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Made for TV Ewok Movies to be Released on DVD
thebus writes "I just wanted to let you know that I got an email from Amazon today informing me that two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time will be coming out on one DVD on Nov. 23rd 2004. Prepare yourself for the Star Wars Ewok Adventures - Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor."
Are these the originals or special editions?
The Jedi mind trick doesn't work on us...
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
'nuff Said...
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Let me just start out by saying that the Ewoks are the single most underrated cinematic creations of all time. I love those little dudes! I love these little movies, too. Though I haven't seen them for a good six years or more, I remember absolutely loving them when I was little. They always made me want to go climb a tree and pretend I was an Ewok! Honestly, WHO would not want to live in hundred-foot trees, leaping on vines and speaking in those funky voices?! Um, anyway, just to give you the idea how much I love Ewoks . . . . . .
Plus, to all you Ewok-bashers out there, they were successful enough to star in not one, but TWO solo adventure movies. HA HA HA!!
There had been rumors of an eventual DVD release of these two films for years. (That fawlty announcement of a three-disc ultimate collector's edition was a doozy.) Now, it's official: Come November, Ewoks fans across the nation can rejoice!! Though not in any special edition format (which coud be expected from two 80s TV movies), just having these priceless gems on DVD will be enough."
Um, right. Long live the ewoks!
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I wonder if anyone will buy these, other than people buying them as joke gifts and those unhappy souls who think they'll be collectors' items someday.
Also known as:
Return of the merchandising
Umm... You guys don't get many dates, do you? :)
Got it! Thanks for your helpful invite!
Notice this DVD has no special features (commentary tracks, making of featurettes, inside the ewok villiage, etc.). Obviously they're planning on releasing a second "special edition" version after everybody buys this one (all 5 of you out there). So wait and don't buy it now!
Does anyone know the title of this movie?
The plot: A family's starship crashes on a planet, the parents are taken by some gigantic monser, the brother and his 6yr old sister are captures by Ewoks.
The two youngans want to find their parents, so the elder ewok gives em presents, one is a sort of compas that moves, the other I forgot.
So they go together with the ewoks, on the way the older brother falls in a pool of water and can't get out anymore (like the surface is glass), the ewok saves him, and the brother & ewok become friends.
They kill the monster and go home.
What was the title of this movie?
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.
Clearly not all the viewers share the submitter's appreciation of these movies!
I think I just threw up in my mouth (again).
404'd!!
English is easier said than done.
I demand festive Chewbacca, and animated Boba Fett!
When's the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD? I'm looking forward to the re-edits and deleted scenes (I hear the scene with a few minutes of untranslated wookie dialog was originally meant to be twice as long)!
In this version Wicket better shoot first
always look at what the hover over the link shows.
So when is the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD?
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Just what I wanted. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen these particular movies, so perhaps they are better than I'm guessing based on ROTJ.)
I always viewed Ewoks as the first sign of the trend that eventually peaked with one Jar-Jar Binks. I heard somewhere Endor was originally supposed to be full of Wookies - what happened to that?? That would have worked. Instead we had teddy bears fighting stormtroopers in armor with rocks! (BTY, I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.)
Thank goodness for Timothy Zahn. Without him I think I would have abandoned Star Wars.
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English is easier said than done.
This is a may be considered a little offtopic, but I lost some admiration for Ewoks after they took the Ewok song out of the new editions Return of the Jedi. WHY LUCAS? WHY??
No Star Wars Holiday Special??
Any chance we'll get the Star Wars Holiday Special on DVD?
Crap has gone out of control.
It was neat in the 70's.
It was sorta neat in the 80's..
It was brought back in the 90's. It sucked.
And now, there's "Boxed Set", "Super Boxed Set", "Collecters Edition Boxed Set", "Totally Unrealesed Super Boxed Set" as nauseum.
Go read something, like Asimov's Foundatations trilogy, or some other Sci-fi.
This shit isnt sci-fi... More like populist vomit people watch.
...that they take place before the Endor Holocaust.
Daniel
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Ewok made for TV movie announcments at 7 on a Friday night?
I work till 8. What's your excuse? -Oobob
Yub nub, eee chop yub nub,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah.
Yah wah, eee chop yah wah,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah
Coat ee chah tu yub nub,
Coat ee chah tu yah wah,
Coat ee chah tu glo wah.
allay loo ta nuv
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah, ya glo wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa.
Coat ee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
coat ee cha tu doo (Yah wah!)
coat ee cha tu too (ya chaa!)
allay loo tu nuv (3 times)
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah.
Ya glow wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa
allay loo tu nuv.
Word on the street is that we will finally get to see this never-seen before scene featuring Wicket and Leia. That's worth the price of the DVD right there!
Wicket slowly crawled on the floor towards the bed. He didn't make a sound. Whatever the snake was doing, it would be doing it for a while, judging by the speed of it. Just as he reached the brink of the bed, a peculiar smell penetrated his nostrils. Not an unpleasant smell...just strange...vaguely familiar. The Ewok got up and spread his arms. He wanted to make himself bigger. That would surely scare the snake off. He was ready to jump....
...for the Jar Jar Binks Xmas Special.
This is something I might consider getting for my kids... if at 13 and 6 they hadn't already outgrown it.
Mark Hamill as David Bowie!
I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.
Actually, the hammer/club is an extremely effective weapon against people wearing armor intended to protect against piercing/slashing weapons. Even if it doesn't kill outright it knocks them down and stuns them long enough for you to stick your stiletto through their eyeslits.
Even armor intended to protect against such concussive impacts can only do so much if the wearer is to retain any sort of fighting mobility.
In any case the Stormtrooper's armor was clearly intended to protect against weapons such as the blaster, so you can only really judge it by its effectiveness against them.
Oh. Wait. Nevermind.
Ok, new theory. Stormtrooper armor was used primarily so that they could go out in public without having to worry about their hair and makeup.
KFG
Yub Yub!
Teddy bears with spears, George! TEDDY BEARS WITH SPEARS! Where the $##$% is the planet of the Wookies you promised us?
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
I remember when I was a little (over 10 years ago), I saw a cartoon with Ewoks. I can hardly remember any of it, except that there was an evil witch or wizard or something with a staff, which had some sort of magic ball on the top of it. Also, I think this ball could shoot out lightning or something. Is this one of these movies? And if not, does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Prepare yourself for the Star Wars Ewok Adventures
I wonder just wonder how he expects me to "prepare myself?"
Prepare yourself for the Star Wars Ewok Adventures
I wonder just how he expects me to "prepare myself?"
I just can't wait for the star wars holiday special gets released to DVD. I'm sure there'll be several special editions though until Lucas likes it.
I can see it now... Tusken Raiders perched a top the hillside. Already back from several visits to the Cantina. They decide to have a little fun and pick off Jawas and their junk heaps, Ewoks, a couple of Stormtroopers, no one is safe from their sights. When finished, they laugh incessantly as they place their rifles down. The one Tusken Raider stands up and proclaims, "You know, I think I can do this blindfolded..." The other Tusken Raiders stare at him in silence, then at each other, then they all fallback from the hilariousness of his statement! They are the rednecks from a galaxy far, far away! God love'em!
There's a mistake in the HTML, which caused the story to lose some of its meaning:
...informing me that two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time will be coming out on...
...informing me that <sarcasm> two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time </sarcasm> will be coming out on...
should have read:
The red-hed kid dies.
I don't know the name, it had ewoks, and was awful. It was at least an hour long, and only my younger siblings who could watch anything animated made it to the end. Avoid, unless you are doing Mr. Sinus theatre or some other derivative.
SAILING MISHAP
thank you for informing us that there are two more crappy movies available on DVD. Would you please be so kind as to explain exactly why we should consider this to be relevant news?
Thank you
Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
People are idiots.
I can hardly wait.
This might be a release for kids as a way of telling them this is what they should be watching as far as the Star Wars franchise is concerned. When a parent of a 6-10 year old child sees these movies they are more likely to get these than to get the "authentic star wars" movies. This will help parents make the choice between the happy go lucky EP1, the no so happy EP2, and the dark and scary (read: echoing evil laughter) EP3. I don't think it will be very scary at all, atleast not compared to the Exorcist type scary (not the new one either).
:)
Anyways I saw these movies as a kid and thought they were interesting, but I would never reduce myself to watching them again. Kudos to Lucas for finding another source of income to fulfill his ranch addiction, and more importantly giving the new generation a movie to look back on later in life and wonder, why were they reduced to watching it.
About the Wicket W. Warrick character (the main ewok) played by Warwick Davis (suspisciously familiar first name) i think he is a real ewok but he is actually a midget so i guess he's a hairless ewok.
He's in the process of filming a movie role as Marvin the Paranoid Android. I'm sure if you care, you know what that is
Anyways, kudos to midgets!
...where carrie fisher sings? that was some truly vile shit.
Actually, stormtrooper armour was meant to have a placebo effect. The poor sods wearing the armour would be told they were invulnerable, and thus would no notice when they got shot in the head!
Hmm... that doesn't quite sound right, does it? Maybe it was to make them feel invulnerable so that they'd march into the meatgrinder without fear?
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Originally Lucas was going to have the last battle on Kashyyyk (the Wookie homeworld) ... a marvelously titanic battle of 'primitive' Wookies tearing down the might of the Emperor's best legions through cunning and sheer force of will. Problem is -- thanks to Chewbacca, we know that Wookies are quite adept with technology, thankyouverymuch.
... try some of the stew. It's pretty good."
Ergo -- Lucas created Ewoks. Little teeensy furry cuuuuuuuuuuuute no-tech primitives that tore down the might of the Emperor's best legions through cunning and sheer force of will.
And ate them.
"Hey Leia
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This mind intentionally left blank.
I thought it was Ethel Merman. I wish I was making this up.
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I read somewhere that Lucas originally planned to make the Wookies from Endor. He liked the Wookie character so much, however, that he wanted them to have a more prominent role. Thus Chewbacca as Hans sidekick. The flip side is that Endor now becomes populated by Ewoks. Just think how much cooler these made for TV movies would have been if Lucas had kept the Wookies on Endor.
*puts on my best Shatner voice*
Get a LIFE , people!!!
WHY LUCAS? WHY??
because you touch yourself at night
Eee-chee-wa-wa! 'Nuff said.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
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Don't waste your time on these lemons. Any player of KotoR, reader of the fanboy novels (not a troll here, I include myself...) or generally insightful mind knows that Endor was a cross-breed between a cop out on Lucas' part regarding his inability to put Kashyyk to the screen, and his new found love for Muppets. Need I say that it all went downhill from there.
Therefore, if you want to appreciate the works of one of the most successful and lucrative members of the little ones acting guild...
Go rent Willow.
As long as you retain your wonderous child-like suspension of disbelief, your entertainment will have no bounds. With the Ewoks...well. You just might end up getting pissed off. They sure piss me off. Make me wish I had a blowgun.
Seriously, Warwick Davis has too fine of acting chops to be wearing a bear cub Muppet outfit and saying things like "Jub-Jub".
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i am just about fed up with you clowns mocking my masterpiece... my creative genius is far superior to you and the slashdot crew.... directors Note: I modeled JarJar after CowboyNeil
Screw this, I want the Star Wars Holiday Special on DVD! Preferably with additional footage of Chewbacca's family speaking gibberish to each other.
Happy Life Day, everybody!
As a footnote, Warwick Davis has a part in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I expect great things of Davis' Marvin the Paranoid Android.
I'll stand apart and say that I actually like these movies. They are much more psychedelic than the mainstream Star Wars movies, well, I'll take that back -- Episode 1 had some highly mind altering segments -- holding this quality that was instilled in me during my youth, along with classic like Pippi in the South Seas, Mary Poppins, and Kiss Meets the Phantom. Nostalgia purposes these movies are great for.
Besides, the annoying whining of the little Girl ("more water!
Well. They aren't good movies by any means. But they are not totally without value.
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Think Richard Geere living on the planet of the gerbils.....
Who cares?
/. might as well have stories on Home Gardening and Pocket Protectors. It makes just about as much sense..
I wish some would explain to me why it's "mandatory" that if you are into IT that you're also into Sci-Fi?
I think
Scott
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The headline was a commentarry on the general suckiness of made-for-TV movies.
NOT some sort of commentary on how great these silly pieces of fluff are.
Wait a sec... It WAS about the silly pieces of fluff? Dear god...
somebody kill me now.
This was on TheForce.net weeks (possibly months) ago.
Wow... I'd never have thought I'd get this as present for my 34th birthday. :-)
Man, I'm such a geek...
Now, when will the Wookie Christmas Special be coming to DVD?
Who says it peaked with Jar-Jar? Watch for the cameo appearance of Barney the Dino in episode 3.
I had only just been allowed to use spoons again. After enduring the first Ewok movie, spoons were hidden in my house for fear I would try and do a "King Lear".
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Just what I wanted. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen these particular movies, so perhaps they are better than I'm guessing based on ROTJ.)
I remember liking them when I saw them on tape when I was around 8 or so. Of course, I was 8. I remember being sort of freaked out by the giant spiders (they dined on Ewoks), but I suspect if I saw any of them again I wouldn't be terribly impressed.
A beowulf cluster of Ewoks!
This is a ueseless piece of trivia but what the hell. Did all you Ewok fans out there know that there is an actual Lake Ewok? Its a little man made lake on Skywalker Ranch.
Funny sidenote to that. I lifeguarded for LucasFilm's Fourth of July company picnic there a year ago. Yup, I lifeguarded Lake Ewok. Anyway I got a Skywalker Ranch hat for doing that and every now and then I wear it. Last time I wore it out to dinner the waiter asked me if I was a moisture farmer! I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of dinner.
--HC
So I'm jump'n up and down screaming show me the money.
I hope we do actually find a planet full of Eworks so we can incorporate them in our Olympic sports. I'm thinking of either "Ewok Bowling" or maybe "Ewok Skeet".
Now that does make sense.
now if only I could find that damned tape...
I find it probable that stormtrooper armor is designed to protect against slug-throwing weapons, which is probably why no one bothers using them - though of course there are other good reasons. For example, imagine trying to find 7.62mm rounds on some alien planet. Good luck, sucker! I'd say there's good reasons not to use slug-throwers on spaceships too, except blasters seem to put holes right through most metal structures.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I always thought it was so sad when that one Teddy Ruxbin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Ewok died because of the giant spider. Also, the scene where the older brother gets stuck under the pond gave me nightmares.
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Now I have to call the dogs to clean it up.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
So is this being released because of more riddick stories? Well the screen writer seems familiar http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923646/
James
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because everybody loves the Ewoks
It is well known that Lucas originally wanted Wookiees at the end of ROTJ. However, through the trilogy we see (through Chewbacca) that the Wookiees are in fact a technologically advanced race. You couldn't have a race that was capable of fixing a hyperdrive fighting its wars with sticks and rocks! Lucas wanted to stick with the theme of the technologically "superior" empire being defeated by primitive weaponry. Hence, we get (reverse the syllables in "Wookiee") "Ewoks".
However, George never abandoned the idea of seeing the Wookiees fighting on their own turf. We will see the "Battle of Kashyyyk" in Episode III.
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! It's impossible, it can't be!
And to completely ruin Star Wars, think about this:
Most star systems are light years apart. (I.E. the distance light travels in a year). Now, considering this fact, how is it possible for these folks in a galaxy far far away to actually visit different star systems, moving at only light speed?
I find it probable that stormtrooper armor is designed to protect against slug-throwing weapons
Similarly, a red Star Trek uniform makes you immune to bullets (but nothing else)
blasters seem to put holes right through most metal structures.
Trash receptacles excepted.
You couldn't have a race that was capable of fixing a hyperdrive fighting its wars with sticks and rocks!
I don't see why not. After all, humans have both advanced cultures capable of computers and rockets and primitive ones that can't even count beyond three.
Well, they do have this hyperspace thing they do. I mean, it's science-fantasy after all. I just liked the idea of having an explanation for the armor :)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I've always read it corrected as a "holiday special". For some, the difference is nil, but for others, is pretty significant. For those that don't celebrate Christmas, that is.
Facts:
1. Ewoks are mammals.
2. Ewoks fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Ewok is to flip out and cook people.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
Actually, Red Star Trek uniforms attract most other forms of attack. This is by design, as it draws fire away from the more important people.
Yes, this argument is true from an anthropological standpoint, but for fantasy/sci-fi filmmaking it doesn't work. In these genres, cultures within a species are usually merged into an archetype (or stereotype, if you will). The Empire: white homo-sapiens with British accents, Hutts: gangsters and criminals, Jawas: scavengers. SW isn't the only franchise that's guilty of this. Look at Star Trek; Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans - they have virtually no cultural diversity shown within their ranks. They all revolve around a common racial theme. Even Tolkien, as brilliant and diverse as his world was, found himself doing the same with his races. Dwarves were gruff, short tempered and loved living underground. Elves were stoic and mystical. Orcs were feral and vicious. Only when you got to the humans did you see any real cultural diversity.
Imagine if Lucas had done as you suggest. Would the Alliance have allied themselves with the Wookiees armed with spears and rocks, or would they have made a call to Chewie's friends on the other side of the planet to send over some Ion cannons and thermal detonators??
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno
Han Solo actually shoots at Wicket FIRST before they try to cook him.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
There's Ewok talk, there's Furby talk, there's primitive-people-who-can't-count-past-three talk...
And then there's Toki Pona.
I've seen it. Twice. (Why? Evidence suggests I',m an idiot. No, wait, that wasn't it. I was going to do an article on it for someone, but never got around to it. Anyone out there want to pay me to write and publishthat article? I've just bought a house, so I need the money...)
As God is my witness, The Star Wars Holiday Special is worse than Manos, the Hands of Fate. SEE! Bea Arthur sing a Kurt Weil-esque ditty in the Cantina! SEE! Wookies speak incomprehensibly to each other for ten minutes. SEE! Jefferson Starship perform! (Actually, that's one of the higlights, not because its particularly good, but because it's a blessed relief from the show itself.) SEE! Mark Hamil wearing enough mascara and eyeliner to play the MC in a Fire Island production of Cabaret! SEE! Harvey Korman play three roles! SEE! Grandpa Wookie watching human psuedo-porn! SEE! An embalmed Art Carney! SEE! Carrie Fisher sing! SEE! The lowlight of careers for every single peraon involved!
He only appropriate way to release it on DVD would be with an extra track that consisted of nothing but everyone involved aplogizing for the entire length of the film. ("I'm really, really sorry. It was the 70s and they gave me an awful lot of coke before I signed the contract...")
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Granted, it's been some time since I've seen the original trilogy, but wasn't it a big deal for the Falcon to do "lightspeed"? I don't remember them specifically saying they have warp drive/hyperspace technology. I guess you could make a case that it's implied..
But this does show the problem with conventional space travel: even if we had craft capable of light speed, it would still take 5 years to journey to the nearest star system. (Alpha Centauri)
No doubt they should skip this first meager offering and wait for the special collectors limited edition box set with the little Ewok statues holding it up but it ain't going to happen. Not only are they too far gone but they also know that if they don't buy the first one then it will be determined that demand for a special collectors limited edition box set with the little Ewok statues holding it up isn't there. Then they'll never get a chance to hear the commentary tracks, see the making of featurette, or learn the intimate details of what goes on inside the Ewok village.
No way they're going to let that happen. If they fail to buy this one it's game over. No better Ewok DVD's and no Star Wars Christmas Special DVD released down the road.
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I thought it worth raising the subject of one of the worst made for TV movies of all time since this is a Star Wars thread.
I've noticed there are a lot of different 'Star Wars Christmas Special' DVDs out now, and they're easy to buy on eBay. Is Lucas allowing this? They're open outright auctions. I've seen quite a variety of Case/Cover artwork to accompany them.
It's certainly an interesting side-topic, if we're gonna talk about Star Wars 'releases.'
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Umm, whoah. We used the search key 'Star Wars Christmas Special' on eBay yesterday at work and it pulled up a bunch of 'em. I just checked to put up a link for folks in this message. They're gone now.
Never mind. Lucas took 'em out.
Still, it's a must have 'made for TV film.' It and the original Star Wars (which I saw in 1977 in the theatre) are the total of the Star Wars films that I've seen so far.
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:)
I entered, and didn't win (I think it was fixed.. how could I not win? (pics))
Anyway, I couldn't show her one of the pics, this picture of my kitchen, because I realized at the last second that it showed her copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special (visible on the floor), and I wasn't ready to give it back.
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Does anyone else find it strange that "the greatest made for TV
movies of all time" compares so atrociously to the average
episode of 'The Simpsons' or 'NYPD Blue'?
now what i really want on DVD is the starwars Holiday special
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Even Tolkien, as brilliant and diverse as his world was, found himself doing the same with his races. Dwarves were gruff, short tempered and loved living underground. Elves were stoic and mystical.
Tolkien never had the room to get into the subcultures of the different races in the Lord of the Rings, but if you read the Silmarillion you would see how he weaves several diverse Elvish cultures. Some followed the angels to Valinor, some didn't. Some even rebelled against the Valar, killed other Elves and stole their ships.
We have no idea what unit this point five is, so perhaps that ends up meaning "really fucking fast."
I think it proabably was meant to be taken that way, since he outran the Empire's ships which seemed to be pretty cutting edge.
If you want to get really upset with Star Wars science though, how about deflecting blasters with a light saber? Sure, I suppose you could say it's possible with The Force... but even the way blaster weapons are shown, they appear to behave more like projectile weapons than lasers, what with a visible beam that flies out toward its target instead of hiting it the instant the trigger is pulled (as you'd expect from a laser weapon).
But yeah... It's just a movie so I think I'll shutup now... ;)
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Dear Lord NNNNNnnnnnnnooooooooooooooo,
What a stupid attempt to astroturf. I guess you wouldn'd figure out a bad movie if it would stick in your arse and would hurt you every time you move - if you move from your couch.
Ah, the old slug-thrower: a weapon designed to cause fear and revulsion in the less masculine sections of the armed forces.
Countered by Stormtrooper (or any similar) armour (because the slugs slide off) and sodium shields. And if the slugs stop short, you can easily outrun them.
But a for more important reason for wearing armour in modern time and I think this was the reason for the Star Wars armour, is to create a uniform anonymous look. Just as the face mask worn by special forces it is not really there to protect by to create a scary opponent. In a movie setting it also neatly allows you to have only a handfull of stunt soldiers and have them die and die again without people noticing. It also allowed the plot device of luke and han dressing up as storm troopers without being noticed.
Plenty of movies use complex full body armour that seems to do absolutly nothing to protect the soldiers inside as the hero goes through them like a knife through butter. It is hollywood.
On a more classic Sci-Fi note it is nothing new that super advanced species get slaughtered by primitive weapons.
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You know, the people who actually do the work. The original series had them in a couple of episodes. Miners mostly but TNG seemed to have kept the A and B arks and shot the C ark out into space.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
I checked the Star Wars website and found nothing on the release. I'm interested to see if they are being released in Full Frame or Widescreen ratios since the two telefilms were released theatrically in Europe. It makes me wonder what ratio they originally filmed it in too...
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"Originally Lucas was going to have the last battle on Kashyyyk (the Wookie homeworld) ... a marvelously titanic battle of 'primitive' Wookies tearing down the might of the Emperor's best legions through cunning and sheer force of will. Problem is -- thanks to Chewbacca, we know that Wookies are quite adept with technology, thankyouverymuch."
That and 2 hours of Wookies didn't save the Star Wars Holiday Special. Don't worry, there'll be plenty of Wookie fighting in Episode III since one of the major fights takes place on Kashyyyk. No word on if Chewbacca's dad is in it.
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
What about the Starwars Holiday Special?
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This site is much better. It has really been a long time. This show is older than most of the girls I meet these days.
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"What the fuck is a Gungan?!"
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
That's right, I now remember that Ethel Merman did a disco album. I was in high school when Star Wars came out and disco was big so I'm very senile now...
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
Flipping through one of those "Technology of Star Wars" books in the bookstore, it was implied that the "blasters" were kind of like a plasma weapon... plasma is formed from some sort of chemical reaction, and then the charge is propelled (electromagnetically? electrostatically? both?) out the end of the weapon. Thus explaining the appearance and the apparent damage.
You could deflect a charged plasma with a field of the same charge, or bend it in a magnetic field.
Except I doubt that you could generate enough plasma at a high enough temperature inside a hand-held device to cause much damage at any range. Especially with air between you and the target.
A type of laser exists that burns hydrogen and fluorine gases (!!!) as the lasing medium and excitation method. That will generate a whole lot of very hot gas as HF is formed (!!!!) and I suppose you could acclerate that... 6000 degree fluoride ions will certainly do a lot of damage if the density is high enough.
But yeah, it's just a movie.
And I liked the Ewok movies when I was a kid. Taped them off NBC, ran the tapes until they fell apart. ;)
"BRING ME THE POWER!!!"
Same reason 6'4" farangs want to live in ChangMai
with 4'10" Thai girls -- only more so.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
Apparently, the Singer Midget Memorial Actor's Union committee managed to successfully lobby George's decision on that one.
I have had these 2 movies in my old Laserdisk collection for atlest 10 years. Good to se DVD finaly catching up. These are aimed more at the children audience then the sci-fi fan IMHO sepski
Even Tolkien, as brilliant and diverse as his world was, found himself doing the same with his races. Dwarves were gruff, short tempered and loved living underground. Elves were stoic and mystical. Orcs were feral and vicious...
Yeah, apparently Tolkien's editors made him take out the gay dwarven spat in the depths of Helm's Deep. Something about it not helping the theme of crushing terror and suspense...
Actually (according to dim-memory rumors) I think Chewbacca will be in that battle. Though that wouldn't stop his dad from being there too.
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Phht... Stormtrooper Armor kills the wearer as soon as any damage is done to it.
1. Princess Leia got shot (not wearing armor) and
she just was just hurt enough to cover her arm
and sit down.
2. Luke takes a hit from a lightsaber while not
wearing armor... Loses his hand and survives.
3. Chewie chokes the crap out of Lando (who is unarmored) and yet Lando survives.
4. Han gets frozen in Carbonite (potentially
fatal), while unarmored. He survives the
ordeal.
5. Hundreds of stormtroopers take 1 hit from any
non-doorway source and they bite it instantly.
Other Star Wars point of interest:
Sith Lords only die if they fall down a shaft.
Vader was redeemed and thus didn't have to fall
into a shaft, since he didn't die as a Sith Lord.
Darth Maul gets chopped in half and falls down a
shaft...
This is how I knew that Dooku would survive the
battle with Yoda. No Shaft.
shame on ... shame on you. Fool me .... [dumb, distant look], you can't get fooled again.
The idea of the rebels allying themselves with a group of low-tech aliens and defeating the technologically advanced Empire was such a core idea of George Lucas' Star Wars concepts that when he couldn't realize it on film the first time around, in '77, it still found its way into Star Wars lore very quickly, well before Return of the Jedi was released - the same idea is used in the Alan Dean Foster novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the first-ever Star Wars-based original novel, released in February of 1978. Foster had ghostwritten the novelization of the original movie (published under Lucas' name in late 1976, six months before the film was released), and Lucas had talked with Foster about some of his other Star Wars concepts and ideas that didn't make it into that original movie. Foster incorporated a couple of them (the "primitives"-vs.-Imperials battle, plus the novel's central concept of a Force-connected crystal, the "Mind's Eye" of the title) into his spinoff novel.
When you have near unlimited energy, the ability to transport goods instantaneously and machines that can create almost anything, how many "workers" are you really going to need?
It wasn't Friday evening in my time zone, but thanks for the jab. :)
Appropriate subtitle for the Ewok Adventure movie.
Was it just me, or did it seem like the family crashed their intragalactic RV? Even when I was 10 years old watching this thing, I had the following thought: These guys are the trailer trash of the star wars universe.
When I was 10, these were good movies. Somehow I would imagine they hold up as well as my favorite show when I was a kid: The Dukes of Hazzard. That is to say, not well at all. I'm not even sure if I want to find out at this point. It think I'll stick with nostalgia and continue to delude myself that these were good films.
Besides, all the suspense is gone - I know that there won't be any tornado to suck them, along with their little furball friends, into the sky.
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