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And just when I thought Lucas couldn't sink any lower ...
Bingowings said:
There are the various Infinities time lines.
None of those really qualify as an "evil" version of the SW Universe, though.
Truth be told, I don't enjoy the MCU. There's far too much style, not nearly enough substance.
I'd much rather watch superhero movies that are smaller in scale, with more emphasis placed on character development, than ones with big explosions, CG monsters, and megalomaniacal villains trying to take over the world.
Moon 44 (1990) - 6.3/10
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) - 7/10
star wars mirror universe
The SW Universe needs it's own version of the Mirror Universe*.
*And no, the PT doesn't count. =P
imperialscum said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
The problem I have with Grevious weilding blue and green lightsabers is that it only serves to remind me of how those are the only two colours Jedi get to use in these crappy movies.
I always laugh when I see your posts about lightsabre colours. :D
I always laugh at everything.
I blame the Illuminati.
imperialscum said:
Mike O said:
Apparently Cameron thinks those are the colors he always intended to use in 1986.
I actually love that blue/green tone. That was the only good thing about 2004 release of OT.
Never utter such inanity ever again!
I want to bitch about how TNG fucked up the ST Universe, but I don't know if that should go here or in the Star Trek thread.
Sadako said:
The nonsense biology I can buy--it's the 24th century, and based on a remark made in TNG 02x20, it seems that someone has developed a gene splicing doohickey for interspecies couples, and it's existence is apparently well-known and often used, given the existence of B'Elanna, K'Ehleyr, Spock, and Troi
That doesn't explain interspecies offspring in situations where such technology simply wasn't available (Worf's human brother having a child with some rubber forehead chick on a primitive planet, for example).
I simply don't know why the writers didn't simply make most of the human and rubber forehead aliens genetic offshoots of humanity. Going by TOS, we already know aliens had transplanted humans to other worlds from Earth long before humans developed interstellar travel; it's well within the realm of possibility that some of these transplanted populations could have evolved/been modified into new species and subspecies over the centuries/millennia.
Jeez ... now I'm just serving to remind myself of why I dislike TNG so much. Why did the writers of the show have to bungle almost every aspect of the ST Universe in such a horrible, slipshod manner?
This thread isn't about bitching. It's about b*tching.
^Makes me wonder how long it'll be before artificially grown ovaries and uterus' come along.
Star Wars -- 121 min
First commercial break -- 5 min
The Empire Strikes Back -- 124 minutes
Second commerical break -- 5 min
Return of the Jedi -- 134 minutes
121 + 5 + 124 + 5 + 134 = 389
389 min = 6.48333 hr
How exactly does this end up running for 48 hours, again?
San daikaijû: Chikyû saidai no kessen AKA Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) - 6.5/10
Kaijû daisensô AKA Invasion of Astro-Monster AKA Godzilla vs. Monster Zero AKA etc. (1965) - 6/10
Gojira AKA Godzilla (1954) - 8.5/10
Casper (1995) - 7.5/10
The problem I have with Grevious weilding blue and green lightsabers is that it only serves to remind me of how those are the only two colours Jedi get to use in these crappy movies.
SilverWook said:
Not his most unusual role...
I'll never watch X-Men 3, but if I were to, it'd only be to see Grammer as the Beast.
DuracellEnergizer said:
What I liked:
Ewan McGregor
Liam Neeson (for the most part)
Ian McDiarmid (until his transformation scene in ROTS, anyway ...)
John William's score
The idea that the Jedi order isn't an order of perfect, pristine monks but an order of corrupt, dogmatic fools.
Darth Maul
Darth Maul's lightsaber
The duel in TPM (though it does get a bit too flashy after Qui-Gon leaves the fray)
Mace Windu's lightsaber (his purple blade almost makes up for the monotony of the other lightsabers)
That Anakin's lightsaber was blue in his duel with Obi-Wan on Mustafar (this is the only and only thing I expected to see in the prequels that actually came to pass)
Watto
Dexter Jettster (bad CG aside, I like his design and personality)
The aesthetic design of the Kaminoans
The aesthetic design of Padmé's silver starship in TPM (the other ones in the other prequels, not so much)
The aesthetic design of Grevious
That's about it, unfortunately.
Fixed.
In I, Jedi, it's made clear that the Jensaarai were founded by nascent Sith, so you could also include them/their founders as another Sith offshoot.
Frankly, there should be a law making it illegal to release a special edition/director's cut/etc. of a film without releasing the original cut alongside it.
captainsolo said:
How wrong is the photo above? ;)
Tell me about it. Mulan isn't even royalty, let alone a princess.
There's something unwholesome about seeing a fat man in a X-wing wearing a bloody Glasgow smile ...
DrCrowTStarwars said:
What is more if you talk to the fanboys all you hear about is how great modern comic books are because they are dark. That is one reason I love Linkara's reviews he sees this poorly written garbage for what it is.
Yeah, I love Linkara's reviews, too. It's refreshing to hear the opinion of a comics fan who doesn't buy into the "Grim 'n' gritty is awesome!" BS.
If there's one major aspect of Star Trek that's better than Star Wars, it's this:
In the ST EU, there's no major effort to make each and every storyline canon, there're no stupid retcons made to mesh incompatible stories/histories together, and there're no concentrated efforts to make each and every era outside of TNG and its spinoffs more like TNG and its spinoffs.
Compare that to the SW EU, where each and every story has to be canon, where every single incompatible story/history has to be retconned into fitting together, and every era outside of the PT has to be reconfigured to match the PT.
^I got that impression myself from the few episodes I watched them in.
