Comments on: Kessel Run movie poster

By: ToddBradley

ToddBradley — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:16:00 +0000

That was an awesome pet peeve to have about 35 years ago. Get over it. Way more people alive today have heard of a parsec in relation Kessel than in relation to Bessel.

By: ToddBradley

ToddBradley — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:10:00 +0000

Chewie’s totally a chick. She’s the only character in the entire series who preens her hair. Besides, Han sure ain’t gonna stop and ask directions when they get lost.

By: Shamos Fisher

Shamos Fisher — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:21:00 +0000

The blonde is modeled after Suzanne Somers, most likely a nod to her being in Lucas’ AMERICAN GRAFITTI. Personally, I would’ve preferred Farrah!

By: Squazz Muntbacker

Squazz Muntbacker — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:10:00 +0000

Comedy demands they just bill “Farrah Fawcett” along with the fictional stars.

By: 10xor01

10xor01 — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:29:00 +0000

Precisely. And this joke zoomed by at about 300,000 km / second.

By: gradivus

gradivus — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:20:00 +0000

The sign should say “MINIMUM DISTANCE 18 (parsecs).” A parsec is an astronomical measure of distance. ”It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs” means a very tight course.

By: gradivus

gradivus — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:16:00 +0000

A parsec is a measure of distance.

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:00 +0000

Antinous: No, Roddy McDowall.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:19:00 +0000

Is that also true of C3PO and Charles Nelson Reilly?

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:46:00 +0000

You notice that they’re never in the same room?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:27:00 +0000

Wouldn’t Jabba be the Dom Deluise of Star Wars?

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:03:00 +0000

The font looks right on a Retina display.

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:58:00 +0000

Jabba’s basically the Dom Deluise of this version.

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:55:00 +0000

Perhaps you think you’re being treated unfairly?

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:05:00 +0000

Actually, I coined the word “weaksauce” at a Taco Bell in 1991.

By: Bruce Otter

Bruce Otter — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:43:00 +0000

Cool. I always thought Smokey and the Bandit was the story of the Kessel Run, what with the time limit factor and the smuggling aspect and the fact that Star Wars and Bandit came out around the same time. Plus, The Bandit’s sidekick was ‘The Snowman’ like the abominable snowman, yeti, bigfoot. You know, Chewbacca.!

By: E. James Ford

E. James Ford — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:53:00 +0000

Excellent! Would be even moreno if the poster also included Jamie Farr.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:25:00 +0000

It’s incongruous

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:25:00 +0000

In the meantime, maybe you could subscribe to his newsletter.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:21:00 +0000

His name is Chewbacca. He’s a wookie.

By: disky00

disky00 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:26:00 +0000

You aren’t actually mad that a character isn’t featured on a parody poster for a film that doesn’t exist, right?

By: disky00

disky00 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:10:00 +0000

When will your memoirs be published? My preorder is guaranteed.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:02:00 +0000

Even though the line was written that way, Ford didn’t play it that way, and I think he played it right. Solo’s a pilot by trade, the Falcon is indeed “the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy” (when in proper tune), and if he’s desperate for clients in order to pay off the Hutt, the last thing he needs to do is brag about his ship using incorrect jargon that would be glaringly obvious to pretty much anyone looking to hire a ship in a spacefaring society. Han Solo is an egotistical scoundrel whose first instinct is to look out for Number One, but I’m glad Harrison Ford resisted any direction to play him as an incompetent nimrod.

So either Ford didn’t realize the line was wrong, or just hoped we wouldn’t realize it. In any case, Guinness reacts skeptically (as if he doesn’t believe the claim, not as if he thinks Solo can’t tell a minute from a mile), and Ford reacts to that skepticism with further claims (eventually proved valid) about his ship’s performance, not with any embarrassment about being discovered to be a lying dipshit.

Solo may have been scripted to be “stupid” in this instance, but Ford didn’t do it, IMHO. Thank the Maker. Uh… that is, thank Ford. ;^)

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:45:00 +0000

People say things like that? Man, we must move in seriously different circles.

By: EeyoreX

EeyoreX — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:38:00 +0000

The “blonde lady” is Nien Nunb in his pre-larval phase.

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:21:00 +0000

LOL AWESOMESAUCE…in this post! My friend Brandon made that word up while I was there and I thought it would never catch on. Un-believable to me that it did. By the way, it was an adaption/opposite just a few months after I made up Weaksauce, which was a few years after I made up Toobesauce. Also, he said awesomesauce-em because it had a better ring to it. They originally all came from playing video games and constantly saying “aww weak”(getting killed unrightfully), and “who ordered the toobsauce” while noob-tubing(grenade launchers) through far away windows, thereby turning whoever in the room into sauce(by way of noob toob, aka Toobsauce.

After a while I accidentally said “aww weaksauce” effectively combining the two and it caught on like fire for some reason.
It was beyond freaky when a few weeks later a person I had never met said at a concert by me, then months later I heard it on a made for tv Mtv movie. How unbelievably surreal……..

Believe it or not-Doesnt matter.
Surely this is the first time you have heard a reasonable explanation of where Weaksauce awesomesauce and tubesauce aka toobsauce came from.
Might sound insane but its been happening my whole life.

I could even tell you where “bow chicka-wow-wow” came from as well since I made it up when I was 12 years old… Which would also finally explain exactly why its used to describe a hot person…but I wont for now. The answer would greatly surprise you and makes me laugh every time I hear it.

Ciao

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:24:00 +0000

So Nien Nunbis is important enough to put in the title credits, but not enough to put on the poster? They didn’t need Both of the tie-fighters, they could have slotted him in under the Twi’lek woman’s hand, introducing an interesting insinuation

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:01:00 +0000

How much does it bother you?

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Let it go Stuie. We’ve all been there. Pick your battles. :)

By: Nudeviking

Nudeviking — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:03:00 +0000

He’s not, a paper scrap caused by the Millenium Falcon busting through the poster is covering his elbow. If you move your eyes slightly to the right of the blue breasts you can see his forearm.