QUOTE (Just your average movie goer @ Apr 28 2005, 06:48 AM)
You two! Ernesttomlinson just wrote a very good relevant post and you just derailed it!
Thanks.
I think I have my moments...
Like you, I didn't know that Bail Organa was in Episode II until literally years later. All I had was the vague though, "What is Jimmy Smits doing in this movie?" I didn't clue in until much later. And that reminds me of another thing. Others have commented about how ham-handed Lucas was in introducing Owen and Beru. "Hi, I'm Owen. This is my girlfriend, Beru." Or whatever the line was. Totally unnecessary. Yet a character who will become the adoptive father of Luke and Leia - and that's serious business - gets no introduction? WTF?
Oops, sorry for mixing up Coke and Pepsi there
Now I remember better. There was a guy at the firm where I was working at the time - and not too young a guy either - who was trying to collect all those pop cans. I wonder if he kept them. Maybe a Nute Gunray Pepsi can is worth a s**tload of money now. There's something almost touching about that Pepsi promotion now. Yeah, it was crass and mercenary marketing but also pathetic (in the old sense of the word); I get the idea that Lucas really believed that some day we'd be talking about Mace Windu or Chancellor Velorum just like we talk today about Lando or even poor Greedo - in other words that Lucas really believed his own bulls**t that he was a modern mythographer and not just a hack sci-fi movie maker.