Superweapon VII

Arnold Schwarzenegger and His Brother Love Hanging Out In The Room

Caston said:

It would be interesting exercise to see English voice actors (or impersonators), maybe even the original PT actors redubbing the PT now, but with more emotion, flow and energy, to see if that improves the PT films overall, and how much by.

Why not? Natalie Portman’s performance couldn’t be made any worse.

Mocata said:

Superweapon VII said:

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

philraid said:

Also, The Last Command I thought they kind of dropped the ball with the story. The whole Luke having an evil clone plot point (and that they got the DNA from his severed hand) I thought was pretty stupid. Especially the fact they named him Luuke. That was dumb.

Ah… the weirdness of 90’s EU.

Doesn’t hold a candle to the weirdness of '80s EU.

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Jeez

Not gonna lie. I want Rule 34 artists to discover this thing and pair it with the Sarlacc. Obscene Jar Jar pron can only take me so far into hysterics.

But the Prequel Trilogy is secretly genius guys. Trust me on this. Something something ring theory.

Yeah, I found the first few episodes of Andor boring, too, but it picked up steam towards the end of the sheep planet arc.

Vladius said:

JadedSkywalker said:

The thing is Force Awakens and Last Jedi are far from perfect but the third film should have been where they should have stuck the landing. Instead they made a film worse than Return of the Jedi. I like Rey more as the adopted niece and a nobody than a Palpatine. Finn isn’t the only character they failed they also just about erased Rose. I mean i get it its Rey’s story and Finn and Rose are supporting roles, but they got even worse than Han and Leia did in ROTJ.

The third one introduced new characters i very much liked like Zorri Bliss, and Jannah. But in adding more characters it was overstuffed no room for Rose Tico?

most films are worse than Return of the Jedi

Though I dislike ROTJ, you’re not wrong.

Lucas doesn’t pay attention to his own films; you’re asking too much for him to pay attention to someone else’s.

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

philraid said:

Also, The Last Command I thought they kind of dropped the ball with the story. The whole Luke having an evil clone plot point (and that they got the DNA from his severed hand) I thought was pretty stupid. Especially the fact they named him Luuke. That was dumb.

Ah… the weirdness of 90’s EU.

Doesn’t hold a candle to the weirdness of '80s EU.

philraid said:

It still has the best depiction of General Grievous.

Low bar.

I’d say Jaws 2 is a good sequel. Great’s pushing it, IMO.

Unironic love for the PT must be countered with unironic love for Battlefield Earth/Manos: The Hands of Fate/Plan 9 from Outer Space/Reefer Madness/Robot Monster/The Room/etc. It’s the only way to bring balance to the Farce.

I’ve got a Raquel Welch poster hanging in my cell, too.

I don’t get my prison sentence by following the rules; I’m not going to start now.

I lowkey would’ve preferred if Anakin joined the Sith at least in part to combat the rising threat of Palpatine, only for Palps to lay his ass flat and make him his bitch.

fmalover said:

BedeHistory731 said:

I’m still here wishing that we’d gotten the complete misunderstanding that was Jodorowsky’s Dune. As insulting an adaptation as it would have been, it still would’ve made for a fascinatingly strange experience.

It would have most certainly been a beautiful mess of a movie, but I disagree with Jodorowsky’s plan to make it 14 hours long.

I often wonder about this “14 hours” bit. From the documentary, I got the sense that Jodorowsky was making a statement of artistic freedom, saying hypothetically that if it was his desire to make his film 14 hours long, he should have the right to make it 14 hours long, even if it wasn’t his actual intent for it to be that long. But then Frank Herbert himself supposedly received a copy of Jodorowsky’s screenplay, and it was as thick as a phone book, so I dunno what to believe.

WW2 and WW1 leaders singing witch doctor

I momentarily read “Throg” as “Thorg”, which brought this to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdOmiUqmRfY

George Lucas c. 1978: merges Anakin & Vader to avoid redundancy.

George Lucas c. 1995: splits Qui-Gon off from Obi-Wan, creating redundancy.

I wish Lucas had released his IPs into the public domain and made an effort to convert Lucasfilm into a worker co-op.

Master Lawdog said:

I’ve already dropped the soap.

Hal 9000 said:

(Superweapon VII gets 1 post credit for time served.)

I’ve but one response.

I’m a big fan of Mike Vilardi’s illustrations for WEG.

In hindsight, I believe it was the wrong choice to make Ben’s and Anakin’s lightsabers the same colour. If I was capable of making fanedits, I’d make Luke’s lightsaber in SW & TESB yellow.

Emre1601 said:

It did irk me when director Deborah Chow said this about Ewan - “He to me, is Obi Wan”, in the “Obi Wan Kenobi: a Jedi’s Return” documentary, with an emphasis on “is”.

It’s alright. Alec Guinness is Ben Kenobi, anyway. Even the OT end credits agree.

(INB4 “Ackchyually, it’s ‘Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi’ in the end credits”)

Spartacus01 said:

Tantive3+1 said:

Should Yoda be a present character within the prequels?

I feel that removing him from the PT preserves the revelation in TESB of who Yoda really is.

But removing him entirely would contradict ESB itself, since Yoda clearly states that Anakin was a powerful Jedi. How could he even knew that if he wasn’t part of the Prequels and never knew Anakin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jI3RrMsVI&t=133s

Yoda’s a powerful clairvoyant, his connection to Ben presumably amplifying/focusing his abilities. Unless you wanna assume that Yoda physically visited Tatooine to spy on Luke.

So many will argue for why Yoda with a lightsaber is based really, but fail to notice this. I can’t even.