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Buried Alive (1990) -- B
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) -- A-
Doctor Zhivago (1965) -- A
Annie (1982) -- B
Mazes and Monsters (1982) -- D
The 'Burbs (1989) -- A-
Premonition (2007) -- C-
Can't Buy Me Love (1987) -- B+
Buried Alive II (1997) -- D
The Return (2006) -- C-
Ah, well, Worf sucks anyway. ;-)
That photo's real? Something about it looks photoshoppy to me.
"Let it go" brings to mind this song, personally.
^NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Specifically, don't hire Chuck Wendig (again).
ray_afraid said:
That mildly entertaining film.
FTFY
Fang Zei said:
What did George think of the Thrawn trilogy? Obviously he gave the OK for post-Jedi stories to be told, and I remember hearing about how he liked the Dark Empire comic.*
...
*Although, Dark Empire contains one of the three big post-Jedi EU things that George said never happened in that now infamous quote.
Liking a story and considering it "real" aren't necessarily synonymous.
If TFA's bad, it'll be just another bad movie with Star Wars in the title that I'll disregard and ignore -- no more than that and no less.
doubleofive said:
Not MY sock, I missed the saga of Harrold Andraste. I only got to read two of his posts because people didn't quote him often enough. I just see people getting upset at dots.
Long story short, he took offense to Frink's brand of sarcasm and began crusading against him.
Why he couldn't just put Frink on ignore and move on I don't think I'll ever understand.
INT. TALK SHOW SET – EVENING
In front of a large bay window which looks out over an alien metropolis, behind a desk of midnight green wood, sits a TALK SHOW HOST.
SUPERIMPOSE: (in Federation Standard) THE FOURTH-QUARTER AT NIGHT SHOW!.
ANNOUNCER: (V.O.) We now return to The Fourth-Quarter at Night Show! with Franc Gouger Is.
CUT TO
A close-up shot of FRANC GOUGER IS. Adorned in a five-piece suit of magenta and gold, Mr. Gouger looks almost like a baseline Human; only his webbed hands and nictitating membranes break the illusion.
FRANC GOUGER IS: Welcome back, welcome back. (beat) Now, for our next guest. I’m sure you all know who she is; she played the laughing groupie in The Infitters, played Victim #16 in Nightmare in Remelt Set, and now has a starring role as Lei Ka in Lei & Wain: The Wain-B’Rus Story. (beat) Guys, gals, herms, and a’s, I present to you Ms. Heth Lang!
PAN LEFT
As HETH LANG, an attractive near-Human woman with mottled red skin, walks out onto the set.
Waving to the unseen audience as they applaud her, she walks up to Gouger’s desk as he rises from his chair; the two greet each other with a hug and kiss.
FRANC GOUGER IS: (smiles) Welcome to the show, Heth. My contractors are glad to have you here.
HETH LANG: (laughs) I’m glad to be here, too, Is.
Gouger returns to his chair as Lang takes a seat on the hot pink couch to his right.
FRANC GOUGER IS: So, how are you tonight, Heth?
HETH LANG: (tucks a loose strand of hair behind her ear) Oh, I’m fine – just fine.
FRANC GOUGER IS: Nice to hear that. Traffic in the second sector was the tenth hell earlier today; did you --?
HETH LANG: The traffic was a little congested, but it was no biggie. (beat) You wanna see real bad traffic? Check out the skylanes of the Northeastern Quadrant back home; now that’s just awful.
FRANC GOUGER IS: (turns to the camera) You heard it here first, folks, straight from the qantu’s orifice: “Kwwa XI – homeworld of the Alpha Sector’s worst drivers.”
The audience laughs uproariously.
CUT TO
Captain Kirk seated in his cabin aboard the Enterprise, watching The Fourth-Quarter at Night Show! on a flatscreen display.
Having discarded his gold command jacket and kicked off his jackboots, Kirk sits low in the cushions of a comfortable sofa, his eyelids heavy with drowsiness.
KIRK: (yawns) Sorry, Is, but it’s time for this starship captain to call it a night. (beat) Computer, record program already in progress and deactivate flatscreen display.
COMPUTER: Recording. Deactivating.
As the display goes dark, Kirk stands up then strips down to his underwear. Yawning again, he walks half-asleep to his bunk, throws back the sheets, lies down on the mattress, then pulls the sheets back over him as he closes his eyes.
CROSSFADE TO
Carol Marcus, dressed only in a translucent black nightie, who now sits astride Kirk.
CAROL: (whispers) Jim … oh, Jim ….
Slowly, Kirk opens his eyes. Coming awake to this beautiful angel straddling him, he smiles lazily.
KIRK: Carol …?
CAROL: (smiles) You were expecting maybe Lenore Karidian?
KIRK: You wouldn’t believe the dream I just had.
CAROL: (grins) You won’t believe the dream you’re going to have.
Smiling sexily, Carol bends low over Kirk, bringing her lips
close to his. Before they can connect, she halts.
CAROL: Beep, beep, beep.
Kirk frowns.
Yep, I read Star Wars Tales.
^Frasier's or Niles'?
Lord Haseo said:
If it's noted that these stories were to take place in an alternate universe or is a legend I could dig it. If not the shit is going to be a mess just like the EU was.
A policy of non-canon doesn't seem to have hurt Star Trek's expanded universe any.
Fire whoever's been giving the shitty new comics and novels the stamp of approval and replace them with someone who'll actually say a great big "NO!" to schlock stories.
Abandon the stupid concept of "canon" once and for all and let the writers write whatever stories they may in whatever continuity they wish (be it a previously established continuity or their own personal continuity).
Cancel all the ongoing Star Wars comic series and replace them with a single SW series -- an anthology series containing multiple stories per issue focused on a wide variety of characters from various timeframes.
Publish fewer novels.
That's it -- that's all it would take to improve the nuEU for me.
^The link's messed up. It takes you directly to the end of the video.
I want to see that remake post-haste!
ray_afraid said:
the dessert planet
This dessert planet wouldn't happen to be populated by orange-skinned dwarfs and a slightly psychotic man in a top hat, would it?
Mrebo said:
timdiggerm said:
Until someone assures this board that the film does not contain
- universe shrinkage
- teal-and-orange color timing
- "bad" CG
- references to the prequels
- only 3 lightsabre colors
- references to the SE
we won't, as a whole, be satisfied
I didn't know there was such consensus on the matter of lightsaber colors.
There will be ... there will be ...
Frank your Majesty said:
DuracellEnergizer, you are a ... a weirdo
"Why do you say this to me when you know I will kill you for it?"
Haunted Highway (2006) -- D
The Road (2009) -- A+
Cutthroat Island (1995) -- B-
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) -- C-
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993) -- C-
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) -- C
Sexy Beast (2000) -- C
Woodstock (1970) -- B-
Night of the Scarecrow (1995) -- C-
Stakeout (1987) -- B
Frink isn't really trying to harass you; his jibes are meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
That being said, Frink's brand of humour isn't for everyone; if his tone bothers you that much, then just put him on ignore.
slask said:
I didn't say everything has to be updated. But many of those changes work well, and if you're not hyper-nostalgic you can notice that.
Nice try, but I don't operate that way. Nostalgia has never been able to blind me to the flaws of things I loved as child. If it could, I'd still consider Batman Forever one of the best superhero movies ever made.
Actually, if I truly were driven by nostalgia, I'd go out of my way to PRAISE the SEs, not spit on them. After all, I was young and stupid when I was exposed to the SE '97; I easily bought into the Lucasfilm Kool-Aid that it was the definitive version of the trilogy and spent years afterward regarding the OOT as an obsolete rough draft.
SilverWook said:
the TIE is probably hard to improve on.
An internal air supply and hyperdrive should just about do it.