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Ric Olie said:

I don't have any problem with keeping your stuff secret.  It can be used against you.

Secrets? That seems very un-you.

I've got TONS of the Kenner figures from the 80s in a box in my mum's garage.

Currently I have the three Starkller figures from TFU and a Grand Admiral Thrawn on my bookshelf, as well as a broken AT-AT walker on my desk (I keep memo paper in it).

xhonzi said:

Like my recommendation for Neal McDonough, I have to recommend Michael Biehn for: Anything.  He just wasn't in enough...

 You're right. I don't know what it is, but both those dudes kinda scream "Star Wars."

If they were a bit younger I'd say Kyle Katarn (Biehn) and Corran Horne (McDounough).

I've been trying to think of something to add, but this post so perfectly  speaks to something fundamentally magic about that movie I can't.

I like wine and classical music.

The wierd thing is, these are things that seem to have this kind of... for lack of a better word, positive-stigma attached to them that you're supposed to know all sorts of stuff about them.

Here's all I know about wine.

• Different grapes make different wine.
• White wine is supposed to go in the fridge.

The other day I'm drinking some white zinfandel with a chum, and I mention how much I've been into white zin lately, and she says (shocked, I might add) that her 'wine person' told her that you're supposed to start out with sweet white wines, but grow into more sophisiticated reds. I have no idea the truth of that statement or not. I don't know if she saw me as a buffoon or some kind of wine-rebel. I just dig on $3 bottles of zin.

A similiar incident was in my car my pal picked up my Gustav Mahler CD. (It's classical music of some types) He starts asking me about it, and I get this vibe of insecurity from him, that he doesn't know anything about classical music, and he assumes I do. Here's what I know.

• It's like movie scores, only without movies.
• If there are lyrics, they're usually foreign.

I'm to the point I'm not sure I want to let people know I'm into wine and classical music. Does it make me look like a sophisticate, and people will see through that, or does it perhaps make me look like a poseur if I don't know the right things. I feel too defensive just saying "I just like it, shut up!"

xhonzi said:

  Then he turned the tables on me and asked what I liked about it.  I felt like a deer in headlights.  Actually, more like those kids on Apple Jacks commercials in the 90s that were just confronted with the fact that the cereal doesn't, in fact, taste like apples (or "jacks" presumably).  I, like the kids in the commerical, eventually setteled on "I just did, alright?!  ALRIGHT!?!?". 

 It's harder to justify why one likes a well put together piece of entertainment than it is to pick it apart, because enjoyment of something (especially movies) is meant to be seemless and invisible.

We're not supposed to say "A-HA, a moment of emotional catharsis!" when we hit that spot in the film (unless we're a pretencious film snob). The same way good special effects don't draw attention to themselves and a great score doesn't take you out of the movie.

Nanner Split said:

TheBoost said:

"I hated Avatar because the plot was so plainly deriviative"

-While one could counter with "Well, I didn't mind the deriviative plot" this is a fairly objective statement.

Movies that still manage to be pretty good even though they're derivative don't really bother me anymore, considering how derivative we know Star Wars to be nowadays. :\

There are degrees of being derivitive.

"Star Wars" is plainly derives influence from various sources.

"Eragon" was painly derived from "Star Wars."

There is nothing that "Star Wars" derived it's plot point-by-point from the way "Eragon" robbed "Star Wars" or the way "Avatar" is "Ferngully: The Last Rainforest".

A lot of this what I like/ what I don't like discussion can be seen as about objective vs. subjective.

"I love Avatar because the Navi people's way of life is so wonderful I wish I could just go there and be a blue person!"

-Totally subjective. While a bit odd, there's not clear way to argue with this, nor does it need to be defended. It's an opinion.

"I didn't like Avatar because the action was just too over the top, and the pacing was slow."

-These are mostly subjective but perhaps debatable.

"I hated Avatar because the plot was so plainly deriviative"

-While one could counter with "Well, I didn't mind the deriviative plot" this is a fairly objective statement.

ben_danger said:

yeah i did. its too big for me to email, is it ok for me to upload it somewhere else?

 Upload away. That was too cool to let fade away.

In a world where the same 20 Star Wars clips are constantly turned into music videos to awful power ballads, that video was a revelation.

Moth3r said:

Did anyone grab this off Youtube before it was removed?

 Seriously. If anyone had the foresight to do that, PM me please.

Christopher Walken as BAO-DUR (the voice is already a Walken impression)

Fine ass Helen Mirren as KREIA (gotta sex it up a bit for Hollywood)

With some makeup and CGI, those creepy eyes and voice of Ben Cross would make a chilling DARTH SCION.

And of course only one actor could pull of complex THE JEDI EXILE...

Matt Berry.

You took it down?!?! I had mates over tonight, and I had talked up how it was the best Star Wars video they'd ever see! So much dissapointment!

• 2:00 Opening Crawl is over
• 3:00 Luke first on screen
• 4:00 Luke mauled by Wampa
• 15:00 Luke Rescued by Han on Hoth
• 18:00 Vader first on screen
• 25:00 Imperial Attack on Hoth
• 35:00 MF enters the Asteroid Field
• 45:00 Luke Meets Yoda
• 55:00 Emperor first on Screen
• 60:00 Han and Leia's 1st Kiss
• 1:10 Vader Briefs Bounty Hunters
• 1:15 Lando first appears
• 1:20 Luke Enters The Cave
• 1:25 Vader at Cloud City
• 1:35 Luke Leaves Yoda
• 1:40 Han in Carbonite
• 1:45 Luke and Vader meet/fight
• 1:50 I am your father!
• 1:59 Luke hugs Leia as Lando and Chewie Leave

This one was much harder, with all the intercutting between the stories. I'm not even that confident I have the order right, let alone the time code.

generalfrevious said:

 

Keep dreaming. You know that the OOT will bite the dust no matter how much you complain. Lucas has willed it.

 I hate to say this, but Lucas won't live forever. A five disc per film, ultimate collection of "Star Wars" would be a huge seller, regardless of the price. Look how many units "Blade Runner" sold of it's ridiculous "Ultimate edition" and it's no where near as big a deal as Star Wars.

EyeShotFirst said:

The real challenge is to provide a fantasy cast for an entire movie adaptation of your favorite EU series.

Hell yeah! It's time to see the entirety of MedStar Battle Surgeons cast!

http://www.mombu.com/gardening/gardening/t-some-easy-dog-or-dorm-and-shell-daily-order-everybody-bush-sweet-candle-lemon-sour-4353037.html

The same thing is here.

I feel like Tom Hanks in that Code movie.

xhonzi said:

I always got a strong Piett feel from him, but he's pretty consistantly drawn as a slightly plump, white haired, white mustached fellow:

In any case, this Edward Fox seems to be a decent match.

Ever see "Shaka Zulu?" Fox is this upper crust British officer dealing with the sociopathic military genius Shaka. He'd be awesome!

(Although yeah, if we could cast the Piett actor, he'd be great too).

xhonzi said:

Tim Zahn as Karrde?  Doesn't that just fuel the Mary Sue accusations?

And how about Pellaeon?

Old guy? Great sense of honor? Perhaps haunted eyes of having seen too much war? Needs a sense of warmth and gravitas to offset Thrawn's iciness?

Edward Fox

xhonzi said:

Challenge:

Exar Kun

 One word.

AFFLECK.

EyeShotFirst said:

Quinlan Vos

But isn't Quinlan Vos already cast?

Is it FAIR to replace miscelaneous Tanzanian extra?

Not half bad if I do say so myself.

I started with the things I knew well... that Luke comes in somewhat past 15 min, and the Death Star blows up a couple minutes before the credits, and worked myway to the middle, which is where the big jumps around Ben's death came in.

Thanks Xhonzi... that was fun.

adywan said:

VincentSmalls said:

interesting...

 

http://io9.com/5500510/the-one-thing-george-lucas-could-do-to-sway-the-people-in-his-favor

 

yeh, i've just seen that interview. I'm not very happy with the example they agve of the "critters". This is something they never asked me about yet use it as an example in the film of how "nit-picky" i am with my edit.

I think it's odd that one guy who produces an entire documentary about his feelings about Star Wars (and brags about the thousands of hours of footage he had to go through) can be so dismissive of the work of someone else who invests a great deal of time and effort into these films.

As a high school teacher, NOTHING would make me happier than to put some kid in a dunce hat when he mouths off.

Sadly, these kids have no shame so even if I was allowed, it would fundamentally fail.

xhonzi said:

And... call me crazy... but Sam Witwer

 

would be a good match for Starkiller:

 

I just don't see it.

Here's my KOTOR Dream Casting

RUFUS SEWELL as Darth Revan (totally arbitrary I know)

RON PERLMAN as Canderous Ordo

EMILY BLUNT as Bastilla

MMA Badass RANDY COUTURE as Darth Malak.

Sure he can't act, but with that mouth thing, someone else would do the voice anyway