DuracellEnergizer

SilverWook said:

;)

Pfft. I'll survive in the EU anyway. 

SilverWook said:

Amazing this hasn't been done before.

http://youtu.be/o5S5tBuNJdM

SE Emperor and Abramstrek ...

GlastoEls said:

"Alert my Stardestroyer to prepare for my arrival"

For a moment there, I thought this was a post of imperialscum's. ;-) 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

I don't know why, but I liked FWWM more the second time around than the first. Perhaps seeing the deleted scenes helped improve my opinion of the film?

8/10

Absurda (2007) - 7/10

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) - 8/10

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

The animation is top-notch. The writing is meh. Any scenes that don't feature Maleficent, the bickering fairies, or the drunk minstrel are rather pretty boring.

8/10

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

I wish this film had been titled The Evil Queen with the Queen/Witch as the main character instead of Snow White; her scenes are the best ones in the whole movie.

8.3/10

CUT TO

Siri and Corin elsewhere on the promenade.

With a pair of ice cream cones in their respective hands, the two women make idle small talk. As they pass by a shooting gallery booth, a CARNIE WITH IMPOSSIBLE HAIR lunges out the open booth window, a preternaturally wide, toothy grin plastered across his wizened face.

CARNIE: (chipper) Why, hello ladies! You wouldn't happen to be interested in a little target practice, would you?

Hearing the man's exuberant voice, the two women stop in their tracks. As they turn to face him, his already unnaturally big grin expands tenfold.

LARGE CARNIE: (cont'd) Why, of course you'd be! So step right on up, my dears! I don't bite! Scout's honour!

Exchanging glances, Corin and Siri give a collective shrug. Finishing their cones, they approach the booth. 

Drawing back into the booth, the carnie moves over to a small gun rack holding a small number of lightweight toy rifles. Collecting two of them, he activates their small power packs before returning to his visitors.

CARNIE: (hands the rifles to the women) Here you are! Two laser rifles! These are true laser rifles now, mind you, not blasters! They project low-powered laser beams, not concentrated plasma bursts! Fit for family fun on all civilized worlds, but if you're looking to fight a pitched battle with enemy forces on an open battlefield, this is not the ordinance for you! (lowers his voice) I have to say all that for legal reasons, you see. The Authority would flay my hide if I did otherwise.

Accepting the toy weapons, the ladies give them a once-over, looking for all the world like they don't know how to handle the guns or to what purpose.

Reaching over to the wall on his right, the carnie presses a large red button. Almost instantly, thirty small holograms representing various game birds and other flying creatures familiar throughout the Known Regions flicker to life at the far back wall of the booth. Every couple seconds, the various holograms wink in and out of being along an irregular pattern.

CARNIE: Your objective is to shoot out as many of the holograms as you can within a minute! Repeat hits do not count! I repeat -- do not count! (beat) Now begin, and be careful not to shoot yourselves or me in the eye!

Stepping off to the side, the carnie allows the two blondes a clear shot at the holograms. Not used to handling firearms, it takes a couple moments for Siri to get a grip on how to handle her rifle. Corin, on the other hand, wields the toy like a pro; in a micro-second she has the rifle held at the ready, eye focused along the sight of the barrel with her finger tensed over the trigger.

A minute passes. Siri hits eleven of the holograms, not counting repeats. Corin hits twenty-nine.

CARNIE: (whistles) Wow-ee! I've never seen a soul hit twenty-nine of the thirty holograms in non-repeating succession before! Not in sixty years on nineteen worlds! 

CORIN: (hands her rifle back to the carnie) What's my prize?

CARNIE: (flabbergasted) Your prize? (beat) Ah, right -- your prize! Just a moment!

The carnie crosses over to a shelf loaded with various prizes. Reaching for the top shelf, he grabs and then pulls down the top prize.

CARNIE: (hands the prize to Corin) Here you are, my lovely girl! A prize worthy of a prize such as yourself!

Corin accepts the stuffed bantha with subdued joy.

CUT TO

Corin and Siri back on their trek along the promenade.

SIRI: You're an amazing shot, Corin. I'm serious -- you handled the toy like a professional sharpshooter.

CORIN: (shrugs) I've had practice.

SIRI: So tell me -- where'd you get your "practice".

CORIN: My father was a police officer. When I was a kid, he took me up to the shooting range every weekend. He'd spend three hours with me each time, teaching me how to hold, aim, and fire a blaster the right way.

SIRI: Police officer? You mean --?

CORIN: He wasn't an Espo. (beat) Or I guess you could say he was, but this was before the Authority became so militarized, so corrupt. (beat) He was a good, honest man. He hated what the Security Police turned into.

SIRI: Is life so bad here?

CORIN: When Nashira was young, Nemec and I could take her out on hunting trips into the woods. Ten years ago, though, all undeveloped regions of Orron III were declared "agricultural reserves" by the Authority. Anyone who goes into a forested area without authorization is quickly picked up by Espo scanners and twice as quickly tracked and shot down like an animal.

SIRI: Did you ever consider leaving? Just packing up and moving out of the Corporate Sector?

CORIN: We could sell our farm -- stars know the Authority's eagre to buy the remaining independent farms out. That way we'd have enough money to charter a flight to some place where we'd be able to dip our feet into a running stream without fear of receiving a fine. But then what? We'd be flat broke. We'd never be able to start over.

SIRI: Corin, you must know that Obi-Wan and I'd be perfectly willing to help you. I have connections. I could --

CORIN: (holds up her hand) Thank you, Siri, but no thanks. (beat) Were it up to me, I'd accept your generous proposal at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately, Nemec's not as liberal-minded as I am. He's always believed a sentient makes its own way in the Galaxy; he'd never accept a "free lunch" as he calls it.

SIRI: That is truly a shame. The war aside, the Empire's a wonderful place. You wouldn't have to live in fear of totalitarian brutality there.

CORIN: I'll admit your Empire sounds like a nice place to live. Still, you'll excuse me if I don't quite buy into your utopian appraisal.

SIRI: What do you mean?

CORIN: You make it out as if the Empire is run by benevolent caretakers who just want to keep its people safe and warm, but didn't your government place the Wookiee homeworld under martial law following your previous war?

SIRI: It was an unwelcome decision but a necessary one. The circumstances on Kashyyyk had become dire. The planet had become a hotbed of Separatist activity; the disarmament procedures weren't running well so we had to crack down. It was better than the alternative.

CORIN: Alright, I'll grant you that one -- desperate times call for desperate measures -- but this was several years ago; you can't tell me matters haven't cooled down since then.

SIRI: We've been engaged in a devastating war with the Clonemasters, Corin. Our men and resources have been stretched far and thin for far too long. We haven't had the luxury of being able to focus our attentions on Kashyyyk and the Wookiees.

Corin silently decides to let the conversation end there.

hairy_hen said:

Possessed said:

galacticsemen

 . . . wuh?  lol

galacticsemen = imperialscum 

hairy_hen said:

All right, this forum orgy has to happen now.  It's the only way to get all this burning sexual tension out of our systems!

Again, I must reiterate, unless any of you guys are my type (and I'm 100.99% sure 99% of you aren't), I'm not taking part. 

"Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir."

I've been downright harsh on ROTJ lately. I guess this is as good a time as any to atone by listing things from the movie I actually like.

In no particular order:

• Luke's black outfit
• Luke's green lightsaber
• John Williams' score
• Vader's redemption
• The duel between Luke and Vader
• The original ending with "Yub Nub" and Sebastian Shaw
• Ian McDiarmid's performance
• Jabba
• Jabba's palace and the miscellaneous creatures therein

LOL.

On that point, I'll bet you're right. He certainly comes off as an internalized homophobe most of the time.

I wouldn't call him a hick. Hicks aren't intelligent enough to be so insultingly stupid.

Ryan McAvoy said:

I was imagining God being ashamed and feeling duty bound to apologise to Stephen ;-)

I was imagining God tilting Their head and thinking "Did we hear a buzzing gnat fly past our ear just now?" 

I don't know the precise measurements of the TV -- and I'm too lazy to drag the box out of it's current nook to check right now-- but it's sizable. I don't know if I'd call it huge, but the screen's just a tiny bit wider than my arm is long. 

I was thinking more along the lines of "Welcoming in certain circumstances."

Luke's lightsaber in SW also looks cyan in the shot where it's first ignited instead of the more familiar azure of Ben's lightsaber and Luke's saber later on in TESB.

This picture is perfectly ludicrous:

I think the ysalamiri would have worked better had Zahn come up with a better explanation behind their ability to negate Force powers. His description of them creating a void in the Force doesn't just sound like it'd defy the laws of physics in the SW Universe (How could the ysalamiri even live if they repel the Force, which creates and is created by living things?) it sounds like an excellent way of killing something, not making them blind to the Force.

Leonardo said:

I wish.

There's something to be said for inventing technology which can permanently erase memories. 

DuracellEnergizer said:

I bought my first Blu-ray player today. Unfortunately, the coaxial cable it's made for isn't compatible with my old CRT TV, so now I'll have to go back out into town again tomorrow just to buy an adapter.

Why the manufacturers can't just build these players to be backwards compatible with older TVs in the first place I'll never know.

Just to provide a conclusion to this little tale, yesterday I went back into town to buy an adapter/converter/whatever. As it turns out, though, the store didn't have any in stock; a sales rep said the best chance of getting one would be to look for one on-line. Seeing as the family doesn't buy anything on-line (It's questionable just how secure our computers are, so Ma & Pa do not want to take the chance of purchasing something on-line only to have some bastard in Iran charge something to our credit card.), that possibility was a no-go.

So, in the end, the family decided to buy a new, modern, flatscreen TV compatible with the Blu-ray player for me. The picture quality's a little too pixellated and high-contrasty for my tastes, and some live-action DVD's look REAL grainy on-screen. Overall, though, I can live with it.

TV's Frink said:

I'm trying to work on my edit and I need some of the tech info I've bookmarked at FE.org, but the site is down.

If only you had access to a time machine.

Possessed said:

Even if you do believe everything about evolution and all that, you still cannot prove that there was not an intelligent design put in place to begin the process, on earth anyway.

Exactly. You don't have to subscribe to special creationism to believe in a personal God or gods.

If they're going to bring in another planet-destroying superweapon, then it should be scaled down, something relatively small and maneuverable -- a rocket with a cannon strapped to it, you could say --  not another moon-sized space station.

Yes, don't leave. There's already a low presence of theists in this forum; I'd hate for it to become a de facto non-theist hangout.

imperialscum said:

darth_ender said:

But to say religion is just nonsense is, in fact, nonsense.  Religion is built into humanity.  Even most who do not believe in deity in any form still engage in religious-like behaviors and rituals, whether they realize it or not.  It too is a part of humanity.

The only useful thing about religion are some (emphasis on some) of the moral standards it teaches. Pretty much everything else is a nonsense, such as time-wasting rituals and stupid stories like creationism and life after death.

And in the end you don't really need a religion to abide the high moral standards.

In other words: "I don't like/understand it, so it's nonsense. Nah! Nah!"

You should go back to defending "Alert my star destroyer to prepare for my arrival". It's dumb, but at least it isn't conceited and condescending.