Yep, the sole Academy Award nomination for ROTS is for make-up. If anything, it should have been nominated for best animated feature. What in that picture wasn’t CGI?

For me, collecting has gotten strange. Used to be you had a batch of figures to choose from at any one time. They were released 3 to 5 or 6 at a time, and usually the batches were relatively close together. You could count on outfits like Entertainment Earth selling them cases at a time. Not good for me if I wanted one particular figure, though. Whenever I walked into Wal-Mart, there was something, even if it had a thick layer of dust on it.

Not anymore. You can’t sit on your butt if Sideshow puts out something you want. As soon as pre-ordering is open, they could be gone in a few hours, and you could be doomed to sitting in the waiting list. There was a mad dash for Jedi Luke and Anakin when they came out; both the regular version and the exclusive version were snapped up. I wanted ROTS Obi-Wan, and I got that only because there were some of the regular versions left. The next figure will be a Jedi I’m not interested in getting, so I don’t have anything to worry about.

A pre-scarred Palpy or ROTJ Emperor would be nice.

GL at the People’s Choice Awards Tuesday night:

looks at last two GL quotes posted

Very rarely do I have anything negative to say about the music of SW. That’s the only thing in the PT that tries its best to work, even despite Lucas butchering the scores in editing. (The OT scores are more coherent works that seem like actual characters in the movies, I think.) The PT has too many OT cues, and each score does not wholly feel like they belong to the movies they’re scored for. You couldn’t impose ANH’s score on ROTJ, but with the exception of one or two distinctive points, you could swap AOTC’s score for TPM and not miss a beat.

The only part of ROTS’s score I like is “Battle of the Heroes”, but the more I listen to it, the less it feels part of the SW “sound”. And it’s not just because the PT contains a great deal of vocal work. “Battle of the Heroes” does not feel like SW. Or, it doesn’t feel like it goes with this SW movie. If there was a movie largely devoted to the Clone Wars, maybe it might fit. Maybe because I really have nothing invested emotionally in the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel, the piece loses a lot of its impact. It’s a shame. What might be more accurate would be to say that the duel doesn’t fit with the piece.

There. One good thing for ROTS. Kinda. :pfft:

What did I say about GL blaming the fans yesterday?

Charged, indicted, and convicted.

Just when I thought GL couldn’t say something more outrageous, the man continously proves me wrong. I got this quote from someone who read the most recent issue of Empire Magazine. (I’d like to find it myself, but this source is reliable.)

Don’t blame us for not “understanding” what you were doing! Nobody I’ve ever run into had any problem with Han shooting first, not until it was changed in the Stupid Editions. Greedo held a gun on him. It was kill or be killed, ’nuff said. If he had no weapon and was doing something harmless like saying “hey”, and Han shot him because he didn’t like his face or the way he smelled, then I’d say he was a murderer. I’d say that “a lot of fans” is Lucas-speak for “a few of his inner, cloistered circle who think like him”.

And he’s saying that Greedo’s shot was there all the time and the fans couldn’t hear it? If we didn’t hear it, it wasn’t there. Watch your cotton-picking movie sometimes, George. Without the Re-Vision™ glasses, please. I just love how he blames the fans whenever he gets knee-deep in bantha manure.