Yeah, and did you notice how, in the movie Luke’s like really skinny, but in the poster, his shirt’s ripped open and he has all these rippling muscles? Weird.
I know this guy that draws all the time, and he says the same two guys who did the poster also did drawings for those Hobbit books. He wanted me to read them, so I tried the first one, but it was really boring, with people talking like Shakespeare or something. I can’t imagine that anyone would ever make a movie out of those books.
I think I know which Hobbit book you mean. “The Friendship of the Bracelet”? Some kind of jewelry item? Whatever. Yeah. It was pretty boring. Hooo-boy. If anyone ever did make a movie out of those books, I bet it would totally bomb! Probably wouldn’t last more than a week in the theatres before it gets yanked. And I’d pity the actors who would agree to be in that movie. Prolly kill their chances to get roles in any other movies.
I read that book, but it was kind of slow. If you want to see a COOL story about magic and stuff, check out “Wizards” by the same dude who did “Fritz the Cat.” Hey, I bet if HE did those Hobbit books, he could make them rock.
I’m not a real big science-fiction fan. I went to see that “Star War” movie because it was directed by a fellow named George Lucas, and he did this marvelous little slice-of-life comedy called “American Graffiti.” But I was pleasantly surprised that “Star War” was an entertaining film.
What really impressed me about Lucas is that he’s not afraid to change and do different things. He had a hit with “American Graffiti,” about cars and cruisin’ and rock-n-roll, but he wasn’t playing it safe. He switched gears and did an amusing science-fiction film. I’d say he is one of the top American directors to watch. He’s not going to rest on his laurels. I predict he’s going to take some big risked and do movies that range the entire spectrum.
As for who’s going to be a big star out of these two movies, I don’t think there’s any doubt it’s going to be Paul LeMat, from “Graffiti.” Man, he really has presence.
What I’d love to see George Lucas do is try to adopt some of the Marvel comic book heroes for the big screen. Marvel always seems to get stuck with movies and cartoons that really suck. With a true auteur like Lucas at the helm, it could be pure cinematic gold. I hope he does one of the hipper Marvel characters – like Howard the Duck. Man, that’d be great.
A Star Wars video game?!? A “totally realistic” Star Wars video game?!?!!
You have got to be joking! Such a thing would be technologically impossible!
First, you’d have to have color graphics. All of the video games out on the market today have black-and-white graphics. (Some of them use colored overlays, but that doesn’t count.)
Second, you’d have to have a first-person perspective, unlike those pong and racing-car games (and unlike that Space War game where you and a friend shoot at each others’ space ships, which right now is the most advanced video game on the market).
Third, you’d have to have the game speak in the voices of the characters from the movie. There’s no way the sound system of a video game can reproduce anything as sophisticated as human speech!
Seriously, dude, whoever told you about a Star Wars video game must have been completely delusional. The technology to accomplish such a feat won’t be available until at least 1981!
Hey! No one’s mentioned how great is it that old dude from those Hammer Horror films plays Darth Vader’s boss! He’s too cool to die in the Death Star- I bet he escaped like Vader did.
Wouldn’t it be REALLY cool if Chris Lee, who was with that old dude in the Hammer films, is really playing Darth Vader?
Btw- I saw Chris in bikini briefs in that new James Bond film- GROSS!
Man, I don’t know. I just saw one of those things at Sears and they want like $1500 for them. And the tapes are like $99.95. For the price of a video recorder, I can almost buy myself a brand new Chevy Vega.
I hear that after Star Wars leaves the theaters, it might be available on one of those new-fangled “subscription TV” services. (They broadcast a “scrambled” TV signal that you have to rent special hardware to decode. I’ll bet they designed the scrambling to be so complicated that no one will ever figure out how to decode it without one of their descrambler boxes!)
I’m confused; which droids were the stormtroopers looking for, if it wasn’t the shiny metal guy and the dustbin?
Anway, When can I get one of those laser sword things? will they have them in the shops? - they’ll have to look exactly the same mind you, not just some light bulb and a crappy plastic tube or something (as if anyone would buy that).
Doi! That Lucas guy is writing Episodes 4, 5, and 6, and Alex Haley is writing Episodes 1, 2, and 3. Lucas is putting his part in the movie theatres, and Haley is putting his on tv at the same time. Lucas is calling his parts “Star Wars,” and Haley is calling his parts “Roots.”
If you had read the book by Haley, you would know that Alex Haley was a slave who went back to his homeland (-planet?), got super ticked about stuff and (spoiler alert) became Darth Vader. Didn’t you hear Darth Vader? That’s Alex Haley! I heard that Darth Vader is the guy from “The Exorcist” – James Earl Jones. Maybe Princess Leia is Regan’s sister, or maybe Darth Vader is the son of Obi Wan Kanobie and Regan (you know – the twirly-headed vomiting girl). (Another spoiler alert) Remember Malcolm X from “Roots”? He grows up to develop the fighter that bears his name.
One of my friends that works in a movie theatre said he saw something on his boss’ desk that said:
James Earl Jones as Alex Haley as Darth Vader in “Roots: The Empire Strikes Back!”
btw, Tracer, my Granddaddy has one of one of those subscription services, and if you wrap two coils of tin foil around the wire going to the tv (one to descramble the audio and one descramble the video), you can get all ten channels!
Myndephuquer, I really enjoyed that stream of conciousness effect you had going there.
You forgot to mention that Kunta Kinte from Roots will grow up to be the new Mr. Sulu on Star Trek. And Regan will become President of the United States and denounce the Evil Empire Or something like that.