It’s a pity that I’m blind through all this, I bet that I’m missing some memorable things, right now
Well, that’s close to the quote…. For the proper quote, make sure to watch after the credits…. And it’s fantastic….
Jun 012011
What if the Star Wars prequels were made by an impostor? That’s the story line of the video. George Lucas, after being kept in a secret prison for 20 years, escapes. And recruits a ragtag band of adventures to get revenge on the Fake George Lucas.
Jan 012011
I was literally rolling on the floor and laughing at this comedy advertisement for Star Wars Episode 3 – Force Unleashed Sketch. I loved it!
Javier Grillo-Marxuach, creator of The Middleman television series and a former producer on Lost, spent a whole year without Star Wars. Why would he do such a thing? And what did he learn from going cold turkey on Star Wars?
(See the Rest of the Story at My Year Without Star Wars.)
Oct 252010
I can’t describe it, it’s fantastic. Just watch it.
[Hand Wave] You will watch it again and again.
Matt Blum is my hero…Okay, maybe not… But he’s assembled a great list of low IQ things that the Star Wars Main Characters have done…. Take a look…
Have you ever watched a movie where a character figures out the answer to a complicated puzzle before you do, or makes some logical connection that you didn’t see until it was pointed out? I’ll bet it made you a little impressed by the character’s mental abilities. “Wow,” you may have thought, “that character sure is smart.”
Now, have you ever noticed that you don’t get that feeling at all while watching the Star Wars movies? Seriously, the main characters are supposed to be the elite — the crème de la crème of the galaxy far, far away — but without exception they make some of the most boneheaded decisions you’re ever likely to see.
Here, then, is the evidence I’ve gathered to prove this point. I will make a few references to the prequel trilogy, but am content that characters featured only in those movies can be proved idiots by simply referring to their dialogue. And the Clone Wars movie and series introduce far too many characters to deal with in a blog article. So I’ll be concerning myself primarily with the original trilogy.
Emperor Palpatine: You’re the leader of a powerful Galactic Empire, and you spent an enormous amount of time and resources building a giant planet-killing space station. Then the pesky rebels went and blew it all to bits, wasting all that investment and presumably killing many thousands of your troops. So what do you do as a followup? Why, build another one, of course! Now, perhaps that’s just hubris, not stupidity, but don’t you think you’d get the best engineering minds in your Empire to look over the plans to make sure they didn’t have a giant gaping flaw in them that could be exploited the same way the first one did? And don’t you think it might make just a little more sense to have the (“fully armed and operational”) Death Star generate its own protective shield, rather than situating the source on a nearby moon full of walking teddy bears? And of course, there’s no reason to pay attention to the mental state of your right-hand guy Darth Vader, even though you know his mind is easily manipulated because that’s how he became your right-hand man in the first place.
Word is the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back has been making the rounds on the web…without Lucasfilm’s OK. What didn’t make the final cut? A cloned Lando, Luke Skywalker’s twin sister Nellith, and a war with the Wampas.
According to Crave Online, Leigh Brackett’s 1978 script, known as “Star Wars Sequel,” laid to groundwork for the prequels. Brackett died of a cancer a month after finishing the script, leaving George Lucas – and then Lawrence Kasdan – the task of rewriting. What differed in Bracket’s first draft?
via What Did The Original Script For The Empire Strikes Back Look Like? – Movies – io9.
Why do I have the feeling that this is far too likely to be true? Do we welcome our Health Care Overlords in 2014?
