Articles tagged with: Star Wars
WEBTHUMP! Friday 20 February 2009
10 - What's that? You want to be genuinely repulsed? Oh, alright then... 9 - 50 quite good blogs about food - The Times 8 - And now, in startlingly unlikely supergroup news - Bestweekever 7 - Here's an unusually long palindrome. Hooray for palindromes! - Neatorama 6 - The Cosby Show kids: ...
VIDEO: Darth Vader Terrorises Microsoft
Microsoft workers are not exactly the sharpest tools in the box. How else can you explain why one of their customer service staffers failed to recognise someone 'pretending' to be Darth Vader? The guy on the end of the phone is not even pretending to be the Dark Lord of the Sith, he's simply playing ...
WEBTHUMP! Tuesday 14 October 2008
10 - "Oi worrrnt tham aloive!" Dave Prowse's original Darth Vader - I Am Bored 9 - Edge goes to TGS to prematurely make us feel bad for not being able to afford a bunch of nice-looking games - Edge 8 - Forget everything you were told about The Happening. It looks awesome! 7 ...
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Say what you want about the Star Wars prequels, it's still an unparalleled cinematic experience when the lights go down and the familiar John Williams fanfare kicks in with the logo and text crawl. So it's a feeling of impending cinematic doom when this new prequel/middle/sequel gets this simplest of iconic moments wrong! Straight away you feel that your heading downhill with The Clone Wars as it replaces the text crawl with a voiceover narration that feels as jarring as it does patronising. As we get plumped straight into the action we have to get used to the new aesthetic style that matches a wooden finish with that of the prequel trilogy acting. It also dumps the classic musical themes of the saga, instead opting for, among other things, rock-style electric guitar. It's as bad as it sounds, literally!
Say what you want about the Star Wars prequels, it's still an unparalleled cinematic experience when the lights go down and the familiar John Williams fanfare kicks in with the logo and text crawl. So it's a feeling of impending cinematic doom when this new prequel/middle/sequel gets this simplest of iconic moments wrong! Straight away you feel that your heading downhill with The Clone Wars as it replaces the text crawl with a voiceover narration that feels as jarring as it does patronising. As we get plumped straight into the action we have to get used to the new aesthetic style that matches a wooden finish with that of the prequel trilogy acting. It also dumps the classic musical themes of the saga, instead opting for, among other things, rock-style electric guitar. It's as bad as it sounds, literally!
Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is
This week’s list. Folded: Son of Rambow on DVD (the most heart-warming movie experience of the year so far. Blub) Cool retro poster for Burn After Reading (God, how good does this film look?) John Akii-Bua (interesting documentary on BBC4 about this legendary athlete a couple ...
This week’s list. Folded: Son of Rambow on DVD (the most heart-warming movie experience of the year so far. Blub) Cool retro poster for Burn After Reading (God, how good does this film look?) John Akii-Bua (interesting documentary on BBC4 about this legendary athlete a couple ...
Top 10 Star Wars Moments
Have you ever thought about which are your favourite moments in Star Wars? It's tougher than you think. For starters, there are six films. Although, to be honest, the three prequels rarely entered our minds when coming up with the list. Then there is the fact that we had to somehow whittle it down to just 10, which is almost impossible. It could seriously have been a top 100, but there are limits, right? And we really wanted to come up with the perfect 10. Please feel free to tell us your favourites. Anyway, here goes:
Have you ever thought about which are your favourite moments in Star Wars? It's tougher than you think. For starters, there are six films. Although, to be honest, the three prequels rarely entered our minds when coming up with the list. Then there is the fact that we had to somehow whittle it down to just 10, which is almost impossible. It could seriously have been a top 100, but there are limits, right? And we really wanted to come up with the perfect 10. Please feel free to tell us your favourites. Anyway, here goes:
Top Six Disappointing Star Wars Characters
Star Wars fans have had to deal with their fair share of disappointments. Return of the Jedi ending in a teddy bear's picnic is one. Another was watching The Phantom Menace. But maybe as Star Wars fans we see the series through rose-tinted spectacles. Maybe - and it hurts us to say this – it was never that good in the first place. Maybe as impressionable young kids we were just taken for the ride of our life through a galaxy far, far away and totally missed the dodgy script, hammy acting and bloody Ewoks. All right, maybe not. That's just crazy talk. But it has made me start thinking about things that could have been better throughout the series – not just the three prequels. What if the Jawas rather than the Ewoks helped the Rebels defeat the Empire on Endor? Would that have been better? Maybe. Would it have been even better if Yoda had done some actual fighting in The Empire Strikes Back? No, probably not. Oh, and would the world have been a better place if Jar Jar Binks had died horribly at the start of Phantom Menace? Definitely. So what about the characters? Were there any characters that just didn't quite live up to expectations? Quite possibly. Here's six...
Star Wars fans have had to deal with their fair share of disappointments. Return of the Jedi ending in a teddy bear's picnic is one. Another was watching The Phantom Menace. But maybe as Star Wars fans we see the series through rose-tinted spectacles. Maybe - and it hurts us to say this – it was never that good in the first place. Maybe as impressionable young kids we were just taken for the ride of our life through a galaxy far, far away and totally missed the dodgy script, hammy acting and bloody Ewoks. All right, maybe not. That's just crazy talk. But it has made me start thinking about things that could have been better throughout the series – not just the three prequels. What if the Jawas rather than the Ewoks helped the Rebels defeat the Empire on Endor? Would that have been better? Maybe. Would it have been even better if Yoda had done some actual fighting in The Empire Strikes Back? No, probably not. Oh, and would the world have been a better place if Jar Jar Binks had died horribly at the start of Phantom Menace? Definitely. So what about the characters? Were there any characters that just didn't quite live up to expectations? Quite possibly. Here's six...
George Lucas Shoots Storm-Trooper Legal Laser
If The Empire Strikes Back had culminated with Luke Skywalker suing in a court of law to get his hand back, then that movie would have been more of a legal drama than a sci-fi fantasy. That's just something we've been thinking about. The jury could have been made up of those blue guys that play the flute and maybe a cute banana with eyeballs that roll back in his head when he’s hungry or scared. Now picture that banana on a lunch pale. Money. That's money right there. We’re 90% sure that’s going to be the premise for the upcoming live action Star Wars TV series. Luke finally gets his hand back in the second season and from then on he stores it safely in a split-open tauntaun. We just ruined the season-one cliff-hanger finale for you. A thousand apologies. A cliff-hanger we won’t ruin for you is that George Lucas is currently suing some guy for making Storm-trooper armour and selling it without permission – and that guy ends up being George’s father. Sorry. 1,000 apologies.
If The Empire Strikes Back had culminated with Luke Skywalker suing in a court of law to get his hand back, then that movie would have been more of a legal drama than a sci-fi fantasy. That's just something we've been thinking about. The jury could have been made up of those blue guys that play the flute and maybe a cute banana with eyeballs that roll back in his head when he’s hungry or scared. Now picture that banana on a lunch pale. Money. That's money right there. We’re 90% sure that’s going to be the premise for the upcoming live action Star Wars TV series. Luke finally gets his hand back in the second season and from then on he stores it safely in a split-open tauntaun. We just ruined the season-one cliff-hanger finale for you. A thousand apologies. A cliff-hanger we won’t ruin for you is that George Lucas is currently suing some guy for making Storm-trooper armour and selling it without permission – and that guy ends up being George’s father. Sorry. 1,000 apologies.
