the vynsane asylum

Visors made since because they block the sun. The goggles the Naboo pilots had looked like they were to block wind.

George Lucas has a vintage fighter plane fetish, so his costuming choices reflect that leather bomber jacket, scarves, leather head caps, and goggles look.
He probably wanted the X-Wing pilots in ANH to look like that, and Gary Kurtz said 'Thats fucking retarded, George.' Then George got pissed and fired Kurtz. 'YOU DICK! I was trying to make this sci-fi saga as shitty as possible, and you keep ruining it by keeping me in check and making it awesome. You'll probably make the sequel even better. I'm going to fire your ass so the final four films will be as gloriously awful as I envisioned them! I'll just have to wait until the right sycophantic yes man of a producer shows up to back up every awful choice I make!'

Rick McCallum walks in. "S'up?"

I think you still have to give ROTJ some credit - there is no other movie in history that is literally half climax. ESB is my favorite one now, but back when it really counted, there was absolutely NOTHING like seeing the culmination of the best story ever for the first time. I don't think I was breathing for the last half, the first time I saw it.

The visors in ANH were supposed to be colorless, but they were changed to yellow/orange since the lights were causing the actors' makeup to run and adding color was the easiest way to obscure it.

The Naboo goggles never bothered me . . . they just look like real-world pilot helmets. The ROTS clone pilots have orange visors, so I guess that's something (even though they're CGI, it was clearly done to match up with the ANH pilots).

You know how I know I'm over Star Wars? My ex(the mother of my children) just texted me and asked if I was celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Star Wars today.

I had no idea.

I told her, ironically today is the day Avengers passes the Star Wars films on the All Time Box Office chart. Happy Birthday, Star Wars!

Given the difference in ticket prices, inflation, etc., the all-time grosses rarely mean dick anymore (obviously). Though if something has to surpass Star Wars (TPM already surpassed ANH this year after the 3D re-release), Avengers ain't too bad a choice.

Avengers aint a bad choice...except for that last half-hour clusterfuck of a climax.

so, apparently you're all three degrees separated from Richard Marquand (or you would be were he still alive) because i know his wife, Carol.

vynsane wrote:so, apparently you're all three degrees separated from Richard Marquand (or you would be were he still alive) because i know his wife, Carol.

Details . . . ?

Senor JabbaJohnL wrote:

vynsane wrote:so, apparently you're all three degrees separated from Richard Marquand (or you would be were he still alive) because i know his wife, Carol.

Details . . . ?

Sexy details...?

Diabolical wrote:

Senor JabbaJohnL wrote:

vynsane wrote:so, apparently you're all three degrees separated from Richard Marquand (or you would be were he still alive) because i know his wife, Carol.

Details . . . ?

Sexy details...?

Imagine big fat sweaty naked George Lucas laying on top of one of his Penthouse Pet GFs of the week, wheezing like an asthmatic whale while he humps her. Is that sexy enough detail for ya?

she's, like, in her 60's. she works with my wife at the community supported agriculture (CSA) farm. my daughter was wearing one of her star wars shirts to a function and carol asked her "so, you're really into star wars?" and the conversation proceeded from there. i wasn't actually at this function, my wife told me afterward. but i've met carol before.

That's exactly as unsexy as I hoped it would be. That's pretty cool.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/luke ... 45334.html

The comments are golden. I normally avoid the Yahoo! comments because they make me lose what faith I still have in humanity. Not only do these morons not realize he's had a career post 1980 (uh, duh, ROTJ was 83), but they seem to actually think his name is "Luke Skywalker" despite being named in the article.

How does Snigtad Flornbi have that many different Yahoo accounts all over the country?