy moments. The CGI was decent, it worked for the movie. The end of the movie felt a touch too contrived but could set things up for a contrived sequel ;0 All in all I would highly recommend it. Just old-fashioned fun.

I also got around to seeing Seven Samurai. It was entertaining. Some of you have recommended it as a model for a Star Wars movie, but I'm afraid I'm lacking in imagination. However, Kikuchiyo reminded me of Anakin - with occasional flare-ups of Jar-Jar.

The Star Wars/Kurosawa connection is more obvious in some of his other samurai films like The Hidden Fortress. My favorite storyline in the old Marvel comic is unabashedly a Seven Samurai homage...

Did Ewan have any lines in JTGS that would be of use in fan edits?

georgec said:

LOL I was kidding about the meds. Perhaps it's time to incorporate more smileys and winkies into my posting repertoire.

No problem! I get annoyed with the TMZization of celebrity news coverage these days though.

Slightly before my time. It's still not to late to pick an official date and throw a party.

If one goes by the stats at the bottom of the main page, the first message posted to the board was in December 2003.

"Valuable First Issue!" If you don't cut out the X-Wing that is. ;)

bkev said:

That was one of the first NES games I ever played. When my cousins got a playstation, their NES got passed on to one of my aunts -- presumably my other relation did that in the interest of not spoiling his kids, I suppose. I couldn't have been more than five when I found this out and promptly begged and pleaded with them to pull it out. They did, and it was wonderful. Years later, she shipped it to me as a Christmas present - twenty or so games and all. I was one happy fifth grader in 2003 (put the year just to make you guys feel old, by the way.)

I later got some experience with the arcade version, of course. It can't hold a candle to the NES version for me though. Despite the downgrade in graphics, the extra levels help with the variety. Oh, and also, your health drains way too fast in the arcade. It was a coin muncher, all right. At least the Simpsons game felt fair!

I played it back in the day at various locations, and some unscrupulous owners would set the difficulty levels way too high. Playing with three other people was a total blast though!

Disney would say something either way? A "we can neither confirm or deny" at least?

And Carrie is just fine when she takes her meds. Easy to forget on cruise ship.

IIRC, the Dark Horse comics adaptation didn't tweak things too much. There really isn't anything contradictory except for the first encounter with Vader. Mythology is chock full of siblings who don't know they're related. ;)

If Disney starts looking for story material to adapt, this would be a good place to start. I worry they would make it less dark than the novel though. Vader making bookends out of Captain Grammel was pretty shocking.

I've often thought Frances Sternhagen, who played the doctor in Outland would make a splendid Halla. The Dark Horse version even looks like her.

Glad to see he's happy. And it looks like some Star Wars artifacts will be in the mix.

Still waiting for those experimental films he's been talking about making for the past three decades now. ;)

Anybody else chuckle over the Padme clip from Episode One on account of Frink?

Interesting. For an abandoned scene there was certainly enough to salvage for the SE. Pity we'll probably never get a complete sequence with human Jabba to compare.

What gets weird is the workprint version of the cantina scene has different Greedo dialog, (as spoken on set) yet the Marvel comic is closer to the final film version. Could they have gone back to an earlier script draft when it came down to creating Greedo's english subtitles in post production?

I presume they don't have the vintage ads and the letters page? Fan reactions back then were pretty interesting. ;)

I don't know if the omnibus has the same coloring. Been meaning to get those as I'm afraid to handle my old Marvels too much these days.

Amen brother! ;)

Dark Horse had the gall to recolor these for their 90's reprints. The color scheme was drab beyond belief.

Yet, the dialog plays out essentially the same in Star Wars #2. All the Marvel guys had was the script, some still photos and concept art.

IIRC, the radio drama invented a reason why Threepio was so annoying in ESB.

In hindsight, Empire is nowhere near as dark as say, Episode III. The fun is still there if you look for it. The audience was three years older, and a lot of imitators had come and gone in that period.

The pressure was on the filmmakers to deliver a story that built on the first, but not rehash it as many sequels to other 70's blockbusters ultimately did.  That's a trap that even Jedi arguably falls into at times.

Not real, but I like it!

The Jabba and Greedo scenes were both in the script, there never was a Plan B scenario. Both made it into the Marvel comics adaptation, which was in the can before anyone saw the finished film.

The whole reason for the original human Jabba being cut has been murky since 1983, when that pesky storyboard of uncertain vintage appeared in the Making of a Saga documentary.

Frink, do you plan on putting it up on your regular Vimeo page eventually? It's a little weird watching it play in a window within a window.

I'll take Titan A.E. over non Frink Episode One any day of the week. (The trailer actually ran in front of TPM.) I liked it so much, I even have the Laserdisc. Fox really needs to get this out on Blu Ray.

The suits really screwed over all the people who relocated to Arizona to make the movie though. They shut the animation studio down after the film's failure at the box office.

I had a lead on another print, but it was a rental. (Which is mind boggling there would even be a market for that now.) The owner does sell off prints, but I fear making inquiries at this point would only inflate the price.

Batman has been at both ends of the spectrum in his long history. There were doubts in some corners the public would even accept a dark and gritty version in 1989, because most people thought of the 60's tv show more than the comic at the time. (Non comic fans were mostly oblivious to then recent gritty Miller version.) There's room for a "serious" dark knight and a lighthearted one.

Old school Mission Impossible fans were dismayed by the Tom Cruise film, but were not as visible to the media as Trek fans. There was a clueless MTV reporter at the premiere who incurred the wrath of Martin Landau.

If you're unhappy with the current iteration of a old tv show or character, the old versions are still around to be enjoyed.