Star Wars Song of the Week: "A New Hope" by Blink-182

This week's song is "A New Hope" AKA "Princess Leia" by Blink-182.

Darth Binks

Way back when, just after the release of The Phantom Menace, I made a stop-motion animated film called Darth Binks that explored what would happen if Jar Jar responded to all the resentment of him by turning to the dark side of The Force and becoming a Sith Lord. It is made with Lego minifigures and with audio clips found online. Enjoy.

You get bonus points if you can spot IG-88 in the background.

Director's commentary: It was originally going to be much more grandiose with Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel with a spaceship piloted by Binks, but do you have any idea how long stop-motion animation takes?

Times Online: Return of the Jedi has Worst Ending Ever #17

From the Times Online:

It’s not the sickly ending, where Leia and Luke Skywalker find out they are siblings. It’s not the unlikely rehabilitation of Darth Vader, or even the way that George Lucas keeps digitally embellishing it with every rerelease. No, it’s those bloody dancing teddy bears. We fought an intergalactic war for this?

As a bonus, they have a link to their original 1983 review of ROTJ.

George Lucas in UK Articles

There are two good new George Lucas articles in the London Times and the Scotsman. The Times has as a special bonus a Star Wars review from 1977.