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DominicCobb

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#943781
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What is wrong with... <strong>Attack of the Clones</strong>? - a general discussion thread
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IsanRido said:

Did he not participate to a degree in the editing of the first film?

He did and was also involved with the editing on ESB and ROTJ. Which was part of the point. He’s interested in editing to a fault because he’s less interested in screenwriting and production. One of the reasons why AOTC had so many reshoots is because George didn’t really figure out he needed important connective elements of the plot and character arcs until he started editing.

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#943231
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Random Thoughts
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imperialscum said:

Lord Haseo said:

imperialscum said:

Lord Haseo said:

Also I nitpick a lot so the highest I’ll give a film is 9/10

Even if you think no film is perfect it is rather silly not to normalise your personal score scale to the film you think is the best, i.e. giving the film that you currently think is the best score 10 and then score the rest accordingly. What you basically end up doing is effectively using scale X/9.

Perhaps the only reason for not normalising that I can think of would be if you had a multiple personality disorder and you had to average the final score between multiple personal scores. But in that case you would have to sign your posts with “Team Lord Haseo” and possibly break the forum rules.

Seeing as how 10/10 is perfection and no film is perfect it makes perfect sense that I don’t rate anything close to a 10/10 because I rate things based on the dictionary definition of perfection. Not what I would deem as perfection.

What’s funny is that I can rate music, video games and even women close to 10/10 but not movies or books.

Well suit yourself. I was just trying to tell you that having imaginary reference (e.g. “perfection”) just reduces the resolution of your scale. It is like having a house with 10 rooms and refusing to use 1 of them, which effectively means you end up having a house with just 9 rooms instead.

Yep.

Weird that I’m taking imp’s side on this one. Has Haseo actually been the ultimate stupid asshole all along?

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#943142
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Star Wars Canon EU (potential spoilers)
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It’d be great if they followed that series with a Kylo Ren line, but I doubt we’ll get anything that explores that topic for at least a few more years.

Let’s just hope they don’t start a Darth Maul series, though I wouldn’t be surprised.

Also, I just remembered there’s an Obi-Wan & Anakin series going on which not a single person seems to be talking about. Do I even bother asking if anyone has read it? How sad the PT. A comic with that name would have been very easily the most anticipated and sought after SW book pre-1999. Funny how times change.

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#943099
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If George Had Made The Sequel Trilogy...
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Tyrphanax said:

DominicCobb said:

Georgie is no stranger to retreads. It’s hilarious how some people are now retroactively considering the other Star Wars movies “original,” prequels especially.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a Lucas made Episode VII was just as much a SW “rip-off” as TFA. TPM already kind of was.

Read this and was like “Oh boy, here we go again.”

The entire argument is one big retread.

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#943076
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Random Thoughts
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imperialscum said:

Lord Haseo said:

Also I nitpick a lot so the highest I’ll give a film is 9/10

Even if you think no film is perfect it is rather silly not to normalise your personal score scale to the film you think is the best, i.e. giving the film that you currently think is the best score 10 and then score the rest accordingly. What you basically end up doing is effectively using scale X/9.

Perhaps the only reason for not normalising that I can think of would be if you had a multiple personality disorder and you had to average the final score between multiple personal scores. But in that case you would have to sign your posts with “Team Lord Haseo” and possibly break the forum rules.

This might be your all time best post.

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#942785
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Random Thoughts
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LuckyGungan2001 said:

I don’t get people who don’t give any films a 10/10 or A+ or perfect score, simply on principle that “there’s no such thing as a perfect film”

Same. There’s no such thing as perfect, of course, but some things come close. Either way, films are rated on a scale depending on all the films. 10/10 or A+ shouldn’t be reserved for “perfect” films, it should be reserved for the best of the films.

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#942426
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Am I a Bully?
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The stop bullying campaign, while impossible to make completely successful, does kind of work though. All my years in school I was never once bullied and, while I can think of a some cases of bullying that I was aware of, there were never any “bullies” and people generally knew that beating other kids up wasn’t cool and making fun of other kids usually just got you in trouble.

Now cyber bulling, that’s a whole other thing. Don’t know how they’re dealing with that, I was getting out of school when that was just starting to pick up speed (and my high school had no idea how to control it).

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#942092
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Ranking the Batman films
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Neglify said:

I don’t feel that x/10 ratings can easily be ported over to the American grading system. To me, a 6/10 movie means it’s good but nothing too special. There is a difference between a 1/10 and a 5/10, whereas they would both be simple Fs if you went with grades.

True which is why I switched to letter grades because I could never shake the relation to percentage and most of my ratings fell within a smaller range.