Star Wars Holiday Special

Post by **Leisher** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:45 pm

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:04 pm

Hell, no.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:24 pm

Umm....

How did George Lucas come up with the gall to name a scary villain who wants to violently kill you MAUL, and name a loner protagonist SOLO, and name a fighter pilot SKYWALKER? Why did they stop there? Why Darth Vader and not EVIL ELECTRIC SWORD DAD?

Clearly that person doesn't know what Darth Vader means.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:38 pm

Tried to watch w my 11yo son. Made about 5 minutes in where the wookies start watching TV or whatever. OMG.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:47 pm

thibodeaux wrote:Tried to watch w my 11yo son. Made about 5 minutes in where the wookies start watching TV or whatever. OMG.

Follow it up with the damn spin-off cartoon about the Ewoks.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:34 am

TheCatt wrote:Clearly that person doesn't know what Darth Vader means.

Hmm.

Dark father? Dutch?

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 9:15 am

GORDON wrote:
TheCatt wrote:Clearly that person doesn't know what Darth Vader means.
Hmm.

Dark father? Dutch?

Dutch/German it's very close to Dark Father.

Although, Lucas says it's just a coincidence, and he didn't know that DV was Luke's father at the time he named him.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:30 pm

Although, Lucas says it's just a coincidence, and he didn't know that DV was Luke's father at the time he named him.

Lucas needs to go back to ripping off old Japanese films and stfu.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 4:40 pm

My latest view on Star Wars is that Lucas got lucky. He combined the chocolate of WWII air combat movies with the peanut-butter of Kurosawa samurai films, and it turned out to be pretty tasty. Add into that the fact that visually it was parsecs ahead of any other sci-fi films of the time (*cough*Logan's Run*cough*), and top it off with great sound design, and bam.

The prequels are just godawful.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 7:01 pm

I don't know about lucky. He convinced me he had talent after Star Wars, American Graffiti, and Indiana Jones. I'll grant you he needed loads of help to turn the bookends of that list into mega-franchises. His talents failed to progress beyond a certain sophomore level and his highly explosive, frenetic creative fuel ran out. Twice as bright, half as long and all that. He just went way, way above "twice."

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 9:48 pm

thibodeaux wrote:My latest view on Star Wars is that Lucas got lucky. He combined the chocolate of WWII air combat movies with the peanut-butter of Kurosawa samurai films, and it turned out to be pretty tasty. Add into that the fact that visually it was parsecs ahead of any other sci-fi films of the time (*cough*Logan's Run*cough*), and top it off with great sound design, and bam.

The prequels are just godawful.

I first said he got lucky on November 21, 2010.

http://www.dtman.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=7;t=10670

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:43 pm

He was M. Night before M. Night

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:16 pm

thibodeaux wrote:Tried to watch w my 11yo son. Made about 5 minutes in where the wookies start watching TV or whatever. OMG.

It's awful. We skipped ahead, still bad, but my 5 you wants to keep watching.