Posted on 04/29/2014 10:24:04 AM PDT by notsofastmyfriend
“...William H. Macy...”
Wow... I googled his picture, and he DOES look sort of like a considerably aged Hamill.
He did "Corvette Summer" in 1978, a completely forgettable movie. So bad you have to watch it. It also had Annie Potts in it.
Hammil has done a ton of voice work for cartoons. Most notable is the voice of the Joker in most of the Batman cartoons over the last 20+ years.
Hammil = Hamill
Is he related to the Olympic Ice Skater, Dorothy Hamil?
She was around the same time period too, I think...
In the "Clone Wars" tv show cartoon, Darth Maul actually survived being cut in half and came back as cyborg.
“...survived being cut in half and came back as cyborg....”
Haha... anything is possible in make-believe land, isn’t it...
I never watched any of those. My son may have, though. He loved all of the Star Wars shows.
The Star Wars franchise even got on the Zombie bandwagon; there was a Star Wars book called “Deathtroopers” that my son had (and yes, I read it!!) - It was actually a REALLY good story.
If you want to read a really well-written sci-fi/monster yarn, that’s the book to check out.
Not as far as I know.
Yeah, I just looked it up. No mention of being related. Name is the same, though.
Maybe distant cousins.
Yep, Corvette Summer(made 1978 ) .
That one turned up on my cable recently and it brought back memories to ~ 1979 when I first saw it on a premium cable movie channel.
I didn't go very far into it before deleting it from my DVR this time around.
Annie Potts was supposed to be playing a unsuccessful hooker who does business in the back of her van and gives him a ride to find his car. She's pretty skinny in it (not attractive at all) and her character was annoying.
Actors don't take jobs like this unless they are desperate and by then Hamill was very well known so it must have been recognized how weak his performances were.
For example, Sean Penn may be a liberal p..k and annoying too but he was successful because he could act.
Recall him in The Thin Red Line (WWI movie). He could act.
Right. Frank Nelson played Ted Wills in a number of episodes. They actually look similar too.
Minor correction SOL... The “Thin Red Line” was about WWII, about Army units on Guadalcanal near the end of the campaign, after the initial Marine battles. From the novel by James Jones - same author who wrote “From Here To Eternity” about Pearl Harbor.
Read both of those books, and saw the films as well. There’s also an early 1960s version of Thin Red Line too.
Annie Potts was a little cutie back in the day.
I may.
I was a huge Star Wars fan in the day (I was 8 when Star Wars came out - perfect age). I never got into the expanded universe books, though. Just the movies.
I am reading some good sci-fi now. I really enjoy the character development and the storytelling. The series is called The Legend of Zero by Sara King. The first two books in the series Forging Zero and Zero Recall are very good.
I'm just now starting the third Zero's Return. So far, I'm hooked.
It’s worth your time, especially if you like the current Zombie genre. The Walking Dead really exploded it.
You were 8, I was 16 when it came out. Both ages, able to appreciate the movie. Loved “Alien” when that came out in 1979, too. That movie was basically a remake of “It! The Terror From Beyond Space”
See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051786/
Ridley Scott saw that flick when HE was a kid, and remade it into “Alien”. Same plot to a tee.
I saw that 1958 classic on Saturday Afternoon Creature Double Feature or Horror Theater on the UHF stations.
One of my favorites, still.
‘WWI’ was a typo.
I figured... but I don’t get much chance to correct you, so I just HAD to!!! Haha!
“Who loves ya, baby!”
I been making lots of single character typos like that lately too.
I liked one and two. I think this guy will do great with star wars, he wasn’t a trek fan but his two movies beat the original movies.
Fat Finger Syndrome... I get it too.
Especially when typing fast.
Ford has said he wants Solo killed off and Fisher has said she`d like to kill him. Works for me. Since Leia is Vaders daughter it makes sense for her to turn evil in contrast to Luke`s good. Duality . Actually Fisher is so messed up mentally she can`t be too reliable for future films. Knocking Leia and Solo both off would leave Skywalker alone_as he was in ANH_ to mentor a new cast...and the Saga regenerates.
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