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to do with my time tonight. Just watched the original film and frankly I enjoyed the recut more! Episode IV, A New Hope, Star Wars, whatever it is called is a big ball of cheese. The effects are great fun, the script is functional and the acting is mediocre at best. There is really not much in it. The story is garbled and much of it doesn't really make sense.
It doesn't matter because of the kind of film it is, but it really amazes me that there are so many that think there is some depth, importance, significance to it. I can understand the nostalgic importance, but really what it is, is not much. The dramatic import in many scenes is thrown away by hurried one liners and a rush to blaster shoot outs. Pure cheese.
So many lost opportunities. Irwin Allen would have been proud. Not saying that is a bad thing, just that Star Wars is in the same league as that kind of thing. At least Irwin Allen used talented actors, though they were so soaked in booze and drugs that they were hit and miss in their performances.
I can't imagine that genuinely talented actors like Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness were the least bit proud of their contributions and instead took the paycheck gladly and forgot they ever made this kind of tat.
humourless shit! Yes, you are right, you don't know. And anyway, just who besides yourself is bringing the 'art' notion into the discussion? All good, silly fun. Don't take a dump on it.
Hey young fella! What about Star Trek TOS? That's the only Star Trek I like and you've completely ignored it. Is this real ignorance or a deliberate omission that reveals that you too love that series as much as people such as myself? Are we kindred spirits? - oh, thought not.
The Baywatch and MTV stuff have no meaning, for me anyway. None of them sexy. Almost nude, but not sexy. Carrie Fisher was just never sexy. Now if you talk about it in terms of being 15 and desperately horny then yeah - I would have gone for Carrie Fisher, Heather Locklear in TJ Hooker, Daisy Duke and the hideous Sondra Locke (as if that would have ever happened!) - but that was really a matter of hormone goggles - and being allowed to stare at a woman on a screen for a significant amount of time unlike in real life.
I can't help but spell this out - the original was pretty much lame and dorky and didn't have any sexy women in it. It also didn't really have any compelling hero characters or inspiring elder guru figure. Both have a memorable creepy villain. Hmm. So this one stands up pretty well on its own merits!
I was a little disappointed that some Brit didn't include Clangers sounds for R2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangers But I had my own little chuckle about the idea...
I have sat through the Holiday (or should I say Life Day?!!!!) special twice and I can assure you that this is far superior. I would call it charming entertaining rubbish with lots of laughs.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it 'awesome' but I enjoyed it. A good laugh. Some people take this kind of thing too seriously and what was fun and successful about this is that almost all of the input was deliberately humourous/tongue in cheek/satirical. It would probably be even more fun to watch with friends, beer, pizza...
I am quite pleased with having spent two hours watching, laughing, enjoying. Sorry, did I waste my time being entertained? Guess I should get back to breaking rocks in the hot sun or something.
I just watched the whole thing. I really thought I'd just watch a few minutes and give up but I was charmed by the efforts of the contributors. I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, so I had no concern about the treatment the film got in this piece. The scenes range from the obviously talentless (but usually funny), to the tongue in cheek all the way through to genuinely accomplished. If something like this gets shut down it would be a giant fuck off to the fans of the film who contributed and anyone else who wants to try something similar. I say best of luck to all of them and others who do this sort of thing. Essentially it is harmless fun and I hope it tests the tolerance of the copyright fascists (in a positive way). As others have pointed out, a weakness in this is that they used actual video from the film and also audio. They really didn't need to, so they are asking for trouble. Also included are some obvious brand names and toy lines which would probably have been better left out. This may not be for Star Wars purists, but I enjoyed a few good belly laughs from it.
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UFOs are real. As in 'unidentified flying objects'. I think you really should have said alien spaceships instead.
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this work purports to be authoritative claim to be, profess to be, pretend to be; appear to be, seem to be; be ostensibly, pose as, impersonate, masquerade as, pass for.
You call that a yellow jacket? That's a wasp!
Surely you don't want to ride around on a steel frame bike!
Such a shame wasting all of that pig blood. They could have made lovely black pudding.
It doesn't matter because of the kind of film it is, but it really amazes me that there are so many that think there is some depth, importance, significance to it. I can understand the nostalgic importance, but really what it is, is not much. The dramatic import in many scenes is thrown away by hurried one liners and a rush to blaster shoot outs. Pure cheese.
So many lost opportunities. Irwin Allen would have been proud. Not saying that is a bad thing, just that Star Wars is in the same league as that kind of thing. At least Irwin Allen used talented actors, though they were so soaked in booze and drugs that they were hit and miss in their performances.
I can't imagine that genuinely talented actors like Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness were the least bit proud of their contributions and instead took the paycheck gladly and forgot they ever made this kind of tat.
Oh, well done sir. Well done! Why AC? Take credit for your achievement!
humourless shit! Yes, you are right, you don't know. And anyway, just who besides yourself is bringing the 'art' notion into the discussion? All good, silly fun. Don't take a dump on it.
singular: a phenomenon. plural: phenomena. Glad to be of help.
Hey young fella! What about Star Trek TOS? That's the only Star Trek I like and you've completely ignored it. Is this real ignorance or a deliberate omission that reveals that you too love that series as much as people such as myself? Are we kindred spirits? - oh, thought not.
The Baywatch and MTV stuff have no meaning, for me anyway. None of them sexy. Almost nude, but not sexy. Carrie Fisher was just never sexy. Now if you talk about it in terms of being 15 and desperately horny then yeah - I would have gone for Carrie Fisher, Heather Locklear in TJ Hooker, Daisy Duke and the hideous Sondra Locke (as if that would have ever happened!) - but that was really a matter of hormone goggles - and being allowed to stare at a woman on a screen for a significant amount of time unlike in real life.
I can't help but spell this out - the original was pretty much lame and dorky and didn't have any sexy women in it. It also didn't really have any compelling hero characters or inspiring elder guru figure. Both have a memorable creepy villain. Hmm. So this one stands up pretty well on its own merits!
Trying to get my head around your grammar. What is that you are trying to say? The YouTube video plays OK for me...
Just look for 'Star Wars Uncut' on You Tube. Easy.
I was a little disappointed that some Brit didn't include Clangers sounds for R2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangers But I had my own little chuckle about the idea...
I have sat through the Holiday (or should I say Life Day?!!!!) special twice and I can assure you that this is far superior. I would call it charming entertaining rubbish with lots of laughs.
There is a blender at one point which is asked for repeatedly.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it 'awesome' but I enjoyed it. A good laugh. Some people take this kind of thing too seriously and what was fun and successful about this is that almost all of the input was deliberately humourous/tongue in cheek/satirical. It would probably be even more fun to watch with friends, beer, pizza...
I am quite pleased with having spent two hours watching, laughing, enjoying. Sorry, did I waste my time being entertained? Guess I should get back to breaking rocks in the hot sun or something.
I just watched the whole thing. I really thought I'd just watch a few minutes and give up but I was charmed by the efforts of the contributors. I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, so I had no concern about the treatment the film got in this piece. The scenes range from the obviously talentless (but usually funny), to the tongue in cheek all the way through to genuinely accomplished. If something like this gets shut down it would be a giant fuck off to the fans of the film who contributed and anyone else who wants to try something similar. I say best of luck to all of them and others who do this sort of thing. Essentially it is harmless fun and I hope it tests the tolerance of the copyright fascists (in a positive way). As others have pointed out, a weakness in this is that they used actual video from the film and also audio. They really didn't need to, so they are asking for trouble. Also included are some obvious brand names and toy lines which would probably have been better left out. This may not be for Star Wars purists, but I enjoyed a few good belly laughs from it.
Ah, but you see it is OK for them to host those particular files as no sane person would actually want them polluting their hard drive!
If I must hear that song then it has to be the original version by Shocking Blue. Bananarama were just so bad.
That song is bad. Couldn't stand more than about 20 seconds.
No, they didn't say that in the article. Are you suggesting that Scandinavian countries are 'heavily policed' states?
I hope you meant socializing, not socialization. Otherwise it sound pretty creepy.