doubleofive

The wife and I watched "People vs George Lucas" on Netflix tonight. In the post-movie conversation, my wife brought up this shot:



She always felt like Qui-Gon was looking straight at the camera, when we hit on it: Liam Neeson wasn't talking to Watto, he was talking to George. "Sometimes when you gamble, eventually you lose" indeed.

She also brought up her big problem with the prequels: they look like completely separate movies with no visual continuity with the originals. Now this is a girl whose first experience with Star Wars was the SE VHSes, you know, the versions that are supposed to tie directly into the "visual style" of the prequels. She was a fan for less than two years before Episode I came out and immediately noticed.

Watching PvGL was pretty fun. I kept yelling at the TV, then they ended up saying what I was about to say. Nice to see Jay for quite a bit of time, TMBTM for a bit (subtitled!), and Adywan for a few seconds.

none said:

doubleofive wrote: I also need a copy to read from.

Then you are stuck reading from the free first 100 pages:

http://www.legacybookspress.com/Books/The%20Secret%20History%20of%20Star%20Wars%20-%20Free%20Sample.pdf

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:
I also need a copy to read from. ;-)

I see what you tried there.

I guess we should submit sample chapters to see if this works. I also need a copy to read from. ;-)

Just happened to be on and able to check it out: sorry, they look to be identical between 97-04. Just your imagination, kid. ;-)

ChainsawAsh said:

I recommend this order.  It's the one I used while watching, and it's pretty flawless.  It's also designed for minimal disc-swapping if you're using the DVDs.

Phantom Menace would have had to have been a completely different story in 1977. There's no introduction to anyone or anything in the current movie.

Gaffer Tape said:

RE: The Avengers

Thor is a Jerk for Making an Adoption Joke About the Evil Villain

Wow, that's a great find!

Sounds like what I did with the Decipher card game. Never played it, but still have all the cards, they're nice looking.

TV's Frink said:

Ziz said:
WEG SW RPG D6

Erm...you sunk my battleship?

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'm currently reading Stargate SG-1: The Barque of Heaven by Suzanne Wood.

It's okay, I guess, but since I'm not really a fan of SG-1 anymore, I'm not really into it; I'm only reading the book to see how good the retcon the author created to explain away one of the many discrepancies between the show and the original movie is.

Keep them! Those are great reads even if you don't play.

Added the explosion and the foot zoom.

There seems to be less swapping than my "go by the air dates" spreadsheet I made. I may just use that then.

Bingowings said:

Oh lucky you.

I wish I could have a mind wipe and watch them all over again afresh.

Are you going to try and slot Angel into the time frame or are you not going there?

Inspired by TableTop, we went to the local game store to pick up a Euro-style game. Unfortunately, Settlers of Catan is for 3 or more players and my wife and I wanted something we could play by ourselves. We did find the D&D-branded Lords of Waterdeep, which is kind of a lite version of a Euro game. We played it twice last night, we really enjoy it.

We've been on a Joss Whedon kick (understandably), so we started on "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" this week. What a great show! The wife has seen a lot of the later episodes, but I hadn't seen any. I'm really liking it, and its not even supposed to have "Grown The Beard" yet!

We've also been watching Geek & Sundry, the YouTube Channel from Felicia Day (of The Guild and random Whedon projects). We really enjoy the weekly Flog (Felicia doing something random) and the bi-weekly TableTop (Wil Wheaton plays a game with some of his friends). TableTop actually inspired us to play more games and try out some different stuff we wouldn't have known about before.

Listening to Rob Paulsen (Pinky, Yakko Warner) talk with Mark Hamill. Talking a bit about Star Wars:

Mark Hamill said:

Now we didn't have any sway, but fortunately Marcia Lucas was the one that made him [George] not cut the kiss before we swung over, he was going to cut that because it kept getting laughs in the previews. She said "But its getting a good laugh because its out of nowhere and so innocent and its so unexpected." He didn't like the laugh when we were bringing Chewie down from the holding cell where the little thing comes up *sound effect* and he goes *sound effect* and he runs away. He cut that. He has a funny thing about humor. Witness Jar Jar Binks. *laughter* I don't know what to tell you.

...

I don't want to give him any grief about that, because I mean I've stuck up for Jar Jar Binks before. People go, "Oh, he's so annoying," I said, "he's meant to be annoying! He's annoying the other characters in the movie!" But again, humor is subjective as they say.

I brain understands what was going on, but my tears ask why?

You should get it back up and use my article as a reference!

I'll add those when I can. Awesome to still be finding stuff!

I might be able to get the guy to watch it...

Bingowings said:

Memento (2000)

Okay drama, over-hyped, over-rated but none the less solidly made.

3 Polaroids.