Being a smartass

Remember that hilarious video depicting Darth Vader being a smartass?



Well, it gave ideas to other YouTube users, resulting in this scene where Saruman (Christopher Lee) is being a smartass to Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen):



Now the Emperor himself pisses Vader off:



"Don't make me destroy you!"

Bonus (for those of you who've watched 300:

"Twice the pride, double the f—"

Anakin doesn't like long talks: he always does his job as swiftly as possible:



"Good job!"

Lookalikes

Today I received a Minezine newsletter about some of the most striking lookalikes that can be found on totallylookslike.com:






Haha!


Wicked!










Freaky!


Erick Avary is also Hamid Karzai's lookalike, as I already mentioned, remember!




Obvious.


How haven't I ever noticed that?


Funny.

Gotcha!


Brilliant!


I'm always amazed that there are people who think exactly the same, however weird your thoughts are…

Episode III gets reviewed

I recently found a really good review of Star Wars Episode III and I thought it could be interesting to feature it on this blog, among the other piles of random stuff that I accumulate on a daily basis. (I hope some of you saw the film, at least…)



"Count Dracula shows up. The Chancellor says: 'Get help. You're no match for him. He's a Sith Lord.' Dude, where are they gonna get help?!?"

" … and what does this shithead ever do to make you fall in love with him? All he ever did was bitch everyone else including Ooba-Dooba, make blatantly treacherous remarks and — I wanna stress this again — he committed mass murder and Ooba-Dooba knows it."



"Obi-Wan must carefully sneak up to his position. So naturally, since he must be as covert as possible, he picks the biggest, loudest thing he can possibly find to ride up there. This thing makes noises like a dying giraffe: it's so loud the whole damn planet would be alarmed to its presence, and the damn thing even starts shouting right at the enemy's base!"

"The Emperor whips out a lightsaber and does some of that jumping around crap. The three Jedi Windu brought with him use an ancient Jedi defence technique known as 'Standing There And Letting Your Opponent Kill You', until it's soon just Windu vs. the Chancellor."



"'But wait, Obi-Wan! If Leia is my sister, then who was our mother?'
'Ow… she was the Queen of Naboo. But when things didn't work out between her and your father she lost the will to live and just up and died.'
'Ya know, she was having two kids… She didn't think it was worth living for us?'
'I guess not, Luke.'
'Oh, what a bitch!'"

Some LOTR stuff

A new kind of comics has appeared: you take stills from any movies (in this case from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) and you add texts. But since people (and myself) are never serious, the texts get really silly…



"Why the hell are you looking at me like that? Fuck man this. I'm leaving. You're drunk again."

"All's well that ends well"

Alternate endings are a great way of showing how a given story could have been. Storylines like Star Wars could have ended in a wide variety of ways, as you may recall from a series of previous posts. For instance, what if Luke, the hero, didn't manage to grip the antenna when he fell in the shaft on Bespin?



ROTFLOL is the word that sums up my reaction.

Then, what if Luke didn't manage to blow the Death Star and Vader shot him instead?



And… what if Darth Vader felt remorse after killing Luke Skywalker and all of a sudden decided to turn against the Empire? It would give something like this:



What if Yoda was less powerful than he thought?



[Swat!]
Oh, nooo!

What if Anakin underestimated his own powers?



What if everything that has transpired has done so according to the Emperor's design?



Brilliant!

PS. Don't forget to wish a happy birthday to Ellen!

Star Wars Kid Strikes Back

Remember that I've told you about this famous "Star Wars Kid" video? Well, I found other parodies of it:

— Star Wars Kid vs. Saruman (played by Sir Christopher Lee):



— What if he had played the role of Neo in the Matrix trilogy? (By the way, I didn't like that trilogy because I didn't understand anything about the story.)



So, we can conclude from this piece of evidence that our Star Wars kid was in fact imitating Neo… How incredible!

One of the Best Battles Ever

The Lord of the Rings (yes, the article on Wikipedia is one of the longest I know… can you find longer?) trilogy is among my favourites. I wish I had more time: I could write many things about Sir Christopher Lee, that brilliant actor, and about Sir Ian McKellen, that wonderful actor.

This scene comes from the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring.



Another example of a promise of power…

Their voices are terrific, especially Saruman's!

Howard Shore's music deserved an Oscar®. He got it.

Saruman must have one hell of a heating bill… Silly.

Sean Connery Tests A Time Machine

As I don't have much time today for writing blog entries, I will simply post two things that I found on YouTube (without which this blog would never have survived for long).

In the following extract, you can see an advertisement for a Citroën car, driven by Sir Sean Connery. This is the French version, because I can't find the original one.



(Sir Sean's French dubbing voice is the legendary actor Bernard Dhéran, who played for example in On a retrouvé la 7e compagnie and also dubbed Sir Michael Caine in Muppet's Christmas Carol and Sir Christopher Lee in Star Wars - Episodes II & III.)