Wooowww!
July 20, 2017 1:40 PM   Subscribe

 
I saw this yesterday and the A/V editor in me wanted to be critical of how sort of choppy and rough it is but the person-who-giggles-at-stuff part of me just sort of giggled over the A/V editor because the concept is pure and worthy and we are lucky to get even a glimpse of it.
posted by cortex at 1:52 PM on July 20, 2017 [8 favorites]


WAIT HOLD THE FUCKIN' PHONE, THIS IS A DIFFERENT OWEN WILSON WOWSABER VIDEO, THIS ONE'S EVEN BETTER
posted by cortex at 1:53 PM on July 20, 2017 [24 favorites]


I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'VE BEEN INTERNET, BUT YOU'RE BACK
posted by cortex at 1:54 PM on July 20, 2017 [18 favorites]


[I was just coming in to say it was different, mods please review the post content before commenting on quality]
posted by middleclasstool at 1:55 PM on July 20, 2017 [17 favorites]


Wow.
posted by GuyZero at 1:59 PM on July 20, 2017 [3 favorites]


Now that's just plain silly.

I heartily approve.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:06 PM on July 20, 2017


Highly recommend watching this was the captions on
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:06 PM on July 20, 2017 [9 favorites]


The final wow kills it.
posted by maxsparber at 2:07 PM on July 20, 2017 [3 favorites]


George Lucas has gone too far with these Special Editions. TOO FAR!
posted by Fizz at 2:14 PM on July 20, 2017 [5 favorites]


[muted wows]
posted by yhbc at 2:15 PM on July 20, 2017 [1 favorite]


It's amazing what humanity is doing with data and AI.
posted by notyou at 2:19 PM on July 20, 2017


This is going to spawn a thing, isn't it.
posted by lucidium at 2:24 PM on July 20, 2017


This feels kinda nitpicky, but I'm disappointed I can still hear the regular lightsaber sound. :(
posted by ODiV at 2:38 PM on July 20, 2017 [10 favorites]


I saw this yesterday and the A/V editor in me wanted to be critical of how sort of choppy and rough it is but the person-who-giggles-at-stuff part of me just sort of giggled over the A/V editor because the concept is pure and worthy and we are lucky to get even a glimpse of it.

Yeah, my response to this was essentially that it was charming, which is a bit out of fashion these days outside of things contrived specifically to be charming.
posted by OmieWise at 3:05 PM on July 20, 2017


(I almost said "real" lightsaber sound)
posted by ODiV at 3:19 PM on July 20, 2017 [6 favorites]


(i almost hugged you for almost saying "real" lightsaber sounds.)
posted by louche mustachio at 3:29 PM on July 20, 2017 [5 favorites]


Well, the sound effects used in the original films are, in fact, the real lightsaber sounds. The sounds were created with excellent artistry and skill by Ben Burtt. Just because they were added in post-production doesn't make them any less 'real'. Lightsabers are real, too. They were real props, waved around by real actors in real movies, at least up until 1983 or so.

I didn't think that either of these videos were particularly funny. But then I'm old, and I think it is the children who are wrong.
posted by KHAAAN! at 5:58 PM on July 20, 2017 [1 favorite]


I couldn't hear it but I was sort of hoping they'd sneak an Ed-Norton-As-Owen-Wilson-Wow in there...
posted by Jon Mitchell at 6:26 PM on July 20, 2017


In which the web redeems itself just in nick of time.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 7:02 PM on July 20, 2017


These had me giggling like a child. I'll be saying wow all day now.
posted by sleeping bear at 7:11 PM on July 20, 2017


Sadly I recognize some of those "wows" from way too many viewings of Cars.

"(i almost hugged you for almost saying "real" lightsaber sounds.)"

When the prequels came out in 1999, there were a bunch of interviews about how they had to keep asking Ewan McGregor (and maybe a couple other actors too) to stop making his own lightsaber sounds when doing fight scenes. Because they dressed you like a Jedi and handed you a light saber, OF COURSE you're going to make the noises!

posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:28 PM on July 20, 2017 [9 favorites]


The timing of this and the most recent Flophouse podcast is fortuitous.
posted by cottoncandybeard at 6:05 AM on July 21, 2017 [7 favorites]


I didn't think that either of these videos were particularly funny.

So you weren't wowed by them?
posted by cortex at 6:54 AM on July 21, 2017 [10 favorites]


That last one got me laughing SO HARD.......
posted by jillithd at 8:14 AM on July 21, 2017




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