SilverWook

I would lay odds Luke comes back as some sort of Super Jedi ghost. Maybe he even comes back in the flesh after learning much on the other side. In before some acid tongued fan labels him Luke Jesus.

Chewie is likely safe. I don’t think Lucasfilm is going to want to revisit the Vector Prime reaction in this current fan climate.

Dek Rollins said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Dek Rollins said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Dek Rollins said:

But the Batman costume had a purpose behind it’s design. (and didn’t some of the late-'80s comics have a pure black outfit?)

Bats first got an all-black costume in the comics in the '90s.

Anyway I love the batsuit because it still embodies the comicbook feel.

I can live with it, but I still prefer the gray-with-black-trunks look.

Maybe it’s because I grew up with it, but I’ve always thought the ‘jet-black with yellow emblem/belt’ look is super cool.

I mean he’s just so darn cool!

I think the color variance of the trunks might actually work better in illustrated form though.

I’ve read Keaton had neck/back issues because he couldn’t actually turn his head in that.

We have a forum for such things.
https://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/Feedback-Forum/id/5

And it’s a damn good thing I read the news before seeing BDW trending on twitter, or I would have presumed the worst and freaked.

I mean the specific details. I was well aware of the criticisms, but didn’t spend a lot of time reading the stuff. I wasn’t buying magazines like Starlog as much as I used to and the online media wasn’t what it is now.

I don’t recall much of the media hype around the movie anymore. I probably tuned a lot of it out anyway because of larger issues in my life at the time. There was some negative buzz about Jar Jar before the movie was even out, I presume from insider leaks? I also recall the unfortunate moniker Mannequin Skywalker was used to describe Jake Lloyd’s performance early on. Critics really should have gone easier on a little kid.

Russia meddling notwithstanding.

Hal 9000 said:

Don’t pretend that all of us haven’t individually and collectively played into this. It’s nobody’s and everybody’s fault. He was bound to internalize the criticism regardless of whether it was pointed at him personally or just the character.

Other actors have played characters that people despised without it becoming personal. Maybe if he opens up about it with his podcast(?) we’ll know more about the situation.

oojason said:

Star Wars fandom hits new depths - a couple of days ago someone posted up ‘Rian Johnson had died’ online - with the text of ‘Rian Johnson has been found dead this morning in his L.A home, details are still arising but suicide has yet to be ruled out’.

I don’t even…this is getting beyond sick. Whatever happened to Don’t give into hate?

As dysfunctional as it gets around here, it’s telling that projects are underway to preserve the theatrical TPM and even the 1997 Special Edition.

Nandi said:

Yes, its funny but more so pathetic that he takes random words from random people that seriously.

Are you inside his head? Do have any concept at all how words can hurt? Actors and other creative people often suffer depression on a scale other people can’t even imagine. Someone may even have come up to him in person and said something. That it was random smelly fanboy #42 doesn’t matter, because that’s how depression works.
Even someone who’s clearly loved by many people can fall into that abyss and take their life, as has happened with Anthony Bourdain recently.

Kindly stop digging the hole you’re in any deeper before you hit the septic tank.

Nandi said:

I would flame jar jar binks actor too, but then again i would also accept same role for that money and wouldn’t give a flying f about flaming… we grow through contradiction plus its fun ;D

Not sure if serious or jokey, but in very poor taste either way.

https://youtu.be/eHCTaUFXpP8 😛

The Rebellion never struck me as a formal military outfit, more like a resistance movement. ER is ostensibly set in the real world, Star Wars is not. And there are plenty of war movies set on Earth that take liberties to serve the plot.

I not implying anything. I get why it’s held in high regard, it just leaves me cold. I don’t hate it or anything. SNL did a hilarious spot on parody of it back in the 70’s.
Steve Spielberg is a huge fan considering he paid over 60K to get his hands on Rosebud back in 1982. Must be worth millions now.

TV’s Frink said:

I knew a guy who wasn’t allowed to call them “deviled eggs.” There were “angeled eggs.”

Religion is weird.

I vaguely recall something like that from somewhere. Because just saying the name apparently will summon them or bring bad luck. Why even bother sacrificing a goat and playing your KISS albums backwards under the light of a full moon?

I don’t think you could even go a couple hours without hearing awesome spoken by surfer dude types out here in the 80’s.

Given Kubrick’s meticulousness in removing the hospital scene from The Shining after it’s opening weekend in 1980, (it was only playing around L.A. and New York at the time) I’d be amazed if any uncut 2001 prints are around. Stranger things have happened of course!

You’re not stupid, you just have your own tastes in films. Some people just love mob movies is all.
Citizen Kane is brilliant on a technical level, but am I supposed to care about any of the characters?

There are people who totally don’t get Star Wars. Shocking, I know.

George really should have made a trilogy with the OT cast in the late 80’s/early 90’s. That would have been the second coming. Or not.

I’m not sure Hamill is biting the hand. The youtube videos that attempt to read between the lines of Mark’s public statements are on a level with the people who think The Shining is Kubrick’s confession to faking the Moon landings. 😉

I don’t think Mark wants to be the fandom fringe torch bearer either way.

Possessed said:

SilverWook said:

Do you guys even know there was a TNMT comic where it all started? Much more gritty than the cartoon.

Yeah the turtles do drugs lol

I don’t recall that in the original run.

The Jabba’s palace scenes gave Puggo a few headaches on the 16mm transfer.

Do you guys even know there was a TNMT comic where it all started? Much more gritty than the cartoon.

snooker said:

For anyone who wants to see pure hatred for something:

https://old.reddit.com/r/saltierthancrait/

I really like this movie, and reading some threads over on that Reddit make me feel really uneasy.

Threads such as “Does Rey have any friends?”, “The cinematography in TLJ is overrated”, and the great “All 50+ times Mark Hamill tried to subtly warn us about last jedi/force awakens and bashed Disney”

FFS

Reddit is an abyss like twitter and youtube comments. Don’t stare into it for too long!

How come Mark is largely getting a pass from these fans while other SW actors get crap thrown at them? The people who think he’s somehow going to secretly record new dialog for a fanedit are a whole new level of denial.

I always thought it was a homage to the old Parker Bros. Atari 2600 ROTJ game. 😛

There was one coastal town in California many years ago that shifted it’s fireworks show to very early in the morning because they had too many drunken idiots showing up causing trouble at night.

There have been so many illegal fireworks going off the past month around here I’m almost dreading tonight. Where the hell are people getting this stuff? And we’re talking the big kaboom kind.

https://movieweb.com/star-wars-jar-jar-binks-actor-suicide-attempt-backlash/
Wow, I can’t even imagine what that was like. We all have our fun with Jar Jar, but to take things out on the actor behind the character is beyond the pale. There are some sick people in the fandom.

And Ahmed is one heck of a good sport voicing Jar Jar on Robot Chicken. He even got an an award for it!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078886/awards

Welcome to the forums, beaz. And WOW!