Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[SpagMasterSwift]

The Wicket Man

[SeanR]

Something wicket this way comes...

[SpagMasterSwift]

Lemony Wicket's A Series of Unfortunate Puns

[Nick R]

Star Warwicks Episode VII

[jonamok]

nudget reasons

Favourite typo of the week.

[SeanR]

makkuwarwicku

[makkuwata]

My relationship with puns isn't the story anymore, there's actual news floating about!

[Broker]

Rear wicket

[makkuwata]

I'm out of ammo. And you know it.

[Steven]

Ammokin Sykwalker

[makkuwata]

Tomorrow is another day.

[SeanR]

I'm out of ammo. And you know it.

warwicks not make one great...

[Jug McKenzie]

On 20/10/2014 at 14:10, b00dles said:

 

[Comrade]

Why does Francis Ford Coppola insist on returning to the Corleone family in the Godfather films? Doesn't he realise that there's a whole entire planet out there? Maybe next time we'll find out how isolated Chinese farmers fare in the Godfather-verse.

[Smitty]

Stupid lazy Lucas.

But Star Wars fanboys love laziness. Show them a picture of the Millenium Falcon and they lose their shit.

[Fury4k]

If you actually looked at the entirety of weird, wonderful and just as often dreadful facets of the Star Wars expanded universe what you'd realise is that that's nonsense.

[SeanR]

But Star Wars fanboys love laziness. Show them a picture of the Millenium Falcon and they lose their shit.

Yes, because it's the Millennium Falcon.

It made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. TWELVE!!!

[makkuwata]

Lucas had an 8 year old Anakin born into slavery have the time and skill and finance enough to design and build both an automaton capable of translating millions of languages he hadn't heard of while also designing, funding and piloting the space equivalent of an F1 car. Probably the most expensive sport per head that actually exists.

The degree to which Lucas is terrible has been horribly diminished by distractions like Jar Jar and tax law.

Anyone else on the planet can make this work.

[Mr Cochese]

Annakin was full of mini chloridans, though. He's sort of like Neo, if Neo was a petulant blonde twat instead of an ethnically ambiguous man with only one confused facial expression.

[Jumble Jumble]

Yippee!

[Nick R]

Grand Morpheus Tarkin

Tatooinity

Cypher Dyas

Zion Snootles

Agent Jimmy Smits

[SeanR]

The Lego star wars movie

[Girth Certificate]

fuck I forgot Jimmy Smitts was in the prequals.

I hope the baddie in the new movie is Spidery Darth Maul, that'll be tiiiight.

[Sponge]

Lucas had an 8 year old Anakin born into slavery have the time and skill and finance enough to design and build both an automaton capable of translating millions of languages he hadn't heard of while also designing, funding and piloting the space equivalent of an F1 car. Probably the most expensive sport per head that actually exists.

The degree to which Lucas is terrible has been horribly diminished by distractions like Jar Jar and tax law.

Anyone else on the planet can make this work.

I don't wan't to nitpick and otherwise ok point, but Anakin didn't design C3PO he only built him - there's plenty of other C3PO type protocol droids around, one is in the very first scene on the Japanese trade ship.

Carry on.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

With the sole exception of the anti-grav power coupling thingy, I'd honestly call an F1 car more advanced than a pod racer. It's a fucking box cart tied to two jet engines, there's bugger all thought or consideration for safety or aerodynamics, maaaaaaan.

[Jumble Jumble]

Oh yeah? Let's see you one then.

[Broker]

I always thought that was pretty weird really (Anakin building C3PO). Like I get why you might want to build your own car, but I imagine that when most people set out to build their own car from scratch they don't buy a set of blueprints for a Ford Fiesta and they recreate it piece by piece. Given that those droids are clearly very common, what was the point in Anakin building it, or the incentive for him to have built it? He's got a completely blank canvas and he's chosen to directly replicate something boring as shit. On top of that, what use is a translator to his mum? If she hasn't already learned to speak whatever languages are most common on Tatooine they can't be very important.

[Mr Cochese]

A protocol droid would be really useful for royal visits and the like.

[b00dles]

Why does Francis Ford Coppola insist on returning to the Corleone family in the Godfather films? Doesn't he realise that there's a whole entire planet out there? Maybe next time we'll find out how isolated Chinese farmers fare in the Godfather-verse.

Although I get your point, it's not even remotely the same.

There is no reason apart from utter laziness how he sort of tied things up. Why the fuck was there no mention of Chewie saying 'say hi to Yoda cos I was the one who put him on Dagobah and he's a weird green dude, so don't assume he's a big strong bloke or anything' Even putting it in the special editions would have made it more believable that this was 'the story arc' all along.

There's loads of other examples too. I still think that he completely ruined one of the best reveals in family movie cinema with 'I am your father' by making it totally obvious Darth is Luke's dad. If you watch them in order, that bit has no impact at all because you know for the whole of New Hope anyway.

[Tangent]

The Independent has an article about how George Lucas feels that corporations are taking over the movie industry and creativity is being diminished. The title to the article is:

Hollywood studios lack ‘imagination’ says Star Wars creator George Lucas

But the title wasn’t always like that. This morning it read: