And I thought I was OCD where Lord of the Rings was concerned; check out Pejman's detailed examination of plot and other inconsistencies in Star Wars. I am somewhat more sanguine when it comes to plot holes in movies -- heck, for the bar scene alone I am almost willing to forgive George Lucas a whole bunch of other film sins. (Such as explosions in the void of space that make sound, grr grr.)
Update: he follows up here.
Posted by Andrea Harris at January 1, 2003 09:15 PMHave you ever sat thru the credits to the extended FotR? I did today for the first time. They are TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES LONG!!!!!!! I am not joking!! Apart from listing the 7 million people who worked on the film they also list THE ENTIRE FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP OF THE TOLKIEN FAN CLUB - all 18 billion of them!! 25 minute-long credits! Is this a freakin' record?? And what's more there is enough time for THE ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK FROM THE MOVIE to play over.
Posted by: Steven Chapman at January 2, 2003 at 10:59 AMI'll bet they're still not as long as the ones for Tron -- and they're all in English to boot. (Half of Tron's were in Japanese. Really.)
Remember when Tron was the sine qua non of computerized movie effects? Remember Tron?
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 2, 2003 at 11:48 AMWhoops -- forgot I haven't ported the html sanitizer to these comments yet, so I have html coding turned off.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 2, 2003 at 11:48 AMUpset over the noises in space? Then you really don't want to know how wrong they got it: Explosions in a vaccuum do not expand in a "billowing cloud" formation, as there's no atmosphere to contain the cloud. Check NASA's footage of the Apollo moon landings. Watch the footage when the lunar lander's upper module blasts off from it's base on the lunar surface to return to the orbiting command module. THAT'S what an explosion in space really looks like.
Posted by: Chip Haynes at January 2, 2003 at 03:48 PM