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ATMachine said:

TOSCHESTATION on the TFN forums pointed out that early on in the book, Rinzler digs up a snippet of plot notes by Lucas which appear to be "pre-Empire":

"The Emperor is the evil one - he kills Luke's father. Vader begs Luke to kill him - he does."

These notes would appear to come from the liminal stage between ANH and ESB, when Lucas was reconsidering both the backstory of Father Skywalker and the notion that Vader was a dyed-in-the-wool irredeemable villain. But the obvious solution--to combine the two ideas into Father Vader--hadn't quite gelled yet.

imperialscum said:

And I have never really understood fans complaining about CGI. CGI isn't inherently bad. It can be a very useful tool.

Hamlet (1996)

The production values are excellent, and I really liked Branagh's performance. Unfortunately, the film is more often than not over the top when it should should have been more subtle, the large amount of cameos from A-list actors was more than a little distracting, some of Branagh's embellishments to the story were - to use a Britishism - daft, and I wasn't fond of how the ending was executed.

8/10*

Carnival of Souls (1962)

I can't really say that I love this movie, but do like it - really like it. Unfortunately, my viewing experience this time around was compromised by my dumbass father and sister, whose stupid, inane comments and noises put me into a foul mood.

9/10


*I've changed the way I rate movies. I've decided to abandon rating films based soley on how much I like them; now I'm going to take the overall technical quality of the films into account as well. So in other worlds, my final ten-star rating is actually two five-star ratings combined - one for how much I enjoyed the actual movie, the other for how well I feel the movie was made.

If you got your hands on a genie that could grant you six wishes (I'm choosing six wishes because three is too limiting and unlimited would be boring), what would your wishes be?

In my case ...

1. to become a successful film director who can make the movies I want to make without any studio interference

2. to become a talented comic book illustrator

3. to bring about a renaissance in the music industry that will restore depth and dignity to the mainstream music scene, forcing all the Beibers, Ke$has, and Lil Waynes of the world out into the Outer Darkness of anonymity where they belong.

4. to make it so every season of The Simpsons made beyond Season 9 (minus a select few episodes from Season 10 & 11) never existed.

5. if God doesn't exist, I'd create Him/Her/It; if God already does exist, then I'd wish for permanent financial security for the rest of my life

6. more sanity in the world

vacuum said:

in defense of the pt, anakins seduction by palpatine has some seedy gay undertones, as well as anakin loving his mother a little 'too' much.

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

timdiggerm said:

xhonzi said:

Bingowings said:

[Carrie] was great in ESB and not so in ROTJ...

Look Bingo, I think you may be alone in this.  Carrie was great* in RotJ, it's probably her best performance in the trilogy.

 

*And by great, I mean hawwwwwwwt.

I still don't understand this. She's much better looking in ESB. It's like amount of clothes is inversely proportional to attractiveness for y'all.

She doesn't strike any interesting poses, either, so the gold bikini could be a burqa for all the good it does.

 

I was going to post a picture of her in the bikini next to a picture of a woman in a burqa, but there's no point in arguing with a ridiculous comment like that.

Seeing as Jedi1 hasn't logged on since last November, I don't think he's going to give you a response any time soon.

timdiggerm said:

xhonzi said:

Bingowings said:

[Carrie] was great in ESB and not so in ROTJ...

Look Bingo, I think you may be alone in this.  Carrie was great* in RotJ, it's probably her best performance in the trilogy.

 

*And by great, I mean hawwwwwwwt.

I still don't understand this. She's much better looking in ESB. It's like amount of clothes is inversely proportional to attractiveness for y'all.

Ryan McAvoy said:

If brain-eating zombies cry for "BRAINS!", then shouldn't flesh-eating zombies cry for "BRAWN!"?

xhonzi said:

Have you been reading Marvel comics in the last 10 years?  They have been changing the status quo on a fairly regular basis.

^LOL

ATMachine said:

One thing I failed to note earlier is the matter of the Emperor's makeup. As originally designed, it was meant to suggest extreme age, of such a span that it could only have been achieved through some unknown dark sorcery. The Emperor is described as "a Methuselah figure" who is "ancient, not old." In fact he's so old that he is beginning to evolve into something else--the ridge on his forehead is a point where his cranium is beginning to split in two. (And, unlike in ROTS, Ian McDiarmid was made bald up to the crown of his head, where the prosthetics stopped abruptly.)

Georgey isn't content with merely embracing Generation Stupid - he wants to help define it.

cain spaans said:

It would be cool if there was a Star Wars VS Star Trek movie with all the stars from Into Darkness and all the stars from Episode VII....And hopefully Zac Efron will not be in it.

Comic book adaptations are almost aways weak. With the sole exception of the Army of Darkness adaptation, I can't think of a single one that didn't have lacklustre art and/or a lack of dynamism and/or glaring omissions.

TMBTM said:

I'm reading The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson and I must say that it is more entertaining than The Thrawn Trilogy... BUT it feels more like watching a cool TV series than a trilogy of movies in the sens that the story feels more scattered, less focused. That's the strenght and the weakness of those books, IMO.

Let's say that if one had to adapt one of those trilogy on the big screen, The Thrawn trilogy would be easier to do (stronger characters, more focused story) but on paper I prefer the Jedi Academy.

I would go into a world of my own imagination and play with myself (not in THAT way, you perverts!)

It reminds me of some of the pictures I drew back in my single-digit years.

I'm pretty much just a retro gamer (and a moderate one, at that), and I'm completely tired of all the "Jedi vs Sith" hoohah, so it's a safe bet that this game probably wouldn't be for me.

dan76 said:

I hope they keep it simple, keep the Force to a minimum (Jedi's are boring - watch PT)

I'd say "boo-urns", but it's come to my attention that that phrase doesn't mean what I thought it to mean.

I never played it. Tried reading some of the novel & comic tie-ins, but that only served to piss me off.

On a blazing bonfire along with every season of The Simpsons post-season 9 (or 10, if I'm feeling generous).

If I could own a real lightsaber, I'd own two - one with a red blade, the other with a teal blade.