Fans of our GenCon neighbors the Colts predict the football season by comparing the teams to Star Wars characters. I only know enough to laugh at their choice for Detroit.
Speaking of breakfast…
A flash from the past: Fifty reasons why Return of the Jedi sucks. My dead mother was an Ewok, you insensitive pricks! (via SF Signal)
Links for breakfast: Bite-size news
With blackjack! And hookers!
- Hot rumor mill action! Jim Hill wonders if Lucasfilm and Disney are plotting something. Oh, oh! A land war in Asia!
Elsewhere in the media…
- David Lynch (briefly) talks about George’s offer to direct ROTJ. Sadly lacking in wacky Lynch-ness. (via)
- Star Wars-inspired shoes much less Star Wars-looking than expected. I am underwhelmed. Really, you could throw a SW logo on pretty much anything made of shiny black leather and call it Vader-inspired.
- Video of George Lucas at the D5 conference.
- I bet Phil knows this guy. Also every time I see the headline I think it says Mary Franklin.
- Star Wars namechecked in column on movie soundtracks, surprisingly absolutely no one.
- Artist re-envisions critic as a Hutt. Naturally. (via)
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Can’t get enough of that wonderful… lists?
First off, A New Hope tops Slashfilm’s top ten greatest movie endings. Congratulations, Leni Riefenstahl!
Then, George Lucas makes Total Film’s list of the greatest directors ever. At #95. Well… umm… he did beat M. Night Shyamalan and Baz Luhrmann. Yay?
And to round us off, Cinematical recommends American Graffiti/Dazed and Confused double feature. Aww!
“For you, Jessica, I would dive into the Sarlacc Pit of Tatooine…”
Patrick Cassels’ ill-conceived junior high love letter. Because nothing pulls at the heartstrings of your average teenage girl like talk of Boba Fett and S-Dub canon.
Jedi Masters: Lying liars who lie
I know, you’re shocked, right? Abel G. Peña looks at the misleading statements of Obi-Wan and Yoda in the Original Trilogy.
Annie? My goodness you’ve grown.
Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen in Episode II: Attack of the Clones have been voted as having the least convincing chemistry of on-screen couples by film fans.
No way! With dialog like, “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere. Everything here is soft and smooth,” who could believe that? I bet ladies everywhere are waiting for guys to use that line on them.
The LOLcat strikes at midnight!
In addition to Cute Overload’s Wookieedog, Wednesday brought Jabba cat from I Can Has Cheezburger:
Did the Jar-Jar tongue suckers make it?
Be sure to nab the latest issue of Toyfare to see which eight Star Wars toys grace their list of the 100 best toys of the last decade.