xhonzi

Vaderisnothayden said:

xhonzi said:

My shunning of Gaffer was meant to be funny too, in case my constant sarcasm didn't come off.

I'm sure everybody understood it.

 

YOU'RE BEGINNING TO SOUND LIKE A SEPARATIST!

C3PX, have you met my wife?

Ah, now I get it.  No, my mother will be giving me the one I bought.

My shunning of Gaffer was meant to be funny too, in case my constant sarcasm didn't come off.

I'm not sure where the confusion is coming from, but I did only buy one.  At least I think I did. 

YOU'RE BEGINNING TO SOUND LIKE A SEPARATIST!

I'm shunning you, Gaffer for your obviously pro-PT and therefore anti-OT ways.

Shunning beginning now:

SHUN!

So, I ran out today and bought the big-big Millennium Falcon at Toys R Us since it was 50% off.  I showed my wife and she rolled her eyes and told me my mother would be giving it to me for Christmas.

Am I on the wrong side of "cool geek" here, or am I doing okay?

Don't bother talking to him, aux...  he don't a ****.

It is OriginalTrilogy.com, after all...

;)

Wait, 20 - 30 extra pages?  Of what, I need to know if I need to upgrade.

The OT backstory (AKA "prequels") is kind of like you lie to your wife or to your parents.  The idea and the logic might seem pretty good on the surface, but if you dig deeper or take a good hard look at it, the inconsistencies will shine through and theres no way to the lie going.  I've done my fair share or rethinking the prequels and there are definitely problems with the source material (that we've gone into ad nauseum in these forums).

Maybe you're right, VINH.  Maybe we just don't want prequels because they can't be good no matter who writes them.

:(

Let's just say, "We're already building another one."

So, I had another precious conversation with my now 6 year old son last week.  We were driving in the car, and he asked me:

Him:  Dad?

Me: Yeah?

Him: How did Darth Vader fall to the Dark Side?

Me: Um....  Nobody knows.  They never made a movie about it, so nobody knows...

Him: NOBODY KNOWS?!?!?!

Me: Nope.  You just have to use your own imagination.

Him: Oh....

Me: So, how do you think Darth Vader fell to the Dark Side?

Him: Hmmm.... I bet someone- a bad buy! told him that if he fell to the Dark Side that he could have everything he ever wanted.

Me:  Mmmm... that's pretty good.  So, if a bad guy came to you and told you that, would you fall to the Dark Side?

Him: Noooo....  If it was a bad guy, I wouldn't believe him if he told me that.

Me: But what if he made you think he was a good guy?

Him: Hmmmm.....

Me: Would you believe a good guy if he told you that?

Him: I guess so...?

Ah, the innocence of youth untainted by the Prequels or Special Editions.

"He rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone."

Man, that is awesome. That's going in my sig.

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DarthBo said:

EyeShotFirst said:

Hey Ady,

How about you do something similar to Luke's hand. Come on it looks like crap LOL.

 

Sorry, but the one on the left looks a lot more realistic to me.

You changed the colour from something that looks like real skin to something that looks like it belongs to a corpse...

And why would the inside of Luke's arm need bright blue LEDs and glowing tubes?!

 Duh!  In the future, everything has blue LEDs in it.  Cars, PCs, robot hands.... everything!

Ground Effects in my arm FTW!

C3PX said:

And your grandma was a promiscuous liar.

 

Wow, I wonder how much farther this thread is going to go off topic...

 And your father smelt of elderberries!

(I'm not too late for this joke, am I?)

I see what you did there...  Farts... very clever.

Great!  Now bring on the real prequels!

(that's all I'm saying)

((that's all))

ChainsawAsh said:

I remember it being a good book (though the only two film-related books I've kept have been 'The Filmmaker's Handbook,' which is like a Bible for anyone who's starting out in film; and 'In the Blink of an Eye,' a fantastic book on editing written by Walter Murch), but I don't remember seeing the Star Wars thing in there.  I may have skimmed over it, or it might have been an older edition that didn't have that picture.  It was only two years ago, though ... I really don't remember.

 In the Blink of an Eye is a great one.  I loaned it to my brother who lost it for a year.  When my parents moved their couch, they found my mangled book under one of the pontoons.  I put it under my copy of the Filmmaker's Handbook for a couple months and that seemed to straighten it out.

They really should have stopped after 72...

I think they'll do digital (or mini "bigature") sets.  If you think about it, keeping physical sets around for several years during a TV show becomes very expensive- therefore the number of locations is kept low to keep costs in control.  With the digital sets, they can create new ones every week without scrapping the old ones.  If you have a scene that takes place in an old set, it only takes a few minutes (or hours) to break it out of storage as oposed to rebuilding it or whatnot.

For my money, the mini sets seem to look real without costing a lot of money to make or store.

Twice.