HOLY SHIT! DARTH VADER IS REAL! HE'S GOING TO CLAIM THE EARTH FOR THE GALACTIC EMPIRE!

EVERYONE RUN FOR THE HILLS!

>> ^chilaxe:

Ha, but was it worth the further ruining of the scene in our memories?


Your memory of that scene was ruined by the last parody? I thought it was funny.

Your video, George Lucas Adds EVEN More Darth Vader Dialogue, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Thanks for the promote!

In reply to this comment by dag:
Fantastic. *promote

Drats. You beat me! FYI:

From http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=125207 ...

"Darth Vader Plays Golf
Don't Mess With The Ewoks
Tusken Raiders At The Office
Don't Make Fun Of Boba Fett"

>> ^demon_ix:

So I'm curious. The VS URL is http://www.videosift.com/video/Star-Wars-At-At-Bed, which suggests the original posting was titled "Star Wars At-At Bed".
And yet, the current title is "Star Trek At-At Imperial Walker Bed".
Also, lucky760, based on his Darth Vader costume at the end, the kid doesn't need any help being a Star Wars geek


@lucky760 So confusing!! Star Trek? WHERE? *music *kids

Lucas' alterego is Darth Vader

"The Old Republic, players will explore an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader"

and yet most the technology looks exactly the same , its possible technology could reach a Plato but i doubt the visual design of things would stay the same for so long.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_vote

Thanks to the donkey vote, Darth Vader gets a few percentage points. Still, I think mandatory voting is a very good thing - and possibly Australia's best contribution to democracy.

>> ^KnivesOut:

Maybe the Saudi's (and the British royals) aren't sci-fi nerds, and didn't get the reference.


Someone had to have clued them in by now... Weird man, weird.

>> ^Deano:

Somehow reminds me of things going tits up for Darth Vader.


I just want to say that this and many of the other comments for this video had me laughing out loud. I love this site.

Somehow reminds me of things going tits up for Darth Vader.

Maybe the Saudi's (and the British royals) aren't sci-fi nerds, and didn't get the reference.>> ^legacy0100:

I'm so surprised that they were able to get away with such practice. Playing the 'evil empire' theme to a king from another country? This should have caused an international uproar. No response from the Saudi royals yet???

If you ask me, I don't think light saber battles look anything like kendo. Sure they're fast, but Olympic fencing is even faster.

That's one thing I've always wondered though: do light sabers (the "light" or blade part anyway) have any weight? Because they always use moves that incorporate the momentum of the blade. To me, light saber battles in the new movies look more like wushu than anything else. I used to have a book with a chapter about how Bob Anderson and Peter Diamond choreographed the fights for the original Star Wars movies but I can't find it now. Anyway, they based the styles off of older fencing styles. You can see that when you watch the movies how Luke's "Ready position" is with his feet well apart and his light saber off to the side, whereas Darth Vader has a more upright Kendo position with his blade always in front. But they also chose those styles because they looked good on camera, and they changed them further still so that they had a "wow" factor.

Either way, I think the fencing would look completely different if they were really using blades that only had mass in the handle. They would be able to change course instantly, making for a lot of very tricky (not to mention insanely fast) moves. But it would still probably look closer to European fencing. And the actors in the movies need something (which in Star Wars props I believe is a carbon fiber rod) that they can swing around and bang on another person's sword creating the illusion that the light sabers in the final product are actually touching. If they represented it accurately though (which no movie ever does) then a person who new nothing about fencing would probably have a very hard time seeing what was actually going on. And there would probably be a lot more missing hands and fingers like Luke's in Empire. The actual techniques of any fighting style usually need some sort of introduction before anyone can really tell what's going on though.

That said, I can see Xaieleo's point about how the older movies seem more realistic. Although I think "more determined" is a much more accurate way of describing them than "slower". So I can see your point as well Sheppp. As time goes on, everyone has just gotten used to the Chinese "fling your blade around like crazy style" that is taught in wushu, which is really more of an exercise anyway but looks WAY cooler on camera than most "realistic" combat moves.

And another thing...
The Darth Maul dual-ended staff thing has always bugged me. I can't think of any reason that one double-sided staff like that would ever be more effective than just using a light saber in each hand. It would be much more adaptable and the dual-staff thing just seems way too dangerous to the wielder.

One thing that I would love to have seen instead of the "dual-staff-thing", which I think is a cop out, are new types of light sabers, like Count Dooku's french-handled light saber. I would have loved a little more creativity. I don't get paid to come up with new ideas but I'm sure if I spent a little time, I could come up with a variation that was more impressive than just: "LOOK! This guy uses TWO light sabers glued together!!11!" I don't know, maybe a light-saber-parrying implement or something. I for one was not impressed.

There, I said it. Now you know what kind of things I think about when I'm sitting at home alone and the internet goes out.

>> ^Trancecoach:

viral
(also, I wonder if Vader is a meme)


Nah to meme.