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DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Squee!

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 28, 2014 16:47

Ok, I can't say anything from the last nine years has made me excited about Star Wars, but that has.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

American Nervoso wrote:

Ok, I can't say anything from the last nine years has made me excited about Star Wars, but that has.

I don't understand why, it's just a load of random imagery. I realise that's pretty much the point of a 'teaser' but how can you get excited about stuff that has no really meaning or content? And that's leaving aside the teeth-gratingly stupid 'gruff' voice over and the fan-wanky light sabre.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Xwing! Falcon! Tie Fighters!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

No sure about the hilt on the lightsaber, you'd have someone's eye out with that if you're not careful!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Also... Non-jango troopers?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

DavPaz wrote:

Xwing! Falcon! Tie Fighters!

Though yeah, the sabre crosspiece is a properly dumb idea

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

DavPaz wrote:

Also... Non-jango troopers?

Not clones, innit?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Nov 28, 2014 18:04

DavPaz wrote:

Also... Non-jango troopers?

Most weren't clones after the clone wars anyway.

Also, could be a goodie in a trooper outfit, a la Han and Luke.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 28, 2014 18:06

Bamba wrote:

American Nervoso wrote:

Ok, I can't say anything from the last nine years has made me excited about Star Wars, but that has.

I don't understand why, it's just a load of random imagery. I realise that's pretty much the point of a 'teaser' but how can you get excited about stuff that has no really meaning or content? And that's leaving aside the teeth-gratingly stupid 'gruff' voice over and the fan-wanky light sabre.

You wouldn't understand.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Anyone who isn't getting a massive SQUEEEE on over this is irretrievably broken.

First Born - "Han fixed the bit Lando broke, then?" Very nice touch.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 3:52

I should probably watch Star Wars.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

Mimi is broken. Russ what did you do with her to break her so bad?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Slightly Green wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

Mimi is broken. Russ what did you do with her to break her so bad?

Self answering question. Just had to be around!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I think Russ put Mimi off Star Wars with all of his obsessive Youtube review videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xscqrVq_88s

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

Grown up cynical eyes are cruel to Star Wars

TheVision · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 11:52

Star Wars has done enough damage to make Star Wars dead to me.

krazywookie · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 14:37

Pretty sure I'd want a cross guard on my lightsabre really.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Slightly Green wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

Mimi is broken. Russ what did you do with her to break her so bad?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

DavPaz wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

Grown up cynical eyes are cruel to Star Wars

I thought this was probably it. I watched it a year or so ago for the first time and it was just bad. The acting seemed really stunted from everyone but one guys who dies early on (Guinness). Everything looked like plastic and the script was poor at best.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

If you are watching the original Star Wars for the first time, I highly recommend going for the Despecialized Edition, which you can find somewhere on the internet.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 22:41

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I agree with Mimi.

It's quite pap, really.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 23:03

X-wings. Awesome.

I can't wait.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 23:38

DavPaz wrote:

Also... Non-jango troopers?

They look to be storm troopers not clone troopers.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sat Nov 29, 2014 23:39

krazywookie wrote:

Pretty sure I'd want a cross guard on my lightsabre really.

Yes me too

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Mimi wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

Grown up cynical eyes are cruel to Star Wars

I thought this was probably it. I watched it a year or so ago for the first time and it was just bad. The acting seemed really stunted from everyone but one guys who dies early on (Guinness). Everything looked like plastic and the script was poor at best.

It's sad that we can't be friends any more.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Nov 30, 2014 0:30

Mimi wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

Grown up cynical eyes are cruel to Star Wars

I thought this was probably it. I watched it a year or so ago for the first time and it was just bad. The acting seemed really stunted from everyone but one guys who dies early on (Guinness). Everything looked like plastic and the script was poor at best.

SPOILERS!!!

myp · **Posted:** Sun Nov 30, 2014 0:54

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Young Ones is pretty good. Micheal Shannon x Post-Apocalypse.

Bit of a shame there wasn't a bit where he went on University Challenge though.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

KovacsC wrote:

krazywookie wrote:

Pretty sure I'd want a cross guard on my lightsabre really.

Yes me too

The little light saber things are stupid, though. Also pointless, because the point where the light saber meets the hilt would be where the cross guard is most useful, and thats just normal light saber hilt material.

Now if it had a big cortosis crossguard then...

:nerd:

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:11

Pundabaya wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

krazywookie wrote:

Pretty sure I'd want a cross guard on my lightsabre really.

Yes me too

The little light saber things are stupid, though. Also pointless, because the point where the light saber meets the hilt would be where the cross guard is most useful, and thats just normal light saber hilt material.

Now if it had a big cortosis crossguard then...

:nerd:

So a modified fictional sword is silly

krazywookie · **Posted:** Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:30

Nah its fine, the radius of the opponents light saber means that it won't be able to touch the hilt. Not reeeeeealy an edged weapon is it?
/adenoids :nerd:

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Transformers 4 is almost a good as the first one.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Transformers 4 is almost a good as the first one.

Wow that bad?

Open Windows was pretty disappointing. I loved the director's previous movies, which were both an interesting premise with fantastic execution. Open Windows was an interesting premise but the film just didn't work. For the most part the entire film just a view of the protagonist's desktop, with windows showing views from various cameras. I didn't really feel much of a connection to any of the characters, it seems to spend the entire film explaining what's happening, but you never really get a sense of a coherent story. The way it is shot feels far more like an unsuccessful attempt at mitigating a small budget whilst still having a Hollywood actor in the lead role, rather than a stylistic choice. Not recommended.

Los Cronocrímenes and Extraterrestrial (2011) are both highly recommended though.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Transformers 4 is almost a good as the first one.

I gave up about 5 hours in. Utter tosh

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

LewieP wrote:

If you are watching the original Star Wars for the first time, I highly recommend going for the Despecialized Edition, which you can find somewhere on the internet.

Topher Grace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topher_Grace) made a version of the prequels with all the shit taken out, all 3 films done in 85 minutes and apparently it was excellent, but he never released it.
http://cerealprize.com/trailers/redux-of-the-jedi

Then it turns out he did 2 edits, and both of them are out there, and then someone found them and has recut the best part of both of them, and made a single movie from them...

and here it is:

http://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/co ... text=10000?

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

If you're watching Star Wars for the first time I highly recommend watching which ever version is easiest to get your hands on because Jesus Christ who cares. Fucking fanboys.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

I'm not really a Star Wars fanboy or anything. I just think they are pretty good movies.

But the original releases are definitely better, and I don't see why anyone would want to watch the worse versions of a film, other than curiosity to see the differences, which would also require having seen the originals anyway.

Edit: There is also The Phantom Edit of Episode One which seemed like an improvement but not by much to me.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Trooper wrote:

LewieP wrote:

If you are watching the original Star Wars for the first time, I highly recommend going for the Despecialized Edition, which you can find somewhere on the internet.

Topher Grace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topher_Grace) made a version of the prequels with all the shit taken out, all 3 films done in 85 minutes and apparently it was excellent, but he never released it.
http://cerealprize.com/trailers/redux-of-the-jedi

Then it turns out he did 2 edits, and both of them are out there, and then someone found them and has recut the best part of both of them, and made a single movie from them...

and here it is:

http://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/co ... text=10000?

I've downloaded that and am quite keen to see how it all works as one movie. Apparently Jake Lloyd has no remaining dialogue

myp · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 15:16

Meesa hope Jar-Jar is still in it!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

He has one scene I think.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

I quite liked The Hunger Games, though it is a bit thin, action-wise. Going in with low expectations worked for me.

After, Kajaki. A true story of the British Army in Afghanistan; not sure it has to be seen on the big screen, and the warning 'graphic description of wounds' is spot on, but it is brilliantly done and stayed with me for some time afterwards.

BertyBasset · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 334

Just watched the latest Kevin Smith film "TUSK".

Crikey, it's strange, and nothing like his earlier films (Clerks etc.).

Seems to nick ideas from horror film "The Human Centipede" and mix it up with a mixture of slapstick and black comedy.

Johnny Depp is in it (though I only realised it was him after he'd been on-screen for about 10 minutes - he has a ludicrous French accent and lots of facial hair).

Is it good ? Probably not. Is it interesting and worth watching once out of curiousity? Um..yes, I think....

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Watching the Star Wars edit. Episode 1 is completely excised apart from the Darth Maul fight!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Deleted scenes! Portman midriff!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Still too much whiny Anakin. Awful acting. Just awful

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

He killed them all! Like animals!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

The alien colluseum from episode 2 is still awesome.

More Portman midriff!

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

Watched The Inbetweeners 2 last night, so rude and parts of it make you cringe as those guys as such clowns.

Made me laugh at lot though.

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