timdiggerm

Okay, yeah, he says email info@archive.org

Currently using my public teacher twitter account to talk to a guy who works for the Archive to see about getting it taken down

Tyrphanax said:

This thread makes me miss all the funny posters on OT.com.

 Okay, here you go

doubleofive said:

I found The Muppets to be one of those movies with so many callbacks as to be detrimental. I was reminded so many times of the better movies/moments that I decided that I would rather be watching them than the movie they were making.

 How did you feel about Bret McKenzie's songs?

DrCrowTStarwars said:

The Muppets returned to the big screen

The Muppet Show Intro Redux on that big screen was incredible.

doubleofive said:

I'd love to see "Original Henson Trilogy" and "90's Trilogy" Blu-ray sets. The fact that Treasure Island comes with Caper is odd to me.

 I had somehow failed to realize they were so easily groupable! So, maybe one more new one (although I don't know how likely that is)

Eff the new movies.

The sometimes motto of this site (except when it comes to Apes)

DominicCobb said:

ObiWanKennerobi, I think you're on the wrong site. 

 Because a discussion forum is only for people who agree?

Tyrphanax said:

Tobar said:

Doubtful, considering Filoni has confirmed that Stormtroopers are not clones. I believe their intentions are as they stated, revisiting the OT era and exploring the formation of the Rebellion.

Oddly enough, I just listened to him in the SDCC panel for the New Dawn book coming out featuring Hera and Kanan and he straight-up said that the due to the rapid aging of the clones, they have "aged out" of the stormtrooper corps. and because of the deterioration of Jango's DNA, many new recruits have been forced into service through fear of the Empire. There are no clones left in the Empire, more or less.

He explained that this was the reason that, by ANH, stormtroopers weren't great shots and seemed to be a little more incompetent.

 And so, yes, Rebels is connecting the OT to the PT.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Oh, I didn't like how Brian Wood said this

My plan is to pretend that nothing else exists other than ‘A New Hope,’ at least in the minds of the characters,

only to identify Vader as Anakin and throw allusions to the PT into the books anyway.

 Key part being "at least in the minds of the characters", I think.

I haven't seen Most Wanted, and it's been awhile for the others, but I mostly agree with your list. I'd put The Muppet Movie at the top, and move Take Manhattan down one or two, but in general I agree.

Tyrphanax said:

Lucy looks like abject shit. Just utter shit; all based on a thoroughly-debunked nonsense idea.

 This review was good: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/life-is-futile-so-heres-what-to-do-with-it-according-to-lucy-a-spoilereview/375006/

ObiWanKennerobi said:

I'm here because theforce.net banned me for sarcasm. I guess sarcasm is called "trolling" now on theforce.net. I'm going to be sarcastic, so don't ban me.

 No one here is ever sarcastic.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Tobar said:

Tyrphanax just pointed this my way:

Star Wars Rebels: A Look Ahead

 Hurumph. The script sounds awful and generic. Lines like "Helloooo Hyperspace!", "We're busted" and "You're good to go" where sentences I didn't want to hear in the Star Wars universe. More 1138 please... less 90210.

Anybody notice the use of the word "Padawan"? Sigh the PT rears it's ugly head already in the Disney universe. What's wrong with "Apprentice" anyway?

Finally do female characters have to put one hand on their hip and cock their heads to one side? Apparently they do.

Still the general OT vibe looks fun enough.

 So, other than the female pose thing, you're complaining about modern-audience-friendly dialogue and working within established continuity.

77FN said:

I like the bit where he mentions being back on familiar sets - the Falcon we already know about, but could he be referring to the Lars homestead, or perhaps Ben's old house? In a way I'd rather not know until I see the film next December - staying spoiler free is going to be a test in movie website news hunting self restraint. I'm not sure I'm upto it ;)

 You are reading and posting in the exact wrong thread.

AntcuFaalb said:

asterisk8 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I do consider the human characters of the universe descendants of humans from Earth, after all

 How can they be descendants of Earthlings if Star Wars happened "long ago"?

Ancestors, then, ala BSG.

 On an EU note, until they revealed that the Emperor or Thrawn or whoever destroyed it, I had always assumed that was the eventual fate of Outbound Flight.

Mark Hamill said:

Contractually obligated beards

DominicCobb said:

doubleofive said:

Accent, maybe. Exact same voice? No.

 But... he's a clone.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

This is all, of course, hilarious when combined with your avatar

No, because if you download Harmy's latest mkv, you'll happily find the 1.0, 2.0, 5.1 reconstruction, several different home releases and other language audio tracks.

Darth Id said:

That...is why you fail.

Pick up your visual scanning

Darth Id said:

Please do not get your hopes up that this will happen.

The climax of the Con is more likely to be the keynote speaker announcing that Adam from Girls will indeed go shirtless in Episode VII!!!!!!!

Edit: For a little perspective, look at this note regarding the mono soundtrack included in the new Criterion release of A Hard Day's Night.  For a real restoration/recreation of the OT, this same painstaking process would need to be done not just for the soundtrack, but for the entire film and optical effects.  There's no way anyone is doing this in the throes of EPISODE VII hyperventilation

I don't see why a separate team couldn't do it.

AntcuFaalb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Would an OUT blu ray be something they would announce at Comic con?

That would make sense to me. Wasn't SW77 first announced at a convention of some sort?

 The distant past aside, it's the sort of thing that gets announced at ComicCon these days.

AntcuFaalb said:

I think it's fucking amazing that a proper official release isn't being sold after the 10+ years this community has existed.

TEN. YEARS.

-_-

 To be fair, we're sort of a fringe group.

RX-24 said:

Sorry, newbie here. I was just wondering, Adywan, how you plan on handling Adywan's fall, in order to preserve the ESB surprise and in compliance with Ben's statements in ANH. I myself had recently been pondering a plot line of Maul as Kenobi's fallen pupil, who returns and is assumed to be Vader, while Anakin is presumed dead. This led me to thinking about what you might plan on doing. Thanks.

 Given the baddie-of-the-film nature of the prequels, it's not hard to have Obi leave Ani for dead, and we never see Ani again. A new bad guy shows up in the next movie, dressed in black, and Obi lies, saying "Oh yeah! That guy in black! HE killed your dad! Definitely not me!" as a means of helping motivate Luke to fight the Empire and cover his rear end.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Isn't Disney also infamous for all the subpar direct-to-video sequels they made to their classic animated films back in the late '90s-'00s?

 Yes, a practice they specifically halted in 2007: http://www.slashfilm.com/john-lasseter-saves-disney-from-direct-to-dvd-sequels/