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Bantha Foodoo said:
Saw this quote today:
'Star Wars creator Lucas added, "(Coppola) taught me how to write. He taught me how to direct."'
(Coppola makes note to roll in grave immediately upon internment.)
What is the significance of the SOTME title???
It seems he was pretty specific, that the reveal would be Vader confessing to Luke during a lightsabre duel. I'm thinking he knew what the current scripts contained.
(The bit about it being in Part 3 instead of 2, I would surmise is because the reporter mixed up what Prowse was precisely talking about when he described the scene.)
The fighting robots and distracting dinosaurs in Mos Eisley.
I love Ken Kraly. Every time this forum lapses into complacency, he comes in to act as a sounding board for the most vitriolic sentiments of the community.
Very interesting title for that "Splinter." What is the phrase's significance in the book?
Ignored.
Slighted by one who is all but unknown to me...
[shrugging smiley here]
According to this:
http://www.cliffchiang.com/2010/01/25/i-will-follow/
the artist was inspired for the "Enlist Today" one, in equal parts by an old war bond poster, and this video:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920944
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Akira
The Departed
The Exorcist
A Bug's Life
Requiem for a Dream
Ghostbusters
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Jurassic Park
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music
Okay. I guess your comment was "funny."
Quotation marks indicate that it is merely a simulacrum of a sequel, and a poor one at that.
And what's with the Rampant Capitalization?
Palpatine's gradual and subtle method of twisting Anakin to the Dark Side with disinformation, flattery, and dangling incentives. All in ROTS.
Indy "4" was every bit as atrocious at TPM, and a hell of a lot worse than ROTS.
Ah. Literal minds. I get it.
Well, with regard to C3PX's request for a source on Al Qaeda's fakeness, and your avowed openness to books:
The definitive treatise on the subject.
Here's something appropriate for this crowd (which has probably been posted elsewhere at some point). "Star Wars and False Flag Terrorism."
Although the narrator has a voice only fit for silent films, he makes the correct parallel, and the general motivation for the attacks is explained pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0fDUoudO7w
Anyway, both this and the other thread should be locked. Discussing "9/11" without discussing "conspiracy theories" (or dignifying the pejorative connotation of the phrase) is like discussing WWII without mentioning the Axis Powers; or discussing Star Wars without mentioning George Lucas; or discussing the OOT without mentioning the SEs; or TPM without Jar-Jar; or C3PO without R2D2; or Obama without Soetoro; or Sega without Genesis; or Teddy without Chappaquiddic; or Nixon without brow sweat; or Palin without bikinis & AKs; or Paul without John; or break-ups without Yoko...
And all I want is news on when that damn technicolor SW print will be scanned for a bootleg blu-ray. Please. 9/11 upsets me, as it should any reasonable person. Let's stick with the space operas, people.
In AOTC, as ObiWan is investigating the attempted assassination of Queen Kabuki, he discovers that a long-dead Republic official has ordered an army of clones [made by a whole RACE of "cloners"--yes, races are so stereotyped they uniformly enter into the identical technical trade!].
When asked by the Council whether the cloners might have anything to do with the attempt, he replies, "No, there's no motive."
Uuuuh, but what about the $8O GAGILLION ARMY SALE DEAL you JUST DISCOVERED that might have been scuttled by the Senator-Queen's public "No" vote on building an "Army of the Republic"?
Oh, yeah, and her expected vote was why he had been detailed as her security in the first place. Yeah. But the army itself? No motive there!
So this is revealed as a back-story point, but it's blatant relevance to the actual PLOT is simply unappreciated by the character.
It shows a profound and baffling lack of the writer's (ostensibly Lucas's) ability to inhabit the world he's created on its own terms.
kenkraly2007 said:
I did'nt like Episode 1 that much Episodes 2 and 3 are better than Episode 1. I saw episodes 1 ,2 and 3 in the theater when they where 1st released
That was just as germane as my post!
TV's Frink said:
Er, what? This thread is about the prequels.
Yeah, uh, whoops.
I tend to conflate the PTs and SEs.
It would have to be an unknown, like Hammil was, but with a charismatic spark like Ford had.
Trying to note things that haven't been beaten into the ground:
The second I saw those "wacky" robots frenetically fighting outside of Mos Eisley, I freaked out. And I'm talking about opening night '97 SE, here. It was so infantile, crass and vulgar.
My heart sank in despair, and I just thought, "What the fuck is this?!?!" That bit alone established that this "enhancement" gimmick was a nightmare.
I must say, if I were ABC, I would have picked better sources for a Truth initiate. (911revisited.com)
(However, I have the misfortune of possessing curiosity sufficient to impel me to read books, which I know other people do not do, so I don't really bother recommending anything anymore.)
AND I know I'm not bingowings, because I never could have created an avatar that awesome!
I watched ROTS about 2 weeks ago. For all of its thematic merits, it really is an amateurishly executed, juvenile mess of a movie.
Obi Wan: "Anakin! Palpatine is evil!"
Hayden's non-response: "Don't make me kill you."
WTF?
Here is the heart of PT apologism:
Taking the whole thing personally, and taking aesthetic criticism of a film one did not make as a personal affront.
Warbler said:
yeah, your wasting your time ChainsawAsh, conspiracy nutcases will never be convinced. Not matter how much evidence you offer to the contrary, they will continue to believe their ridiculous conspiracy theories. Its pointless to argue with them.
Are you being, like, ironic, dude?
Or are you so dependent on ad hominem attacks that you actually believe them to constitute "evidence"?
Pretty darn efficient, huh?
Total collapse time: about 6.7 seconds, the same amount of time it would have taken a bowling ball to fall 47 stories. In other words, free-fall speed.
This means the top floor encountered zero resistance from any of the floor or columns below, notwithstanding all that steel and concrete.
If that don't make you go hmmmm, I don't know what will. Let's just vote new powers to the chancellor and forget about it.