DuracellEnergizer

Ryan McAvoy said:

Seeing the Clone Wars was the main reason I bought cinema tickets to those films. But all we got was Yoda saying they'd started in AOTC, one battle above Coruscant in ROTS, a couple of montages and then they were over. What happened to 'Episode II.5: The Clone Wars' Where we spent 2 hours having fun and beginning to actually like our two heroes Anakin and Obi-Wan?

If the Clone Wars were only going to consist of CG Temuera Morrisons fighting CG battle droids, then I'm glad they were glossed over. 

skyjedi2005 said:

Funny that Kubrick thought star wars was trash and wanted to top it with AI which he never of course made.

 All the warmth and humanity must have been offputting.

The only history I can give an informed opinion on would be my own personal history, and I doubt that's what you're looking for.

I want Lando to sport a large Afro, wear platform shoes, and talk in 70's slang in the ST.

"Keir Dullea" totally sounds like a name that would exist in the SW Universe.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Maybe it took him watching them a few times to appreciate their genius.

 While under the influence of mind-altering drugs, of course.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

It is one thing to enjoy a movie, and another thing to declare it to be a "good" or "great" movie.  I enjoy quite a number of movies that I also admit aren't good movies.  For instance, I enjoy "Rookie of the Year" quite a lot.  It just makes me laugh.  But frankly, it isn't a very good movie.  It just happens to tickle my funny bone.  Rocky IV is a guilty pleasure, but objectively, it's really terrible.

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn is my personal favourite bad movie. The painfully awful effects, dialogue, choreography, costumes, etc. never, ever fail to entertain me =D

I'd rather see Pixar release a silent, B&W homage to old German Expressionist horror films.

darklordoftech said:

I hate how some EU fans twist facts to support the EU. If you show them proof that the EU screwed up, they'll claim that it was actually the movies or the interviewee who screwed up.

I've, personally, never seen typical fans of the modern EU ever saying that the films -- especially the PT -- screwed up. Resorting to the tired, worn-out "from a certain point of view" mantra when the EU and films blatantly contradict one another is more their MO.

I often have recurring dreams about buying secondhand DVDs and books from various used book stores and thrift shops. I'm invariably disappointed when I wake up and find I don't own any of the awesome books & movies I purchased in my dreams =(

Warbler said:

seriously,  can someone just ban this troll(thejediknightusezni) already?

I find him too amusing to want him banned.

All the discussions about God in this thread are just serving to reinforce my view that if Christianity is to survive and prosper, it has to ditch inerrancy.

Tack said:

I think you could argue every rapper in history is better than Lil' Wayne. Even Vanilla Ice.

All the chimpanzees in the world, shrieking and running their fingernails down chalkboards in unison, would be better than Lil Wayne. 

OBI-WAN37 said:

imperialscum said:

OBI-WAN37 said:

imperialscum said:

OBI-WAN37 said:

I'm amazed at how many very minor flaws people on this site manage to find in the prequels.

Minor flaws? Can you please try to respond to my first post in this thread? Puggo summarised it on this page as well.

I haven't had the pleasure of a prequel fan boys making any decent replies to that. Usually I just get ignored when I bring that up.

 Ok, I don't know what you're talking about when you say your first post, but as to what Pluggo said, I think that that "flaw" in Anakin's character isn't really a flaw that even really detracts from the movie, but more something original trilogy-fans pick on in order to find a way to hate the movie.

No, it actually isn't a flaw but a rather the way the character and story revolving around it was written. It wasn't written as an adventure... but as a bad drama about an extremely unlikable character.

So at that point it comes down to preference. Whether you like adventure (OT) or soap opera (PT).

Alright I don't think this is going anywhere none of us are going to change our opinions, so would someone please close this topic?

You opened Pandora's box, so now your liver's gonna have'ta deal with Prometheus' pet vulture.

Ryan McAvoy said:

SilverWook said:

One Grevious concept drawing shown on the ROTS DVD was a creepy, malevolent looking kid in a floating chair, with IG-88's for bodyguards. I found it far more sinister than the character we actually got. ;)

http://youtu.be/tBOoZ5Tuh2o

 LOL That's pure George, condensed ^. Video starts with George having no f*cking idea what Grevious is gonna be like, then a young artist draws a sketch that is basically the complete character as seen in the movie and suddenly bam! cut to George saying I came up with that, it was my idea!.

It's funny when PT gushers apply the auteur theory to Lucas, yet fail to recognize that a lot of his "creative vision" consists of giving a picture he likes but never drew his stamp of approval.

I don't think I've posted in this thread in regards to what villains I'd like to see in the ST. If I have, bear with me, 'cause I'm probably repeating myself ...

I don't really want a central villain, per se, for all three movies -- I'd rather see each episode have it's own main villain, with each episode connecting to form a story with a central theme.

For Episode VII, I'd like the main villain to be a Brakiss-type character -- a former apprentice of Luke's who went rogue and formed his own Jedi Order. He'd be a Dark Jedi, but one who is simply misguided, not evil for the sake of being evil.

For Episode VIII, I'd like the main villain to be a Joruus C'Baoth-type character -- an insane Force-user who wants to steal Luke's youngest students away from him and shape them according to his own twisted will.

And finally, for Episode IX, I'd like the main villain to be a resurrected Palpatine-type character -- a powerful darksider who is virtually the embodiment of the dark side, who wants to crush Luke's Order and cast the entire galaxy into darkness.

Possessed said:

Ted Nugent's son is a rapper.  WTF, that is hilarious.

As loathsome as I bet he is, he's still bound to be better than Lil Wayne.

"D'You Know What I Mean?" by Oasis

Bryan Adams has released ten studio albums. Only the first five are worth listening to.

^Palp's expression in that image is priceless.

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

And btw in SWTOR a lot of Sith do not wear black, do not have pale skin, and actually some have purple and yellow lightsabres.

Well, that's nice. I just wish they were the rule rather than the exception.

If I think again, I might say that majority of the Sith in game do not wear black. I am not sure where you got this impression (I would assume from the there game trailers?).

 I was referring to the modern EU in general.

 

DuracellEnergizer said:

And title "Darth" is held only by the most powerful Sith...

It's still stupid.

I must say I like it. Well it wasn't established solely by SWTOR. The first time I saw it was in KOTOR but probably even KOTOR picked it from some earlier EU source as well.

As far as I know, prior to KOTOR, the EU ran with the idea that the tradition of Sith using "Darth" as a title began when Darth Bane survived the extermination of the Sith at the Battle of Ruusan and started the Rule of Two; none of the Sith prior to him were ever to have used the title.

Frankly, they should have stuck with that idea; PT-styled Sith don't belong outside of the PT era.

Long story short, EU IG-88 was working towards becoming king of the droids, exterminating all sentient organics, and conquering the galaxy until he uploaded his intellect into the Death Star II and went bye-bye.

Truth be told, I don't hate the story like so many others do. Of course, I also like Waru. *shrug*

My main problems with the movie revolve around the title character himself. The development of his characterization throughout the movie felt rushed and unnatural, and I didn't like how the Donald Blake aspect of his character was removed.

Of course, I wasn't fond of Natalie Portman's character, the whole "Asgardians as aliens from another planet" thing, or the emo characterization of Loki, either.

I admit I'm not a big fan of Thor, and I haven't read many of the comics, but I can still recognize what a Thor movie should be like, and this isn't it.

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TOR just followed it by simply saying that there were more humans in the Empire (workers, soldiers) than Sith and that the Sith genes were eventually outweighed, therefore majority of imperial look human at that time. So essentially all the imperial humans still have a percentage of Sith genes.

In other words, they're watering down what was once a unique take on the Sith in order to mesh it with the prequels because the prequels are just oh-so-good and everything has to reflect it.

Yuck.

Why prequels?

Because the concept that almost all Sith wear black, use only red lightsabers, have pale skin, have yellow eyes, have facial tattoos, and go around with "Darth" as a part of their names is a PT invention.

Vader in OT: wears black, red lightsabre, pale skin.

Palpatine in OT: wears black, pale skin.

That's only two characters. I'm not prepared to jump to the conclusion that every other darksider in the universe of the OOT goes around looking like Death just because they do.

And btw in SWTOR a lot of Sith do not wear black, do not have pale skin, and actually some have purple and yellow lightsabres.

Well, that's nice. I just wish they were the rule rather than the exception.

As for yellow eyes, they don't even exist as a part of darkside transformation of you character. Once you progress on the dark side level your character eyes change first change to orange and in the end to red.

Same difference.

And title "Darth" is held only by the most powerful Sith...

It's still stupid.

AntcuFaalb said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Wait, VCRs are still made today?

Usually DVD/VCR combos, so yes.

Oh, I know DVD/VCR combos are made (I own one). I was talking about pure VCRs.