Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Pre-release)

Re: Star Wars: Episode VIII (Pre-release)

CutThumb said:
Actually I was quite taking the sarcastic p**s over the four odd pages of debate people who call themselves Star Wars fans have just had over JJs totally neutral reply to a very loaded press question and the immediate slant the debate a barely glimpsed speeder has caused , but its great to see everybody up in arms again. Obviously some people here are not fans of observational comedy but we brits thrive on it. I've added a few lines just to make my actual point of view a bit clearer. Personally I cannot wait for the moment Rey rides into battle on the back of her Jedi Unicorn Mr Tinkles, swinging the lost Staff of Ultimate Forcefullness whilst Phasma ,her chrome armour gleaming brightly in the pale moonlight declares her undying love for her by getting a tattoo in Mazzs new parlour ,which is next to the Barbers shop where Luke goes to get a shave and hair cut.
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I got the joke. :)
 
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Cheers Bryancd, and thanks for your persistent efforts to keep this thread on track and well informed, despite the overwhelming forces set against you.
 
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Seriously, I've never understood this problem with the Prequels. Ever since ANH, I've assumed there were places in the galaxy that weren't sh!tholes. Tatooine was a backwater place that no one thought of, but seemed to have some utility - like my town. Naboo is a pretty fancy place where some important people live, so things are nicer there.
There would be speeder equivalents of BMWs, Pontiac Azteks, Corollas & my rusty old 88 K5 Blazer. While Star Wars tech is old, there would be some people with new items and the interest in taking care of them.

As for shops - obviously these windows will be dressed for production,but even so - you gotta buy things somewhere. Even in AGFFA.
 
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CutThumb said:
Uggggh!!! And all of a sudden the SW universe has boutiques!!!!
I guess this is the moment when Luke takes Rey to the shopping planet "Mallworldia" to get her that party dress and make over she always dreamed of having. I can see it now ,a montage of changing room shots where she is transformed (to the strains of "Pretty Woman") into a stunning beauty with Maz "Girl lets get you out of them rags" helping her become the new Jedi princess the Disney marketing executives always dreamed of.
In a fitting tribute, just after a stylish and beautiful Rey pauses to adjust her new hat in front of the first shop where she was initially rejected by a pair of sniify and slightly gay alien assistants for her scruffy appearance ,a mysterious cloaked figure approaches her. Throwing back his hood he is revealed to be none other than Richard Geer, who offers her a bejewelled and pearl encrusted lightsaber hilt that ignites in a stream of pink light and glitter .
As soon as she touched it a rush of visions, including many giggly parties in stretched landspeeder limos, taun-taun polo matches, photoshoots and finally her in a stunning black evening dress with a ruby red crystal necklace, with hundreds of New Order stormtroopers bowing towards her as she sits upon the Galactic rulers throne .
Entering the shop she asks the assistants if they remember her which they deny and to which she says "big mistake!", so she drops all her designer shopping bags, ignites her new lightsaber and strikes them down , with Lukes agonised cry of "nooooooooo!" in the background .The Richard G figure smiles evilly , where upon his hologram face flickers to reveal Snokes grinning visage below!!

As you may have guess I'm really not that impressed by the idea of fashion retail outlets making their way into SW and find it all rather ominous . And the speeder looks rather new and shiny, with a different engine configuration to the original. Oh this film is doomed, doomed to utter failure !!!!!! God help Star Wars the universe in ending!!!!!
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Apparently it was all meant to be taken as sarcastic.

Not at all bad... once you know it. (Even if it was more than a little belaboured, and went on so long as to not only drive the point home, but to send it straight through the skull and embed it solidly in the Earth)

Some have not quite worked out yet that sarcasm doesn't always come through so well in print as it does in speech... what with the lack of vocal inflections and general absence of body language to take one's cues from.

Was I being long winded just now...? Sorry about that.
 
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I think Cut's tongue was firmly in cheek! Lol!

Anyway, the landspeeder has a similar shape to Luke's but I don't think it's exactly the same. From what I can see, the engine configuration is different at least...

Iirc, Luke's landspeeder was repainted green for TPM but I don't recall any complaining then. It's not inconceivable that similar models are around.
 
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Nope... not at all. It was probably the Chevette of landspeeders...remember how many of those we saw Every.Where. when they were on the road? Or Cavaliers after that? Or those uuuugly Aztecs?
 
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Maybe the full title of the new film will be Star Wars VIII, Sarcasm Bites Back!

Roughneckone:cool
 
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kristenhenry70 said:
****EDITED****

Apparently it was all meant to be taken as sarcastic.

Not at all bad... once you know it. (Even if it was more than a little belaboured, and went on so long as to not only drive the point home, but to send it straight through the skull and embed it solidly in the Earth)

Some have not quite worked out yet that sarcasm doesn't always come through so well in print as it does in speech... what with the lack of vocal inflections and general absence of body language to take one's cues from.

Was I being long winded just now...? Sorry about that.
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Mr Twinkles, the Jedi Unicorn, will be most upset when he reads this.
 
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Looks like it'll do a nice little bit of banking there. Lol! I wonder if the gaffer tape on the wall is some sort of visual reference?
 
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Here's a new photo ;)

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Yeah, I can't see it myself either. I don't mind the other title in the article, The Order of the Dark Side. I could live with that.
 
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CutThumb said:
Actually I was quite taking the sarcastic p**s over the four odd pages of debate people who call themselves Star Wars fans have just had over JJs totally neutral and sensible reply to a very loaded press question and the immediately negative slant the barely glimpsed picture of a mostly covered speeder has taken , but hey ,its great to see everybody up in arms again!!!!
Obviously some people here are not into observational comedy but we Brits thrive on it. I've added a few lines just to make my actual point of view a bit clearer for some . Personally I cannot wait for the moment Rey rides into battle on the back of her Jedi Unicorn Mr Twinkles, swinging the lost Staff of Ultimate Forcefullness in one hand and her pink lightsabre in the other, slashing many an unfortunate Sanitation troopers head apart in a new "R" rated horror fest , whilst Captain Phasma ,her chrome armour gleaming brightly in the pale moonlight declares her undying love for her by getting a tattoo done in Mazzs new parlour ,which is next to the barbers shop where Luke goes to get a decent shave , hair cut and to catch up on all the First Order gossip........
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:lol I immediately knew that post was sarcasm. Even though it's text on a screen, I can't see how someone wouldn't get it's a joke. I mean, Mallworldia, glitter sabers, land speeder limos...
 
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Bogleo said:
:lol I immediately knew that post was sarcasm. Even though it's text on a screen, I can't see how someone wouldn't get it's a joke. I mean, Mallworldia, glitter sabers, land speeder limos...
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You'd be surprised how many people have posted rants just like that, only they were totally serious.
 
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gizmo said:
A lot of negative assumptions based on a couple of small pics.


Ben
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That's also what people said on the TFA spoiler thread, and we were right about that one. A lot of people said "This looks just like ANH." and we got that response.

The new speeder pic looks like it has two upright engines, so I retract my complaint. :) If TFA hadn't been out, I would have no problem with another Luke style speeder, but now that we know they like to copy movies instead of designing something new, that's why I was concerned.
 
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