How To Pronounce 'AT-AT': Let's Settle This Star Wars Debate Once And For All

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Also, I Play Rocky is out in limited release, expanding soon. I spoke to the star of the film, Anthony Ippolito, who really is wonderful as Sylvester Stallone. He seemed a little nervous, which I do get. Imagine going from playing roles in which no press in required to, all of a sudden, being the star of the film and everyone wants to talk to you, while trying to be careful not to say anything stupid. Then I show up asking about Rhinestone. Anyway, he seems really nice.

Okay, on to your questions:

Where do you land on how to pronounce "AT-AT" from The Empire Strikes Back? – Jason

Since we're talking about Star Wars, did everyone see that new poster for the 50th anniversary rerelease? I don't know about that one.

The original, iconic, poster didn't have Han or Chewbacca, and even the characters that are on that one are creative interpretations. But if they are just showing us characters from the movie, it's kind of odd Alec Guinness isn't here? Especially since he was given an Academy Award nomination for his performance? But, at the same time, I'm just so happy the original version of Star Wars is finally going to be available again (in an official capacity) that I can't get too worked up over a questionable looking poster. At this point the anniversary poster could be Dr. Evazan bathing and I'd still just be excited everyone will get to see all the original effects again.

As for this question, I've written about this before, but I guess I don't care how you pronounce AT-AT. But I know how I pronounce it and I do get annoyed when other people think I'm pronouncing it incorrectly. The two ways are either "at at" or saying every letter, which sounds like "ate e ate e." I pronounce it "at at" and I will explain why this is correct...

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