my favorite is all the Robot Chicken Star Wars episodes. . . . shows the behind-the-scenes-day-to-day life of working on/in the Death Star, etc.
shit is funny
On Star Wars
Recall CG had never seen any of the Star Wars movies and wanted to get caught up for the new one, so we saw IV, V, VI, and then I, II, III over the past few days. I myself have watched the original three about 50x each, starting when I was 11 and my buddy's mom got me that VHS release they put out leading up to the special edition, and the new three maybe 10x each, including in theaters when they came out, but never in HD, and I hadn't watched any of them since 2008 or so, so there was something for both of us to enjoy.
Our thoughts, in approximate chronological order:
Episode IV:
Aboard Tantive IV
CG: Wait who are the stormtroopers? I thought the storntroopers were good guys? Which one is Darth Vader? Is that James Earl Jones?!
SSD: It seems the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps could learn a thing or two from your run of the mill suburban SWAT team about how to enter a room. Save yourselves some trouble and open with thermal detonators, guys.
On Tatooine
CG: Where’s Han Solo? Is he in this one? What are jawas? Oh I get it, they’re mechanics and used car salesmen? Is George Lucas making fun of Armenians or something?
SSD: Oooh, the droids are an Akira Kurasawa reference!
At the Lars homestead
CG: Wow Mark Hamill was a terrible actor.
SSD: Wow Mark Hamill was a terrible actor.
On Ben Kenobi
CG: Finally, a real actor! Wait, that’s it? Luke just met this strange old man and he immediately says, ‘Come with me to Alderaan?’ Hello! Stranger danger!
SSD: Wait…so Obi-Wan was there the whole time, knows Owen Lars, and not once said hi Luke I’m your dad’s old buddy come hang out and play some xbox?
Special Edition Jabba appearance at Mos Eisley
CG: Uh…what is a Jabba and why is he surrounded by the Village People?
SSD: This is a really dumb scene…ooh Boba Fett!
Destruction of Alderaan
CG: They need better PR. ‘Death Star?’ Really? Shouldn’t it be a Freedom Star? Or Liberty Star? Death Star? And you’re blowing up random shit with it? Really guys? OH!!! So that’s where ‘I feel a great disturbance in the Force’ comes from!
SSD: Luke gives Han shit for not believing in the Force even though he himself just found out about it earlier that day. Could e be any more of an annoying born-again?
Shenanigans on the Death Star
SSD: So…you’re a few strangers running around on a planet-sized battle station and you think you have any chance of escape? Also, you KNOW they're going to try to double back and fly off on the Falcon, but you leave only six guys guarding it, all of whom abandon their posts to go watch the Fight of the Night? Never realized how campy this movie was…
CG: I’m guessing George Lucas wanted to make a one-off adventure movie with a script he wrote as a kid and never figured it’d explode into a trillion dollar thing?
SSD: Why don’t they find the tracking device or get Leia and R2 a new ship instead of leading the Death Star straight to Yavin?
Battle of Yavin IV
CG: LOL these effects are so lame. Yes I know they were state of the art in 1977, but they’re still pretty lame.
SSD: So George Lucas was a huge fan of WW2 dogfighting… and the movie Dambusters???
CG: Wait why doesn’t the Death Star just fire twice, once to knock out the planet and then once more to kill the rebels? Ahaha so they fly down a crack to shoot proton torpedoes into the thermal exhaust port? So the whole movie comes down to an anal sex reference?
Awards ceremony
CG: I like how Leia always has brand new clothes, hair, and makeup. Why are they having a party? Don’t they need to peace out before the Emperor comes for them?
SSD: It just occurred to me...the whole movie takes place over the course of about three days. So Luke wakes up one morning a farmer, and then he's killing Imperial stormtroopers? Helluva day off.....
Overall
CG: I don't really get the appeal...it's okay, I guess....Hey where are you going? We still have five left!
SSD: I recognize how cheesy a lot of this movie is, but like everyone else born between 1970 and 1990 this thing has magical powers over me. I still got chills, nearly 20 years since I first saw it, when the music swells and the first flight of X-wings rolls into the Death Star trench to begin their bombing run.
Last edited by stuffedsuperdud; 09-17-2015 at 02:46 PM.
my favorite is all the Robot Chicken Star Wars episodes. . . . shows the behind-the-scenes-day-to-day life of working on/in the Death Star, etc.
shit is funny
Obligatory and relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
IPB
Ahah you guys are assholes. Unfortunately the snatch footage was lost, but here are the CJ's at 105kg, 110, 116. I got redlighted on 116 2-1 against, but it looks okay from here. Whatever. As long as they don't screw me when I do 180, it's all good. Here you go, by popular demand. Let's hope it works. If not, just click the link.
http://vid.me/qGey
Meh. A wee bit of pressout maybe, but all in all, great lift! Congrats!
Still, what was she taking this video on? It's so... small.
Yeah, great lifting. I see the press-out too, as well as you can from 2kms away, of course. Your cleans are so easy, it's ridiculous. If you get the overhead stuff in check your lifts are going to skyrocket.
This vid makes you look like a -69 lifter, too.
Given that this is the Internet and proficiency is not required to comment, I'll give you two comments that you totally didn't ask for.
Your arms look a bit slow in the jerk. You seem to settle first and then complete their extension and lock. It's like you didn't commit totally to dive under the bar, or got lazy in the very last bit of the movement. And this might contribute to the judges giving a press out on the third attempt.
More worrying for me is the little dip you do after the clean, to adjust your bar. I think that could be considered like an attempt at jerking, and therefore make the lift null. I've seen that done in a World Championship, it might have been Bartłomiej Bonk; he cleaned the bar, then dipped a couple of inches to readjust, and immediately the siren went off.
On the other hand, your coach is clearly happy with that, and the judges too, so I am probably just showing my ignorance and talking out of my backside.
One last thing: those cleans look easy, you've got plenty more in the tank. Well done indeed.
IPB