Why does that sound like the name of a pron site? đ
I like Dark Star. Itâs the flip side of 2001: A Space Odyssey. For a USC student film blown up into a feature, itâs amazing. And it planted the seed that became Alien. With all the John Carpenter remakes in recent years, Iâm amazed this one hasnât been remade yet. A remake would probably never have the low budget charm or inventiveness of the original though.
Studios could get weird where title sequences on widescreen movies are concerned when they reached home video. Squeeze the original so no text gets cut off, but make the actors look thin, or use a textless version intended for making foreign release prints with no thought to matching the style of the theatrical titles. I know on my old pan and scan Raiders Of The Lost Ark LD you can tell itâs video generated text over the opening footage, which doesnât look like the original theatrical lettering.
In the rare instances a title sequence was letterboxed in early home video or on tv, artwork would be used to conceal the black bars.
Maurice Binder got so fed up with seeing his intricate James Bond title sequences get mangled on tv, that he would create separate 4:3 versions in the Roger Moore era.
Canât say Iâve heard of that. The one Iâm thinking of might have been an award show of some kind. The cantina guys were a backdrop for people presenting something or other during the whole thing. I thought it might be that Science Fiction Film awards show where Shatner infamously sang Rocket Man, but that was 1978, so too early for Gigerâs Big Chap to be in attendance.
JEDIT:Okay, I have seen Starstruck on youtube, but I doubt I actually saw it back in the day. In any case itâs not the tv show weâre looking for.
And it isnât the sci-fi comedy series Quark, either. đ
I love that sketch. I bought the Richard Pryor Show on DVD just to get that.
Yeah, there is more than one patron wearing a POTA costume. Those were probably borrowed/rented from Foxâs costume dept.
A lot of the Cantina Aliens were only partial creations for the insert shots in Star Wars. Even Muftak is wearing pants here, as the original suit ended below the waist.
Iâm betting the tentacle monster came from a Sid and Marty Kroftt tv show like The Lost Saucer, or Far Out Space Nuts (both 1975), which interestingly enough was shooting a alien bar scene on the Fox lot when George visited the set! It sucks that itâs never been released on DVD.
Iâve racked my brains for years trying to recall what I think was a one off tv special, that had an even larger grouping of the Cantina guys, plus what looked like the suit from Alien! That would place it around late 1979 or early 1980.
Looks well good⌠My favourite was always epcot over disneyland and the world showcase. But this has a lot of potential.
Wonder if George will put his museum here?
The museum is going to be built in Los Angeles.
http://lucasmuseum.org/
Or maybe Lucasfilm still had the insert sets lying around?
Would the drunk driving PSA have been shot around the same time, and utilized the cantina set built for the HS?
https://youtu.be/lxpz3Lp-PCk
The makeup on the bartender seems similar to one of the new characters made for the HS.
This will no doubt come in handy. đ
https://youtu.be/lxpz3Lp-PCk
No blue milk?
Some of those make it look like lost scenes from the movie! Not sure I can handle a hi-res shot of Itchy though. đ
Curious there are no shots of Harrison Ford.
The whole Youngling angle is never really delved into. The Jedi takes kids off to train them, (I presume willingly) and they apparently never see their families again? Or have any contact? Ten years is a long time for Anakin not to have even communicated with his Mother. Oh yeah, they let her remain in slavery! Qui-Gon at least tried to free Shmi.
No wonder Ani was pissed off at the Jedi.
Also itâs a âstraightwashing,â and is leaving out Mercuryâs bisexuality and AIDS problems in order to just be a nice and happy story about a musician.
How can they avoid the thing that caused his death? The most recent trailer certainly hints at Mecuryâs orientation.
Wait, so Anakin doesnât have one of these on his back? đ
Yeah, itâs interesting that such a suit design was handy. I doubt a normal person with such injuries would be stuffed into a metal gargoyle helmet. Iâve always presumed it resembles ancient Sith armor.
I sort of wanted to see Anakin living a double life as a Jedi and as Palpatineâs secret henchman, (mirroring his own double life as Sidious) which would have required the Vader disguise long before he was injured.
I noticed recently Palpatine isnât even trying to hide his face when communicating with the Trade Federation guys after his transformation. Not that Nute and the gang were even capable of connecting the dots. đ
Whatâs hilarious is once Anakin has turned that first moral corner, Palpatine essentially fesses up that he actually doesnât know how to keep Padme from dying.
But Anakin keeps on Sithing with the vague B.S. promise from Palpy theyâll find the secret out together. How? If Palpy didnât learn it from Plagueis already, I donât think he ever would.
And since Anakinâs visions revolve around Padme dying in childbirth, there isnât exactly a whole lot of time to find the secret, if it exists at all.
I liked the animated version. đ
https://youtu.be/YDDHHrt6l4w
This isnât the TLJ thread, folks! You can flog a dead Taun Taun if you want, but take it elsewhere.
I canât imagine a troll risking an account with over 1100 in positive feedback on a fake bid. A private thread for the donations is a good idea though.
Anyway, it would be kind of cool if Mattâs character was related to Tarkin in some way. đ
I guess Jar Jar was a Sith after all! đ
https://variety.com/2018/film/news/star-wars-episode-ix-matt-smith-1202886507/
You may commence with the Doctor Who jokes.
JEDIT:DARN YOU TOBAR!!! đ
Did George actually say that?
Disney is probably going to focus on Episode IX for now. Once Galaxyâs Edge opens in the theme parks they have the perfect opportunity to cross promote or announce new movies.
Funny how Solo has made more money than Ant-man & The Wasp and nobody is calling that a bomb. đ
Solo didnât make more money than the new Ant-man and it was 100 million-ish dollars more expensive.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=untitledhansolostarwarsanthologyfilm.htm
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ant-manandthewasp.htmA film needs to make 2 - 2.5 times its budget to only break even.
Solo budget - 275 millions, needs 550 - 687.5 millions to break even, made 213 millions.
Ant-Man and the wasp - budget 162 millions, needs 324 - 405 millions to break even, made 211 millions.So in the case that the numbers I just googled are correct, both movies bombed, but Solo lost more money.
Not necessarily true as you arenât factoring in worldwide grosses were Ant-Man made a decent bit more.
Ultimately the bigger failure for Solo was the foreign grosses (which is what tentpoles moreso rely on there days). SW has always had a predominantly American fanbase - perhaps the fact that this was a film made specifically for a fan favorite character hurt perceptions. People in China donât have any real allegiance to Han Solo, so maybe there was a failure in marketing there to make it seem not just for the hardcore fans.
Yes, I used only US domestic results, because those were the numbers I found.
Now speaking for myself - I have seen all of the Star Wars movies since the 1997 special editions in the same theatre. During the 1997 SE run, it was sold out. During the prequels it was full, almost sold out. TFA was sold out, Rogue One was pretty full, TLJ was pretty empty. You know how many people have been there for Solo? If I remember correctly something around 6. Star Wars used to be pretty popular here, but itâs slowly dying.
Are you seeing the movies on the same days/times though? Have other theaters gone up nearby in the intervening years? I can go to a major movie around here on a Thursday night and crowds will be light, even in Summer. (There are five multiplexes in a 20 mile radius, not counting the art house and the bargain theater.) I saw Independence Day opening night at around 10:30 pm, and it was just me and a friend in the entire theater. We totally went MST3K on it once we realized the situation.
Thatâs the Cinemascope fanfare extension first used in the 1954.
https://youtu.be/zu1Fh-eFfMg
It was only used on Fox films actually shot with Cinemascope lenses. The use of Cinemascope had declined by the 1970âs, and Star Wars actually used Panavision. Star Wars brought the fanfare extension back and it eventually became part of the Fox opening for all itâs films.
Iâll be darned. I always thought it was the one of the turrets shooting.
Of course it could have been added anytime after Han won the ship.
This cutaway suggest that the launchers are in the upper lip of that area.
