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Star Wars
 

Darth Disney

Asatar's picture
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(King Kong, 1,965
 
Points)
 on 10/31/12 at 6:30pm
Disney, film, lucas, Star Wars

Nothing to do with finance or Wall Street this week but nonetheless an interesting topic (at least I hope it is!)

Lucasfilm Ltd has been sold to Disney for a shade over $4bn, with George Lucas getting a considerable stake in Disney as a result. Disney have already announced they will be making a new Star Wars trilogy with the first film due to release in 2015.

Like me, I'm sure many of you grew up with the new / first set of films and have since watched the old classics. Do you think Disney doing this is a bad idea? More generally, is creating endless sequels, prequels, related content etc. to blockbuster films just ruining the original film? Some examples include Jaws, Jurassic Park, American Pie, Saw and many more....

Ten GS TMT MDs vs Obi Wan Kenobi

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PT
(Baboon, 115
 
Points)
 on 8/17/12 at 12:13pm

In a fight to the death?

it's a close one, but I think the MDs will win with like 1 or 2 survivors

Star Wars: The Live Table Reading!

Frieds's picture
AM
(Neanderthal, 2,530
 
Points)
 on 5/30/12 at 12:37am
Starwarsarama

Here's the deal. Just watch this. It's fucking absurd. This is by far the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. This is a Table Reading for the script for Star Wars. It's being read by Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Kevin Conroy, Jess Harnell and Rob Paulsen.

The God Damned French + Star Wars = WTF!

Frieds's picture
AM
(Neanderthal, 2,530
 
Points)
 on 1/4/12 at 9:03pm
LV

So... the French get THIS until March 1st in honor of Episode 1 being rereleased in 3D. Forgoing the fact that the new saga ruined Star Wars, I mean seriously, WTF! They get a Darth Vader (and they can't fucking spell it right too - Dark Vador, really? These idiots who called him Dark Vador have the same level of brain function as a mentally handicapped orangutan tripping face of large quantities of acid) edition Double Cheeseburger. I mean who the hell wants to go with a regular Jedi Burger when you can get all Darkside in the house. What the fuck man... how the hell can the French be one step ahead on this! God Damn It!

Star Wars Fanboys

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EN
(King Kong, 1,109
 
Points)
 on 12/27/11 at 1:14am
homez

Nothing coming from my fav. universe lately..stumbled across this tho:

MLB, meet Aleksey Vayner

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ST
(Gorilla, 656
 
Points)
 on 11/7/11 at 1:52pm

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?arti...

The only difference is this guy has a track record in Cuba that shows he could play in the show.

Kenny Powers as Darth Vader

Frieds's picture
AM
(Neanderthal, 2,530
 
Points)
 on 9/20/11 at 3:10pm
KP

For your enjoyment... the one and only Kenny Powers as Darth Vader:

Boba Fett Isn't Cool Anymore

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 on 2/25/11 at 4:31pm
bobafett

This was an interesting piece from The Wall Street Journal which I thought well-accompanied Midas's post a while back on how Boys are The Problem.

The original link is here.

[quote]Note to Angry Guys: Drop the Darth Vader Décor

By Kay Hymowitz

Over the weekend, Review published Ms. Hymowitz’s essay, “Where Have the Good Men Gone?”

Wall Streeter Yearbooks: the 70's

Jorgé's picture
(Neanderthal, 2,182
 
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 on 9/13/10 at 4:39pm
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The 1970’s, a time of great turbulence; The Vietnam War had stretched on for almost a decade, and finally ended with undesired results. The crash of 1973 and its following recession almost brought the whole world to its knees, and with oil and energy crises just around the corner, things weren’t looking so good.

Nixon had Watergate, Creedence Clearwater Revival disbanded, Morrison and Hendrix passed away, platform shoes and polyester became cool, and ^cult behavior had started to rear its ugly head.