Star Wars Appreication Thread

[playstopause]

Huge fan here too.

Star wars has to be the movie i've seen the most (around a hundred times...). Also, it's the first time i sat in a cinema.

Had the figurines as a kid and all the other stuff (Millenium Falcon, At-At, X-Wing fighter, etc.). I have all the dvd's and i watch them a couple of times a year.

All I'm going to say about episode one is this: Jar Jar Binks.

Yeah... That one really turned into a child movie.

At last, "Revange of the sith" was not that bad at all. Out of the 3 episodes, it really had to be the best one. And it is.

 

[telecaster90]

I'm a big Star Wars fan. I've played/owned countless games (Pod Racer series, Jedi Knight series, the Episode 3 and 1 games, X-Wing for the PC, Rouge Squadron, Starfighter, Galactic Battlegrounds, KOTOR series, Battlefront series, Bounty Hunter, Clone Wars, Shadows of the Empire). I was also on a livejournal community where we roleplayed at Sith Lords in a post-episode 6 scenario. I was just reading it through a half an hour ago or so and it was pretty fun, now that I remember .

I pretty much agree with everything Naren said as well. I also had a Star Wars marathon a few days ago. If only the newest three didn't have such awkward dialouge (and Jar Jar ). It's a shame, becuase they are otherwise damn good movies. My favorite is Episode 5.

You are part of a rebel alliance and a traitor. Take him away!

All this talk about Star Wars reminds me of...

Randal: So they build another Death Star, right?
Dante: Yeah.
Randal: Now the first one they built was completed and fully operational before the Rebels destroyed it.
Dante: Luke blew it up. Give credit where it's due.
Randal:And the second one was still being built when they blew it up.
Dante: Compliments of Lando Calrissian.
Randal: Something just never sat right with me the second time they destroyed it. I could never put my finger on it-something just wasn't right.
Dante: And you figured it out?
Randal: Well, the thing is, the first Death Star was manned by the Imperial army-storm troopers, dignitaries- the only people onboard were Imperials.
Dante: Basically.
Randal: So when they blew it up, no prob. Evil is punished.
Dante: And the second time around...?
Randal: The second time around, it wasn't even finished yet. They were still under construction.
Dante: So?
Randal: A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers.
Dante: Not just Imperials, is what you're getting at.
Randal: Exactly. In order to get it built quickly and quietly they'd hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing and white uniforms.
Dante: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
(The Blue-Collar Man (Thomas Burke) joins them.)
Blue-Collar Man: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about?
Randal: The ending of Return of the Jedi.
Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
Randal: Like when?
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
Randal: No way!
Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.

 

[Durero]

^ Colin that Clerks quote is priceless!

 

[Naren]

You are part of a rebel alliance and a traitor. Take him away!

You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

 

[telecaster90]

Indeed!

 

[TomAwesome]

I was just watching that Clerks scene on Youtube last week! Great stuff.

 

[Durero]

"Impressive.....

Most impressive."



"You'll find I'm full of surprises."

 

[Durero]

You are part of a rebel alliance and a traitor. Take him away!

Isn't it "take her away"?

 

[NemesisTheory]

I'm a sorta big Star Wars fan. It was pretty much god to me when I was little up until I got crazy about GI Joe, He-Man, and Transformers. Return of the Jedi is one of the first movies I really remember seeing in the theater. I had tons of the toys and spent countless hours playing with them. I still enjoy almost all of the movies, except for the stupid bits when Anakin is a kid and some of the Jar Jar stuff. I am a huge fan of the New Jedi Order books. The Vong war is just amazingly creative and epic!

Scott

 

[Ancestor]

A New Hope, Empire and Return. Great. I'll never forget seeing the first one. Changed my life.

 

[Vegetta]

I'm a fan - as for the EU books I have only read a handful I like Michael Stackpole the best. I talk to R.A Salvatore' (killer of Chewbacca) son online a lot on War IRC) I have several figures (12') (limited edition/rare ones)

Supposedly a KOTOR mmo is in the works (should be an announcement here in a week or so)

 

[T_money419]

IT'S A TRAP!!

 

[noodles]

Especially about how cheesy the old 3 actually are. We probably don't notice bad dialogue & acting as much when we're kids, and I think most people have very romanticized memories about how good the old trilogy was. Don't get me wrong - I'm a huge fan of all 6 movies, but I kept watching 4-6 as an adult, so when 1-3 started being released I had no illusions of what to expect acting-wise, and I enjoyed them tremendously (often to my friend's bewilderment )
George Lucas can't write dialogue to save his life imo, but it's the quality of the overall story & underlying mythological themes that makes it work so well. He says himself that he's a visual storyteller and these days I find myself liking episodes 1-3 more than 4-6 because of the quality of the visuals, and especially because of the vastly superior martial arts scenes.

Sir Alec Guinness hated the movies for this very reason:

Reportedly answered one "Star Wars" fan's boast that he'd seen the first movie over a hundred times, with a nod and the words "Promise me you'll never watch it again." The boy was stunned, but his mother thanked Guinness.

[On how much he disliked working on Star Wars and his attempts to encourage George Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan Kenobi]: "And he agreed with me. What I didn't tell him was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me."

[during filming of Star Wars]: "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film. I like them well enough, but it's not an acting job, the dialogue - which is lamentable - keeps being changed and only slightly improved, and I find myself old and out of touch with the young."

 

[7slinger]

love the movies, empire is my fav...I get tired of the predictable happy endings that dominate hollywood.

when I was in college, this dude one year got some jarjar style glue-ons for his head and some 70's clothes and did halloween as "JarJarPornStar"...it was fucking awesome

 

[leatherface2]

You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.[i say this to my boss every day.lol

 

[7 Strings of Hate]

when 900 years old you reach, shred as good you will.

 

[Lucky Seven]

I used to love star wars. I read the entire Galaxy of Fear series when I was much younger. My aunt got me a subscription to the Star Wars magazine, even though I didn't really want it

 

[ZeroSignal]

I used to love star wars. I read the entire Galaxy of Fear series when I was much younger. My aunt got me a subscription to the Star Wars magazine, even though I didn't really want it

I used to have the galaxy of fear one where the planet tries to eat them!

Crazy!

 

[Lucky Seven]

I used to have the galaxy of fear one where the planet tries to eat them!

Crazy!

I've always wanted to know if the name of the planet "D'vouran" was trying to be a pun.

 

[kung_fu]

classic line...... i love it anyone else know any more classic lines?

I've always been fond of
"but I wanted to go to Toshi's station to pick up some power converters!"

I am also a huge fan of this series, and science fiction in general.