Jason Wingreen, the actor who provided the voice of Boba Fett in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, has died at the age of 95.
Jason Wingreen’s son, Ned Wingreen, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that his father had died on Christmas Day at his home in Los Angeles. Jason Wingreen was born in Brooklyn on October 9, 1920.
Wingreen admitted that he couldn’t have worked for longer than 10 minutes recording the voice. It wasn’t actually revealed that Wingreen had voiced Boba Fett until 2000, and he said that he never received any residuals for his performance. That's despite the fact that his voice was used on various Boba Fett action figures.
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Worst part of the movie to me was the bizarre hug between Rey and Leia after Han has been killed. Chewie just walks past Leia - should have been a touching moment, and instead I'm just thinking "how do these two know each other?"
Second part I didn't like were the smugglers and the whole first scene with Chewie and Han and those silly ball-mouth-tentacle things.
But whatever - I loved the movie. Excited for more.
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^Haha yeah I wondered why they didn't just shoot Finn with a blaster. I guess they assumed he was skilled in the force and could deflect laser blasts but at least give it a try and fire off a couple shots before busting out the riot trooper.
I figured it was because this was personal. Steve saw Finn as a traitor and wanted to beat the tar out of him directly, rather than just shoot him impersonally.
I figured it was because this was personal. Steve saw Finn as a traitor and wanted to beat the tar out of him directly, rather than just shoot him impersonally.
Steve was probably Finns barracks mate and he spent years listening to Finns whining.
He finally saw the opportunity to kick every square inch of Finn's a$$ with the Glow stick of destiny and decided to go for it.
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I figured it was because this was personal. Steve saw Finn as a traitor and wanted to beat the tar out of him directly, rather than just shoot him impersonally.
Steve was misled by Finn's fraudulent gofundme.
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Literal lol. Now we know why Finn needed to escape the First Order so badly. The other troopers finally caught on to his lies. Someone needs to report this to Leia so Finn is fired from his new job with the Resistance.
If you lock lightsabers with someone else, wouldn't they be just as dangerous against you?
I thought they were confirmed to be exhaust of some sort.
The whole "locking swords" thing is a Hollywood trope that looks good on film, but has nothing to do with reasonable swordfighting, even with magical swords. Or any real fighting. Trying to apply logic to it is useless.
If Hollywood actually showed realistic sword fighting it would probably be fairly much like a fist fight and then stabbing.
Clashing swords does nothing but break the edge of the sword and wrecks them. For the most part from what I've read, sword fights were over pretty quickly because you tried to either sneak up on them and run them through, or stun them and run them through or slash their cuts out.
For the most part the best weapon in a sword fight was a punch in the face with your off hand.
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Well I assumed that Lightsabers would not act like a typical sword. I mean, they can slice from all angles and require no force to penetrate.
At least the way I've seen them portrayed in the series, lightsaber blades can't slide along each other and literally lock in place until someone pulls back.
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Took a gaggle today to Chinook. Great movie but seeing Solo die really sucked. By far my favorite character from the original trilogy.
As killer mentioned earlier in the thread....when the theme started and the words began to scroll...took me right back to that 14 year old kid who went and saw the first movie 20 some times. Outstanding stuff.
Took my family again today - but first time for my wife and my 4 year old.
Wasn't sure the 4 year old would sit through the entire thing. She's bolted from a few matinees so far in her life. My wife is not a fan of the original series and my 4 year old has never made it through ANH, ESB, or ROTJ because Darth Vader is too scary.
But.....
she loves Chewbacca (or "Chewie, as she suddenly started calling him) and all 3 of my daughters LOVE Rey. My 4 year old ran down our row to jump in my lap during the light sabre battle between Rey and Kylo Ren to ask whether Rey wins or not. She was really invested in the outcome.
Afterwards the kids were pretty excited and talking about it. My 6 year old started giving me her theories of who Rey's mom is. Jeeze, that took me back to when I was her age and was theorizing with my friends about the characters.
Great time. Theatre packed again. If this was any indication, this is going to be the #1 movie for another few weeks.
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Took a gaggle today to Chinook. Great movie but seeing Solo die really sucked. By far my favorite character from the original trilogy.
As killer mentioned earlier in the thread....when the theme started and the words began to scroll...took me right back to that 14 year old kid who went and saw the first movie 20 some times. Outstanding stuff.
Good God you're old.
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Fun movie and I will watch again before VIII comes out in 16 months or so.
Few points and questions:
* I may have missed something but why is C-3PO's left arm now red?
* not a fan of the new light-saber
* was fun trying to figure out all the cameo appearances.
* showing the remains of Darth Vader and promising to "finish what he started" was silly considering he betrayed the emperor in Return of the Jedi.
To the last point the premise is that if it weren't for Vader giving into Anakin and saving his son he would have ruled the Galaxy. So you have Ren preying to Vader for the strength to extinguish the light which he does by killing his father something Luke and Anakin couldn't do.
Today, Marvel announced a new one-shot under the same banner coming in December, starring none other than everyone's (second) favorite droid, C-3PO. The protocol droid fluent in over six million forms of communication has found himself smack in the middle of virtually every major event in the galaxy over the course of about forty years, after being created by a very young Anakin Skywalker. It makes sense, then, that he'd finally get a story all his own.
The story will be told by James Robinson and Tony Harris, a team that has worked together for almost as long as Threepio and Artoo. Taking place between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the one-shot will tell the story of why C-3PO suddenly has one red arm in the latter film, Episode VII. The comic book was announced on StarWars.com in honor of the big day.
"That’s a really exciting part of doing this story," Robinson said in the announcement. "I saw a photo of C-3PO with his red arm the other day and I thought 'Wow, I’m the writer who gets to explain that.'"
To the last point the premise is that if it weren't for Vader giving into Anakin and saving his son he would have ruled the Galaxy. So you have Ren preying to Vader for the strength to extinguish the light which he does by killing his father something Luke and Anakin couldn't do.
