h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I forgot to mention earlier but, in conclusion, I will probably watch the new Star Wares, but with lowered expectations.

All incarnations of Kung Fu Panda are awesome in every way! How can you not see that? What's wrong with you?

Jesus H Christ.

I had not know about them until this stuff happened but I have now seen the light.

The Mr Plinkett Red Letter Media reviews of the Star Wars Prequels are......


SO DAMN GOOD THEY ALMOST MAKE UP FOR THE STAR WARS PREQUELS.

That feeling when you have laughed so hard you cannot breath and your sides hurt? Yeah that.

Watch them, watch them now. Gives yourselves over to the Dark side and revile in it.

FB

Mr. Plinkett is hilarious. And he's absolutely right.

I must introduce all of you to Darths & Droids http://www.darthsanddroids.net/archive.html It's a photo webcomic covering Starwars from Episode 1 onwards (just gotten on Darth Vader's ship, are getting ready to put Chewie in handcuffs with Han and Luke as stormtroopers) with a slightly different storyline. Y'see, the Starwars movies are actually a tabletop roleplaying game in a world where Starwars does not exist...

Apparently someone has written a 108 page rebuttul of that Mr Plinkett review of Phantom Menace.

Someone was actually able to write that much in defence of Menace?!?!?!? The mind boggles.

FB

I'd struggle with 108 words

To be fair, I don't agree with everything he says, but even then he's entertainingly wrong. He clearly knows his stuff in terms of film-making: look at the stuff about endless 'shot-reverse-shot' filming, in the Episode 3 review.
I also love the fact that, on top of describing what is wrong with the films, he also shows how to do it right, using the tongue-in-cheek 'plot arc' of the reviews.

Constructive criticism is always far better I feel. It shows you've at least properly thought about it, and are giving your (probably) educated view on the matter, which in turn gives more weight to your side of the argument.

On the director thing from yesterday:-

http://m.uk.ign.com/videos/2012/11/01/disney-star-wars-episode-vii-choosing-the-director-parody

FB

Amy, thank you for the link to Darths and Droids. I've just got to the end of Episode 1. It was far better than the film. Funnier too. Brilliantly done.


Geggs

I'm also losing far too much time to it!

The films have been playing on ITV for the last 5 weeks so I've now seen 5/6. What I would like to ask is:

Darth Vader was told that he had killed the pregnant Padme so how did he know that he was Luke's father?

He used the Force

I should have guessed

I'm guessing that he started to get an idea at the end of New Hope, when he said "The Force is strong in this one." And then, once the Death Star was destroyed, he had a long TIE-fighter flight to a safe haven, giving him enough time to work it out.


Geggs

We mustn;t forget Star Dudes:

http://www.dudestudios.com/?page_id=7

EPISODE VII – THE SAME OLD HOPE

SITH WRONGLY HAS BEEN THWARTED IN HIS ATTTEMPT TO BECOME
PRESIDENT OF THE EMPIRE BY OBAMA-ONE-CAJONEE
AND THE REBEL ALLIANCE.... WRONGLY MUST
NOW RETURN TO THE DEATH TOWER
TO FACE HIS MASTER
DARTH TRUMP....

“SETH WRONGLY – YOU HAVE FAILED ME”
“Master the Republican Guard were outnumbered”
“WHY DID YOU FAIL TO CLONE MY WHITE WARRIORS AS I ASK”
“But Master the Tea-bag-gars do not permit cloning”
“YOU HAVE FAILED ME”
“Master the Tea-bag-gars believe each Republican Guard must be born to one hebagger and one shebagger in a union sanctified by Bill-e-Grey-Ham.....”

Wrongly holds his throat, as a look of horror creeps across his face, his eyes bulge and he topples over.

“FOOL – I WOULD HAVE STOOD FOR PRESIDENT MYSELF, BUT ALAS I CAN NOT AS MY HAIR IS FROM A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY”

Darth Trump addresses bounty Hunter Newt-a-Greengage

“I HAVE SENT THE TEA BAGGERS TO RECOVER THE SEED OF MY OLD MASTER RONN-E-RAYGUN, YOU MUST GO TO ALASKENE AND SEARCH THE CARBON HARVESTERS CAMPS FOR MY LOST APPRENTICE PITBULL-A-PALIN – SHE WILL CARRY THE DARK SEED AND BEAR THE NEW DORK LORD”.........

Oh My, Del Torro turned down Star Wars.... Noooooooooooo.....

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/23995/guillermo-del-toro-turned-down-star-wars-episode-vii

FB

And Del Toro would like to see Brad Bird take the helm...hmmm let's look at what he's directed and written...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083348/

Mostly animated films(Good ones!)...does this mean that Del Toro thinks the Star Wars films are cartoons? Well, based on the amount of CGI in the prequels he could be right!