Tag: George Lucas
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Kleptones got LO LO LO LO
It’s another Wednesday so what does that mean? Another Kleptones album, the third – LO – accurately described because this has low downtempo moods – I hinted at that on one of the previous posts. Ranging from Daniel Johnston, Pigface, David Byrne, Mark Kozelek, Richard Thompson, Bill Withers, Sonic Youth, Leonard Cohen to Beth Orton…
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How Star Wars Was Saved
Everyone knows how George Lucas goes back and tinkers with Star Wars, ad infinitum (I remember watching the pre-CGI versions just before he re-released them the first time, those versions are almost impossible to find officially now). What they don’t know is that Star Wars almost flopped because of the story and structure, a lot…
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Final Mashups: Star Wars
I was going to label this ‘Mashups: The Final Frontier’ and see who would notice (wrong series :-P) but spin your glitterball Death Star, here’s the last mashups from me, and they’re all Star Wars related. Which might seem like a cash-in for a certain new movie, but I started these well before Lucas was…
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Japanese Star Wars commercial made of nutritious quality WTF
First view: Speechless…completely and utterly speechless. Second view: o.O – why does Chewie have a monkey sound effect? Third view: I’m guessing George Lucas didn’t approve this. Also love the Cantina-band-meets-Buck-Rogers-space-disco soundtrack. CHEESE CHICKEN! < or similar (?) P.S. Of course cos of SOPA video like this would be pulled off YouTube in a second…
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Up, up and away for this Disney pre-make
What if Pixar’s Up was made in the 1960s live action movie – the era of Love Bug and Mary Poppins? Love the editing in this, and makes me wonder if Carl Frederickson was indeed based on Spencer Tracy and whether ‘Russell’ was modelled on the old film here…the similarity is uncanny! Also if you…