In all fairness, "Queen" doesn't even mean a monarch on Naboo, it's a political title in this crazy universe. And Padme isn't the Queen anymore in AOTC.
Han often calls Luke "kid".
There is a duck reference in the original SW novelization.
I haven’t done much collecting in a long time, but I think this stuff is a tad overpriced. 😉
Tyrphanax said:
SilverWook said:
It was probably too soon for a movie to have another giant mine set.
Yeah. I actually looked into just to see if there was any reuse going on, haha. Obviously not, but still, the layout felt so similar.
I would think they would be almost a year apart production wise, and Indy's mine set was at Elstree?
It's entirely possible they had similar crews building the sets. Some set crew transitioned from The Empire Strikes Back to Flash Gordon, and the Arboria swamp looks a bit like Dagobah.
I enjoyed AVTAK a lot more revisiting it on the UE DVD. I think my initial negative reaction to it all those years ago was, "You killed Steed! You bastards!" Honor Blackman is the only Avengers alum to make it out of a Bond movie alive. ;)
It was probably too soon for a movie to have another giant mine set.
I've also noticed the site hanging up while waiting on "doubleverify.com" to respond.
Speaking of "comedies", is the Detours series dead post Disney deal? Haven't heard anything about it lately.
Sluggo said:
SilverWook said:There's a behind the scenes photo of the original Emperor hologram being shot, but I can't recall where I saw it recently.
There is this:
Lancelot Link! ;)
Seriously though, I haven't seen that one before. The other one I saw was the person wearing the actual makeup and the hood.
LexX said:
SilverWook said:
msycamore said:
The old Sluggo is back!
Sorry if I take this further off topic but they also effectively recycled parts in the cantina for the bounty hunter IG-88. See his head.
Some of the spacesuits seen in the cantina are somewhat recycled too. ;)
What movie is that?
First Men in the Moon, released in 1964. They're real high altitude pressure suits and they've had an interesting history on screen!
http://sayhellospaceman.blogspot.com/2010/12/doctor-who-and-wheel-in-space-1968.html
There's a guy who was lucky enough to find an old USAF high altitude suit that was actually yellow, and used it to make an award winning Bossk costume.
BmB said:
There is a glimmer of hope for the SW-only guys here, I hear a new comic is coming out that disregards everything after SW, including ESB.
Can't remember when or what it's called.
Sounds like a throwback to the good old days. ;)
Hopefully, without the list of "no-no's" Marvel labored under.
msycamore said:
The old Sluggo is back!
Sorry if I take this further off topic but they also effectively recycled parts in the cantina for the bounty hunter IG-88. See his head.
Some of the spacesuits seen in the cantina are somewhat recycled too. ;)
Humby said:
msycamore said:
Humby said:
Clive Revill was the original emperor in ESB (along with prosthetics and some superimposed monkey features).
Clive Revill provided the voice but it was makeup artist Rick Baker's then wife Elaine Baker who portrayed him with these prosthetics:
Oops! Looks like I too stand corrected. That's pretty interesting stuff, I've never seen those pics before. Cool!
There's a behind the scenes photo of the original Emperor hologram being shot, but I can't recall where I saw it recently.
I think the prequels are a small price to pay for all the laughter Frink's edits have brought me. ;)
As for Jedi, like any movie, perceptions and popular opinions can vary over time. None of us are at the same point in our lives as when we first saw it. (Even those who only saw the SE.) The flaws I see in it today will never take away from the memories and joy of seeing it on opening day.
I can only hope I get to experience half that much joy one more time in a few years.
Even a "third rate" Star Wars film is better than a lot of other films that one could name. How many other flicks from 1983 are still being hotly debated today?
bkev said:
Michael Caine? Yes? No?
Was disappointed in Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. I guess I just can't see him as evil. Dammit, Trek!
Maybe it's really Picard on the Holodeck? ;)
Too bad TNG never actually did a holiday episode.
If it's just scenes from the movies, they could probably be spliced in from another full frame source?
If this isn't some bad NTSC to PAL conversion, the potential is there to look better than the Japanese LD.
I presume this has a French dubbed soundtrack?
Some of those foreign posters are so bizarre, and yet the Hungarian artist clearly had seen the McQuarrie art, and cribbed it for the X-Wing making the trench run.
I wonder what the trailers were like?
Neat.
My educated guess is some teaser trailers are tailored to a specific country or market.
You learn something new every day around here. :)
Could you get some screencaps of it? I would guess it's the Jabba scenes that have subtitles?
So, what's up with the hippie Herman Munster avatar cloning?
Easy to forget Gene Roddenberry couldn't sell the first pilot episode, "The Cage" because NBC suits thought it was "too cerebral".
NBC was still impressed enough that they made the unusual decision of ordering a second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", (the one with Mitchell) which Gene made sure was more action oriented.
16mm prints are known to exist, (a university has one) but none seem to have come up for sale anywhere.
I'm more convinced it's Garth now.
If it's Chapel, and she's still into guys with pointy ears, there could be an even bigger fight scene in the movie. ;)
Me too. ;)
Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or does that look like a TOS style starship making a water landing?
Shall we speculate on who the blonde is? Carol Marcus? Janice Rand? Dr. Dehner?
This probably won't be up very long...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP-o_JxysA
Holy...!
Tobar said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Bah! That's not true Stargate! That a piss-poor piece of afterbirth spawned from the belly of a parody series that turned to shit after its fifth season!
Tell us how you really feel.
Scrooged (1988)
So I realized today that it had been a while since I sat down to watch a movie. For whatever reason, I picked Scrooged. I'd only seen one scene of the film before and was not prepared at all for that opening. The film was filled with lots of surprises like that, Danny Elfman...Karen Allen... It felt very uneven, including an adaption of A Christmas Carol in the middle of it contributes a lot to that. Definitely not one of Bill Murray's best. It's...passable.
I dare anyone not to laugh at "The Night The Reindeer Died". That should have been a real tv movie. ;)
As far as unusual takes on A Christmas Carol go, it's one of the best. And there have been several of those over the decades.
My fondest memory of seeing this in a theater was the Batman trailer in front of it. There was no title screen, just the stylized Bat logo. As the trailer ended, these two ladies a row or two in front me exclaimed, "What's the name of the movie?" >_<
