Entertainment Weekly has placed the prequel’s least beloved digital effect in their list of sixteen characters that offended moviegoers. But fear not, Jar Jar fans – you can vote on his exact level of offensiveness.
Videos: Videogum’s ten best lightsaber mashups
We’ve featured at least one of these before (not The Princess Bride) but who cares? It’s a bunch of geek classic movies (mostly) with lightsabers added. Go forth and enjoy. (via)
Star Wars second on AFI’s top 10 sci-fi
Those crazy list-making folks at the American Film Institute have placed A New Hope in second place on their list of the top 10 science fiction films. Click through to see the original trailer and some clips of James Earl Jones talking about the film.
The top spot goes to 2001, with E.T., A Clockwork Orange, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Blade Runner, Alien, Terminator 2, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Back to the Future rounding out the choices.
There’s a fantasy list as well, which includes The Wizard of Oz, Fellowship of the Ring, and King Kong.
The fandom minute: Revenge comic, new KOTOR site, cheap-ass lightsabers, Boba Fett
Flashback: 14-year old Dave Lowe’s Revenge of the Jedi fan comic from 1980. There’s Luke/Leia kissing and sleeveless Vader! (via) In a more professional capacity, he also did some work for a Sci-Fi Channel Star Wars marathon back in 1993.
- Fan sites: MizzeeOh, we we know as a contributer over at EUC, has launched a new KOTOR site, Carbonite Dreams.
- Howto: A cheap custom lightsaber at Instructables.
- Lists: Topless Robot places Boba Fett in the #1 spot in their list of the 10 most awesome characters ruined by fans. Can I get an amen? (The real shocker of the article: Sonic the Hedgehog has fans?)
George Lucas back on Forbes’ Celebrity 100
It’s time for Forbes to break out this year’s Celebrity 100 list… And this year, George Lucas comes in at #46. He wasn’t on 2007’s list, but he was #15 in 2006 and #4 in 2005.
Other ranking geek idols include J.K. Rowling (#9,) Steven Spielberg (#13,) Stephen King (#34,) Keira Knightley (#47,) Daniel Radcliffe (#64,) Cate Blanchett (#77) and Tina Fey (#99.)
Well, I’m shocked
The most surprising thing about Entertainment Weekly’s list of 17 sci-fi misfires? None of the Star Wars films are on it – although Blade Runner is. Huh.
The fandom minute: Collecting, Leia, book club
- Collecting: Times Online‘s money blog has a list of the top ten Star Wars collectibles – some old, some new. Cinematical has all the pictures.
- Lists: Filmcritic puts Leia at #5 on their ten best female action heroes.
- Expanded Universe: The EU Cantina is reviving their Book Club this summer with the Republic Commando series.
- Blogs: Don’t talk to Darth Vader before he’s had his coffee.
The fandom minute: Tees, lists, pedias, cubes
- T-shirts: The latest Steampunk Artoo… Now you see it, now you don’t.
- Fan sites: Wookieepedia is one of Wired’s eight best non-Wikipedia pedias.
- Craft: Fold yourself a Cubetrooper, Indiana Jones, Fetility Idol or any number of others.
- Lists: Topless Robot’s eight biggest reasons Indiana Jones is better than Han Solo, ten greatest spaceship chases ever, ten most blatant Star Wars toy rip-offs of the ’70s and Cracked’s eight classic movie robots that suck at their jobs. Hogwash!
Entertainment Weekly’s favorite season finales
To celebrate (!?) the ending of this very eventful TV season, EW counts down 20 of their favorite season finales. Plenty of genre shows make the cut, including Star Trek: TNG, Farscape, Alias, The X-Files and Buffy (above.)
Did your favorite make the list? (IMO: Both Alias and The X-Files had better finales than the ones they chose.)
The fandom minute: Worms, mice, sidekicks
- Weird: ‘The Tatooine Exchange’ wins worm charming trophy.
- Space: Star Wars beats Star Trek on the International Space Station.
- Event: Fourth Annual Unofficial SW Fan Day at Disneyland is set for June 28. (via)
- Lists: R2-D2, Wicket, and Short Round make io9’s list of cutest sci-fi sidekicks (and why they fail.)