Tobar

There's a UK release for this on blu-ray.

TheBoost said:

 I see a lot of robes, a couple funny hats. Admittedly I could go with some late 70s sideburns, but I just don't see Prequaly. 

Meanwhile on Tatooine....

timdiggerm said:

Tyrphanax said:

Okay. Stepping back a bit and being more objective...

The costume design (and the podracer bits) is a bit Prequel-y, I must admit. Just doing some comparisons with Tobar and there's a definite difference between OT and ST that leans more to the PT.

No matter what, this is a movie being designed by people in 2014, not 1987

 So a film shot today that's set in the 1930's should have everyone wearing t-shirts and jeans?

I recognized that arch the second I saw it. So awesome.

I don't think that's a speeder, looked like a pod-racing cockpit to me.

As for my guess at what the set is. I think it might be a ranch for them pig things.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I just geeked out in a major way....

I'm glad to see they've met their funding goal. It's great that projects like this and the Alan Ladd Jr. documentary are starting to turn up. It's a trend I hope continues.

Cool, I really loved that you were able to restore them like that. They were brilliant.

Loving it. You guys are doing amazing work!

I was wondering, are you using the same technique you used in Star Wars to recover the starfield in ESB?

Having Ghost Rider guest star on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be AMAZING.

whaaaaaa, Brian Wood writes the current ongoing Star Wars title. That sounds insane and as good an excuse as any to get caught up on that title.

imperialscum said:

Maybe it's not even Tatooine but some other desert planet.

 That's what I was hoping but this photo pretty much guarantees it is Tatooine:

Josh Brolin has been cast as Thanos, thoughts?

I wonder if they were glazed.

SilverWook said:

A lot can change in thirty years, including Luke's mindset. If one is going to isolate themselves and commune with the Force, it's a slightly better place than Dagobah, and there's civilization around if one craves company.

 Not something like that. I grew up in the desert and if circumstances arose where I could leave I would not miss it.

If this is about making him a hermit than let's see someplace new. There's an entire galaxy out there and we just keep ending up on the same wretched ball of dust.

His entire life Luke wanted to escape that planet. And after seeing the people who raised him brutally murdered there, he swore he'd never return. Only to be forced to in order to save Han.

So deciding to retire there doesn't make a lot of sense for him. So if that's the reason we go back there it's incredibly weak and a sign of lazy writing.

Because apparently instead of being the planet farthest from the center of the universe it apparently is the center of the universe.

I thought we were done with Tatooine. =(

Jodorowsky's Dune (2014)

Great documentary about a fascinating man. I really wish he had been able to make the film.

That never stopped KISS:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Ah, Ghost Rider, the movie that cemented my utter dislike for Eva Mendes.

Because the EU has turned what was basically just a flight school into a full blown naval academy where Biggs becomes an actual Imperial officer assigned aboard a Star Destroyer.

Biggs hated the Empire with a passion and so it makes no sense whatsoever.

I'm seriously concerned now.

It all makes sense too. George was looking to retire and decided to sell to Disney to ensure his company's future. He got Kathleen Kennedy to agree to take over for him but still felt he needed something to sweeten the deal:

George Lucas said:

“I was pulling away, and I said, ‘Well, I’ve got to build this company up so it functions without me, and we need to do something to make it attractive.’ So I said, ‘Well, let’s just do these movies.’ ”

So he begins talks with Iger, promising a whole new trilogy and more. Tells him he has an outline already for this new trilogy and that it's going to be great. But there's a problem:

At first Lucas wouldn’t even turn over his rough sketches of the next three Star Wars films. When Disney executives asked to see them, he assured them they would be great and said they should just trust him. “Ultimately you have to say, ‘Look, I know what I’m doing. Buying my stories is part of what the deal is.’ I’ve worked at this for 40 years, and I’ve been pretty successful,” Lucas says. “I mean, I could have said, ‘Fine, well, I’ll just sell the company to somebody else.’ ”

He's stalling. Why? Probably because he didn't actually have anything. So he grows desperate from the pressure and starts looking at what others have done in his sandbox. He probably didn't want to do the Sith again as the "Chosen One" had brought balance to the Force. That's when he came across the Yuuzhan Vong, notorious non-Force users.

But George doesn't like the EU, you say. Remember when the announcement was first made how George kept harping on the fact that:

George Lucas said:

"We have hundreds of books and comics and everything you can possibly imagine. So you know, I sort of moved that treasure trove of stories and various things to Kathy and I have complete confidence that she's going to take them and make great movies."

George is all for borrowing from the Expanded Universe to create new movies.

So could this new trilogy be in fact a very loose adaptation of the New Jedi Order series, or at least inspired by it? I'm afraid it just might be.

It almost looks like......a Vong.

RUBBER (2010)

I almost caught this in theaters when it originally released. Finally saw it with a few friends on Netflix a few nights ago. Delightfully absurd film. I'd love to hear everyone's reaction to it here. =P