Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
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.
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.
Artoo is #3 on The Onion’s A.V. Club’s Thirteen sidekicks who are cooler than their heroes. Also honored are Willow, Samwise Gamgee, Inigo Montoya and Sideshow Bob.
Four types of Star Wars robots – and one from THX 1138 – make the London Times list of fifty best movie robots. What, no Gonk? (via)
Yoda is #5 on Entertainment Weekly’s ten favorite CG characters. Aside from the fact that most of us first fell for Yoda in puppet form, I have a hard time taking seriously any list that includes Casper the Friendly Ghost. Fun fact: ILM is responsible for 60% of the list. (Including Casper. Sorry dudes.)
It pales in comparison to the news of the week, but Mark Hamill is one of Times Online’s 33 funniest Simpson’s cameos for Mayored to the Mob, the episode that features the classic ‘Luke be a Jedi Tonight’ The only clip I can find of it on Youtube is mostly dubbed in Spanish. Except for the song. Okay!
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That’s the headline of this piece from the L.A. Times, and pretty much every hero from every film we’ve ever loved is on the list. Naturally.
Geeks of Doom (Fear them!) rate the 30 most memorable Star Wars quotes.
Threepio and Artoo top Entertainment Weekly’s Hot ‘Bots list. Damn right. (via TFN)
OH, IT’S ON NOW, BITCHES!
Silly Brits picked the Lord of the Rings trilogy over classic Star Wars in an Amazon.co.uk poll. Hometown advantage? The prequel trilogy rang in at #6 on the best list (beating Spider-Man) and #5 on the worst.
JESUS CHRIST IT’S A GOOGLE
Get in the car, ET! Google Maps Street View caught you on film! Or at least get rid of the lightsaber, dude. Your friends should get on that GPS thing by now.
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