The Empire Strikes Back tonight on Spike!
One cat, raised right
No surprises here
Guess who makes #2 on Listverse’s top 15 best movie sequels? If you’ve seen a lot of these lists, you can probably guess #1, too. (via)
Family Guy to follow-up Blue Harvest?
Family Guy to tackle Star Wars again?
Last night’s Blue Harvest did so well in the ratings that a Fox spokesman said that an ESB takeoff “seems likely,” James Hibberd reports. Oh joy. (Thanks, Stooge!)
Catching up with Labor Day weekend
George Lucas is becoming ‘increasingly involved’ with the Clone Wars animated series. Good? Bad? Gungan? Only time will tell! In other CW news, Disney really wants the broadcast rights.
Infodrop
- American Heritage covers ILM before computers. (via)
- Dan Wallace spotlights Michael Allen Horne, who authored two pivotal RPG guidebooks for West End Games.
- The Legacy Revealed reruns Thursday.
- The new Insider is shipping. It also appears on the latest Diamond shipping list (for comic stores) so probably available in standard book shops as well.
Listings
- The Empire Strikes Back makes Premiere’s list of twenty biggest plot twists.
- USA Today’s Whitney Matheson picks Vader’s lightsaber as the most awesome movie prop.
Weird & Wacky
- Steamtroopers! Steampunk stormtroopers, Fett and an Alien pal spotted in Dubai mall. (via)
- The Darth Vader lamp. Well, that’s… ironic. (via)
From the Blogside
Mike of the blog Mmmm has, for the past month or so, posting about Star Wars and reviewing the saga. Going chronologically, he rolls through The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Clone Wars, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, the Holiday Special, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
I’ll give the guy credit – he takes a mostly even-handed approach to the saga (even the Holiday Special – we all know it’s exactly that wretched, though he pans the Ewoks more than I think is necessary.) But, overall – a good read.
Hand-optional father-son reunion!
Entertainment Weekly put The Empire Strikes back at #12 on their list of the 25 Greatest Action Films Ever. Raiders of the Lost Ark shows up at #3.
Second only to the Corleones
Moviefone’s 25 best movie sequels of all time has Return of the Jedi at 21 and Empire Strikes back at #2, with lots of other familiar faces along the way.
The fine art of the sequel
Prompted by the summer movie season’s first big hype, Spider-Man 3*, MSNBC looks at the best and worst movie sequels. Empire Strikes Back makes the best list.
* Interested in Spidey? Pablo reviews the latest installment. (Spoilers!)