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Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

by Chris Laverty

Saturday night and Sunday morning. Folded: Star Wars status updates (actually really funny) The hardest man ever (hairy) Cold Stone Creamery (it is very, very easy to understand why there is a weight problem in America) Assassin’s Creed II is out (and very good too apparently. Though who’s got time to play all these games [...]

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WEBTHUMP! Friday 20 February 2009

by Stuart Heritage

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: Where are they now? – Metromix

5 – The world’s longest list of Star Wars quotes that have a word replaced by ‘pants’ – Keeperoflists

4 – Who was dressed horribly at the Brits? Oh, these people – Popsugar

3 – East European lolcats translated into English. In a word: mournful – Rolcats

2 – Today’s lesson: Finnish big band jazz isn’t nearly as awful as it sounds – Quimsy

1 – Warning: this is INCREDIBLY gruesome – I Am Bored

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VIDEO: Darth Vader Terrorises Microsoft

by David Schwartz

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 [...]

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WEBTHUMP! Tuesday 14 October 2008

by Stuart Heritage

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 – Save the Colony Club. Ta – Savethecolonyclub

6 – Acorn muffins! – Massrecipes

5 – Ringo Starr hates you – Holy Moly

4 – Salma Hayek’s boobs continue their slow invasion of Salma Hayek – Heatworld

3 – Posters from the war, posters from the way – Flickr

2 – Robin Cooper is possibly a genius. Here’s six and a half minutes of evidence – Videojug

1 – The album we can’t stop listening to, two years after we first mentioned it: Songs For Nao. Listen to it entirely here – Lastfm

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Movie Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

by hecklerspray staff

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 [...]

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Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

by Chris Laverty

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 of weeks back. You probably didn’t watch it) Team [...]

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Top 10 Star Wars Moments

by David Schwartz

Have you ever thought about which are your favourite moments in Star Wars? It’s tougher than you think? Bigger than Jabba’s belly, in fact.

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.

So here goes:

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Top Six Disappointing Star Wars Characters

by David Schwartz

tar 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…

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George Lucas Shoots Storm-Trooper Legal Laser

by Shawn Lindseth

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. 1000 apologies.

A cliff-hanger we won’t ruin for you is that the guy George Lucas is currently suing some guy for making Storm Trooper armor and selling it without permission – well that guy ends up being George’s father.

Sorry. 1000 apologies.

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Top 5 Best & Worst Star Wars Videogames

by hecklerspray staff

Star Wars, Star Wars, Star bloody sodding Wars. It’s still everywhere even though it’s supposed to have finished and Lucas is supposed to be firmly locked in his ranch rolling about on his vast piles of money whilst dressed as Jar Jar sodding Binks.

But no, he just can’t leave it alone. Sodding sod. There’s the upcoming not-a-movie movie, the TV series (The Wire crossed with Star Wars?! Yes please thanks) and the new videogame The Force Unleashed all on the horizon, and it’s unlikely that things will slow down any time soon.

But what does all this talk do? Well, it reminds us of all the Star Wars crap we’ve had rammed down our throats for three decades. Specifically, it reminds us of Star Wars videogames and how mixed a bag they’ve managed to be over the years. Some have been that good that you can’t help but immediately fornicate with the disc/cartridge/arcade machine (risky as the latter may be, with it being a public situation), whereas many more have been so bad it makes you wish Hitler had won.

Nevertheless, in our endless quest to list the tits off everything, here we present our definitive, mega ultra, never-to-be-questioned top five best and worst Star Wars games ever. Now you may think this list has been done a thousand times before all over the internerd and, well, you’re right. But shut up, because this time hecklerspray is talking and you better damn well listen.

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