Ancient Ways Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Ewoks are not pets. Ewoks are life forms of equal standing as the humans, wookies, etc in the film. Not even r2d2 is a pet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 QUOTE (Ancient Ways @ Jul 23 2011, 12:20 PM) Ewoks are not pets. Ewoks are life forms of equal standing as the humans, wookies, etc in the film. Not even r2d2 is a pet. Well Luke and company do eventually treat them as equals it seems but overall Ewoks are not equal to humans. If the were, they wouldn't have tried to cook Luke and Han. Humans are everywhere in the Star Wars world, while the entire Ewok population is regulated to the small forest moon of Endor. So when you look at the big picture they certainly aren't equal. Though i'm guessing fighting against the Empire helped the Ewoks earn some serious street cred across the galaxy. R2D2 is a computer that has no feeling's so therefore it cannot even be considered to be a pet at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielmclark Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 There's an Ewok called Tarfang in the Dark Nest Trilogy of novels that's pretty much the exact opposite of the Ewoks you saw in Jedi... he's surly, he's a smuggler, and he had the death sentence in ten systems. In short, he's awesome. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tarfang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 QUOTE (Ancient Ways @ Jul 24 2011, 02:20 AM) Ewoks are not pets. Ewoks are life forms of equal standing as the humans, wookies, etc in the film. Not even r2d2 is a pet. If I had my way, ewoks would've been the main course at the Fall of the Empire celebration party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 I voted for The Empire Strikes Back, but I almost voted for Return Of The Jedi. The Ewoks, although not completely horrible, were a waste of film, IMO. It was an obvious attempt by Lucas to market the film more to children. Aside from that, the film was magnificent. It was the fulfillment of the hero/messiah's quest. It had Luke's coming of age, his father's salvation, and an excellent resolution of the epic "Good v. Evil" battle. Luke's revelation to Leia about their family heritage still moves me emotionally. It's a very underrated scene. Luke: Vader is here, now, on this moon. Leia: How do you know? Luke: I felt his presence. He's come for me.... The dread in Luke's voice is bone-chilling.... Luke's final battle with Vader and the Emperor still ranks in my book as the greatest scene from all of the Star Wars films. Nothing else comes close. Right down to the accompanying musical score, it still sends chills down my spine whenever I watch it. I can still remember being in the theater and seeing those death rays coming out of the Emperor's hands, and being totally AWESTRUCK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Necromancer_77 Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 ESB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Star Wars, the original 1977 film. Nothing like it, not even within the rest of the SW series. It's got a look and feel to it - thanks perhaps to the Oscar-winning editing - that the others don't. And in 1977, we'd never seen anything like this before - not even close. It was a whole new ballgame after Star Wars came out in 1977. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 QUOTE (thesweetscience @ Jul 21 2011, 07:45 AM) Lucas let the accolades in his early career go to his head and because of that he now has no filter when he frequently needs one. No one on his team would stand up to him either and it shows in his recent efforts. Exactly. Nobody on his team has the balls to say, "Umm, George... this kind of sucks." They're too afraid of getting canned and blacklisted. George Lucas gained too much power. You just know there had to be people working on the prequels who, like the audience, thought characters like Jar-Jar and Dex Jettster were stupid and some of the situations were boring or just plain loony... but nobody said so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 (edited) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 12:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I saw Eyes of Laura Mars on Showtime a few years ago, another good one from that year. Love the twist ending to it. Oddly enough, it's from the same director of Empire who recently died. Edited July 25, 2011 by invisible airwave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 12:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I think 1980 wins The Shining Empire Strikes Back Caddyshack Blues Brothers Airplane! Raging Bull Elephant Man Blue Lagoon Ordinary People Original Friday the 13th Caddyshack, Airplane! and Blues Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 25 2011, 01:03 PM) I saw Eyes of Laura Mars on Showtime a few years ago, another good one from that year. Eyes of Laura Mars was released in the late summer of '78, six weeks after Grease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 01:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I am SHOCKED that all that was released in one year. WOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (Lost In Xanadu @ Jul 25 2011, 01:11 PM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 12:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I think 1980 wins The Shining Empire Strikes Back Caddyshack Blues Brothers Airplane! Raging Bull Elephant Man Blue Lagoon Ordinary People Original Friday the 13th Caddyshack, Airplane! and Blues Brothers You just put The Blue Lagoon in the same list as The Empire Strikes Back, The Raging Bull, The Shining, and The Elephant Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jul 25 2011, 10:09 PM) QUOTE (Lost In Xanadu @ Jul 25 2011, 01:11 PM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 12:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I think 1980 wins The Shining Empire Strikes Back Caddyshack Blues Brothers Airplane! Raging Bull Elephant Man Blue Lagoon Ordinary People Original Friday the 13th Caddyshack, Airplane! and Blues Brothers You just put The Blue Lagoon in the same list as The Empire Strikes Back, The Raging Bull, The Shining, and The Elephant Man. Blue Lagoon was nothing more than us getting to see HER boobies. All f-ing kidding aside... WOW were those years full of some good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jul 25 2011, 10:09 PM) You just put The Blue Lagoon in the same list as ...Raging Bull Marty Scorsese just threw up a little... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 I saw most of these in the theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jul 25 2011, 10:18 PM) I saw most of these in the theater. Me too. i clearly remember ROARING when the Blues Brothers drove through that mall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielmclark Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jul 25 2011, 08:28 PM) QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jul 25 2011, 10:18 PM) I saw most of these in the theater. Me too. i clearly remember ROARING when the Blues Brothers drove through that mall. I've seen that movies dozens of times in the past 25 or so years that I've been old enough to watch it, and that scene cracks me up every time. "Baby clothes." "This mall has got everything." What kills me is the idea that the cops would be in there doing just as much damage as Jake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jul 25 2011, 08:51 PM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 01:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I am SHOCKED that all that was released in one year. WOW. Sayin'! And that was a seminal year for me. Not only did all these good movies come out, many of them cultural touchstones for me (particularly Star Wars, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever), but I was also living in California for that one year. I saw many of these movies at a big theater in San Jose, next to the Winchester Mystery House. A very memorable time in my life; events are often divided in my mind as being either "Before California (1977)" or "After California." It's like my own B.C. and A.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 26 2011, 08:30 AM) QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jul 25 2011, 08:51 PM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 01:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I am SHOCKED that all that was released in one year. WOW. Sayin'! And that was a seminal year for me. Not only did all these good movies come out, many of them cultural touchstones for me (particularly Star Wars, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever), but I was also living in California for that one year. I saw many of these movies at a big theater in San Jose, next to the Winchester Mystery House. A very memorable time in my life; events are often divided in my mind as being either "Before California (1977)" or "After California." It's like my own B.C. and A.D. Ahhh, yes...the Century theaters. I'm not from San Jose (actually from Las Vegas), but my wife is. I did happen to catch one of the prequels at the theater next to the Winchester Mystery House. (Also I ate breakfast at the cafe in the same lot not too long ago, as a matter of fact). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jul 26 2011, 10:09 AM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 26 2011, 08:30 AM) QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jul 25 2011, 08:51 PM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 01:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I am SHOCKED that all that was released in one year. WOW. Sayin'! And that was a seminal year for me. Not only did all these good movies come out, many of them cultural touchstones for me (particularly Star Wars, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever), but I was also living in California for that one year. I saw many of these movies at a big theater in San Jose, next to the Winchester Mystery House. A very memorable time in my life; events are often divided in my mind as being either "Before California (1977)" or "After California." It's like my own B.C. and A.D. Ahhh, yes...the Century theaters. I'm not from San Jose (actually from Las Vegas), but my wife is. I did happen to catch one of the prequels at the theater next to the Winchester Mystery House. (Also I ate breakfast at the cafe in the same lot not too long ago, as a matter of fact). Yep, that's them. The Century Theaters. Big domes with lots of seating... which was needed for sold-out Star Wars shows in 1977. My first three viewings of Star Wars were in those theaters. I went back there in 1999 on my honeymoon. We took the tour of the Mystery House, something I didn't do in '77... although I had the ViewMasters of it. http://www.3dstereo.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/museums/mus_winchester_g5.jpg (Look at the picture of the front of the house - on the right, you can see the start of one of the Century Theater domes.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush Cocky Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 I voted Return of the Jedi. I can understand the majority picking Empire though. Not at all surprisingly, the original trilogy is absolutely burying the prequels in the voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 (edited) QUOTE (Rush Cocky @ Jul 26 2011, 11:00 AM) I voted Return of the Jedi. I can understand the majority picking Empire though. Not at all surprisingly, the original trilogy is absolutely burying the prequels in the voting. Well that goes without saying. It's hard to live up to the originals. I'd rank all five others above Jedi myself, but none above Empire...and Star Wars is about as good as it gets too. Even if the prequels were universally perceived to be EXCELLENT you'd still have that warm nostalgic and formative lean towards the films that many (most?) of us grew up with. That's tough to compete with on the best of days. Even presuming all other things equal I spent 10 Saturdays holed up in theaters seeing Empire in the summer of '80 when I was 10/11 and had no other cares, no other real desires other than to see this film over and over again. That's a great memory not easily quashed by movie experiences in my thirties. Edited July 26, 2011 by Presto-digitation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 QUOTE (Lost In Xanadu @ Jul 25 2011, 01:11 PM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 25 2011, 12:20 PM) QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jul 22 2011, 01:16 PM) 80 was an awesome year for movies.. 1977 was a great year, too. Star Wars Annie Hall Saturday Night Fever Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Smokey and the Bandit Julia Audrey Rose Eraserhead High Anxiety And for kids: The Rescuers, Candleshoe, Pete's Dragon, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. I think 1980 wins The Shining Empire Strikes Back Caddyshack Blues Brothers Airplane! Raging Bull Elephant Man Blue Lagoon Ordinary People Original Friday the 13th Caddyshack, Airplane! and Blues Brothers Used Cars is f-ing hilarious! For Christ's sake, we're f*ckin' with the President of the United States. He f*cks with us, doesn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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