DuracellEnergizer

I will naht reiterate what I've said about this trilogy again. I will naht.

It does now.

TV's Frink said:

Wait, you actually liked something?

...

Oh never mind, you said "even close to being good."

Well, I liked Marina Sirtis 

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in Gargoyles. 

TV's Frink said:

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Revisionism -- revisionism everywhere!

In God's name, Lucas, what is this unholy trend you've unleashed upon this Earth?! 

LOL, thanks.

^So that explains why First Contact is the only TNG film that comes even close to being good.

I guess Babylon 5 left too good an impression on me, 'cause now I really wish the starships and fighters moved through space like spacecraft are supposed to move instead of moving like airplanes flying through air.

I'd love to have an imaginary girlfriend, but my imagination just isn't strong enough to get the job done. =(

Alderaan said:

You may have to update your flash player to see Harmy's pic. It was blank for me earlier in the week too, but I can see it now.

Unfortunately for me, there's something up with this computer that's been preventing me from installing flash updates for the past several months now.

Ah, well, I guess I'll just have to cope.

I prefer it if only for the reason that -- size aside -- it looks like it could be the same Hutt from ROTJ. The new CG Jabba -- with his yellow eyes, different head/face shape, etc. -- doesn't look like ROTJ Jabba at all.

So I take it Harmy's large image in the posts above is only refusing to show up for me? That's incredibly odd ...

"I/you/it/we/they must follow my/your/its/our/their heart(s)."

The Goonies (1985) -- 8/10

Deadly Eyes AKA The Rats AKA Rats AKA Night Eyes (1982)

I don't know why I like Lesleh Donaldson so much. She's only an average actress, her roles are typically small, and most of the movies she appears in are mediocre or crap, yet for some reason I feel compelled to seek out and watch her films -- including this dull piece of wood about dacshunds dressed in rat costumes lunging out to bite people to death every ten minutes. I don't even like horror films like this, but I watched it just for Ms. Donaldson, and I don't even know why!

On the plus side, Scatman Crothers' character -- who happens to be the only interesting character in the entire movie -- was a definite pleasure to watch. Too bad he dies without even five minutes of screentime.

6/10

Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht AKA Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

As my avatar would suggest, I really enjoyed this movie. Klaus Kinski gave an excellent performance with his more tragic portrayal of the Dracula/Orlok character, and Isabelle Adjani was just perfectly cast all around; I was positively spellbound by her presence in the film.

The only qualms I had with the film -- and they're both minor, insignificant qualms -- was that they made Kinski's character too overtly vampiric from the start -- a problem I didn't find with Max Schreck's performance in the original Nosferatu -- and that the way the ending with Harker was executed was a little ... iffy.

7/10

Ragewar AKA The Dungeonmaster (1984)

I was disappointed to learn that the IMDb rating for this movie is only 3.6/10. For crying out loud, this film is blessed lunacy at it's finest! It deserves more!

Of course, it still needed more Richard Moll. There simply weren't enough scenes with him hamming it up to the max.

7/10

Brand Upon the Brain! A Rememberance in 12 Chapters (2006) -- 9/10

emanswfan said:

Also, is it me or do the name cards have slightly different color grading than the trailer?

They kind of look like slightly degraded film prints to me -- you know, with slightly higher red levels than normal. 

ArekusandaaRossu creates an account on this site in August 16, 2012 and creates this thread as his/her only contribution to the forums, leaves for two years without making any further posts either here or in the other subforums, then returns today just to erase the content of the only thread/post s/he ever posted?

Meesa fails to see the point.

Batman?

Bizarro No. 2

Bizarro No. 3

Buttman

Darth Id said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

...another Jesus film with the Son of David played by a WASP ...

 I don't think WASP means what you think it means.

It's actually an acronym, you know.  ALL CAPS tends to mean each letter "stands for" a word.  A word pertaining to the thing to which the acronym is employed to refer.

You have failed to employ this particular acronym correctly.

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Yeah, I'm aware that ol' Ewan's not Anglo-Saxon, and he may or may not be protestant. Of course, seeing as the term's already been applied to figures who don't meet all of the implicit criteria (H. P. Lovecraft -- a decidedly non-protestant atheist -- for example), I don't feel the need to stick with the absolutely objectively literal form of the definition.

Darth Id said:

I don't have time to click.  Someone please let me know whether gaffer tape is addressed in the article.

And if so, please post the pictures here.  KTHXBAI

The poster or the adhesive she's named after? 

JawsTDS said:

Kylo Ren doesn't sound intimidating.. at all.

Ah, but maybe therein lies the rub? Perhaps it's not intimidating because it's not meant to be intimidating, and it's not meant to be intimidating because

*pause for dramatic effect*

he isn't actually a villain after all?

Yes, perhaps that's the answer. All the dark moodiness of his reveal in the teaser is all just misdirection -- a red herring, if you will. He's really a protagonist, a hero (or, at the very least, an anti-hero). The big bad is really someone else, someone we'll least suspect.

Well, obviously I'm just being melodramatically silly, here. The chances that what I just hypothesized will actually turn out to be the case are less than 40%. Still, were it to be true, it'd help rekindle my enthusiasm for the ST; it'd even make that stupid lightsaber almost tolerable.

If you didn't spend all your free time guarding a drafty bridge, your feet wouldn't be cold, now, would they?

*sigh* I liked thejediknighthusezni back when he stuck to making constructive threads like these, before he went off the deep end with all his homosexual/Luciferian conspiracy theorist crap.

EXT. ORRON III -- ZORQO'S ZOO OF ZANINESS/ENTRANCE -- DAY

The DuQuesnes, Kenobis, and the Skywalker kid enter the grounds of Zorqo's Zoo of Zaniness with thousands of other visitors. A medium-sized amusement park, a fair amount of various different attractions and rides can be seen over the throngs of people.

NEMEC: (sighs) Well, we're here. Now what?

CORIN: We could visit the Wormhole of Love.

NEMEC: Wormhole of Love?

CORIN: Like we did when we were teenagers. (beat) God, how long ago was that -- seventy years ago?

NEMEC: Seventy-three.

CORIN: Remember our first ride through the Wormhole -- 

NEMEC: Fifth ride, Corin, fifth.

CORIN: (cont'd) First, fifth -- whichever, it doesn't matter. (beat) It was the most romantic night of our lives. It was the night we truly became one --

NASHIRA: (covers her ears with her hands) I don't need to be hearing this.

CORIN: (cont'd) -- the night we realized we'd always be together.

NEMEC: (smiles) 'Til death do we part.

CORIN: (grins) Yes, exactly.

NEMEC: (sighs) That was a good night, dear, but I'm too old for cliched rides like that. (claps Anakin on the back) The Wormhole of Love's perfect for Nashira and her snot-nosed punk of a boyfriend, though.

ANAKIN: (frowns) Who's snot-nosed?

Nemec pulls Nik and 'Shira to him then lightly pushes them out, away from the rest of the group.

NEMEC: Go on, Nik, take Nashira and go ride through the Wormhole. There's a good possibility you'll never get the chance to again.

Deciding to do as the man says, Anakin and Nashira join hands and take off to find the Wormhole of Love. In short moments, they're both lost from sight within the crowd.

OBI-WAN: So, what should the rest of we four do? (looks about the park) I'm kind of lost here so I can't really offer any suggestions.

NEMEC: (places a hand on Obi-Wan's shoulder) I'm hungry. Are you?

OBI-WAN: Well, I suppose --

NEMEC: I'll treat you to a dog or a burger -- whatever levitates your skiff. We'll leave the girls to find their own entertainment. 

OBI-WAN: Well, I wouldn't want to just ditch Siri and Corin like that ...

SIRI: (smiles wryly) I wouldn't mind.

CORIN: You boys go off and enjoy yourselves. That's what we're all here for, after all, isn't it?

NEMEC: (grins) See? They can't wait to be rid of our ugly faces. So let's be off!

At that, the two men depart, Nemec's hand placed firmly on Obi-Wan's back to lead him along. Obi-Wan turns to look back at Siri, staring daggers her way. She merely gives him a parting wave and a smile in response.

The last comic I read was the three-part miniseries Babylon 5: In Valen's Name by DC Comics.

Basically, the miniseries has two interlocking stories: the first is about the crew of the Babylon 5 station finding the decaying remnants of the Babylon 4 station and encountering a hostile alien species with apparent ties to B4, the second is about what happened to Jeffrey Sinclair after he travelled back into the past and became Valen.

Basically, I liked it; the story was good and so was the art. The only bad thing I have to say about it is that it left me with a desire to read more Babylon 5 comics, a desire I can't satisfy as there virtually aren't any other B5 comics beyond DC's main series, and the artwork in those comics is so cringe-inducingly awful that I couldn't get through the first storyline.