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Happy 5th of November!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
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Oh, yeah! Happy 52nd anniversary of the day Dr. Emmett Brown invented time travel! Yes, of course! November 5th, 1955!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: sean wookie
1.21 Jigawatts!!!!


Except that it's Gigawatts.
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I think V For Vendetta would have been a better film under a more interesting director.

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I like how Guy Fawkes night is now synonymous with V for Vendetta.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Originally posted by: lordjedi
Originally posted by: sean wookie
1.21 Jigawatts!!!!


Except that it's Gigawatts.


Except that in BTTF-speak it is jigowatts, incorrect though that might be from a technical standpoint.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: C3PX
I like how Guy Fawkes night is now synonymous with V for Vendetta.


I was going to point that out. I mean, how many of you Yanky boys actually knew what Guy Fawkes was before that film came out? None I bet.
No doubt it'll be turned into something completely different now, be celebrated on a different day and will have nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.



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Wouldn't you rather celebrate Guy Gadbois night?
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Originally posted by: HotRod
Originally posted by: C3PX
I like how Guy Fawkes night is now synonymous with V for Vendetta.


I was going to point that out. I mean, how many of you Yanky boys actually knew what Guy Fawkes was before that film came out? None I bet.
No doubt it'll be turned into something completely different now, be celebrated on a different day and will have nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.


Can'tcha just hear Guy Fawkes saying: "I started the first fires in this goddamn city. Before I knew it, every charlatan and shitheel was imitating me. You know what they got now? Guy Fawkes Night greeting cards. Isn't that precious? The idea has become the institution, boys. Time to move on. I want you to set a fire so goddamn big, the gods will notice us again, that's what I'm saying. I want all you boys to look me straight in the eye one more time and say: ARE WE HAVING FUN OR WHAT??!!"
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That's your job, Sean.

Besides, the discovery of time travel is far more important than Guy Fawkes.

Long live the Flux Capacitor!

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Originally posted by: HotRod
Originally posted by: C3PX
I like how Guy Fawkes night is now synonymous with V for Vendetta.


I was going to point that out. I mean, how many of you Yanky boys actually knew what Guy Fawkes was before that film came out? None I bet.
No doubt it'll be turned into something completely different now, be celebrated on a different day and will have nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.


I'm a Yanky boy and I have known what Guy Fawkes was long before I ever heard of V for Vendetta. You are correct though, most Americans had no freaking idea what it was before that movie, they may have heard of it, but doubtful they knew when it was or what it was about. So now that that movie is out, which popularized a 20 year old character who wears a mask resembeling the face of the 400 year old historical figure for Amarican audiences, it is funny to see that the Americans are the ones to point out the 5th of November.

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Originally posted by: Lord Phillock
I think V For Vendetta would have been a better film under a more interesting director.


The problem with it was that the graphic novel was just so balsy, bold, and bizzare that it's not very compatible with a filmed adaptation.

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was going to point that out. I mean, how many of you Yanky boys actually knew what Guy Fawkes was before that film came out? None I bet.


Oh, so now I'm a Yanky boy, eh? It just reminded me of V for Vendetta as well... that's why I added that 'V' statement.

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Originally posted by: HotRod
Originally posted by: C3PX
I like how Guy Fawkes night is now synonymous with V for Vendetta.


I was going to point that out. I mean, how many of you Yanky boys actually knew what Guy Fawkes was before that film came out? None I bet.
No doubt it'll be turned into something completely different now, be celebrated on a different day and will have nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.


I didn't even know who Guy Fawkes was after seeing the movie. Maybe I didn't pay attention. Maybe I saw it as a movie that was trying to scare the masses into thinking the government was starting to control their lives. Either way, I didn't think it was that great.
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Originally posted by: lordjedi


I didn't even know who Guy Fawkes was after seeing the movie. Maybe I didn't pay attention. Maybe I saw it as a movie that was trying to scare the masses into thinking the government was starting to control their lives. Either way, I didn't think it was that great.


I hate when people anachronistically match things to current events. Just like those idiots who said that 300, a ten year old graphic novel was clearly pro-war, pro-Bush propaganda. It is a two way street. V for Vendetta is a graphic novel from 1982 (and not even a graphic novel from America, and thus has very little to do with the US gov. then or now. It is more of a typical dystopian story, only with a comic book character fighting back via terrorism/anarchy. It is a pretty timeless idea). I imagine if 1984 were made into a film today hoards of people would say that it has to do with Bush being Big Brother. That is a bunch of crap. People really read too much into everything.

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^^
Or Star Wars. What with that whole band of rebels fighting a tyrannical, mechanized, militaristic Empire.
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
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Or Star Wars. What with that whole band of rebels fighting a tyrannical, mechanized, militaristic Empire.



Yeah, exactly. With the right twist you could look at the Rebel Alliance as Terrorists. Throughout the trilogy we mostly just see them defending themselves and running away, the battle at the end of ROTJ being the only true offensive attack by them against the Empire we see in the films. But they must have done something to have the empire after them, I highly doubt they had just been protesting peacefully with signs parades when the Empire decided that the rebel's secret base on Yavin 4 ought to be one of the first targets of their new planet exploder.

So perhaps it is safe to say Star Wars is a film that justifies terrorism and tries to convince us that our government is turning into an Empire.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, right?
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American Revolution anybody?

Er... insurrection to you Brits?

No hard feelings, eh?

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