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Star Wars Meets Pulp Fiction
adamnap writes: "I just found this site a few hours ago. it is a flash hybrid of the phantom menace and Pulp Fiction. If you need to waste some time, check it out at Pulp Phantom."
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Is that a teenage magazine? Pulp phantom?
Very entertaining though. My guess as to why it hasn't been submitted until now is that it used to come with a bunch of pr0n popups. It no longer does... and strangely, I no longer go to that site.... mmmmmmmmm... bytemail chicks....
I've seen this kind of thing before with Pulp Fiction. It was mixed with and adult film and called Pulp Friction. Seriously.
So who's supposed to be John Travolta and who's supposed to be Samuel L Jackson?
Er, okay, that sounds even more loserly than general, doesn't it?
Anyhow, very good stuff. I mean, it was a little lame at times (yeah, Pulp Fiction seeded with Star Wars terminology!), but I'm definately sending it to my non-geek friends when the /. effect wears off. Then again, I'm pretty loaded, so this is opinion is obviously open to revision sometime tomorrow morning around 11.
Crap, I'm getting modded down for this, aren't I? Oh yeah, well my UID is lower than yours, smart guy.
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Nice episode's but they only last about a minute. So you probably will look 20 times at the intro (same music, same graphics) And after four times it got on my nerves.
Check out Episode 14's preloader game for some Jar-Jar Binks bashing fun!
Wow, these are pretty bad. They didn't really even change any of the plot, or dialog. Just substituted in SW characters doing Pulp Fiction line for line.
If you want Pulp Fiction, go rent it. If you want a SW parody, go rent Space Balls.
This is really kinda lame. Sure its
novel, but not really all that creative.
I enjoyed the Force Fiction comic much better.
Its a much higher quality meshing of Star Wars and Pulp Fiction.
one of the episodes (number 17 I think) makes a reference to another star wars spoof here.
There are actually a lot of good sw spoofs out there; just a matter of looking at places like atomfilms and ifilms. but be warned, there are also a lot of terrible ones
Okay, I got through about five issues before I couldn't stand it anymore. I've seen Pulp Fiction many times, I've seen Ep.I. No change in dialog wore on me, but the drawing is someone stimulating.
I suppose I would have gone through the whole thing if it weren't for the splash intro for each episode. Gah, I admire the person who went to the effort, but create a set without the splash intro for each issue!
Wasn't it interesting when Pulp fiction came out that you had a whole crop of people who could quote Ezekiel 25:17 from watching Pulp Fiction 100 times but never cracked open a bible ever? I know I still have that phrase memorized.
Paste everything in a long movie (Score:1) by Semi_War on Saturday March 09, @05:22AM (#3134485)
Take a look at that comment. See how they said exactly what you said, only about a half hour earlier? This mean that you should have your formulated your own unique thoughts rather than echoing another /.er.
Of course, I'm f*cking loaded, so time is progressing at odd speeds for me, but I still think you're just "Me Too!"ing your way across the board.
And my UID is still lower than yours.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
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Return of the Jedi was the best star wars EVER!! I loved the Ewoks and especially the Ewok song!!
Take a look at the SCORE of that comment. Perhaps he was browsing at 2 or 3 and never saw that comment?
Don't be so quick to flame people..
The 'Vincent/Maul' charactor should have been a Wookie. That would have made for an interesting dialogue.
I'm afraid that they are going to have copyright problems, because this isn't so much a parody as a re-make of PF using SW charictors - word for word from the script. I'm not sure if it is a big enough fish for the lawyers to care, but I'd be watching out for a legal nasty-gram if it were my site.
Actually, I'm not that worried; it's not very funny anyways.
Okay, I got through about five issues before I couldn't stand it anymore.
It get's much better around episode #9 or so, hang in there....
But I would kill for it all in one long movie too.
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Oh the Splash goes away around episode 13, makes it much nicer to view.
I'm surprised the site didn't get slashdotted, some people are saying it did, but I'm viewing another episode right now with no problem.
I have drank way to much, please mod acordingly!
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I watched this little spoof over a year ago. Why was this posted?
In later chapters you get to play little games while the chapter is loading. Chptr 14 you get to beat Jar Jar, another you can shoot Jawas, another you get to blast Tie Fighters.
If you had to use a Travolta flick, why not pick something more entertaining? Just imagine Han Solo gettin' down in the disco a la Saturday Night Fever? *boogies* Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh, Usin' the Force, Usin' the Force.
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"Take a look at the SCORE of that comment. Perhaps he was browsing at 2 or 3 and never saw that comment?"
Yup, that's yet another reason why pay per page is going to hurt slashdot. That and short comments like this one.
i dont care what your UID is, your an asshole. you shouldnt post when youre drunk obviously.
Time for some tasty Shiner Bock!
This SW/Resevoir Dogs parody..
American Jedi has got to be my favourite Star Wars parody. Check it out while you wait for the Slashdot effect to pass on Pulp Phantom, it's very well worth it.
Not only is it a word-for-word redux of Pulp Fiction with Star Wars characters, it SOUNDS like it was read off of a script. The Darth Maul character was so pathetically nasally I barely made it through the entire thing without wanting to choke him.
ALTHOUGH:
The animation and drawings were decent. There were some issues with timing, but in all it was okay. I applauded the character choices as well.
IN CONCLUSION:
Getting a better soundman or sound software (sound forge rules!) AND better people who know their lines instead of reading it off a script, would have made the entire thing a ton better.
I'd give it 1.5 stars out of 4.
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I agree. And the most annoying thing is the intro and exit "trailers". Look, I want to watch your stuff, just bloody well stream it to me!
/.'ed), but all the OTHER crap on the screen is just a waste of CPU. Tell your story, tell it well, and tell it with as little BS as possible.
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Last but not least, all of the other animated crap on the screen - banner ads, other flash things that just loop through an animation sequence for no good reason - GAGH!
Look, I understand having the banner ads - a man's got to pay for his bandwidth (especially when being
Besides - "... double barreled lightsabres..." ?!?!?! Considering one of the characters is a Darth Maul parody, it should have been
"... double bladed lightsabres
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Okay, at first glance this all seems a bit comical, but my word... seeing the 18 or so episodes at the bottom of the page, it's almost more amusing to think that someone spent all that time doing the whole damn movie.
Sort of makes a guy feel better about only wasting hours of his life, heheheh.
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It seems pretty unimaginative. They're making a film that takes dialog written by one person and lays it over characters created by another person, and the idea for this was surely "inspired" from the whole load of other movies out there like this (Park wars, Imperial Dogs, Trooper Clerks).
They're not really very funny either. Sure, it's MILDY amusing to see the characters from one movie in the roles of another, but other than that there aren't really any other jokes.
Overall grade: D+
Animated crap on the screen got you down? Look at the source for the .swf url.
Add /episodes/1.swf to the url and you just get the episode, scaled to the whole browser window to boot.
Can't do anything about the intro trailer. Sheesh, after about 3 of them I was sick of looking at Uma/Natalie...
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this thing has been around for years and the series ended a long while back
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Given the lack of related current-events, this is even less entertaining than it was a year ago...
I guess if you mix two so-so films, you get a not-so-so film?
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