I don't even LIKE Star Wars anymore - Page 4

Just search online for "Gary Kurtz" and "Episode 7". You'll come across a couple of interviews done with him around the time of the release of the Special Editions and The Phantom Menace. Kurtz left after Jedi because he felt George was compromising the original plan they had for the saga's story.......so he went off and helped Henson out with The Dark Crystal instead.


Yep. You can thank Coppola, Spielberg, Milius, De Palma, Scorese, and a handful of others for helping him weed that stuff out of the first film............Gary Kurtz & Lawrence Kasdan for keeping it out of Empire and Jedi. It always seemed to me that Lucas went back to his notes for the prequels and out of the material that had yet to be used, he picked what was least interesting (the politics, as opposed to the adventure) and ran with it. I still wish to this that he'd brought Kasdan back in to help out with the screenplays for the prequels.

Cool find. The first 4 pages of the original EMPIRE treatment.

Lucas at the White House correspondents Dinner..

Huffington Post says, that's his girlfriend? Didn't know he had gone over to the dark side...hopefully she stirs some new creative fire in him.

Lucas's date is pretty cute. And certainly a vast improvement over his companion of the last several years:

NSFW:
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/3...arch=star_wars

This Tuesday (May 19th) will be the 10th anniversary of the release of Phantom Menace. It's amazing to think that it's been 10 years, but I suppose with all of the bad shit that's happened, it kind of does seem that long ago. In a galaxy close, close by.

I've been chatting with a friend about this. He and I were mega-SW nerds before this landmark date. Like I'm sure a whole hell of a lot of other people were. Sitting down at the midnight showing on the 19th, as John Williams' score played and the opening scroll went by, my love of SW was at it's 'adult' peak (there was no way I loved SW as much then as I did as a kid. I'm 34 now, by the way). Like most others, as soon as the movie took us to Naboo, that was the beginning of the end.

Nothing new here, just wanted to reminisce a little. I honestly do miss loving SW so much. I was also telling my buddy that I look forward to having kids, because I know my little nerds will love SW, and I can't wait to see the world through their eyes. I know that will rekindle some of the old love.

Maybe.

thats AWESOME

Yea, I got that book when it came out and it was a fantastically exhaustive read. Great stuff.

I think it's a little unfair to say Lucas' friends did anything more than tell him what they didn't think was working. They helped by being a more detached audience, but Lucas is still the one who had to suffer that writing process. That's what that making-of book helped me get more than anything. Writing the first Star Wars movie was torture for Lucas.

But at the same time, this doesn't completely jibe with what the Raiders notes seemed to show; that Lucas seemed to be the one totally in control of molding that screenplay to what it became, while Spielberg seemed to be joking around.

Weird.

Some rare Star Wars photos. I've seen a couple before, but most are new to me:

http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/200...rs-photos.html

Hah, those are fantastic. The only one I've seen before is the one of Chewie grabbing Leia's tit. Love that picture, and you know she loved it.

Star Wars junk - do people still buy it?

I have the Death Star Playset from my youth, still has the box and I believe everything but the rope. It's been sitting in in various closets and/or storage tubs over the years. ("one day I'll set this up").

I'd be happy to sell it, but now that ship has sailed. Looks like I'd probably get about $100 on ebay. Not sure it's worth the effort...

I'm not sure that's what she thinks it is.

I'm not watching any Star Wars movies again until the blu-rays hit in a couple years (prob 2012 for the 35th anniversary where they'll be 3D to take advantage of the new 3D TVs coming out and the 3D saga re-release they're currently working on)

"This cave is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this cave is?!"

Lots of funny Star Wars Haikus here:

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/09/...s_are.php#more

good, noble tauntaun
innards like congealed ramen
takes one for the team

Those... are amazing.

Simultaneously awesome and depressing.

Lots of cool vintage pics here:

http://www.facebook.com/photo_search...71842&view=all

According to this pic, Walrus Man was once set to lose more than his arm!:

Cool, they have some pics from the cut sand storm scene at the beginning of ROTJ.

This should help those gay fanfic writers out there:

I took an 8 year break from the original trilogy after the prequels were all finished up. I just lost interest in the whole deal and kind of felt bitter about the "special edition" nonsense Lucas was doing. Then Lucas puts out the "originals" with all of their flaws and f'd up aspect ratios and I'm thinking "this dude is a real spiteful prick, isn't he?". My bitterness grew even more.

About a month ago I decided to give the originals another go (shitty special edition ones) because my roommate owns them. I begrudgingly admit, I still have some weird little kid love for these films. I lost it but an 8 year break made them fresh and allowed them to stand on their own once again. For anyone out there that liked them at one time, just put them away and revisit them in a decade or so. That should do it.

I can enjoy the originals if I get REALLY worked into a childlike state of imagination playtime mood.

Those pictures just serve to remind one that, back in the day, Carrie Fischer was fuckin' smoking hot.

I still think shes hotter in When Harry Met Sally, and crazy cute in Blues Brothers, but still



Like many, I still love Empire Strikes Back like its my little sister, the film is pretty much flawless, the release of Star Trek almost made me want to break my hiatus on watching Hope and Jedi but I held out. Once it come out on Blu, and hopefully with the theatrical looking flawless, I think fan cynicism will have subsided, at least towards the original trilogy, of course Indy 5 could open old wounds even deeper.

Season 2 of...Star Wars The Clone Wars, premieres...tonight!

Is that really her circa WHMS? Wowza.

Nope, I think thats from a publicity shoot for New Hope.

I think she looks older and a little thinner than she did for A New Hope. Her face doesn't have that youthful fullness. If I had to guess, I'd think it was closer to Empire Strikes Back.

Sorry if someone else already posted this but I fucking LOVE this. Straight from the horse's mouth...David Lynch talking about being offered RETURN OF THE JEDI...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDB8Q15iUIE

EDIT: Nevermind. Devin beat me to it. That's what I get for coming to the forum before checking the main page.

Why didn't the Empire just use the TIE bombers to destroy the Rebel base generator on Hoth?



It would have been a lot quicker.

Maybe they had AA or the shields prevented them from not having to hike halfway across the planet to get to the base.

They had ion canons to provide cover fire for the escape ships at the very least.

Tie bombers are boring, AT-AT walkers are cool. Saved it!