How Yoda Became an Action Star 769
fexter writes: "This article at Entertainment Weekly talks about Yoda's transformation from a puppet to a completely-CG character, and talks about the animators' horror at Lucas' transformation of Yoda: 'When Coleman and crew first saw them, they were appalled. They thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store.'"
Fight Scene (Score:4, Funny)
Credibility lost (Score:5, Funny)
We're talking, of course, about the most crowd-pleasing scene in a movie so far this year, wherein the little green Jedi Master summons the Force to bounce and whoop and haiiii-yah!
No... The most crowd pleasing scene in a movie so far this year was Kirsten Dunst giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to Spiderman in the rain with her nipples hard from the cold.
Re:Fight Scene (Score:5, Funny)
Well, Yoda just used the force... (Score:2, Funny)
Psshaw (Score:5, Funny)
They thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store.'"
He looked much more like Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yoda speaks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yoda speaks (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Credibility lost (Score:5, Funny)
jeez, they have like 2 paragraphs per page (Score:5, Funny)
Is it me, or were there an awful lot of pages (and ads) in that article?
Fight Club
How Yoda became
click to continue...(page 2/1345)an action star
click to continue...(page 3/1345)With a little help
click to continue...(page 4/1345)from director George Lucas
click to continue...(page 5/1345)It should look familiar (Score:4, Funny)
The fight we're really after (Score:2, Funny)
I'd just love to see Miss Piggy move to her fighting posture, Yoda draw his lightsaber, and Frank Oz get throatache.
Under Cover Green Midget +Jedi Brother (Score:4, Funny)
Yoda had to live on a miasmic swamp planet in a friggin rotten stump. The ghetto of the universe.
Not to mention training whiny white bread farm boys in the ways of the force.
Did I forget mentioning he is 2 feet high with a head that looks like a pot pie that has been microwaved too much?
So Yoda had a heavy burden. Let the man fly through the air and pimp a little bit of the force to show who is the man.
Unseemly? Give me a break.
Puto
Re:Lucas, Lucas... (Score:3, Funny)
-Star Wars: Not the choice of a new generation.
Denny's TV commercial (Score:3, Funny)
Have you seen the new Denny's TV commercial? She and Kermit are ordering breakfast at Denny's. They order a Grand Slam breakfast and go ape-shit because they are overjoyed to be eating pancakes, sausage, and bacon. Man, there is some sick shit on TV these days...
Filthy (Score:2, Funny)
The Filthy Critic's [bigempire.com] take:
"Kirsten Dunst is a very good actress, and each of her tits under a wet shirt is worth a quarter the price of admission. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that makes a man sitting alone in a theater instinctively squeeze the Hamm's he smuggled in."
Re:Still should have been better (Score:2, Funny)
Top 10 Things I learned from Attack of the Clones (Score:4, Funny)
1. There are no police, or more importantly, traffic cops or highway patrol officers, on Coruscant. Endangering pedestrians and other vehicles is just "no big deal."
2. Six-year old Jedi trainees are so capable with their light sabres that you can group them very tightly together -- even wearing "blast shield helmets" -- and have them swing away at training beacons without any concerns for safety.
3. Saruman can wield a mean light sabre -- although thankfully, he hasn't forgotten how to use telekinesis (but why didn't he do some more body-slamming?!? Wait -whaddyou mean this is Star Wars...?)
4. Just because you put a homing device on your opponent's getaway vehicle does NOT mean you shouldn't also follow him or her into a really dangerous asteroid belt instead of just waiting for him or her to come out the other side (you have a tracking device, remember!) -- of course, on the other hand, flying through asteroid belts at high speed is required in the Star Wars universe. [Thanks to JLyle for this one.]
5. The GSO -- Galactic Standards Organization (the future counterpart to the ISO and W3.org) -- has been so successful that not only have ALL major industrial manufacturers adopted the same data access, networking, and transfer protocols throughout the Republic, but so have secret, guerilla arms factories -- and besides, those same factories wouldn't use security software or electronic countermeasures to defend themselves against network intrusions anyway.
6. Even though the Republic has scads of enormous, elongated wedge-shaped Star Destroyers, you should never put them into high orbit around a planet and use them to prevent enemy starships from taking off, let alone using them offensively as long-range artillery weapons against enemy ground forces. Pitting land force against land force is pretty much the best way to go -- you can always make or get more robot or clone soldiers...
7. C3PO is so well-designed that there are power cells in every major constituent of his body -- including his head. [Thanks to JacobJ for this one.]
8. You don't need to wear a helmet or even goggles while you drive hovercraft, land speeders, or other flying vehicles in a desert environment such as Tatooine.
9. Little Boba Fett is so accustomed to seeing his dad's face only behind his cool helmet that it just wouldn't occur to him to lift the visor or remove the helmet to look at his poor dead dad's decapitated visage (try saying that three times fast!).
10. One's reputation, manner, and conduct just can't be guessed by observation alone -- you need to have a name which transparently broadcasts to all but the stupidest that you're not a nice person: Darth Sidious, Lord Tyranno, Count Dooku (?!?) -- not to mention Darth Maul, etc....
11. Who's the biggest, baddest dude of the whole Galaxy? He's short, he's green, he has thinning hair, and nope -- he doesn't _really_ need that walking stick after all...
Re:Burn him! (Score:5, Funny)
I've seen them. The only one worth seeing is the one where Yoda and Christopher Lee do this sort of dancing skipping duel while singing parts of West Side Story, and Dooku's droids all line up behind the pair to mirror them as the rest of "the gang".
Re:Denny's TV commercial (Score:5, Funny)
A: Because kermit likes sweet & sour pork!
Love scenes were terrible. (Score:2, Funny)
Moral: ANAKIN CAN'T ACT!!
Re:I don't like any of the fights (Score:5, Funny)
Because I saw the last movie in all its wonder.
The fight was cool.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Credibility lost (Score:3, Funny)
That and the fireplace scene were my favorites. The only thing the fireplace scene was missing was some "porn groove" music.
(off-topic: I still don't understand how a queen is elected, but a senator is appointed. It just seems like a stupid thing that Lucas made up so that Natalie Portman's character wouldn't need $100,000 costumes).
Re:I believe its called democratic republic... (Score:3, Funny)
Senator Palpatine became Chancelor & was unable to finish his term as Senator for Naboo. The elected government of Naboo would have to appoint a replacement senator until elections could be held. Imagine now that the (democratically elected) queen's term ended before a new senator was appointed & the new queen appointed the old queen to finish out the senator's term.
[aside: I think I should have used "former queen"...I think "old queen" usually means something else]
Even if you assume that the term was less than the 10 years that passed between the Chancelor's election & AoTC, we could just accept that after finishing out the term she was appointed to she was elected to several more terms.
Hamlet reprisal (Score:4, Funny)
The deleted scene actually continued as follows: