Sign In
Register
Help
At first I was happy I'd missed it. then A&E reran the thing right after, so I taped it.
Kind of like a roast, really, from the caustic comments of our heroes. Carrie F. gave her spiel about paying to look in the mirror and having to pay for the rights to her image. A funny bit about spending the second half of her Leia Latent Life, helping Hurl awards GL's way.
Harrison commented on the earlier, funnier movies.
the end had some 10 minute glom fest of everyone Kissing Lucas' chins and thanking him.
Maybe this is posted elsewhere? Will Shatner "sang" "YOUR way" to GL, with stormtroopers doing a kick line. Oh yeah, Ally McBeal was at the head table.
Star Wars Fan Convention
Page 1 of 1
- You cannot start a new topic
Add Reply
AFI award to GL anyone see it?
#1
Despondent 
- Think for yourself
-
- Group: Members
- Posts: 4,684
- Joined: 31-October 03
- Location:a long time ago
- Interests:Laughter. Louis pups. Percussion. What binds us. Bicycling, Tennis.
- Country:United States
Posted 21 June 2005 - 12:22 PM
MultiQuote
#3
DarthTherion
- Mini Boss
-
- Group: Junior Members
- Posts: 141
- Joined: 05-May 05
- Country:United States
Posted 21 June 2005 - 01:09 PM
It actually was a pretty nice show. It was clear everyone was having a good time. My favorite moment was probably Billy D. Williams calling Lando Calrissian a "stud" after spending about three seconds trying to think of an appropriate word. You could just tell that "pimp" was going through his mind.
In Lucas' speech, he thanked many people, but I especially liked hearing him thank Coppola for helping him go from someone who couldn't write a word to being "the King of Wooden Dialogue." This got alot of laughs and applause.
I approve.
In Lucas' speech, he thanked many people, but I especially liked hearing him thank Coppola for helping him go from someone who couldn't write a word to being "the King of Wooden Dialogue." This got alot of laughs and applause.
I approve.
#4
andy_k_250
- Mini Boss
-
- Group: Junior Members
- Posts: 122
- Joined: 24-May 05
- Location:St. Louis, Metro-East region
- Interests:Star Wars
- Country:United States
Posted 21 June 2005 - 03:09 PM
QUOTE (Despondent @ Jun 21 2005, 12:22 PM)
At first I was happy I'd missed it. then A&E reran the thing right after, so I taped it.
Kind of like a roast, really, from the caustic comments of our heroes. Carrie F. gave her spiel about paying to look in the mirror and having to pay for the rights to her image. A funny bit about spending the second half of her Leia Latent Life, helping Hurl awards GL's way.
Harrison commented on the earlier, funnier movies.
the end had some 10 minute glom fest of everyone Kissing Lucas' chins and thanking him.
Maybe this is posted elsewhere? Will Shatner "sang" "YOUR way" to GL, with stormtroopers doing a kick line. Oh yeah, Ally McBeal was at the head table.
Kind of like a roast, really, from the caustic comments of our heroes. Carrie F. gave her spiel about paying to look in the mirror and having to pay for the rights to her image. A funny bit about spending the second half of her Leia Latent Life, helping Hurl awards GL's way.
Harrison commented on the earlier, funnier movies.
the end had some 10 minute glom fest of everyone Kissing Lucas' chins and thanking him.
Maybe this is posted elsewhere? Will Shatner "sang" "YOUR way" to GL, with stormtroopers doing a kick line. Oh yeah, Ally McBeal was at the head table.
Everyone seemed drunk.
Some of the jokes were really cheesy and sounded like rehashed convention speeches.
Lucas' kids are monsters.
Maroon 5.
BUT
It was a nice retrospective.
#5
Despondent
- Think for yourself
-
- Group: Members
- Posts: 4,684
- Joined: 31-October 03
- Location:a long time ago
- Interests:Laughter. Louis pups. Percussion. What binds us. Bicycling, Tennis.
- Country:United States
Posted 21 June 2005 - 04:00 PM
You talked me into it. I'm going to get smashed myself, and join in the fun.
#6
njamilla
- Level Boss
-
- Group: Members
- Posts: 283
- Joined: 02-November 03
- Gender:Male
- Location:Washington, DC
- Interests:Black belts: aikido, kendo, iaido, jodo. 1987 World Fencing Championships, World University Games participant. Writer: novelist, freelancer. Interestes: Renaissance, religious history, turtles.
- Country:United States
Posted 26 June 2005 - 12:52 PM
Yeah, it was more like a roast. Good for GL. It's nice recognition. Whether you like SW or not, he's changed film culture on a world-wide level.
Author: Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe.
#7
barend
- Anchor Head Anchor Man
-
- Group: Crappy News Team
- Posts: 11,839
- Joined: 12-November 03
- Gender:Male
- Location:Nieuw Holland
- Interests:The Beers of Western Europe, Cognac, and constantly claiming the world would have been a better place if Napoleon had won.
- Country:Australia
Posted 27 June 2005 - 01:39 AM
QUOTE (njamilla @ Jun 26 2005, 12:52 PM)
Yeah, it was more like a roast. Good for GL. It's nice recognition. Whether you like SW or not, he's changed film culture on a world-wide level.
a first in a good way...
then later in a bad way...
>>The Adventures of Heinrich Von Bastard<< (A Web Comic)
Also: The Chefelf.com Lord of the Rings | RoBUTZ (a primative webcomic) | KOTOR 1 NPC profiles |
Music: HYPOID (industrial rock) | Spectrox Toxemia (Death Metal) | Cannibalingus (80s style thrash metal) | Wasabi Nose Bleed (Exp.Techno) | DeadfeeD (Exp.Ambient) |||(more to come)
Also: The Chefelf.com Lord of the Rings | RoBUTZ (a primative webcomic) | KOTOR 1 NPC profiles |
Music: HYPOID (industrial rock) | Spectrox Toxemia (Death Metal) | Cannibalingus (80s style thrash metal) | Wasabi Nose Bleed (Exp.Techno) | DeadfeeD (Exp.Ambient) |||(more to come)
#9
njamilla
- Level Boss
-
- Group: Members
- Posts: 283
- Joined: 02-November 03
- Gender:Male
- Location:Washington, DC
- Interests:Black belts: aikido, kendo, iaido, jodo. 1987 World Fencing Championships, World University Games participant. Writer: novelist, freelancer. Interestes: Renaissance, religious history, turtles.
- Country:United States
Posted 27 June 2005 - 05:17 PM
QUOTE (barend @ Jun 27 2005, 01:39 AM)
Ha, ha!
QUOTE (Renegade @ Jun 27 2005, 03:54 PM)
He hasn't "harmed" film in anyway.. his movies may be bad but they haven't hurt the film industry in anyway.
touche
Of course Cameron says he wrecked the science-fiction movie genre when GL inserted the fantasy element into what, according to Cameron, was supposed to be exploration of science-fact. (But that's another issue altogether.)
Author: Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe.
#10
Renegade
- Level Boss
-
- Group: Members
- Posts: 460
- Joined: 19-May 05
- Country:United States
Posted 28 June 2005 - 12:09 AM
QUOTE (njamilla @ Jun 27 2005, 05:17 PM)
Ha, ha!
touche
Of course Cameron says he wrecked the science-fiction movie genre when GL inserted the fantasy element into what, according to Cameron, was supposed to be exploration of science-fact. (But that's another issue altogether.)
touche
Of course Cameron says he wrecked the science-fiction movie genre when GL inserted the fantasy element into what, according to Cameron, was supposed to be exploration of science-fact. (But that's another issue altogether.)
Oh ya and Cameron is the "god" of movie making
#11
barend
- Anchor Head Anchor Man
-
- Group: Crappy News Team
- Posts: 11,839
- Joined: 12-November 03
- Gender:Male
- Location:Nieuw Holland
- Interests:The Beers of Western Europe, Cognac, and constantly claiming the world would have been a better place if Napoleon had won.
- Country:Australia
Posted 28 June 2005 - 02:04 AM
i prefer aliens, terminator, and abyss, to anything in the PT.
cameron just sort of went pear shaped with true lies and titanic. but he still gives out some great quotes...
cameron is the metalica of directors, and michael beihn was his cliff burton. everything without him was no where near as good...
(T2 being like the black album, good, but some disagree)
thanks to lucas' attempts in the late 70s and early 80s, many people strived for technical brilliance and pushed the boundaries of special effects, and realism, (cameron included).
his later efforts like the SEs and the PT are who i blame for films like VanHelsing which rely too heavily on CGI. but it also incouraged many to sacrifice the better parts of film making...
Sky captain, i found a little hard to be absorbed into because nothing felt real... which is a shame because the imagary borrows from some of my favorite styles... and i'll watch the whole thing one day... but it could have been more...
thunderbirds was a nother potentially awsome film, but they fucked it by making it about a bunch of kids saving the day...
again this i put on lucas' head. he seems to have put forth the notion that films have to appeal STRICTLY to children and that the adults who made those things of yesteryear so big are to be ignored...
alot of people worship the guy, and rightfully so it seemed at first...
but now people still follow him into a smoking creater that used to be the world of filmmaking...
to quote the spiderman films (also ruined by too much transparent CGI):
"with great power comes great responsibility"
and lucas weilds it irrisponsibly...
cameron just sort of went pear shaped with true lies and titanic. but he still gives out some great quotes...
cameron is the metalica of directors, and michael beihn was his cliff burton. everything without him was no where near as good...
(T2 being like the black album, good, but some disagree)
thanks to lucas' attempts in the late 70s and early 80s, many people strived for technical brilliance and pushed the boundaries of special effects, and realism, (cameron included).
his later efforts like the SEs and the PT are who i blame for films like VanHelsing which rely too heavily on CGI. but it also incouraged many to sacrifice the better parts of film making...
Sky captain, i found a little hard to be absorbed into because nothing felt real... which is a shame because the imagary borrows from some of my favorite styles... and i'll watch the whole thing one day... but it could have been more...
thunderbirds was a nother potentially awsome film, but they fucked it by making it about a bunch of kids saving the day...
again this i put on lucas' head. he seems to have put forth the notion that films have to appeal STRICTLY to children and that the adults who made those things of yesteryear so big are to be ignored...
alot of people worship the guy, and rightfully so it seemed at first...
but now people still follow him into a smoking creater that used to be the world of filmmaking...
to quote the spiderman films (also ruined by too much transparent CGI):
"with great power comes great responsibility"
and lucas weilds it irrisponsibly...
>>The Adventures of Heinrich Von Bastard<< (A Web Comic)
Also: The Chefelf.com Lord of the Rings | RoBUTZ (a primative webcomic) | KOTOR 1 NPC profiles |
Music: HYPOID (industrial rock) | Spectrox Toxemia (Death Metal) | Cannibalingus (80s style thrash metal) | Wasabi Nose Bleed (Exp.Techno) | DeadfeeD (Exp.Ambient) |||(more to come)
Also: The Chefelf.com Lord of the Rings | RoBUTZ (a primative webcomic) | KOTOR 1 NPC profiles |
Music: HYPOID (industrial rock) | Spectrox Toxemia (Death Metal) | Cannibalingus (80s style thrash metal) | Wasabi Nose Bleed (Exp.Techno) | DeadfeeD (Exp.Ambient) |||(more to come)
Page 1 of 1
- You cannot start a new topic
- Add Reply