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DuracellEnergizer

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#1060910
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Quotes Thread
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“If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing, of whose existence everyone will be ignorant. My vices are the children of a forced solitude I abhor: and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existence and events, from which I am now excluded.”

– Frankenstein’s monster, from the novel Frankenstein

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#1060887
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Rogue One * <em>Spoilers</em> * Thread
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Alderaan said:

oojason said:

Gareth Edwards Reveals ‘Rogue One’s Kyber Crystals Easter Egg in Jedha…

http://collider.com/rogue-one-kyber-crystals-jedha-easter-egg/#images

&

Jedha’s Kyber Crystals Came From an Asteroid in ‘Rogue One’, But Where Did the Asteroid Come From?..

http://www.slashfilm.com/rogue-one-kyber-crystals/

This was one of the dumbest things in R1. If you go back and look at the original trilogy, there was no pseudo-scientific explanation for how anything worked. Lightsabers simply existed, a very small number of people had them and used them, and that’s all you needed to know.

As this was a spin-off anthology film, I might have found something like this interesting, if the filmmakers had really made a true science-fiction film, including extensive research and thorough presentation. But it’s really just a bunch of wannabes who don’t know anything, making something up out of their *** and thinking “yeah, that’ll work”.

It wasn’t Star Wars. It wasn’t science fiction. I don’t know what it was.

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#1060787
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Last web series/tv show seen
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I tried watching the Battlestar Galactica reboot, but I couldn’t make it past the first part of the initial mini-series. I then tried watching the original Battlestar Galactica, and I made it through the pilot, but I wasn’t left with a desire to continue watching from there.

Battlestar Galactica has a good premise, but neither execution of it left me with anything but a lukewarm impression.

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#1060626
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Last movie seen
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The Magician (1958)

Well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later. I’ve finally seen a Bergman film I don’t like.

(spoilers ahead, I guess)

For most of the runtime, it was a typical Bergman film (and I mean that in a good way). But then Von Sydow’s character “died”, and the movie died along with him.

Still, up until that point, the film was solid, with great performances all around. Thus I’ll give it a generous score.

7/10