Cinematic brilliance, right there.
Today is, of course, May the Fourth, which has been declared Star Wars Day in recent years. The pun actually originates with Margaret Thatcher, who became Prime Minister of Britain on May 4, 1979. Her party took out a congratulatory advertisement which read, “May the Fourth be with you, Maggie.”
The pun experienced a re-awakening in recent years, most significantly last year, with Star Wars celebrations taking place in Toronto, Ontario. We here at AtomicToasters are not above leaping aboard bandwagons, and are only too happy to join in the fun. So we’re throwing you a User Input today that should give you such a plethora of options for responses that you’ll feel like Anakin Skywalker, looking for something to whine about.
What is the absolute worst line from any Star Wars feature?
I should probably abstain from this discussion due to the fact that I find any film that doesn't include the line "I'm giving her all she's got Captain" to be a bit silly. I should also be working.
"It's not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than two meters."
Seriously? He's making a scruffy looking nerf herder look look like a class act.
I'm sure you've already talked about it lots but I don't remember reading it and I know you're a bit of a purist when it comes to your Trek so I must know. What were your thoughts on the JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek?
Hm. I almost want to do a whole separate user input on that. "User Input: The Post Where We Let tiberiuswise Rant About The New Star Trek Reboot If He So Desires".
Id be in favor of that if I thought it would get it out of my system. You know, as like a community service effort. Sadly I think the only real option is for everyone to just tune me out.
Ok, so instead of community service we're gunna have to have an intervention. Got it.
Thanks for the answer.
Short version, I approve. What is not to love? Kirk is a lovable egomaniac with a heart of gold. Spock is a cool alien with a sense of duty, respect and appreciation for his human shipmates. McCoy is a crusty curmudgeon who overreacts to everything, often misses the point and yet somehow keeps the peace. For a socially inept nerd, they remain the gold standard of friends I wish i had in real life.
I could do with a bit less lens flare but the fact that they brought back the mini-skirt makes up for a lot.
also Simon Pegg FTW
and the green girl
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Oh yeah, he was also in Star Wars… http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Deep_Roy
Oh year, and Doctor Who…
I've just come to expect the bad jokes, but I still wince in the scene from Attack of the Clones where they get electrocuted while flying a speeder through something electrical. When they emerge from the other side, Obiwan quips, "that was short."
"from any Star Wars feature?" you say?
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"Hey, anyone want some ice?"
I refuse to even acknowledge Family Guy's existence anymore.
"Aren't you a little short for a storm trooper?" – By whose standards? They were demonstrably shit soldiers, so what standards did they really have?
considering they were clones (as we learned later on), a short one would be a bit odd.
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And seriously, the only way that they could have made him more of an offensive racial sterotype would have been to have the character wear blackface. No one was bothered by this?
Meh, that's not part of the canon – it belongs under 'gross stereotypes found in random sci-fi movies'.
Is it mitigated by the fact that the other natives are doing this:
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practically any time they have to deal with him? It's clear that within his own culture and civilization, he's not representative; he's a moron.
Diogenes face-palm: "I'm a citizen of the universe, but that thing…that thing just needs to be shot."
"I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life."
I almost left the theater. Copying the action sequences from B-Movie swashbucklers is one thing. Copying the dialog from tawdry melodramas outside of a total spoof is incomprehensible. Someone else agrees with me, so I'm not wrong.
http://blogs.starwars.com/anakinside1/15
Anakin: "You are so beautiful!"
Padme: "It's only because I'm so in love."
Anakin: "No, it's because I'm so in love with you!"
An audible groan went up in the theatre when that line came out, and someone called out, "Oh, come ON!" Seriously, why not just call each other snookie-wookums and start talking baby-talk to one another. This dialogue breaks the cardinal rule of script-writing: SHOW, DON'T TELL. If you can't demonstrate it properly without saying it outright, the scene should probably be restructured so you can. How come the Clone Wars cartoons can figure this out, but the feature movies can't?
I heard this was because George Lucas took on the duty of script writing, against all warnings. Wikipedia seems to have a delicately worded entry on the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_clones…
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