the vynsane asylum

John Williams' music is about the only thing I still get excited about, so seeing a SW concert would still be cool. But not cool enough to spend $35 per person to go see. I can pop the CDs in my player and listen for free.

Like pointless lists with no explanation of how they were derived? IGN is doing the top 100 Star Wars characters. They are only down to 80, but if I remember correctly, #97 is of interest to someone here.

http://www.ign.com/star-wars-characters/

It was a decent list until Cade Skywalker, who represents everything that is wrong with Star Wars and the EU. If I worked for Dark Horse, I would make a Legacy comic where Cade is abused to death by Zorba the Hutt.

While I was driving today I was listening to XM as usual. An ad came on for the special channel set up for that big Star Wars convention. I listened to it for a bit. First it was part of a Mark Hamil panel. Then they interviewed some guy involved with a new SW game. Later on I heard Warwick Davis being interviewed. He was actually pretty interesting. In between they would talk to a couple fans. Some dude from Australia was there standing in line for 2 hours to get an $85 Boba Fett statue (limited to 1500). The guy said he has his collection insured for $220,000. Coincidentally, he lives alone. At least he got to shake George Lucas' hand earlier in the day.

Ran wrote:Coincidentally, he lives alone. At least he got to shake George Lucas' hand earlier in the day.

that should totally make up for all the pussy he doesn't get.

I didn't think Lucas bothered to show up for SWCelebrations.

Rollo Tomassi wrote:I didn't think Lucas bothered to show up for SWCelebrations.

you would think he'd be too busy making all his fans digital instead of real people.

vynsane wrote:

Rollo Tomassi wrote:I didn't think Lucas bothered to show up for SWCelebrations.

you would think he'd be too busy making all his fans digital instead of real people.

I bet his beard is digitally enhanced.

Star Wars is coming to blu-ray. IF the new set with all the bonus extras aren't on DVD, and IF I can buy just the three originals (or the originals and TPM, if they fix Yoda), I might actually consider the supposed upgrade.

I wonder if blu-ray will make the Star Wars movies look like fucking soap operas like it does with every other movie I've ever seen on blu-ray.

It's gonna be a 6 movie set.

Ah, well. I'll save my money. I'd want to stay under $100 for the player and the movies, and wouldn't want some piece of shit Wal-Mart $20 player. I doubt that'd be possible with six discs.

I cannot believe that there's a release of the original Star Wars movies to home video with new extras, and I'm not planning to get it.

Constantly accepting what the media companies tell us is better (even when any improvement is negligible, or even negative) creates way too much waste, and the attitude is a large part of what got us in the fucked-up economic state we're in.

On a related (sorta) note, I wish there was a way to tell Amazon, "Never recommend blu-ray movies to me."

anarky wrote:
On a related (sorta) note, I wish there was a way to tell Amazon, "Never recommend blu-ray movies to me."

I get that stupid email every week and I don't own blu-ray player.

Me neither. Yet most of my recommendations are blu-ray movies I have on DVD--many of which I actually bought from them.

Saw ROTJ tonight for the first time in a while. After all this time, I noticed a few things I never saw before. First thing was that thing trying to lick C-3PO. The other was a R2 unit serving drinks on the Sail Barge. It was mostly white with some red details and was right next to Jabba.

I didn't notice the other Artoo until fairly recently (a few months back). Which is funny, because the EU writers apparently never noticed it, either. There's a backstory that Luke sabotaged both Jabba's bartender droid and interpreter droid to make sure there were spots for Artoo and Threepio in Jabba's retinue.

One thing that struck me watching ROTJ tonight... well, first, jump back to The Phantom Menace. They make this huge deal about how they know Anakin is very strong with the Force when he says he's the only human who could drive a podracer.

Call me nuts, but driving a pod on what amounts to an racetrack (one filled with obstacles, but still a racetrack) looks a fuckload easier than driving a speeder bike through a dense forest at similar speeds. For Luke and Leia, no big problem plotwise. But those Stormtroopers aren't Force-sensitive. And they're not only handling the woods well (all are killed, but by the Skywalker twins except for one dumbass who looks back to gloat and runs into a tree), but they're looking off to their sides and shooting at targets moving just as fast while dodging trees.