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Post by Falconer on May 13, 2024 18:35:54 GMT -6
Four of us at work decided to start a Star Wars Club (for the four of us). I want to jump on that enthusiasm and plan some activities right away because I feel like it could probably last for about 5 weeks. But who knows. I have in mind “mostly a book club” kind of format, where one week it’s like “watch [x] by Wednesday” and the next week it could be “read [x] by Wednesday”, and then on Wednesday we chat about it at lunch. If it were up to me it would be all Brian Daley and Timothy Zahn and John Williams, capped off with a WEG one-shot, but part of the deal was everyone would share their favorite stuff. So I will probably have to suck it up and watch some Baby Yoda.
My first thought was I should probably set up a Google drive where I can upload the original original movies, soundtracks, audiobooks/dramas, and such for ease of sharing/consumption. My second thought was a Google form so people could submit three things they wanted to get into.
Well I just wanted to share that and see if you had any thoughts/suggestions!
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Post by mouser on May 14, 2024 13:57:36 GMT -6
Four of us at work decided to start a Star Wars Club (for the four of us). I want to jump on that enthusiasm and plan some activities right away because I feel like it could probably last for about 5 weeks. But who knows. I have in mind “mostly a book club” kind of format, where one week it’s like “watch [x] by Wednesday” and the next week it could be “read [x] by Wednesday”, and then on Wednesday we chat about it at lunch. If it were up to me it would be all Brian Daley and Timothy Zahn and John Williams, capped off with a WEG one-shot, but part of the deal was everyone would share their favorite stuff. So I will probably have to suck it up and watch some Baby Yoda. My first thought was I should probably set up a Google drive where I can upload the original original movies, soundtracks, audiobooks/dramas, and such for ease of sharing/consumption. My second thought was a Google form so people could submit three things they wanted to get into. Well I just wanted to share that and see if you had any thoughts/suggestions! I dig this. One of the things that drew me to this forum was the discussions of classis Star Wars and "where it could have gone after New Hope"-type discussions. I am hugely a fan of Brian Daley, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the Lando Calrissian novels, the first version of New Hope, implications of the Holiday Special (I stand by this). I also loved Shadows of the Empire. The radio shows. The Ewok movies (I went there). (Yet not the Ewoks cartoon or Droids, though you can't fault the Ewoks too much because they have that amazing theme song.) And the original cut of Return of the Jedi, with the different Ewok songs etc. Ooh. And the short story collections "Tales From the Cantina" and the bounty hunter one. Ooh, and the Jedi Master's Quiz Book. The droid-making factory. Anyway....The format? I'd like to see a book club style but with pieces for homework, e.g. "How was Darth Vader's character in Splinter of the Mind's Eye consistent with New Hope, and what contradictions came up in Empire and Jedi?" Or..."George Lucas admits he went to Star Trek conventions before he wrote Star Wars; re-watching New Hope, and knowing how clever Lucas is with his lifts, what does it look like he lifted?" Just spitballin'.... ; ) |
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Post by geoffrey on May 14, 2024 14:06:32 GMT -6
Dune: Part Two was released on disk today. Perhaps you could have a viewing of the first 40 minutes of the 1977 Star Wars and notice how you can't swing a dead cat during the Tatooine scenes without hitting a Dune reference/inspiration.
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Post by Falconer on May 14, 2024 19:28:20 GMT -6
One guy in the club will be gone for a week and a half, so we’ll have two weeks of Star Wars or as the kids call it, A New Hope, ahead of our first meeting. He’s going on a road trip, so I suggested the Radio Drama. For everyone else, the Radio Drama and or Princess Leia’s Theme + the 4K77.
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Post by Starbeard on May 20, 2024 21:09:40 GMT -6
Cool! I would love to get a chat club going around where I am.
The Mandalorian isn't really my cup of tea, but there are worse things in the world than its better episodes. Just be sure to take off your "I'm watching Star Wars" spectacles, and put on your "I'm watching the WEG Star Wars campaign we played in 7th grade, right down to the one kid who had Slavicsek's Guide memorized, and the other kid who always wore DBZ t-shirts and only played Bounty Hunters" spectacles, and you can enjoy it for what it is.
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Post by mouser on May 29, 2024 10:31:15 GMT -6
I was not aware of the 4K77 project and I am in love with it. I have been craving a chance to look at the theatrical versions of the original trilogy films, and here you served it to me on a silver platter. Stuff like this is why I keep coming back to this forum. It gives me pathways to the things I love--there's like a mini zeitgeist in this forum that I am completely in synch with. Link to 4K77: www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/ |
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Post by plethon on May 29, 2024 16:21:24 GMT -6
I would FORCE everyone to play Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, the greatest Star Wars game of all time...
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Post by mouser on May 29, 2024 18:27:06 GMT -6
I would FORCE everyone to play Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, the greatest Star Wars game of all time... I remember playing this one multiplayer deathmatch map in Dark Forces 2. It was a map with lots of ledges and skywalks* over an abyss, and we would lightsaber duel and/or force push each other into the abyss for hours on end. I can't seem to find a screencap or vid of that map, but it was really, really fun. Maybe the most fun I ever had in multiplayer deathmatch in any game. *Semi-pun semi-unintended |
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Post by tdenmark on May 29, 2024 18:52:00 GMT -6
I would FORCE everyone to play Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, the greatest Star Wars game of all time... I remember playing this one multiplayer deathmatch map in Dark Forces 2. It was a map with lots of ledges and skywalks* over an abyss, and we would lightsaber duel and/or force push each other into the abyss for hours on end. I can't seem to find a screencap or vid of that map, but it was really, really fun. Maybe the most fun I ever had in multiplayer deathmatch in any game. *Semi-pun semi-unintended Same here! I think the map was called Nar Shada or something like that? Such a great map. Spent so many hours playing deathmatch there. |
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Post by Falconer on May 29, 2024 19:26:04 GMT -6
Well the first meeting went great, it was all about the original 1977 movie and adjacent projects like the superlative Radio Drama, the soundtrack, the Art of. I don’t think anyone’s ready to plow ahead and just wants to bask in 1977, so we’ll take another week of getting deeper into those things.
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Post by mouser on May 30, 2024 8:33:07 GMT -6
Four of us at work decided to start a Star Wars Club (for the four of us). I want to jump on that enthusiasm and plan some activities right away because I feel like it could probably last for about 5 weeks. But who knows. I have in mind “mostly a book club” kind of format, where one week it’s like “watch [x] by Wednesday” and the next week it could be “read [x] by Wednesday”, and then on Wednesday we chat about it at lunch. If it were up to me it would be all Brian Daley and Timothy Zahn and John Williams, capped off with a WEG one-shot, but part of the deal was everyone would share their favorite stuff. So I will probably have to suck it up and watch some Baby Yoda. My first thought was I should probably set up a Google drive where I can upload the original original movies, soundtracks, audiobooks/dramas, and such for ease of sharing/consumption. My second thought was a Google form so people could submit three things they wanted to get into. Well I just wanted to share that and see if you had any thoughts/suggestions! : I may start a new thread for discussing Project 4K77. I was tempted to do it on this thread but it felt like a hijack when I wrote it. I'm really excited about this "Book Club" style of discussion. |
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