DuracellEnergizer

Brilliant? Bah! Brilliant doesn't begin to describe it. Hell, there's no word in any human language that can begin to describe it!

TV's Frink said:

Oh good, this again.

JEDIT: Oh good, this again too.

Life is cyclical. 

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brash_stryker said:

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

a lightsaber-resistant metal.

 ugh

My sentiments exactly. I'm a huge fan of the Knights of the Old Republic games which, being an RPG, had to allow characters to defend themselves against Lightsabers rather than having an instant death, so introduced the concept of 'Cortosis' vibroblades and armour. It served as an in-game explanation for why your opponents weren't falling in half, but it's still dumb and has no place in the movies.

Different strokes for different folks. Frankly, I'm not keen on the idea that the lightsaber is some omnipotent weapon that can cut through everything in existence.

Oh, and JFTR, lightsaber-resistant materials in the EU predate KOTOR by many, many years.

canofhumdingers said:

I didn't care for the cross guard mostly because of the fatal flaw that the emitters of the cross guard are wide open to be cut off and therefore kinda pointless. But the idea of a classical Medieval European styled light saber is pretty cool imo.

I kinda like the medieval aesthetic, myself. Still, if they were going to go that route, they should have made the crossguard a literal crossguard, made out a lightsaber-resistant metal.

Yes, that lightsaber sucks and always will suck, regardless of its practicality or the overall quality of the movie itself.

I wonder if any faneditors plan on removing the crossguard blades once the movie's released on Blu-ray.

In regards to this, I can ask but one thing: Why? For the love of St. George and his pet dragon, just why?! Aren't three seasons of painful, insipid bullshit proof positive that this franchise is beyond redemption, especially in Kring's hands?

The Last Crusade can speak?

I don't think it's a subject that was ever touched on -- not in the novelizations, not in the EU.

Back in 2001, I caught a few episodes of the short-lived horror anthology series Night Visions on TV and remembered finding it a decent if unremarkable show. Since I have a goal to eventually rewatch every single movie and TV show I remember watching from my childhood and early 20s, I figured I'd revisit this series and see how it held up to memory.

Well, I found every episode on YouTube and watched all but two of them (Stupid YouTube muted the entire auto tracks of those two episodes, and there were no subtitles available, so I decided to skip them.). Overall, it was a pretty good series; the host was rather lame, but the stories and guest actors were generally above average. It's a shame this show was cancelled after only a single season; there was definitely enough potential there for another two or three quality seasons.

My rating: A

I've also watched the first nine episodes of the 1995-96 series Space: Above and Beyond. Unfortunately, this show hasn't really impressed me. The premise is good, and there's nothing really bad about the series, but the execution falls short for me; the whole war storyline feels haphazard and directionless, the starships/fighters aren't very impressive design-wise, and the idea that humanity has developed the capability to create AIs, artificial humans, and ships with antigravity and FTL capabilities so soon into the future -- the 2050s-2060s, to be precise -- stretches credibility to the breaking point for me.

I frankly don't feel compelled to watch the remaining episodes.

My rating: C+

Danfun128 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

In the first dream, I met Lily Tomlin. No points for guessing what I asked her. (Her answer was a blunt "No.")

Well, she is a lesbian in real life ...

WHAT?!? No. Just...No...

That had nothing to do with what I asked about.

Sorry. I have a rather filthy mind 60% of the time. 

Danfun128 said:

I forgot about that thread, but since I already made my post, people might as well comment on it :P

Okily dokily.

In the first dream, I met Lily Tomlin. No points for guessing what I asked her. (Her answer was a blunt "No.")

Well, she is a lesbian in real life ...

unamochilla2 said:

I thought the Audrey Hepburn commercial was kind of creepy.  It kind of looked like Hepburn, but I got a Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibe.  It creeped me out.

I found the commerical kind of cool, myself. Of course, I haven't see her in much -- Wait Until Dark is the only movie of hers I've watched all the way through -- so perhaps I'm just not "keyed in" to her enough to really recognize any underlaying alienness. 

Danfun128 said:

I had a few weird dreams last night.

In the first dream, I met Lily Tomlin. No points for guessing what I asked her. (Her answer was a blunt "No.")

In the second dream, I was watching "Where in the World is Carmon Sandiego" despite having never saw the show in my life (I knew of the show, thanks to TV Tropes and specifically the "Unintentional Period Piece" page.)

The third dream was the weirdest. My family was living in a different house, and my parents decided to take away both of the family cars and replaces them with cheap pieces of junk just to prove a point. Oh, and our family got a Boat in the process. One of the Alledged Cars started rolling down and "crashing" into the house. The reason I say "crashing" in quotation marks is that it didn't really crash, there was no (additional) damage to the "car".

*ahem* 

A transient saber that was sacrificed to demonstate the cutting power of assembly line machinery.

God, I hate how unpersonalized and replaceable lightsabers were treated in the PT. Obi-Wan goes through two (or three, if you count Qui-Gon's weapon) before finally getting his signature lightsaber from SW in ROTS (And even then, it's not a film-accurate replica of the SW saber.).

Just an update in regards to this screenplay:

Since I’m operating on the idea that Starfleet is a combined military force – not the Federation’s navy, army, air force, or marines, but all of the above – I’ve decided to abandon the use of a strictly naval ranking system for the Starfleet characters; I have formulated my own amalgamated ranking system, revising the screenplay to the reflect that. Basically, what this means is that while the captains remain captains, the commodores commodores, and the lieutenants lieutenants, the admiral is now a general, the commanders are now colonels, the lieutenant commanders are now majors, and so on.

And, on that note, I guess now’s as good a time as any to give you all a detailed chart of the Starfleet rank insignia I’ve devised for this reboot.

Breastpins are on the left, sleeve braids on the right.

You know an IMDb reviewer's opinions are essentially worthless when they rate almost every movie & TV show they've watched either a 1 or a 10.

Don't worry. I usually can tell when someone's mocking me (Emphasis on usually ;-)).

The four posts above is why I long for God's existence. Only They can save us from ourselves and redeem us from our most unholy sins.

DominicCobb said:

We're doing a lot of debating about something that most likely is total bs.

Just par for the course for the Internet, I'm afraid. 

If anyone wonders why I'm so enamoured with the multiverse concept, here are the two words which (mostly) explain why:

Unrequited love.

That image of Ron Howard with a mustache is broadcasting creepy vibes.

My name is Ezra E______n, and I am currently 28 years old. I am not balding, do not need to wear corrective lenses, do not have excessive back hair, and am very fit and healthy, with a lean musculature.

I married my high school sweetheart, D___a, in 2008, and we have a six-year-old daughter, Callista, who is a pretty girl with beautiful blue-green eyes and gorgeous auburn hair. D___a and I are planning on having at least two more children in the future.

While I don't have a large number of friends, the ones I do have are very close; I consider them all family.

While I was raised to believe in the lies of the false prophet Herbert W. Armstrong, I abandoned Armstrongist religion after experiencing a crisis of faith that began in 2005 and came to a head late in 2008. With D___a there beside me, though, helping me through the crisis, I found a way to keep myself from slipping into agnosticism or atheism; though I now embrace evolution and no longer accept the Bible as inerrant, I still have a strong belief in God and still self-identify as a Christian (albeit an unorthodox, theologically liberal Christian).

I am a comic book illustrator, and I have found regular work drawing for a few of the bigger comic companies along with several of the smaller ones. While I'm not exactly a well-known artist yet, I'm on the rise, so don't be surprised if I'm listed along the likes of Jack Kirby and Neal Adams in the next twenty-to-thirty years.

I have begun to attend film school, and I hope to become a director one day. I think I'll work outside the Hollywood system, though; the films I want to make are too spiritual and artistic to appeal to the soulless movie moguls.

ATMachine said:

The SE of THX 1138 was rated R in 2004, though the previous versions had been rated PG back in the 70s (and that was back when there was no PG-13 rating!).

Yes, well, with all those stupid digital effects shoved in, that version of the movie deserves to be restricted. =P 

Unlike most here, I don't have anything against "resurrecting" dead actors through digital technology. Truth be told, it's something I've been wanting to see for years now (How else am I ever going to see Vincent Price, Bruce Campbell, Heather Langenkamp, and Rod Serling appear in a new Twilight Zone episode/film together?).

As long as the actors' likenesses are being used respectively -- ie. not in some teeny booper garbage or crass parody movie or other stupid schlock like that -- I see no problem with it.