TheBoost

I liked him in Shattered Glass

SilverWook said:

AntcuFaalb said:

We need an OTcon. 

I've been saying that for years. ;)

We could figure out some sort of meetup at Celebration in Anaheim next year. I want to go, but I'm going to need a costume wrangler.

 We should totally get a hotel near Celebration. Meet up... watch ESB:R if it's done, then go out for pizza and beers. 

We all would need to make badges with our avatars on them.

Hypothetically, if this was gonna happen, who might conceivably consider maybe going?

Dear Friendly Aquantaince on Facebook.

Please don't LIKE and POST things that make it so abundantly clear you are both stupid and racist. It strongly colors our future colleaguial interactions. 

Tyrphanax said:

Wouldn't the Empire be offering rewards for tips on Jedi/showing them being brought to "justice" on newsfeeds throughout the galaxy? One of the Rebels trailers shows a Jedi being captured, for instance. You'd think that Luke would have seen at least one of these things when he went into town, even on a backwater nothing planet.

 I dont see any hint in the OT of any kind of intergalactic network system. There is no PNN (Palpatine News Network). In the deleted scenes, Biggs has to tell Luke what he's seen in the inner systems. There are no reporters. No one has a cell phone. Greedo goes to the local bar to find Han, he doesn't look him up on ScoundrelBook. 

Even the PT shows this. Queen Amidala has to physically fly to the capital to explain what's going on. They don't just flick to the GoogleNaboo app.  The Trade Federation denies it. 

All this strongly implies that mass communication in the SW universe is difficult, inconvienient, and not generally a priority.

who the fuck was greedo, and why is he ignoring me?

we really don't get much sense if how common people view the Jedi in the PT. Its possible in a galaxy wide empire, even when the Jedi were active many people felt as Han does.

I used to go to Comic-Con every year before it was cool. 

No wait. It was already cool.  It went before it was expensive. That's it.

SirHenryPercy said:

And don't even get me started on their ungratefulness.

... the OT bigots will treat you with the contempt that is msot deserved of racists and homophobes. 

 Ungrateful for what? I mean honestly, what do you mean?

And for the record, a good chunk of us don't have contempt for racists or homophobes.

LexX said:

ATMachine said:

Any modern adaptation really has to get rid of the racism in those old works

 Why if they're based on another time?

Is any of you actually Indian? I for one hate this sympathy racism where a bunch of white people get offended about racism and like someone here said Indians themselves laughed at the scenes in TOD and couldn't care less. There is also a difference between a race and a culture. I've seen so many American shows to know they use all the old stereotypes about every culture (Russia, Germany, Britain, The Neatherlands etc.) which would be considered very racist if the people there weren't white. I think it's a bit ridicilous that when the skin color changes, it suddenly becomes racist. I'm kind of a "make fun of us all or then about no one" type of guy.

So if a movie is "based in another time" racism is good?  I don't even know where to go with that statement. Is it just a bunch of "sympathy racism" whiteys who object to say, a movie glorifying the genocide of Native Americans, because hey, the move is set in another time? 

Making fun of a British character for being uptight and liking tea doesn't have a long history of oppression and murder. "Dark skinned backwards savages" being gunned down by heroic white colonists kinda does. I can't imagine how you don't see the difference.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TheBoost said:

Bingowings said:

I don't have a problem going to sleep.

I have a problem not being able to control my body while I'm asleep.

I suffer from bruxism as a consequence of my epilepsy which has recently changed in character from grinding what remains of my teeth to slamming my jaw shut in my sleep.

 Bingo,

If you were heterosexual, I'd make some crude and wholly inappropriate sexual comment. So, in the spirit of equality, let's just pretend that I did.

If you were really in the "spirit of equality", you'd be willing to insult a homosexual just as you would a heterosexual.

Heterophobe!

;-P 

 Oh go suck a d**k.

They should remake this movie, with Broadway star Chuck Wagner as both Javert and Valjean, like a twister Patty Duke episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjhua6Y9k5Q&list=UUSznLuBVcTD8KU37MoU7eKQ

FanFiltration said:

Originaltrilogy.com going offline forever.

 If that happens, we all meet up on the SW:R facebook page, and regroup. 

Bingowings said:

I don't have a problem going to sleep.

I have a problem not being able to control my body while I'm asleep.

I suffer from bruxism as a consequence of my epilepsy which has recently changed in character from grinding what remains of my teeth to slamming my jaw shut in my sleep.

 Bingo,

If you were heterosexual, I'd make some crude and wholly inappropriate sexual comment. So, in the spirit of equality, let's just pretend that I did.

I think its interesting that the character designs in the movie are all so much more distinctive and memorable than the GotG in the comics.

These characters could be in any comic ever. Skull belts... cleavage... weird color. I just posted the pics and I already forgot what they look like

Bingowings said:

To hide his identity, because he is bad and it looks scary.

 This

Teenaged Palpatine vs. 840 year old Yoda.

SilverWook said:

 

 At it's heart, GOTG is space opera. And it's fun in the way Star Wars used to be. (Something the prequels were in short supply of.) I'm sure Episode VII will follow it's own path, but it will also have to bring back the fun. That is what will bring in audiences beyond us old geezers.

 Above all else, FUN is the keyword. I havent had that much fun at a movie in a long time. 

I hope Ep 7 is, at the least, fun.

<blockquote><p><strong>DominicCobb</strong> said:</p><p>Have to say I'd be disappointed if Episode VII was basically GOTG. I'm hoping for something better than that.</p></blockquote><p> </p>

I want the exact same script with name's changed and a John Williams score.

The Disco Star Wars song can replace "Hooked on a Feeling:

Just saw it for the second time.

Couldn't get the idea out of my head that this COULD have been Episode 7. Just with a quick reskinning. 

Clean up the language, and a change to some of the violence, and the intensity of it, could probably get a PG rating. 

A hundred years after ROTJ. Ronan the Accuser is the last of a resistance movement of Palpatine fanatics. 

Thanos is a mysterious figure known only at "The Sith Lord." Nebula and Gamora are the same as in the movie.  Maybe they have lightsabers.

Cut the "Star-Lord is from Earth" plot point. Cut the Earth-based humor. Otherwise he's the same. Rocket is not QUITE a raccoon, but still the same. 

Nova-Prime is now the head of the Republiuc. John C. Reily and Peter Sefernowitzcz are Jedi. The various people running around Nova-town can include some Star Wars aliens we reocgnize. 

The Infinity Gem is now called "The Kiber Crystal" but is basically the same. Maybe Del Toro's monologue could change the background so it's "something, something, the Force"

BTW, I'm not suggesting this is an improvement. 

SilverWook said:

^Yeah, I've been debating warning people about that. I almost bolted from the theater when I saw the Planet of the Apes reboot a couple years back. The caregiver scenes with John Lithgow's character poked at wounds that were still pretty raw. I even had problems with the death of a character in Trek 2009 when my wounds were still gushing, but I still saw the movie about three times.

 I left GotG during the first scene. Came back in when I heard the Marvel logo.

DuracellEnergizer said:

unamochilla2 said:

I'm having trouble getting past that boy, Erza, looking like a CGI version of Aladdin.

I'm having trouble getting past that he has the same name I do.

Oh, and it's "Ezra" not "Erza". =P 

 I always thought Star Wars needed more Jews.

SilverWook said:

A Jedi who left the order and lost faith in the Republic had the potential to be an interesting, complex character. Lucas didn't do much with it, and the mystery of whether Dooku was really a bad guy didn't last long.

I wonder if Lee was as peeved with his miniscule screen time in ROTS, as he was being left on the cutting room floor for the theatrical cut of Return Of The King?

 Well, he did only film for like, two hours in ROTS, so at least he wasn't surprised. 

Jurassic Park 2: 

DAMN this movie is stupid. Some great sequences, but overall, everyone and every plot point, and every even it stupid. 

I give it one Vince Vaugn out of eight.

Count Dooku wouldn't beg.

THE CLIMAX

An old Boris Karloff picture very deserving of its reputation.

You've never heard of it? Exactly.