Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
I’ve got a ton of stuff to gather up today, but for the moment, please enjoy these two video recreations of The Force Awakens teaser trailer. Above, a crude but sweet LEGO take that came out shockingly fast – less than 24 hours after the actual trailer!
And from today, the laugh-out-loud funny “George Lucas’ Special Edition” version.
Teddie Films parodies Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ with this video and filk.
Cookie Monster must learn control as Sesame Street takes on Star Wars.
What has Luke Skywalker been up to for the last 30 years? MAD Magazine (uh-oh) has some answers…
This one is for all your friends/family/acquaintances who know nothing about Star Wars. We forgive you, because this is amazing.
Yes, it’s Boba Fett. Yes, it’s hilarious. Take your passion, make it happen!
Very much a product of it’s time, but it still makes me laugh.
Why are there so few women in the galaxy far, far away? One (batshit) in-universe theory.
What with the Golden Globe blitz beginning (you go, Tatiana Maslany,) power hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are guest-editing this week’s Entertainment Weekly – and naturally they’re taking on Star Wars. Sort of.
The comedians joke that they’re playing “really naggy mothers of Darth Vader.”
FEY: [In an elderly New Yorker accent] “Darth, eat! Why don’t you eat?” That kind of stuff.
POEHLER: “You’re never gonna find a girl when you go out looking like that!”
FEY: Making him practice his Jedi stuff for hours.
POEHLER: Hitting on all his Jedi friends inappropriately. I feel like the theme of the next Star Wars is going to be: How does a working mother juggle it all? I’m looking forward to that. What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I’m dealing with right now — working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s. That’s the kind of stuff that I like to see on the screen, and that’s what I see with a lot of the films out today.
Even J.J. Abrams is playing along: “The exciting thing about having Amy and Tina play the Vader Moms, as we’re calling them, is that they bring to the film that pitch-perfect Star Wars energy fans are clamoring for.”
Somewhere, someone is taking all this at face value. Let’s pretend we don’t see them.
A remix of the original Star Wars trailer with the movie’s blooper reel.