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."

Comments

Slightly off topic

[hnile_jablko]

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!!!

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[bioglaze]

It will take forever to download 2005 files.

Here's the best

[mirko]

Why did they forget Him ???

Media sites rant

[shani]

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.

I hate feeling like an luser - I thought it was just Linux, but I have problems in Windows too. :(

Re:Media sites rant

[fuyu-no-neko]

I have the same problem, although given time I can usually work through the source of the site to work out the URL. (I fear for the day that the US government decides to make the "View Source" command illegal - I just know the UK will blindly follow suit)

It would be common sense to reach the widest possible audiance for something like this, so these tricks go against all common sense. Then again, common sense is rarely that common isn't it :o/

Re:Media sites rant

[kd3bj]

They want to make sure only professional media pirates can steal copies of the videos. If ordinary people could steal copies, that would infringe on the rights of pirates.

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

These vids make Episode 1 look good.

Broken Allegiance still rules

[starseeker]

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/

Spooky Voice

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Raiders of the Lost Ark fan film

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Just to throw something else out there.

[iibbmm]

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

First Thought

[Kaorimoch]

How many other people clicked on this article and wondered "Where's the torrents?"

Re:Digital Fandom

[starseeker]

"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."

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.

Start Wars Clone Wars....

[Invalid Character]

For anyone who is a fan of animation and Star Wars, i highly suggest taking a look at the Star Wars Clone Wars mini series (directed by Gendy Tartakovski of Sarmurai Jack and Dexter's Lab). Very stylized and very engaging. Sometimes I think Star Wars would have been better off as such a series of cartoons or animations.

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?

They cant because of contest rules

[gad_zuki!]

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

The classic

[traabil]

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.

if George Lucas entered Ep 1 or Ep 2

[AtariAmarok]

If George had anonymously entered his movies in the contest, there is too high of a chance he'd lose.

"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."

The dark side

[argent]

Flash advertisements? Browser busting links? Realplayer? Windows Media? A Jedi needs not these things!

"A Lost Hope" is better

[Captain Irreverence]

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!"

Direct Links

[Anonymous Coward]

Direct Links (but still likely incurs ads). Can someone tcpdump the shockwave and/or realplays and mirror them somewhere?

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