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2005 Star Wars Fan Film Entries Online
Marty Broxterman writes "The 2005 Official Star Wars Fan Film awards are underway, and the 16 finalists are now online.
Three of the best entries are: Sith Apprentice - Darth Vader and other baddies duke it out to be the Emperor's new lackey in this parody of 'The Apprentice' - very funny, and the sequence with Darth Vader's "talent" has to be seen to be believed; Tiny Toys - Where a woman must defend herself from a pint-sized army of Star Wars toys. Almost a Kill Bill parody at times... amusing; and One Season More - a completely CGI rendition of one of the songs from the "Star Wars Musical" that's been floating around the web for a few years - some amazing animation. Voting for the contest takes place here."
I friend of a friend made a promotional ad for the lead of to episode one. it was 2 star wars nerds (the sort from the triumph the insulting dog bit) jumping the queue to see the movie. there were these 2 cute girls in line not very happy about this. one nerd turns to the girls and waves his arm a la Obi, proclaiming "This is not the movie you want to see. Go about your business." The girls leave in disgust with the 2 uber-nerds believing their jedi mind tricked worked. BRILLIANT STUFF!!!
It will take forever to download 2005 files.
Who is John Galt?
Why did they forget Him ???
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They would be very nice
I know I shouldn't complain, but why the fuck can't companies just put links to the videos? Even normally sane organisations like the BBC do this crap.
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These vids make Episode 1 look good.
I'd say Broken Allegiance http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/broken allegiance/ has to be my favorite fan film. Sure the acting isn't top notch, but after all it's a fan film and it's way better than average. Their villian is awesome and a lot of small touches really work well. The design for the villian's ship - amazing. Plus the blooper reel had me laughing almost the whole way through.
I guess my tastes run away from spoofs toward "serious" movies, and in general most fan films don't have the resources to pull this off. I keep hoping Tydirium works out though: http://www.tydirium.tv/
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Why do these fan films always have an evil guy with an incredibly lame "spooky voice"?
The whole Apprentice video sucked. Including the Vader talent segment.
A friend recently told me about this film, an amazing-sounding film made over the span of seven years by three boys, which ultimately was lauded by Spielberg as a true work of art. I've been unable to find any copies of the film itself... anybody have any pointers?
Back in 1999 a friend and I put together Ultracheese-When Senators Attack IV. It garnered praise from the Python-fan crowd, and I'm still proud of it today. If the idea of a completely retarded parody of Episode 1's Trailer sounds like a good idea to you, check it out. www.ultracheese.com
The rest is just a hyped up swash-bucking flick in space polished with Hollywood Magic, but oh well. It does bring back some pleasnt memories from the time far, far away when it first came out.
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Ok it has to be 'Bounty Trail'
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Classic.
... of these screening with Episode III: Revenge of the Sith? Then maybe we'll get of $7 worth.
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It was bad enough to read fanzines and fan stories in the 80's - now we have to endure bad storytelling and childish phantasies onscreen.
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A typewriter doesn't make you an author, a videocam not a Steven Spielberg and a piece of CGI software
How many other people clicked on this article and wondered "Where's the torrents?"
Instead of trying to portray ultra realism (and failing) why dont more producers just make the leap along with the audience of suspending disbelief and making a more interesting and entertaining production through animation?
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I remember emailing the creator of Pink 5 a year ago (two?) asking for a high-quality direct download and he told me that Lucas's rules prohibit anyone from distributing their own work for a year or so. He thought it was due to Lucasfilm producing a DVD of the fan films, but I dont think that has ever happened.*
*cavaet: this is all from memory and second hand information
I felt that these short films were pretty good but I'm a fan of parodies. I really liked Sith Apprentice but my favorite Star Wars parody is A Lost Hope from sequentialpictures.com. It's a parody of a trailer for Episode 3.
In my book, the fan films climaxed with Star Wars Troops. In addition to the interesting look into a storm trooper's life, it also provided another (more realistic) view into Luke's dark background.
Oh? I thought it was kind of cool when Donald Trump said "You're fired!" as he kicked Anakin into a burning volcano.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Made Me Laugh ALL day!
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"What? A Rastafarian camelhead alien with snail eyes and a long long tongue? Meesa thinks only an idiot would put such in a Star Wars movie."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
While not starwars, I certainly found it humourous!
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The best SW fan film ever! ...no wait!
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And a link to the trailer.
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Flash advertisements? Browser busting links? Realplayer? Windows Media? A Jedi needs not these things!
Dude, I know those folks put a lot of work into those films, but those were painful to watch. Those two comedies weren't funny at all, and that CGI musical was down right creepy.
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The [WMP] player looks like a sucked lolly.
Accurate or not, I can't let this minor gem get kicked to -1 with the rest of the post.
Sucked lolly?! Has *anything* remotely computer related ever been described thus? That's either brilliantly insightful or your mind has been fried by a 10lbs of LSD a day habit.
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It's completely unwatchable. 40 seconds of sound, one frame. another 40 seconds, one more frame. Useless.
What's the point of my T3 if they can't serve up the data to me. Pricks.
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The best fan film I've ever seen was one of the winners of that program of them Kevin Smith hosted a hojillion years ago; Christmas Tauntauns. http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/tauntaun s
Talk about follow the Javascript trail... why can't sites just serve up a nice Object tag with the url of the data!
It is the job of the browser to choose a plugin; its idea of the association between plugins and MIME types is always correct.
Hardcoding the associations in Javascript is retarded; how is the web developer supposed to know this information better than my browser?
What...no Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope? It's better...and much, much funnier...than any of these films.
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A lot of comments about the quality of the vids and nobody commenting on the Babylon 5 and Star Trek uniform cameos in that Apprentice video? What is SlashDot coming to?
The whole Apprentice video sucked. Including the Vader talent segment.
Not only the spooky voice, but WHY must they ALWAYS talk in a stupid RHYTHM that makes them SOUND like idiots? This always seems to be an issue with fan-made stuff, especially Star Wars. It doesn't come across well, the audio is very hard to hear. I give them credit for making it, but for all the effort they put into it, you would think that they would listen to it once or twice and realize how bad it sounds. I am sure they could have mixed it so you could hear it.
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Sorry for the "full glory" stuff, but /. doesn't allow html posts with less than a certain number of characters per line (why?)
That was darned funny!
One of the funniest short videos I've seen, spoofing Star Wars and American Pie.
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I'm going to wait for "Revenge of the Pith - When Citrus Goes Bad".
They Killed JAR JAR woohoo
...but I wonder if the "Tiny Toys" one is anything like the Stephen King short story Battleground? I always loved that story and thought that it would be a neat movie. I really wanted to see it made as a mix of CGI and live action after I saw the little guys in Toy Story.
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How can something be a "kill bill" parody, when kill bill itself was a parody?
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Pray tell, by what warped definition it's not Science Fiction?
Yes, it's a swashbuckler and magic flick. Yes, it's a cute little space opera. No, it wasn't some deep philosophical shit.
It's also probably _the_ SF universe where they went and fleshed out every single bloody detail about how it works. Between the movies, the books and the games, they covered pretty much every single bit of technology, history, and politics in that galaxy.
You could research, or have your favourite SW terminal nerd fill you in on such details as exactly what was the thrust of each engine on a TIE-fighter, or what was its turning radius. Or exactly what went into a lightsaber. Or which animals ate what. Etc.
So it seems to me like it went and explained its science part _far_ beyond the point where any other SF setting ever did. So why and by what definition it's not SF?
And then what would still count as SF?
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Star Wars.
The most simple minded, gayest, chilish pile of shit the movie world has yet seen.
Grow up you losers, take your Jar Jar Binks action figures out of your butts, and go read some real sci-fi instead.
You sad bunch of lusers.
In senior English in high school, we could get out of exams by making on-topic videos. I was a part of The Beo Wulf Project, Shakespeare's The Tempest (animated...very badly), and Oliver Wars. Oliver (played by the biggest guy in our group) wanted more food, but the only way to get it was through Jedi training. And then two Jedi knights come to save Oliver from the Siith Lord, with one Jedi dying and the Siith Lord losing his head in the process. Incidentally, cause of death of the Jedi knight was being thrown into a pile of dog poo (entirely unknown until after filming). We did the light-saber battle out of Phantom Menace with both Jedi and Darth Maul going at it at once - but out imitation light sabers really hurt when we screwed up.
Someday we'll rotoscope in some better light saber effects, but it's still hilarious.
Can't wait to put mine up. It's going to be full length and all green-screened. All of the effects are being created and rendered with Blender. I hope to start filming this summer. Crossing my fingers!
Amateurs never use a boom mic. I don't know why, but they don't. They also seem to very rarely monitor audio through headphones when shooting. Another mistake.
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vote for Real Men of the Empire
http://www.theochannel.com/InsaneO/Thumbs/thumbwar s/
Is the best one I've watched so far. The rest have been lame at best...
joking.com has the best star wars "fan films", you get to find out what happened during Leia's interrogation, Vader explaining the critical design flaws of both Death Stars to Palpy, even Palpy finding Vader a girlfriend. So what if it has crappy flash animation with just one person doing the voices to all of the characters. ;)
As a mindless automaton in the service of Bob Bean (the Vader in Sith Apprentice) http://www.vaderpainter.com/, I must bow to the glory of my Master! Gooooooo Bob! Congrats.
welcome our yoda overlords, I for one