Tag: star wars

  • Movie (no) Pass Adventures: Videoheaven

    Stylized image of a woman pulling a video tape in a case off a shelf.
    A man sitting at a video store counter, resting his chin on his hand.

    A documentary about video stores- a business model that started and pretty much died during my life- and how they are presented in film is a great idea. I liked this a lot, but I would have liked it more if it was a little shorter and the voice-over text was more polished.

    The challenge of making a poster from a movie made of clips from a ton of other movies is that there’s no one character to focus on. So I used it as an excuse to make a classic “one billion floating heads” poster.

    A fake poster for Videoheaven mimicking the poster for Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
    How ’bout that “shelf life” joke? Pretty good, yeah?
    Fediverse reactions

  • Retro Movie Pass Adventures: Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

    Natalie Portman as Padme in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
    A collage of R2-D2 and the Emperor with Vader in the background in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Today’s poster is based on a revenge movie that’s problematic in a completely different way from this one!

    A poster for Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith mimicking the poster for Revenge of the Nerds
    My favorite thing about this one is how it makes it look like the three leads include some random wookie.

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  • Movie Pass Adventures: I’m “George Lucas” : A Conor Ratliff Story

    I'm "George Lucas" : A Conor Ratliff Story movie bar

    I’ve never really watched The George Lucas Talk Show- I flipped by it once a few years ago and I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for it, so I snap judged it to be not for me and never went back- but I enjoyed this enough to think I should give it another shot. Even if the show still isn’t for me, I appreciated the look into one man’s devotion to an idea that seemed more than a little too kooky to succeed.

  • Wizard.

    Poster for Gonk with the Windu

    Frankly my dear, I don’t give a gonk.

  • I make important things for work (Star Wars Edition)

    My students are shooting a film that includes a light saber battle, so I found a tutorial to help them figure out the effects. This is my rough test footage.

    George Lucas named Luke Skywalker after me.

    Some things:

    • Rotoscoping is annoying and tedious.
    • Rotoscoping is even more annoying and tedious when you realize halfway through it that you haven’t been setting keyframes.
    • It’s easier to to animate large movements.
    • It’s hard to match up prerecorded light saber sounds to new video. None of the sounds in this clip are timed properly, and most of them are the wrong sound altogether. I would have faked it with mouth noises, but Katherine is asleep and doesn’t need to wake up to me making buzzes and space burps.
    • Square ended light sabers look weird.

    I also made this opening for the morning bulletin. A few nerds on campus will get it.

    And all of them will be annoyed by it.

  • New Star Wars Shows

    Disney+ just debuted with a new Star Wars show, The Mandalorian. Using my incredible sleuthing skills I have discovered promotional images from a few other Star Wars-based series now in development.

    The Mandymorian!

    The Mandelbortian!

    I’m pretty sure this was already a movie.
    Produced in association with the World Wildlife Fund.
    Ah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah

    She spends every show whining that Boba Fett gets more attention.

  • The Mandalorian

    I can’t wait for this to be available somewhere other than Disney+.