Sluggo

SW had a theater run in '91?

ImperialFighter said:

Okay, because vaderio's mock-up above is something I consider a 'fix' for something I personally don't reckon is broken, I'm going to have a final stab at where I now believe Vader's quarters is really meant to be situated....if you go by the actual 'set' layout itself -  not very far away from the Bridge, after all. 

 Wrong.  This is Star Wars.  Everything takes place far, far away.

;)

I for one like the idea of his chambers being away from the action.  Having Piett march all the way into the bowels of the ship makes Vader seem even more menacing.  And has anyone mentioned the risk of having an A-wing crash into the bridge?  We wouldn't want Vader to get all crispy, now would we?

I wouldn't go see the prequels in 3D in the theaters.  I've already seen the prequels.

I wouldn't go see the classic trilogy in 3D in the theaters.  Since Lucas wouldn't use anything but the SE's (and who knows what new elements he will be putting in to enhance the 3D), I don't need to see it.  I've already seen the SE's in the theaters.

And if for some reason he got klonked on the noggin' with a big frying pan and decided to make the OOT into 3D, I wouldn't go see it.  I'd stay home and cry.

Maybe we should give Kersh and the ESB crew some credit.  It seems that he staged the lightsaber fight where it was so he wouldn't have to worry about those reflections.

Oh, comedy. :D  Now I get it.

Minus ten seems a bit much.  Maybe you could just take a negative one?

So is there a legit reason (other than complete incompetancy) why LFL scanned in the negative of Star Wars at 1080?  The idea of having it match the 1080 prequels seems absolutely ridiculous.

Ric Olie said:

That's nothing.  I have two Ric Olie hands.

 It was actually a clip from BBC television on the internet about advances in prosthetic technology.

bkev said:

Hey, I'm a teen. If anyone ever plays the age card here, I'd be disappointed. I mean, I seem like a smart young lad... right? Please?

 Asking permission doesn't help your case.  If you think you are awesome, then stick to your guns.

C3PX said:

ferris209 said:

Ha Ha! The second coming of Janskeet was proved futile!!! (Since his comeback, short lived, thread was closed, I thought there no better place to post this than Warb's comeback thread, especially since Warb was successful)

 

Yeah, that was really funny. I miss the guy, so I wish I had come in at the right time to interact with him. Oh well.

I remember he posted somewhere the list of users that had him on ignore, and the numbers were absolutely astronomical. I think half the forum had him on their ignore list.

Are we sure he was actually twenty? As opposed to a teenager who, in order to try to fit in better at a forum full of people who were alive when the first Star Wars film hit theaters, claimed to be 20?

 I can't believe he is gone.

There was nothing you could do.

C'mon kid, we arent out of this yet.

oops, let me start over.

I can't believe he is gone.  Actually, yes I can. 

Shame, really.  I just barely had added him to my ignore list.

Warbler said:

oh yeah!  I had forgotten that too!   I just realized, we are only six years away from the future seen in BTTF part 2!

 I can't wait to get my hoverboard! 

xhonzi said:

Too bad Ric wasn't there:

Annie: Now this is podracing!

Ric: No it's not.  This is flying a Naboobian fighter against Trade Federation Droid Fighters and Droid Controller Donuts.  Podracing is a sport on outer rim planets where large spaceship engines are electro-magnetically tethered to a small pod and raced around Moab, Utah.  It's so intense, most muppets die before finishing and some muppets esplodé right there on the starting line.  Obstensibly, humans are unable to compete, but if the EU can be believed, almost all victors are in fact human. 

Annie: I was speaking figuratively, you 2 meter hairless gorilla!

Ric: I'm not a Gorilla, and I have lots of hair on the back and sides of my head.

Panaka: Remember, folks...  Panaka has a full head of hair, a gorgeous smile, and a piratey eye patch.  Rock the vote!

 Hello new signature!  most muppets die before finishing!  Classic!

Now THIS is pod racing!

That was a good read.  I also liked your piece on the idea of putting a stop motion Jabba into Star Wars over Declan Mulholland.  The idea that Lucas was contemplating a Special Edition of sorts for his 1981 re-release of Star Wars with the re-worked Jabba is a bit chilling.

Baronlando said:

According to an old Cinefex they ultimately had a former ILM guy (who had done started his own company after Empire) do them.

 Richard Edlund?  I think he had his own company by that time.  His guys went on to do the effects for Ghostbusters.

This reminds me of how even the new Making of Star Wars book has a few pictures in it from the SE.

Twerps.

Lightsabers.

Lightsabers were bitchin!

xhonzi said:

I think that was my pont.  (I think.)  That the part of the story that is ?good? is reduced to half an hour or so.  I think the way Palpatine manipulates the galaxy in the Prequels is actually rather well done... but that seems to be the focus of the PT and not "The Adventures of Anakin Skywalker."

 If you threatened me with a blaster to my head, then I'd admit that the Palpatine manipulates the galaxy was my favorite idea of the prequels.  And this idea was actually pretty well treated in the EU novels between the movies (I think one was called Labyrinth of Evil or something like that).  I'd actually watch a film series about how Sidious is always one step ahead of the Jedi.  In the books, the Jedi weren't so naive.

The biggest problem in the prequels is Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.  Lucas's idea that 'attachment' is the root to the dark side seems philosophically problematic.  What happened to "Anger...fear...aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice."? 

Nice clip, Ady.  So far, so good!

Yeah, I know what you mean.  I'm not quite where you are, but I'm getting there.  The idea of my favorite movies being that old (and likely twice the age of some members of this board is surreal. 

I have the same feelings about listening to 'classic' rock.  If it was on the air when I was alive, it is not an oldie or classic.

Bah humbug!

I have been instructed to vote for Ric Olie, and then in a few years to cast a vote of no confidence.  Palpatine will be Handsome Devil.

I suppose I was thinking more about politically ruling rather than stormtroopers going out and shooting a bunch of jawas.  I'm not saying that non-humans will be left in peace while the Empire goes after humans; I'm just saying that on the political level of Star Wars and Empire to a large degree, the Empire is really only staffed with humans while blowing planets up inhabited by humans while trying to crush a rebellion manned by humans.

Granted, this is a logical fallicy, using a lack of evidence as evidence, but I think that this is the best we have.

I'm still on page 1.  You guys (any females in here?) have your settings all out of whack!

Ok, this is going to sound awful, but when I read the fact she was 53, I immediately thought it was a mistake because she looks so much older.

Happy birthday all the same!

Old School.  It has been my favorite since '04.

TheBoost said:

Thinkin' about the original "Star Wars," there's no reason to assume that there ARE any aliens in the Empire or the Rebellion. For all we know it's the Human Empire, the government for human beings, one of many governments in the galaxy far far away, and not of any particular concern to aliens, who all have their own governments with their own problems.

 

 I was going to argue this, but after racking my brain for a few minutes, I can't think of any threat to alien species at all.  It wasn't until the Holiday Special that the idea of Wookiees being enslaved by the Empire was introduced.  Maybe Splinter of the Mind's Eye elaborates the Empire and aliens ideas.  It's been a few years, so I can't tell you exactly what happened down on Mimban.  And really, that is more relying on the EU, which I never like to do.