DuracellEnergizer

This

is four panels of pure bullshit.

Venom fanboys are almost as bad as Batman fanboys.

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

For the most part, it's better than an A, but there's something about the ending I didn't quite like, so I can't give it a full A+.

 That's called an A+-

Interesting. I must ponder this concept further. 

Neglify said:

So what you're saying is that The Big Lebowski's climax ruined Whet Dream May Come?

Wait, what, where, when, which?!?!?!?!?!

Same reason.

I don't see how it could be a "100% George Lucas film" if Lucas wasn't involved with the writing or the directing -- y'know, two of the primary things that help shape a film.

Neglify said:

Anyway, if you don't believe me, fine whatever you're full of shit too I bet.

You'd probably win that bet. 

For the most part, it's better than an A, but there's something about the ending I didn't quite like, so I can't give it a full A+.

The Humanoid (1979) -- F

What Dreams May Come (1998) -- A/A+

Broken (2006) -- C

The Contraption (1977) -- B+

Escapes (1986) -- C

Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015) -- C+/B-

The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986) -- B+

The Big Lebowski (1998) -- A/A+

Still Smokin (1983) -- D

Taking Lives (2004) -- C-

Opps -- my finger slipped.

Ah, Thunderbirds ... I haven't seen a single episode of that show since the '90s. Didn't that show have a bald villain who could hypnotize people with his eyes? That always used to creep me out. 

Sevb32 said:

Think is most of these aren't issues really issues if they (newer generations) watch EP1 first. The connections run in sequence and you don't think, oh he C3PO was built by Anakin, because you see EP1 first thing and see how he ends up with the Organas/Captain Antilles by the end of EP3. New generations that watch 1-3 first, not not 4-6.   

And that, in itself, is a problem. 

Nah, Lucas would never have given him those names. After all, he ain't a villain. He probably would have made "Ben" short for "Benny Volent" or "Benny Phishaunt".

How could she be a Time Lord? "Lord" is a masculine title. The proper female equivalent would be "Time Lady".

Danfun128 said:

TV's Frink said:

Frey said:

Remember: No prequel bullshit allowed.

 I don't recall any prequel bullshit covering this topic, actually.

Ditto. I don't think the name "Ben" as referring to Obi-Wan was mentioned once, even in ROTS.

We see what you did there, for we are many.

team_legion 

Darth Id said:

Ben Kenobi's name is not a "subjective opinion".  It's, like, in the movie. You know, the movie about Ben Kenobi?

Yeah, he's identified as Ben. He's also identified as Obi-Wan. There's nothing in the movie that definitively confirms which of the two names in his birth name.

Any additional speculation not only violates Occam's Razor,

I'm sure there's someone out there who thinks your opinion does the very same.

but is in fact the height of obsessive, fruitless fanboy obscurantism because it's all an elaborate solution in search of a puzzle.

"Ben" being the alias isn't any more-or-less an elaborate solution than "Obi-Wan" being the alias.

I mean, who on earth would ever think to come up with wild, convoluted theoriews on "why did people keep calling that guy in the movie 'Ben' and also he answered to the name???  We've got to figure out this deep mystery!"????

Some of the posters here, apparently. Perhaps they're cognitively deficient, but I prefer to assume otherwise.

Is it a "subjective opinion" that my avatar is "Darth Id," or do we all need to start generating elaborate EU-style epicyclical "theories" on why it always says "Darth Id" next to my comments?

No, that you go under the handle of "Darth Id" isn't subjective. The origins of the name and the motivations for you using it, though, are (at least to us outsiders who aren't privy to your innermost thoughts & feelings).

DominicCobb said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

DominicCobb said:

I know, I know. It's underwear. But doesn't it look A) like Struzan type art and B) bad ass?

Call me uneasily impressed, but meh.

 It's not a great picture, but I think it looks pretty cool. Most importantly it looks like it could be part of an even cooler, larger art. Maybe I'm crazy/silly and it's just some undie art, but it stood out to me as something very nice and very Star Warsy.

Oh, don't get me wrong -- it's not a bad piece of art. I'm just not overtly awestruck by Struzan's style. 

I just love it when people go around proclaiming their subjective opinion as objective fact. It never gets old.

pittrek said:

I still can't understand why some people like Qwai Gong Bong or the red faced gymnast, they were exactly as boring as rest of the movie.

I wonder how many of the people who like Qui-Gon (but not TPM) read the Jedi Apprentice book series in and around the time the movie came out. I started reading those books before I even saw TPM, and they really helped make him a compelling character in my eyes.

As for Maul, there's the whole "red-and-black horned Goth monster with double-bladed lightsaber" aesthetic going on, and some fans find that enough to make the character interesting. I used to like his visual appearance myself, but after years of Maul-knockoff Sith oversaturating the EU, it no longer appeals to me.

The Clone Reaper bit is kinda iffy to me -- it reads like something you'd see in an over-the-top comic book. I find the rest alright, though.

This thread is starting to feel like Groundhog Day if the movie had been directed by Lynch and the sets designed by H. R. Giger.

Great. Not only does the director of one of my favourite movies die, but he dies of brain cancer, no less.

Yep, 2015 is a shitty year. No doubt about it.

Don't worry, it isn't like I can really act on it. I've only met one of my cousins, and the last time I saw her was around 1996, when I still found girls icky. So, for all intents and purposes, I have no cousins to be attracted to.

I had a particularily offputting dream last night where I lost my virginity to a Russian first cousin named Sonja (who doesn't actually exist in real life, BTW), who turned out to be a vindictive sorceress who conjured vicious mountain lions up in my home and caused the local clinic doctors to be dangerously unsanitary.

Suffice it to say, I liked the first part of the dream. The second, not so much (Yes, I'm admitting that I'd voluntarily sleep with a first cousin.).

They should make some nustormtrooper sneakers. Seriously, that black line running across the helmet looks like a design you'd find on a pair of snazzy shoes. 

DominicCobb said:

I know, I know. It's underwear. But doesn't it look A) like Struzan type art and B) bad ass?

Call me uneasily impressed, but meh.