To go back a few random thoughts: honestly, the in-universe origin of the term “Tusken Raider” makes it sound like that name should be the more derogatory one, but I just think the idea of Obi-Wan and Luke being a little bit racist in spite of everything else is too funny to not make “Sand People” the slur in my own headcanon.
So ah . . . how we doing on this?
I made it halfway through Avatar and couldn’t continue it bothered me so much. I felt insulted by how bad the script was for a movie that cost half a billion dollars to make.
I need to read more of Flannery O’Connor’s works.
Yes you do, and so do I. I’ve read Wise Blood and a handful of short stories and everything’s been excellent.
Eh, if it’s one of the other I guess I’m good with 77, I’d just hoped a disc this size would have both as a feature.
These are gorgeous, I’ll definitely be burning the set when ESB 2.5 is out. If and when one of the several 1981 crawl projects comes to fruition, do you plan on redoing SW with seamless branching?
Nothing I’ve seen yet has done anything to dissuade me that it’ll come in 2017 for the anniversary.
Eh, I can’t see Howard being good enough with people to orchestrate something like that. I also think it’s much more compelling if Howard is crazy and right rather than just crazy.
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I wish that it would’ve ended with the bunker exploding and her finding out that the air isn’t poisonous.
How would you explain what’s her name from Silicon Valley showing up looking all fried, then? Or for that matter, Emmett kind-of-sort-of witnessing the disaster? There needed to be something going on outside of John Goodman’s head; otherwise it’s just another maniac with a bunker movie.
Stills from the deleted scenes were also included in the original novelization (at least Biggs and Luke on Tatooine, anyway). I remember being super confused about that as a child.
I get that and agree with it on some level, but I also really like the idea of Cloverfield as a loose anthology series without continuity but overlapping themes and styles. Do I need to tag spoilers for this thing here? Just in case, SPOILERS:
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When she got out of the bunker I was disappointed to find that it actually was just aliens the entire time, but when she went to Houston to join the survivors and it was revealed that this whole thing was essentially a prologue for this huge epic that we’ll probably never see, I was back on board. When it looked like she escaped and then had to fight some CGI aliens for just for the sake of upping the ante I was disappointed, but by tying it into this nonexistent larger story I think they ultimately made it feel more earned.
I think I remember reading in some novel or other that it took Luke and Obi-Wan several days to get to Mos Eisley. That’s something I’d never really thought about, but I guess it makes sense.
10 Cloverfield Lane - The first 90% of the movie was outstanding, but I’m still trying to process how I felt about the end. I think it was kind of a shame that they went that batshit after how incredibly tight everything that happened in the bunker was, but then I remind myself that this is in fact supposed to be a spiritual successor to Cloverfield.
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I’ve listened to this all the way through seven times in the past three days. My body is ready for Wildflower.
The recently released official Celebration itinerary has the screening listed as “Star Wars: A New Hope”. All that can really be inferred from that is that they want to be consistent with TFA’s downplaying of the episode numbers, but the fact that Disney isn’t squeamish about switching around the title of a film from before they acquired LFL gives me a small amount of hope that they’d be willing to walk back more the extreme Lucasisms in the future.
Apart from nostalgia (because watching these is like the smell of a fresh pack of SW CCG cards or a new overly-buff Power of the Force line action figure), the main reason I’ve always found the 97 version so much more palatable than the subsequent ones is the lack of ham-fisted prequel tie-in bullshit like that line.
You should try Frink’s, his edits are nothing but nonsense.
I’ve enjoyed the excerpts I’ve seen, but there’s a difference between aiming to be funny and trying to be taken seriously and failing so fantastically that it ends up funny. Those are different itches that need to be scratched in different ways.
Hmm thought it might be TCW. They haven’t brought in old EU characters yet and I’m starting to wonder if they ever will.
There have been a couple more Thrawn hints lately. Dave Filoni posted a photo of the SW logo on the spine of a Legends book that some claim to have identified as Heir to the Empire with a caption that included “Remember, there’s always some truth in legends” in reference to an upcoming Rebels season 3 panel, and there’s a blue guy in a white uniform on the Where’s Waldo-style Celebration poster (which would seem pretty meaningless, but there are no other obvious Legends references, so it might be important). I think the most obvious lead we have right now was the fleet admiral from Aftermath, so hopefully we get some kind of resolution when Life Debt comes out next month.
Do I remember seeing in another thread that '97 ESB is pretty much ready to go? Are we just waiting on subs for that? I popped in the Team Blu '97 ANH for the first time in ages earlier today, and that disc is a nostalgia machine. Can’t wait for a rainy day when the whole trilogy’s done and I can have myself a grade school-style marathon. Despecialized is what I go for nine times out of ten, but I have to admit that the '97 tapes were the ones I wore out as a kid, and as such there’s something incredibly evocative about them for me.
I don’t go in for the Rister/Machete order. I have no use for it because I’m so familiar with these movies that preserving the twist has no value, and I’ve only ever had one marathon with newbies who weren’t content to stick to the OT for the first dose and revisit the PT at a later date (we did indeed end up doing Machete for that). Still, I’ll play ball.
Star Wars in isolation: Theatrical cut with '77 crawl
OT marathon: Theatrical, SW with '81 crawl
Complete saga, release order: Theatrical OT ('81 crawl for ANH), theatrical PT, theatrical TFA
Complete saga, chronological order: '11 PT, '04 or '11 OT, theatrical TFA
Rister/Machete: Same as chronological, minus TFA
OT plus ST: Theatrical (SW w/'81 crawl) or '97 OT, theatrical TFA (and VIII and IX eventually)
The presence of the OT Blu-rays might appear disconcerting, but I almost never do those viewing orders anyway. '97 OT with TFA isn’t something I’ve actually done, but I’m planning to give it a go once Team Blu finishes their version.
My litmus test for rumors like this is whether or not they contain anything that couldn’t be arrived at with the info we already have. We’ve seen the tree, we’ve heard certain casting rumors that tie in with this, and the rest is just fanfic with those things as a jumping off point.
Developing a personal canon isn’t really compatible with how I like to enjoy this sort of fiction with big, sprawling universes. A big part of the appeal of Star Wars, and LOTR, and A Song of Ice ad Fire, etc. is the fact that I’m given access to this world I had nothing to do with creating in which I can poke around and look under rocks, so to speak. I find that picking and choosing what I want to “count” for myself makes me too much of a participant to be able to immerse myself as an observer the way I like to do. So, I guess I just accept the official canon (with Legends as an alternate timeline), and I focus on the stuff I like, and I don’t dwell on the stuff I don’t.
Madeleine E. by Gabriel Blackwell. It’s almost beyond simple description, but it’s essentially a collection of disjointed quotations from existing essays and stories mixed with snippets of original fiction all revolving around Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and an elusive sort of narrative eventually emerges from all of these fragments. I cannot put the thing down. If you’re into Hitchcock, or metafiction, or Nabokovian parodies of academia, I can’t stress enough how much you should seek this one out.
Never understood the disdain for “Sheev”. It’s no dumber or better than 80% of other Star Wars names. Certainly not as bad as the last couple decades of ridiculous Darth names.