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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 ???
Trolling using another account since 2005.
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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I hate feeling like an luser - I thought it was just Linux, but I have problems in Windows too.
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/
"I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers, lispers.org
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
Bah! Insensitive clod give us a link!
n ty trail/
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Here:
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/bou
pppfffft!
How many other people clicked on this article and wondered "Where's the torrents?"
"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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No, you don't. Don't read/watch them. Problem solved.
"A typewriter doesn't make you an author, a videocam not a Steven Spielberg and a piece of CGI software
But if they're having fun, and Lucasfilms isn't upset about it, what's the big deal? It's their time and money. People don't have to be authors to have fun writing, or Steven Spielberg to have fun making a movie. Sure the results will suck, but so what? It's not life or death. It's not even to make money. It's to have fun. I cringe at most of them too, but every once in a while I see one or two I want to take a look at (and occasionally end up liking), which is all I'm concerned about. $DEITY knows enough commercial TV is almost as bad, and they get paid for it.
"I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers, lispers.org
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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Everyone gets to decide if it they think it is SF or not.
Quite a lot of people would consider something "real SF" if it is examining the impact of science and/or technology on people or society, probably making comments on modern society in the process.
Or out it another way, it is fiction about science (and by extention technology) rather than fiction that just happens to have sciencs and technology in it.
Of course everyone probably has their own view, and stuff like Star Wars sometimes gets called Science Fantasy, which is also SF just to be confusing. There is also the whole hard/soft Sci-Fi thing as well.
Like any genre, start to break it down and actually things become become blurry. When someone says "real SF" I generally have a good idea what they mean (by contrast "hard SF" seems to get used several different ways, as both relatively plausable to current thinking science, and science with all the consequences thought out).
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
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.
The great thing about fan fiction in its various forms is you can completely ignore it. Even if you don't it costs you nothing, just stop reading or watching if you don't like it. OK, if you hear about some slash fiction ideas you want to wash your brain out, but apart from that ;)
So, you don't have to endure it. It is really Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap, only with the lowering costs to produce/publish/distribute the bar is lowered. So instead of getting loads of crap and some good stuff just from people paid to make it, now you get it from people doing it for fun.
Some of the people are learning how to use the tools, some are just having fun. Some are actually pretty good (check out Troops for a good Star Wars fan film). Plus there people are doing it for free. So some people get to enjoy making it, and some get to enjoy watching or reading it. People have fun and nothing is forced on you, and you are complaining? Do you somehow object to people having fun?
"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.
The best SW fan film ever! ...no wait!
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
And a link to the trailer.
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
Flash advertisements? Browser busting links? Realplayer? Windows Media? A Jedi needs not these things!
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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What...no Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope? It's better...and much, much funnier...than any of these films.
"Warn you we tried. Listen you did not. Now screwed we all will be!"
Sorry for the "full glory" stuff, but /. doesn't allow html posts with less than a certain number of characters per line (why?)
They Killed JAR JAR woohoo