DuracellEnergizer

^I envy you.

Ghostbusters II may not have been stellar, but imagine how much worse it would have been if they had gone with Vigo's "real" voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-I_kiIa6g

Tack said:

I, for one, am very pleased by the new casting choices.

Here's hoping that Von Sydow's performance will be one for the ages!

I hope he gets to call someone a "pitiful half-man" in the movie. ;-) 

^She's also a graffiti artist. Classic decision, isn't it? ;-)

^If you have to introduce more universe-shrinkage to make sense of a shrunken universe, then it's best to just toss that universe out and buy a brand new one which fits.

The weather is starting to get really warm where I live, and tomorrow it's supposed to reach 26 °C.

Suffice it to say, I'm not happy about this at all; it only reminds me that the sweltering hell known as late Spring/Summer is coming -- along with their temperatures reaching into the mid-high 30s -- which I can't stand in the least, as I don't have the luxury of living in an adequately air-conditioned house.

God, how I wish I lived in an area that never gets too hot or too cold.

^All ready done.

Hell, why even have a lightslingshot when a wrist-mounted blaster would work just as well (if not better)?

Fang Zei said:

You gotta wonder if there's gonna be a huge backlash to all of this. As noted earlier in the thread, a lot of fans on fb, tfn and elsewhere are pretty pissed about this already. I can't say I blame them.

Where was this backlash when Lucas blatantly contradicted the EU with the PT? Why does Abrams and the ST receive so much scorn when Lucas gets off scot-free without so much as a slap on the wrist?

These fans are all double-standardizing, cognitive dissonant @$$#%!&$, and they deserve to have their insular bubble burst.

the lightslingshot looks completely stupid.

Leper Messiah TR said:

wtf is it with these ugly faces in the cast. not to mention the blatant affirmative action. not every fucking movie does have to have a token black guy Hollywood. and just screw the np lookalike. hope this movie blows

"Sometimes I think you want to fail".

doubleofive said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

It may not work well as the conclusion to the storyline of TWOK & TSFS -- and the whole "sound travelling through space" thing may really bug me -- but I just can't find it in me to dislike this movie.

8/10

Ok, how about this: the Gay Probe isn't sending sound through space because sound wouldn't affect all ship systems like it does. It's an energy pulse that travels through space that can disable ships, but once it hit's earth's oceans is creates vibrations to make a sound like certain mammals.

Alright, I can buy that. That doesn't really explain how the probe was able to pick up the whales' replies, though. 

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

It may not work well as the conclusion to the storyline of TWOK & TSFS -- and the whole "sound travelling through space" thing may really bug me -- but I just can't find it in me to dislike this movie.

8/10

TIMELINE-55

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In this reality, this thread was never created.

FINAL NOTES

DuracellEnergizer-55 must have found more constructive things to do with his time.

TIMELINE-Z

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October 1, 1968

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In this reality, zombies ride zebras while catching a few Zs.

FINAL NOTES

I’ll only visit this universe if I’m allowed to pronounce “Z” as “zed”.

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In this universe, virtually everything is yellow.

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I need red to survive, so this reality’s a no-go for moi.

Tobar said:

Fang Zei said:

darklordoftech said:

They wanted to kill Luke, but Lucas wouldn't let them.

Which is exactly why it would be total BS to just throw out the EU now. The big three are still alive in the books. Why else would Lucas be saving them if not to give at least one of them a dramatic death in the ST?

 Because the children in the ST are going to be completely different from the children depicted in the EU. There will be no Jaina, Jacen or Anakin. Some of the new characters might be similar but they are not the same characters and there's no way they can retcon something that huge.

You don't know the power of the fandumb. 

timdiggerm said:

And yet Mayhew's in, despite being in a wheelchair. I don't understand how that will work.

;-)

petting a horseshoe crab

Fang Zei said:

It's not so much about stuff fitting together as it is about acknowledging "yes, this stuff you loved still happened."

Except none of it ever really happened, because it's fiction, all of it. Labelling it "official" or "canon" doesn't make it anymore real than some fanfic a semi-literate schmuck posted on the Internet. 

Max von Sydow's one of my favourite actors, so I'm pleased that he's part of the cast. Everyone else, though (apart from the OT actors), I'm indifferent to (largely because I haven't seen most of them in anything). 

SilverWook said:

And yet, it was a scathing expose of the music industry, only without groupie orgies or drug overdoses. ;)

Only a handful of 80's syndicated cartoon shows aspired to be more than glorified toy commercials.

Well, like I said, I only saw one episode. 

RicOlie_2 said:

Sorry, I didn't realize you valued the Holiday Special as official continuity. I figured that most people would be glad that that monstrosity isn't canon anymore. I'll show more respect for it in the future, I promise. ;)

I consider it semi-canon for the sheer fact that I love the idea that something so bizarre could exist within the SW Universe.

doubleKO said:

Apparently they are making a live-action movie of Jem and the Holograms. Truly outrageous.

I caught an episode of that show once; I found it completely cringe-worthy.