Category Archives: Star Wars Humor

Star Wars: Episode VIII Director Rian Johnson Teases An Incredible Scene On Twitter

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Via Ew.com:

We know next-to-nothing about Star Wars: Episode VIII, but thanks to writer/director Rian Johnson’s Twitter account, we’ve learned a few minor details about the upcoming movie. For example, it will be shot on 35mm film. And it may or may not include this incredible sequence Johnson dreamed up.

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Johnson is best known for directing Looper and Brick, as well as some of the most memorable Breaking Bad episodes ever made. (He’s responsible for “Ozymandias.”) A Jedi-canine battle in a canoe may not end up making the final cut of Star Wars: Episode VIII, but hey, you never know.

 

Watch All 6 ‘Star Wars’ Movies At Once

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Via Ign.com:

Ever wish you could watch all six “Star Wars” movies, but don’t have a whole day to binge-watch the saga? Now you can view all the movies at once with this special and bizarre fan-made video tribute to a galaxy far, far away.

Fan Marcus Rosentrater composited and mixed “Star Wars,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Return of the Jedi,” “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith” to make “Star Wars Wars.”

The fan video, which runs almost two and a half hours, plays all six movies on top of each other making for a unique way to appreciate “Star Wars” all over again.

Not only do all the images play at the same time making for a visual kaleidoscope of Jedi masters, droids, spaceships, stormtroopers, Ewoks and Wookiees, but it also combines all six audio tracks giving the saga an eerie soundtrack.

While it’s nearly impossible to read all six opening crawls at the same time, it’s fun to try. Every once in awhile all the scenes line up to make a beautiful still of multiple versions of Princess Leia, or an unsuspecting Stormtrooper being struck by Force lightning.

Fans watching the video left rather astute comments about the densely-visual remix.

“This plot makes so much more sense than Phantom Menace!” YouTube user Russ Ivey commented.

“Finally, I’ll be able to watch all the movies of this franchise without having to sit through each one of them in order to catch up with the seventh,” user Eric Wiseman commented.

“This is like a George Lucas version of living in the walls of insanity,” user Emmett C. commented.

Ackbar’s Eleven

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Via i09.com:
It’s been 18 years since Kevin Rubio combined combined Star Wars and COPS to give us the classic Internet video TROOPS. Now he’s back in the Star Wars mashup game, this time replacing the audio from the plot to destroy the Death Star with dialogue from the 2001 remake of Ocean’s Eleven — and it’s pretty perfect.

We must say, Admiral Ackbar makes a pretty dapper Danny Ocean. For once, we’re not itching to hear him say, “It’s a trap!” Once again, Rubio delivers an entirely satisfying, and surprising, edit.

Cosmic Connections You Probably Never Noticed Between Hard Rock + Star Wars

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Via Vh1.com:

May marks the 38th anniversary of Star Wars opening in theaters and, upon immediate impact, conquering the entire universe. No aspect of existence has gone untouched by George Lucas’s empire (and rebels) and rock music ranks high among those elements profoundly caught up in all that derring-do going down a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

In honor of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca, the droids, et al initially hitting our galaxy with such apocalyptic impact, here are 38 connections—one for each year of the phenomenon (thus far)—that link Star Wars to rock-and-roll, and vice versa.

May the Force rock your Banthas off.

1. In concert, Metallica occasionally covers Darth Vader’s theme, “The Imperial March. The band even performed it in 1999 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra during the live shows that became the 1999 album S&M (Symphony and Metallica). The song didn’t make the final cut, but a gnarly thirty-second snippet though has long existed as a leak online.

2. Upping the Metallica-Star Wars connection at Rock in Rio 2013, Kirk Hammett launched into a killer guitar solo that led to him playing the “Star Wars” opening theme, followed by a shredding take on “The Imperial March.”

3. Each Yuletide season, do you toss on the heart-warming toe-tapper, “R2D2, We Wish You a Merry Christmas”? If so, have you ever wondered who’s leading the children’s choir on that catchy chorus? Well… probably not. Nonetheless, it is fun to know that that song appears on 1980’s Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album and that the vocalist in question is a young Jon Bon Jovi.

Christmas in the Stars is a holiday cash-in produced by Tony Bongiovi, who owned the legendary Power Station recording studio and also happened to be Jon’s cousin. Tony offered his up-and-coming rock singer relative some nifty exposure by inviting him to sing on the record, which hit bit and continues to sell to devotees. Tony also spared Jon the relative indignity of performing on “What Do You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Has a Comb)?”

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A ‘Star Wars’ AT-AT Walker Transformed Into A Portable Radio

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Via laughingsuid.com:
Los Angeles-based artist Caleb Paullus has created the AT-BT Boombox, an AT-AT Walker (All Terrain Armored Transport) from Star Wars that has been transformed into a creative and portable (All Terrain Beats Transport) radio. Paullus created his geeky boombox for the recent 2015 Star Wars Celebration event in Anaheim, California. The sci-fi ghetto blaster is now available to purchase online from Etsy with a choice of color and radio quality.

The legendary AT-BT the empire’s more deadly weapon, for busting out phat beats! All about that base, no rebels.

Every AT-BT is unique and built to order, you can pick a color, add a bluetooth module and even some LED accent lightning. Signed on the inside hatch on the back.

Images of Imaginative Kids Playing Star Wars

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Via Laughingsquid.com:
Sheffield, United Kingdom-based artist Craig Davidson has created a fantastic series of illustrations that feature imaginative kids playing while pretending to be popular characters from the Star Wars universe. Prints of Davidson’s work is available to purchase online from the ArtMarket and The Hawthorn Gallery websites.

‘Star Wars’ Villains Show Their Soft Side

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Via Cnet.com:

Stormtroopers and Tusken Raiders aren’t always known for their warm and cuddly sides. After all, these folks either work for Darth Vader or enjoy kidnapping helpless moisture farmers.

But when Canadian photographer Rohit Saxena recently enlisted “Star Wars” cosplayers from Eastern Ontario’s Capital City Garrison — part of the charity costumers the 501st Legion — to pose with adoptable animals from the Ottawa Humane Society, the results were both geeky and adorable.

Saxena photographed cosplayers dressed as a Stormtrooper, a Tusken Raider and the Imperial informant Garindan holding cute cats, dogs, bunnies and guinea pigs to promote adopting pets.

“To me, the important thing is telling a fun and positive story about what animals shelters are and do, and the animals you’ll meet there,” Saxena told CNET’s Crave blog. “That said, I also love that it worked out that we had more ‘Star Wars’ villains, and that we got to see their soft and fun side.”

Sure enough, a Stormtrooper hugging a guinea pig and a Tusken Raider kneeling down to pet a dog shows that even the most feared masked characters in a galaxy far, far away might want a furry pet of their own — Banthas don’t count.

“Look at the guinea pig craning his head up at the Stormtrooper, or the dog on a leash ready to go for a walk,” Saxena told Crave. These “Star Wars” characters “clearly have a rich internal life and have more to their morality than their Imperial affiliation, and the two subjects contrast and play off each other really well.”

“Light or Dark — there are no sides when it comes to helping animals,” reads a post that went up Friday on the Ottawa Humane Society website.

Click below to see all the pictures.

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