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Thinking about 40+ years of Star Wars
The new Star Wars trailer dropped online today, and my social media have been blowing up with a wide range of friends and acquaintances squeeing loudly about it (and a few grumbling). Some have been sobbing quietly in the corner. … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 3, Chapter 8
Tagged Disney, George Lucas, Star Wars
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Trailer drops for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
OK, so I might have squealed. Just a little.
Star Wars VII tops Avatar as #1 North American Box Office
And we’re back for 2016. Hope you all had an enjoyable holiday break! So it really isn’t any surprise that Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens is now the number one movie moneymaker of all time for the North American … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 8, Uncategorized
Tagged box office, movies, Star Wars
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Looking back at the original 1977 Star Wars
Thirty-eight years ago, in a movie theater not that far away, I saw the original Star Wars movie during the summer of 1977. It was between my junior and senior years in high school, and the movie was the talk … Continue reading
Four Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again
An open video letter to J.J. Abrams from Sincerely Truman. This is brilliant and correct. And as one commenter on YouTube put it: “So basically… Make Firefly.” Pretty much. Shiny!
Link Ch. 3 – Disney buys LucasFilm, now owns Star Wars – Is that really such a bad thing?
So, Disney has bought out LucasFilm from George Lucas for $4.05 billion in cash and Disney stock and now owns the rights to Star Wars, a partial interest in the Indiana Jones series, Industrial Light and Magic special effects house, Skywalker Sound, … Continue reading
Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones as a tribute to the films of Ridley Scott
I’ve been rewatching the Star Wars prequels riding the exercise bike at night lately, and after finishing Episode II – Attack of the Clones, I’m reminded of a couple things. First, for me Attack of the Clones is by far the … Continue reading
Hitler finds out about the changes to Star Wars on Blu-Ray
I completely blame my editor @dwainsmith for this. To quote Han Solo, “It’s not my fault….” (Note: As usual with the “Hitler finds out about memes, NSFW subtitles)
Posted in Chapter 8, Uncategorized
Tagged movies, Star Wars
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