Is This Sort of Thing Wise in Today's Economy?
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Seriously, would you feel comfortable geeking around in the office with toy machine guns and a video camera these days? As fun as this looks, I'd be terrified of ending up on the lay-off list. These guys obviously don't have enough work to do...
Incidentally, may I just mention that I hate all the gleepity sounds that were laid over the insert shots of the Falcon's targeting computers in the Not-So-Special Editions? I've read that F-4 Phantom pilots in Vietnam started turning off the alarms and various audio systems in their cockpits because they got to be too distracting; I can't help but think that'd be Han Solo's philosophy as well. A former fighter pilot and motorhead like him would be listening to every little murmur in the engines, every creak and groan of the ship's skeleton, and you can't do that with electronic felgercarb going gleepity-gloop all the time.
Comments
Maybe it's the economy that they have nothing better to do.
I remember long time ago, in the office about 30 miles away, we used to have Nerf wars.
I still have a gun leftover from those days.
Posted by: Konstantin | February 16, 2009 7:11 AM
Ah, nerf wars... I'm a veteran of a few of those myself. :)
Posted by: jason | February 16, 2009 10:43 AM
This would have been much cooler if they had added laser blasts, which apparently aren't that hard to pull off nowadays. The best recent amateur Star Wars fight sequence (nuff adjectives?) was the lightsaber duel on the aircraft carrier.
Posted by: Cranky Robert | February 16, 2009 7:59 PM
I'd guess these guys didn't have the software to pull off the lasers... or they were too lazy to bother. Although if you're going to go to the trouble to dress one guy in a child's Chewbacca costume and find a step ladder, why wouldn't you animate lasers?
Posted by: jason | February 17, 2009 12:03 AM