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It's very unlikely that Ben was the one to actually set up the figures. I'm pretty disappointed that he didn't get the job, his take on the franchise would have been way more original than whatever J.J. is planning.
Prepare for the most hardcore geek argument you're likely to see/hear on the subject...
This is an image from the end of Argo, directed by Affleck, who was allegedly a runner-up in yesterday's great director sweepstakes. Notice anything wrong?
How about now?
If Kevin Smith is anything in real life like his characters, he needs to give his pal a hard time about this one. Sure, you could argue that perhaps the kid in the movie is not meant to be smart enough to get all his Star Wars characters straight. But I doubt it - I was that kid's generation, and we knew them backwards and forwards.
Sorry, Ben - confusing Sand People and Jawas is a Nerd Foul if you hope to make a movie in their universe.
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Such a school boy error. Actually, even a school boy wouldn't have made this mistake.
BURN HIM.
Burn the son of a bitch...
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Maybe Affleck can direct a side story about a bunch of smugglers trying to pull off a heist set on the planet of Ba'hston.
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Abrams had model kits that didn't exist until a few years ago in "Super-8" so we're not going to get an obsessive-compulsive geek with him either.
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Also, much as I loved Argo, I was really disappointed that Jack Kirby wasn't actually mentioned by name.
Yeah. I was really disappointed there too. Maybe it ended up on the cutting room floor. It seemed very brief.
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Alternative take: kid falls asleep with toys spread all over the floor, mom picks them up and puts them in the wrong place.
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Sometimes you need a director that isn't emotionally attached to a franchise otherwise we might get another Superman Returns.
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@LYT True that but Bay is a childish hack and the Hollywood system would always lead to the human characters taking precedence over the Transformers so it's no surprise those movies sucked.
However I think Ben Affleck would have been an interesting choice, he's a great director and being a long time friend of Kevin Smith I am certain Smith would have advised him on some level. Affleck could have been what Star Wars had needed a different point of view muck like Irvin Kershner with Empire Strikes Back but with Abrams I'm sure we'll get a decent popcorn flick but with no depth whatsoever.
I saw 'Argo' and the only thought I took away from that scene was "Dammit! Why did I destroy all my Star Wars figures?! Why was I such a stupid kid!"
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I missed seeing Argo so I don't know the context of this scene... is it possible it's a dumbass and Affleck even intended it? lol
@Kozmik_Pariah it's possible that the jawa is the male and the sandpeople are the female of the same species - it's pretty hard to tell apart the genders of different species so the mistake would be wholly expected
@Gallen_Dugall @Kozmik_Pariah "And not just the men. The women, and children too. They're like animals. And I slaughtered them like animals!"
@xenothaulus @Gallen_Dugall @Kozmik_Pariah they shouldn't have edited out where Anakin said he "had sex with them like animals" too and Padme was all like "What?" and Anakin is all like "I... meant that I... killed them." and Padme is all relieved which explains why she doesn't just run off screaming while Anakin admits to committing genocide. Really ruins the movie to have taken that out.
@Gallen_Dugall @Kozmik_Pariah Or the female sand people look like male jawas and vice versa. With hilarious consequences.
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That was the production crew.
They have people whos entire job is to stick a ruler in a glass of water to make sure it has the same ammount in the glass for each take ... the ditector should have caught it, but there was someone who's entire job was to make sure this didn't happen.
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I say they let Kevin Smith make one of the spinoff movies that have been talked about. Screw the whole samurai jedi thing. Have Smith make a movie about a couple of down on their luck dudes from a backwater planet who sign up to be techs on the first death star. Boom. Done. Back to the magic of Clerks. That's a movie I would watch.
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@berkowitzofthejews Could be about those two Stormtroopers who were geeking out about new tech on the first Death Star.
But if characters in Kevin Smith movies talk endlessly about Star wars movies...what would characters in a Kevin Smith Star Wars movie have to talk about?
it's like wondering what evangelical religious types will have left to discuss once they're in Heaven.
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@LYT @berkowitzofthejews Let's just be serious here. He should just make TROOPS into a full movie.
That's uh, that's still a thing that people know about, right? That thing's older than some of the readership here I think.
@Canadian.Scott @berkowitzofthejews it's amazing how old and crotchety I am now that I own a house and have a kid.
Ha! Back then I didn't even have a computer. I saw Troops via crappy bootlegged video tape (another ancient technology many on this site will be unfamiliar with) that I purchased for a ridiculous sum at a convention.
@berkowitzofthejewsMaybe you should hang out with some of the other old-timers like myself in the other thread (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2013/01/killer_is_dead_trailer_makes_me_feel_old.php). We're sitting in our lawn chairs telling kids to "get off our lawn" and how "things aren't like they were in our day."
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@berkowitzofthejews I remember taking hours to download a South Park parody of an Episode I trailer. All hail Youtube today.
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K@Shemp @LYT @berkowitzofthejews troops would be great as a series, IMO. And yes, I personally can remember downloading troops as QuickTime files through my 56k modem. For you younglings, a 56k modem was a thing you used to get to the Internet back in the day. It was loud and slow, and there was no topless robot.
@LYT @berkowitzofthejews Yeah, stormtroopers could be the way to go. I would also take "It's a Trap: Adventures of a Young Ackbar."
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I think the bigger problem is that no one in the Star Wars universe is a Southie from Boston.
