artyjeffrey

Truly, last night I was looking through my copy of "The Making of Star Wars" by J.W. Rinzler, and I thought to myself, "What a cool book this was. This year's the 30th Anniversary of ESB. Man, it would be awesome if they did a book like this but for Empire." I go out to my mailbox, pull out my wife's issue of Entertainment Weekly, and see the cover has Chewbacca holding Princess Leia in a candid shot during shooting of ESB. And then I look inside and see this: Now I have to wait until OCTOBER! Guess I know what I want for Christmas!

Once you have a 6 year-old bouncing around the house, you stop watching Family Guy. The last thing I need is for my son to start writing his name as "Carlos Spiceyweiner."

Nicely done on your E-D model. I'm a model builder myself...all though I haven't built any models in a few years..sorta got tired of it. Hopefully one day I'll pick it up again. Anyways regarding the escape pod hatches (correct term lol), I personally would have used JT-Graphic decals for those. They're so much easier than to hand paint each one. I will agree that painting each window as a pain in the ass. I want to pick up the Round 2 1/350th Enterprise-A, the re-issued Limited Edition Voyager (Ravelle) model and a few others that Round 2 released. Hopefully Round 2 will re-issue the 1/350th NX-01. Edit: Round 2 is also re-issuing the Enterprise-D. I THINK that one may come with aztec decals, not sure. Oh God, that Round 2 E-A 1/350 is droolworthy; it's the ultimate queen of all models to me. I actually went to youtube to view other builders' videos of their completed ships, and felt stings of envy. Someday, I'll pick it up, but I only want to do it when I'm able to buy the wiring/lights to take it all the way.

I thought R2-D2 sabotaged R5-D4 while in the sandcrawler so that Artoo would have to be picked.... oh heck, whatever!

For me, I pick TMP Enterprise. The way it was lit in the first film, the intricate aztec panelling, that pearlish paintjob-- it looked like a great white swan in space. The nacelles almost look like long legs. It's a hundred times more lovely than the hard-angled TOS Enterprise. I've often built models, and even though I think D is okay design-wise (the engineering hull looks like some kind of aquatic life form), I still shudder when I remember what a nightmare it was to paint each one of those panels, lifeboats, and windows on that model!

Why can't he just go forward, move on, create something totally new? Just think of the time, money, and talent spent on those SE changes... BTW, I found on Youtube about ROTJ. It features Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert defending Jedi for what it was, while this other EXTREMELY disgruntled movie critic bashes it. It's kind of sad to see Ebert, knowing what was about to come for him.Listen closely to what the negative critic says: it sounds like he's talking about the prequels.

Not to really geek out on this, but in the prequels did battle droids ever make it to Tatooine? I only saw each prequel once, so I can't remember. I dislike how small the Star Wars universe keeps getting. We ended up visiting Tatooine a multitude of times, when there was this supposedly big canvas for Lucas to work from. In other words, they should keep battle droids off of the sandcrawler, and make Tatooine all the more remote.

Diego, I will confess regarding Return of the Jedi, that when I went to the theatre with a school buddy to see it, we watched it once, then stayed in the room and watched it all the way through AGAIN . I remember thinking to myself, "This movie is perfect; it has no flaws." I was 11 years old. Now if you looked at which one of the original trilogy I've watched most, it must be the first one. Still,even now, I respect ROTJ, and don't bash on it like others like to do. I want to watch this doc just to feel like I'm not this lost soul Star Wars fan guy. I don't wear costumes or belong to any imaginary stormtrooper battalion (like a good friend of mine does), and I will NOT cry over the prequels or changes made to the OT. Like you said, there's alternatives out there, like the grainy original releases a while back, and most of all, in regards to the prequels, just not watching them.

I will always think of him as the original host of A&E Network's "Biography." RIP

Well, anyone out there seen this?

Yet another example of how you shouldn't touch that stuff. Period.

Not a completist. Like Quint said, I just buy what I like of JW's music. It's one of the few areas of my life where some degree of obsessiveness hasn't taken over. Even though I always thought of myself as more of a Williams fan, there was a day when I was looking at my cd collection and discovered that there was more Goldsmith there than Williams!

Ah, but Mark, don't you know by now? If it's a movie by an aging actor, a movie that you (and the rest of us) will NEVER care to see, then you can bet your life savings on it winning just about every single #*#&@&@ Oscar that can be thrown at it. I, too, shudder at the thought of Monique (I refuse to put the apostraphe in) getting up there and doing a "Maya Angelou" on us, saying the most asinine things with a hefty black delivery to make it sound impressive and meaningful. And, since I just typed that, you can also bet your life savings on her winning too. Which is why I haven't watched the Oscars in over 10 years. The stuff that they beat off over....

Am I the only one who thinks that music from The Flash could have easily been tracked/reused in the Batman Animated episodes had they needed it, and no one would have known the difference? Really, it feels like I'm listening to what could have been passed off as "Batman: The Animated Series" volume 2. Eh, Batman, Dick Tracy, The Flash... they all feel the same to me.

So, actual people have been watching the olympics! I am amazed.

Honestly, for me, when Williams is speaking in an interview, I forget how the sentence even started by the time he's finishing. He reminds me of a humanities professor I once endured, with that slow, wandering intonation. Now, give me a interview with him that's in print, and I don't have the same problem (I would hope not). The guy just has a boring delivery.

I think that some of our "guilty pleasure" film experiences can be explained to ourselves if we go back to the first time we saw them. Often, there's a good memory attached to viewing the film. Either that, or our brains become genuinely intrigued while trying to decipher the explanation for why a movie studio would expend so much cash on such trash.

Absolutely. If anyone can be justifiably arrogant, it would be John Williams, at least in music circles.

That's a lot of cash to throw down for some cds, but if you're gonna do it, then at least you did it for those two. They're great.

from the review, a bit that pretty much sums the movie: "Here are some things, however, that I do not believe: 1. That Mrs. Brody could be haunted by flashbacks to events where she was not present and that, in some cases, no survivors witnessed. 2. That the movie would give us one shark attack as a dream sequence, have the hero wake up in a sweat, then give us a second shark, and then cut to the hero awake in bed, giving us the only thing worse that the old "it's only a dream" routine, which is the old "is it a dream or not?" routine. 3. That Mrs. Brody would commandeer a boat and sail out along into the ocean to sacrifice herself to the shark, so that the killing could end. That Caine's character could or would crash-land his airplane at sea so that he and two other men could swim to Mrs. Brody's rescue. 4. That after being trapped in a sinking airplane by the shark and disappearing under water, Caine could survive the attack, swim to the boat, and climb on board-- not only completely unhurt but wearing a shirt and pants that are not even wet. 5. That the shark would stand on its tail in the water long enough for the boat to ram it. 6. That the director, Joseph Sargent, would film this final climactic scene so incompetently that there is not even an establishing shot, so we have to figure out what happened on the basis of empirical evidence." "There is one other thing I can't believe about Jaws the Revenge, and that is that on March 30, 1987, Michael Caine passed up his chance to accept his Academy Award in person because of his committment to this movie. Why? Well, as the marine biologist in the movie explains, if you don't go right back in the water after something terrible happens to you, you might be too afraid to ever go back in again. Maybe Caine was thinking that if he ever left the set, he could never bring himself to return." You gotta love somebody who would write this stuff.

Right on. I, too, when I read anything by Ebert (and I have a few of his books, my favorite being "I Hated Hated Hated This Movie!")hear his voice. I will never, ever forget his brutal and hilarious review of "Jaws: The Revenge." It's nice to see someone appreciate the work of another while they're still among us, and Ebert certainly is, as you pointed out.

The love theme from "Vertigo," even though it makes me sad.

Dude, Shhhhhhhhhhhh.... they might be listening out there!

I'm a nostalgic fool. I prefer the Ewok celebration. Although one thing always bugged me: the presence of a bass guitar (or a synth that sounded like one) in the background.

I can't believe I didn't mention the Decca Rozsa discs. I actually listen to the Decca "Ben-Hur" more than the Rhino or Sony releases.