TM2YC

Michael Jackson look like a

^ *Sigh*

How about some actual errors:

The DS landing bay model shakes when that pillar collapses on it at the end.

R2 cuts through one random rope and the whole gang fall out of the Ewok trap. Maybe a new shot could be substituted of R2 obviously cutting through the crucial knot that holds the net together?

The composited red text that flashes up on Luke's console when he is talking to R2 in his X-Wing. It doesn't match the camera movement at all (In Harmy's DE at least, maybe others know more about this one).

bathroom in the middle of

DrCrowTStarwars said:

You know it would be interesting if they made a movie about the last five years of the classic series run and all the battles JNt had to fight just to keep the show on the air when the top brass hated it. I don't know about anyone else but I would watch that movie.

 It could just be 90 minutes of alternating shots of Michael Grade's face and a title card with just the word C...

(Oh wait I remember, Chris Morris already did that)

off, in fact he'd often

DuracellEnergizer said:

Anchorhead said:

*Dooku sounds like something a 6-year-old would come up with while playing in the front yard. 

I've heard that Lucas personally pronounces it Doh-ku, which actually makes it sound cool. I don't know why everyone else decided to run with the infantile pronunciation. 

 I've also noticed that Lucas pronounces "Gungans" as "Gungas" and calls "Light Sabers", "Laser Swords". Mind you Patrick Stewart spent a whole interview on the radio the other day talking about his X-Men character "Zaviour" that he's only played for oh 14 years. Senility happens to the best of us ;-)

I was just waking up when I watched the first clip and I thought the galaxy was being threatened by "Burgerking".

DuracellEnergizer said:

cain spaans said:

Well by "dark" I meant like Return To OZ/The Black Cauldron dark so still a family movie but with lots of darkness but also so humorous scenes like a reference to the trash compactor when the charectors land in something stinky that is the kind of movie I want to see.

Ah, the whimsical '80s kind of dark -- that I can get behind. Kids these days, with their goddamn rainbow ponies and metrosexual p(o)op stars, need more movies that actually puts hair on their chest. 

 Yeah the 80s were nothing like that!

Oh sorry, please excuse me, I've got the wrong room... I thought this was 'Spot the errors: ROTJ!' AGM and not the 'History of Lasers' seminar.

Moth3r said:

darth_ender said:

So according to your argument, a child could still be "aborted" post delivery, up to toddler stage.  Someone who reads the article could justify abortion up to 5 years old.

 http://youtu.be/AlN2ldCdOQ0?t=6m47s

 ^ Beat me to posting that clip LOL

^ 90%? That sounds hopeful :-)

TV's Frink said:

Mega suggests that you use Chrome for best results.

 This ^. Other browsers can work but in my experience Chrome always does.

If you look up "untrustworthy" in the Dictionary, it will probably list 'The Daily Mail' newspaper in there as an example. They did support Hitler and the British Union of Fascists after all.

I thought this wonderfully constructed satirical meme (Released just after Mo Farah's double gold at the 2012 Olympics)...

...encapsulated what The Mail are all about and how they like to twist the facts to play to the prejudices of their elderly readership.

^ Yes, very sad to hear that on the news today.

As somebody who has studied Art & Design, I can imagine the huge amount of work those students must have had stored in the building. Whole years of their life and work gone forever, as they stood outside and watched. There could have been the early paintings of the next Picasso in there!... and now we'll never see it, not to mention the building itself.

I hope some of it can be salvaged.

May's Doctor Who DVD roundup, part 1 ;-)

CITY OF DEATH - Tom Baker (and Romana 2)

Tom Baker's Doctor has always looked and acted like Harpo Marx...

...but in this 1979 four-parter, thanks to Douglas Adams' script, he's firing off sarcastic comic quips as fast as Groucho. I loved it and was laughing all the way through. Despite Douglas apparently knocking this script together over a weekend fueled by a steady stream of coffee and whiskey, it's got dialogue to rival the quality of H2G2.

Julian Glover looks like he's having a whale of a time playing the campy pantomime villain. Of course, his casting only adds to my growing "GL copied Doctor Who" conspiracy theory LOL. He must have filmed this mere weeks after appearing in ESB but this wasn't Julian's first appearance in the Whoniverse. What's more notable, is that the character he plays is essentially the same as the one he would later play in 'The Last Crusade'. A similar profession in antiquities, the same self-satisfied attitude and even a similar taste in fine cut suits. Of course in TLC the big reveal is that he's secretly a Nazi but in this he's secretly a cycloptic green-tentacle-faced alien. And the Jagaroth spaceship...

...reminded me of something else JL later had a hand in (btw it takes off in the same way as the Federation Starships from that same sequence).

More SW tie-ins to come...

I'm not convinced that a movie about an Armchair is going to be very popular.

Bingowings said:

No don't throw rocks at ducks...

 ...or Witches.

Kurosawa: I look down on Coppola because I am upper-class.

Coppola: I look up to Kurosawa because he is upper-class; but I look down on Lucas because he is lower-class. I am middle-class.

Lucas: I know my place. I look up to them both. But I don't look up to Coppola as much as I look up to Kurosawa, because he has got innate breeding.

Kurosawa: I have got innate breeding, but I have not got any money. So sometimes I look up to Coppola.

Coppola: I still look up to Kurosawa because although I have money, I am vulgar. But I am not as vulgar as Lucas, so I still look down on him.

Lucas: I know my place. I look up to them both; but while I am poor, I am honest, industrious and trustworthy. Had I the inclination, I could look down on them. But I don't.

Coppola: We all know our place, but what do we get out of it?

Kurosawa: I get a feeling of superiority over them.

Coppola: I get a feeling of inferiority from Kurosawa, but a feeling of superiority over Lucas.

Lucas: I get a pain in the back of my neck.

Possessed said:

I've sincerely wished I was dead for about 4 years now, and I'm getting very tired of living this way, and hope I don't for much longer.

And yes, I am aware that there are a thousand better things to do with a thought like that than post it on an internet forum about star wars, shoot me.

I know this is only a SW chat forum but there are still good people here to talk to mate :-)

Check out this link to a podcast, in which it is revealed, the rather extreme method Comedian Stewart Lee cheered up his comedy partner Richard Herring, when he was feeling depressed one night...

Skip to 32 minutes in for the story

^ I guarentee it will make you laugh and hopefully feel a little better ;-)

generalfrevious said:

Star Trek, Amazing Spider-Man, and Man Of Steel.

 I wouldn't quote a load of films whose stated purpose was to reboot/change a franchise, against something like TPM which was supposed to honour what came before. And for what it's worth all three of those films put a big focus on quality direction, great acting, charismatic leads, emotion and drama, they just happened to have CGI too. The exact opposit of the PT.

Everybody hated TPM so it had no influence on what came after it, unless you count it as an inverse blueprint for how to make EpVII. Also movie studios like making money, no sane studio would consider the lukewarm box office of the PT, as an example to follow.

SilverWook said:

The two troopers guarding the Tractor Beam thingy could also be a bickering couple. Maybe the two unlucky fellows who board the Falcon? ;)

 Yes, they should be the same two troopers all the way through (Also they could be bickering about life as they knock on doors in Tatooine, visit the Cantina, talk to that spy and question Ben about his Droids etc etc). One of them could tragically die in the arms of the other, when Han runs round that corner and blasts a random trooper.

Makes you realise that the other films didn't have these kind of nice random banter from extras scenes (Unless I'm forgetting).

^ Damn I love both these ideas... unless Frink went with both:

TROOPER ONE : This relationship is going nowhere you are afraid of commitment.

TROOPER TWO : Shut up and marry me!

TROOPER ONE : ISILDUR'S BANE!

It would be a great thing if Frink was able to get a Walkie-Talkie to reproduce the Trooper voices himself (As SilverWook suggests), as the possibilities for hilarity throughout the R:OT would then be endless.

I was 18 years, 0 months and 16 days. I'd reached the age of manhood and then 16 days and 28 seconds later I grew up.

Bingowings said:

For Morrissey fans :

 Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting that. I was singing the lyrics as I read that flowchart ^ :-) Huh, I always thought it was "A bull in wine"... true story.

RicOlie_2 said:

by the way, I did make a separate thread for this kind of thing. :\

 It would be nice to roll that thread into this one, or vice versa. A one stop shop for EpVII news and discussion.

This has basically become the all-purpose EpVII thread across the last year anyway, despite it's title of "Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams". It would be nice to keep this thread going... maybe with a more general title :-)