Straight from the horse’s mouth – the mass removal of fan and parody vids at Youtube was a mistake. Lucasfilm did ask Youtube to remove video containing ‘material taken from starwars.com’ (probably the Force-powers game concept vid, which was only released to Hyperspace members) and Youtube misunderstood. LFL has asked the site to restore the deleted videos.
Fandom giveth, and LFL taketh away
Several Star Wars videos on Youtube have been removed due to requests from Lucasfilm. This isn’t a new phenomenon by any means, but it appears the number of users and videos affected is fairly large this time, and not limited to direct DVD rips like the bloopers I linked Monday, but also older fanvids and the like. Surprise. Not.
Hopefully this means less emo Anakin vids. That development I could certainly get behind. Now if only there was a way to filter out all the eighth graders ‘practicing’ with lightsiders…
On the plus side, episode 2 of Chad Vader – Day Shift Manager went up last night. Most parody works, which are the majority of what we link, should be safe. But be warned that any and all videos we link are subject to vanish without warning.
Video Monday
Human Ping Pong. Impressive… Most impressive.
Star Wars One Man Show on Conan O’Brian. Feathered hair!
Pride & Prejudice, Harry Potter style. Delightfully bizarre!
Stand-up comic Matt Geiler talks about Star Wars and girls. Goes on a bit too long, but it’s pretty funny.
Bloopers from The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith (Thanks, Kat!) and the original trilogy, Probably a direct rip from the DVD, so watch them now if you want to watch them at all.
– Tennis on Tatooine
– Reel Big Fish Star Wars intro
– Jedi Pi
Video Monday
This week, the video sheep of the internet are all drooling over Chad Vader – Day Shift Manager. Thankfully, this one is actually funny. Hooray!
The follow-up to last week’s A Beginners Guide To Faking Your Death On The Internet, Luke Lewis’ A Beginner’s Guide To The British. The part about Oasis vs. Blur literally had me on the floor.
And lo, I am dead: A 1999 clip from The Daily Show that asks is Jar-Jar Gay?
And finally, for those with strong constitution, Donnie and Marie do Star Wars: Part I, Part II. Horror beyond imagination!
– Obi-Wan is Going Commando.
– Star Wars on a Banjo.
– Rise of the Troopers trailer.
– You Might Be a Cylon!
– Rockabilly Rancor
– Classic Clip: Lapti Nek Music Video
Video Monday
Spreading like wildfire this week is The Vader Sessions, where lines from various James Earl Jones movies are dubbed in over Vader. Honestly, I found this earlier and I didn’t really think it was all that great, but tons of folks are linking it so I’ll let you judge for yourselves.
My vote for teh maxibig funneh is A Beginners Guide To Faking Your Death On The Internet. LOL internets!
Also: Carlos Mencia on Star Wars. Truth!
– Star Wars YMCA
– I have a bad feeling about this…
– Pirates of the Caribbean Dance Challenge
– Park Wars
Video Monday
All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us, a mashup of Snakes on a Plane and All Your Base. Brilliant!
Ask a Ninja review Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. If you don’t laugh at this I fear for your soul. (Thanks, Rogue!)
This is incredibly bizarre – a hip-hop dance routine with a Star Wars theme. So, of course, there’s Prince.
Star Wars: A Clone Apart is trying for a Star Wars version of Red vs. Blue. Does it suceed? You tell me.
– Han Solo switches to Apple
– Scout trooper on a jetski
– X-Men 3: Standing Ovation
Video Monday
All the featured videos this week are… songvids! And not a one of them is Evanescence.
Weird Al’s ‘Jerry Springer’ proves to be a pretty good match for the saga. Who knew?
Palpatine does it his way. I really want to see this done with the punk version, too.
‘La Vie Boheme’ from Rent done up Harry Potter style. A bit slow to start, but it made me laugh out loud a couple times. (Thanks to Ruby for the find!)
– Cute French candy commercial.
– Jonathan Rinzler talks about Art of ROTS.
– Vader is an smartass.
– Classic Clip: Trooper Clerks.
Video Monday
The carbon freezing sequence from Empire Strikes Back done entirely with action figures. Pretty impressive, though the synthesizer soundtrack makes me think more of The X-Files than Star Wars.
The Holy Sith is scenes from Revenge of the Sith with dialogue from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Because we were all thinking it anyway.
Joss Whedon’s Equality Now speech, because we need more reasons to love the man.
Ryan Cartwright wonders what it would be like to be Hayden Christensen.
– Pong Wars!
– ‘1979’ ESB trailer
– Drawing Mr. Vader
– POTC, with lightsabers
– ‘Jarth Mader’ on The Chappelle Show
Video Monday
The spotlight clip this week is Solo: The Movie, a cute re-creation by some fans out of Los Angeles.
– Fanboy Moment: Star Wars vs. Star Trek
– Fiddling Vader
– Steve Jobs joins the Dark Side
– Classic Clip: Thumb Wars
Video Monday
In one of the most horrific acts of cross-fandom pollination known to man, Leonard Nimoy sings about Bilbo Baggins and commits it to film.
The rest of the garbage…
– Gnarls Barkley’s MTV Movie Awards performance.
– One fan’s tribute the Wilhelm Scream.
– James Luceno talks about Dark Lord.
– Mashup: Sith City.
– Harry Potter battles the monster Pubertus.
– Classic Clip: Jedi Hunter. Crikey!