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'Star Wars: Episode VII' Cast Announced
Yahoo Movies ^ | April 29, 2014 | Matt McDaniel

Posted on 04/29/2014 10:24:04 AM PDT by notsofastmyfriend

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To: NFHale

Shockingly spot on there. My most recent viewing of her was a cameo in “The Big Bang Theory” for about 5 seconds, wielding a broom or bat.


81 posted on 04/29/2014 10:56:29 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: NFHale
In Empire Strikes Back, when they looked the binoculars and saw the walkers coming, it sent chills up my spine (and still does) and gave me nightmares as a kid.

Yes, they were models and puppets in the originals, but models and puppets are "real" physical things and look and behave like "real" physical things.

While No matter how good CGI gets, it will always basically be nothing more than just a cartoon.

82 posted on 04/29/2014 10:57:57 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: GraceG

Jabba was into some kinky stuff, I heard...

There was the story of that six-”pronged” Valdusian pleasure bot that he kept on the leash, perpetually dunked in a barrel of WD-40 for Leia...

The hair on my neck is standing up just imagining that.... Brr...


83 posted on 04/29/2014 10:58:05 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: a fool in paradise

In that top image...isn’t that Marjoe Gortner?


84 posted on 04/29/2014 10:58:06 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: sickoflibs

“Wrath of Khan”

Best of all of them...


85 posted on 04/29/2014 10:58:53 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: discostu

Yep, that bald Captain Picard was sure a sissy, a joke to put him in Kirk’s chair on the bridge

Where Kirk would flip the bad guy over his shoulder Cap Sissy would Challenger him to game of chess.


86 posted on 04/29/2014 10:59:15 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: NFHale

Great adventure, should have stopped there.


87 posted on 04/29/2014 10:59:57 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: Tijeras_Slim

“..Fighting the insurance companies for the last 30 years over her claims for Alderaan took a toll....”

Well, that three billion Tattoine Crudmars deductible was a BITCH to come up with...You SHOULD know that!!!!

haha!


88 posted on 04/29/2014 11:00:01 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: tanknetter

“...If that’s really her ....”

Good point. It DOES look like her though.


89 posted on 04/29/2014 11:02:22 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale
Looks drawn, and ... worn down.

Pure speculation on my part, but Ms. Fisher looks like someone who has had gastric bypass surgery, along with some plastic surgery to remove the skin layers left by the effects of the rapid weight loss.

90 posted on 04/29/2014 11:02:46 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: FXRP

Ol’ Max is certainly no stranger to sci-fi.

He was ‘Ming the Merciless’ in ‘Flash Gordon’
He was ‘Dr. Kynes’ in ‘Dune’
He was ‘Director Burgess’ in ‘Minority Report’
He was ‘Chief Justice Fargo’ in ‘Judge Dredd’

Just one more to add as a notch on the ol’ belt for him.


91 posted on 04/29/2014 11:03:26 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: a fool in paradise
It's time for the Italians to make another SF movie.

As long as India doesn't get into the act. You know what they did to super heroes.


92 posted on 04/29/2014 11:04:15 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Maybe I was more in awe of the dated special effects of old shows and movies, such as the original Star Trek and Star Wars, because I wondered how they did the special effects. In any case, today’s computer graphics look so obviously fake to me. Also, I think they depend more today on dazzling us with special effects, rather than a good solid storyline.

Saw some program one time (SNL? SCTV? something else?) where two characters were talking about special effects in some movie (and this would've been in the 1980s) trying to distinguish between "bad fakey" and "good fakey" effects.

I think ultimately it comes down to the exhilaration an audience gets from the sequence. The Ray Harryhausen stop motion effects are obviously "not real" but then again the creatures that have come to life are "unreal" as well. Hong Kong action films of the 80s and 90s use a lot of trampolines and wires to depict people running in midair, making incredible leaps, etc. but the overall effort has a delirious effect on audiences.

Computer effects can leave an audience cold (the camera eye never stops moving and it is obvious that you are watching a "realistic" computer cartoon). as well. Hong Kong action films of the 80s and 90s use a lot of trampolines and wires to depict people running in midair, making incredible leaps, etc. but the overall effort has a delirious effect on audiences.

Computer effects can leave an audience cold (the camera eye never stops moving and it is obvious that you are watching a computer cartoon.

The rule of thumb is, "does it look cool?"

93 posted on 04/29/2014 11:05:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: a fool in paradise
Max von Sydow? Where's they dig him up?

When you're Jesus, you get to live forever...

Also, Jeffrey Hunter got to be in Star Trek after being Jesus, so it's only fair that Max gets to be in Star Wars.

94 posted on 04/29/2014 11:06:41 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: a fool in paradise
Bob and Doug return in Star Wars 7?!!!!

****

Yes, they do! I have an advanced copy of the script.

****

Bob: The earth planet had been, like, devastated by nuclear intergalactic war....Lucky for me I'd been off-planet on vacation at the time of the war.

There wasn't much to do. All the bowling alleys had been wrecked, so I spent most of my time looking for beer. One day I was out looking for a nice place to build a city for my children when I spotted a mutant in the forbidden zone. I landed my vehicle to pursue and destroy this genetic freak before he could warn other mutants in the underground caves. I was kind of like a one man force, eh, like Charlton Heston in Omega Men, did you see that? It was a beauty.

[Doug leaps out and confronts Bob]

Bob: Fleshy-headed mutant, are you friendly?

Doug: No way, eh! Radiation has made me an enemy of civilization!

Bob: Alpha base, this is Bob McKenzie. I've spotted a fleshy-headed mutant in sector 16B. [shoots Doug with ping-pong ball gun]

Doug: Ow! Take off, you hoser!

END EXCERPT

***

....or something like that.

95 posted on 04/29/2014 11:07:06 AM PDT by Sideshow Bob
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To: sickoflibs; latina4dubya; Impy; GOPsterinMA

I remember sitting in the theater with my girlfriend for the first movie; she’d been bugging me to take her to see it.

When the Imperial Star Destroyer cruises in from the top of the screen at the beginning, chasing the Rebel ship, and NEVER seemed to end, I was thinking “This is beyond cool...”

It was amazing. Giant theater screen, surround sound, the whole place reverberating with the blasts of the weapons...

The TIE fighters, and of course the Death Star attack scene “STAY ON TARGET!!!!” all of it.... Very cool... momentarily forgot my girlfriend’s considerable, err, “attributes” beneath her blouse... (yeah... I know, I’m a pig)... :^).


96 posted on 04/29/2014 11:08:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: demshateGod

The “Chinese food” of movie going experiences?


97 posted on 04/29/2014 11:08:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: citizen

Yeah, we all grow older...

But we’re still kids at heart, who can enjoy a good sci-fi or monster movie!!

That’s the difference between growing older, and BEING old, I think...


98 posted on 04/29/2014 11:09:31 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: notsofastmyfriend
This is the image released by the studio of the first read-through of the script of 'Star Wars VII'. I got from AICN. It says that the original 3 are there, and I recognize J.J. Abrams. Notice the un-crated R2-D2?


99 posted on 04/29/2014 11:09:51 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: NFHale
A Rastafarian dumbass nightmare.

+1

100 posted on 04/29/2014 11:09:58 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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