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The only things that I really had a problem with with the Thrawn Trilogy is Zahn's explanation for how Vader got his mechanical hand and his explanation behind Luke's vision in the cave on Dagobah. Beyond that, though, I thought it was a wonderful continuation of the Star Wars Saga (the real saga, that is, not the phoney-baloney revisionist joke cooked up by Lucas/Lucasfilm).

I'm personally glad I've never seen any of the movies he's directed. It allows me to sleep easier at night.

That doesn't mean I don't want the Mafia to fit him with a pair of concrete shoes, though ;-)

FanFiltration said:

Still HOT!

 Too boney for my tastes.

No euphemisms on my part (frankly, I can't think of any that doesn't involve something Cronenberg-esque, and I'm not that perverted).

RicOlie_2 said:

^That's weird, I've never heard that one...

That's not all. I also was taught to believe that "Halloween" was a mockery of the "hallowed by thy name" part of the Lord's Prayer. How that etymology works is anybody's guess.

My parents follow a rather stupid, irrational pseudo-Christianity.

If I had the skills, I'd make a Leia poster styled after the Jagged Little Pill album cover.

Why do I get the feeling that the Star Trek EU is handled a lot more healthily than the Star Wars EU, even though I've read next to nothing of the former and far too much of the latter?

skyjedi2005 said:

No news but i also assume Dawn of the Jedi is gone as well.

I suspect any ongoing comic series will be cancelled. After all, has any comic company immediately picked up a series that another company began and continued it where they left off?

I prefer alternate history myself.

1492: Columbus sails the ocean blue. Due to inaccurate calculations, his fleet sails right past Cuba without ever spotting it or another landmass in the Americas. They all eventually die of starvation/thirst.

1732: The Inca and Aztec cultures make first contact. The Aztecs give the Incans their writing system, while the Incans give the Aztecs llamas.

1767: Spanish pirates land on the shores of Newfoundland, and are the first Old Worlders to successfully reach the New World.

1859: Alfred Russel Wallace publishes his book on the theory of evolution before Charles Darwin can publish his. As a result, Darwin becomes a footnote in history, and Young Earth Creationism never comes to exist.

Rhubarb sucks anyway ... unless mixed with strawberries ... in the form of a pie ...

Man, I wish there was some strawberry-rhubarb pie somewhere in the house.

^At least there's no bullshit there about "Christmas" being short for "Christ massacre". That's what I was brought up to believe.

The one and only time I watched The Matrix was back in late summer/early fall of 2003. I liked it then, but I have no idea if I'd like it at all now, especially since I've come to dislike Keanu a fair bit since then.

In any case, it never came close to impacting me the way Star Wars did.

Darth Darth Binks has me by the brain-banana.

Happy now, Frink?

Well, it's possible that some of them were, though a lot of times the different floating heads of the characters were taken from each of the different films (TESB Leia's head here, ROTJ Luke's head there, etc).

I don't believe in Hell.

Sheol, on the other hand* ...

*No, I'm not trying to be obfuscatory here; "Hell" and "Sheol" are two different things IMO.

Halloween II (1981) - 6/10

V: The Final Battle (1984) - 6.5/10

Mortal Kombat (1995) - 6/10

Spider-Man 3 (2007) - 6/10

The Lawnmower Man (1992) - 7.5/10

Mad Max 2 AKA The Road Warrior (1981) - 7/10

Alone in the Dark (1982) - 6.7/10

The Ninth Configuration AKA Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane (1980) - 8/10

Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) - 7.5/10

Jacob's Ladder (1990) - 7/10

Bingowings said:

SilverWook said:

That scene has bugged me since 1979. (Not to mention being totally freaky.) There has to be a easier way to dispatch Ripley than shove a magazine down her throat. And it sure isn't going to look like an accident, or the Alien. Was this supposed to emphasize Ash's major malfunction?

I thought back in the day it was Ash trying to cover his tracks by replicating the smothering Kane talked about (the Facehugger shoved it's reproductive organ into Kane's mouth and if Ripley died in the same way they may blame what he did on the Alien). There is an obvious flaw in this theory (why didn't he shut the door?).

But according to Ridley it's Ash's attempt to express his pseudo-Sexuality by raping Ripley in the face with a porno mag while he leaked white liquid.

Either way it's a very different ride from the knife game antics of Bishop.

I got the feeling it was Ash's way of getting around the First Law of Robotics ("It was the magazine that killed her, not me!")

While I don't hate them, I really dislike a lot of the covers Drew Struzan painted for a lot of the EU novels in the 90's. Far too many of them just looked like alternate movie posters for the OT films, and they rarely reflected the plots of actual stories inside.

Veitch apparently went to Lucas himself for the backstory on the Sith.

^If only it made me laugh. A head shake and a facepalm are my only responses. 

SilverWook said:

Anybody find any discolored discs in their collection recently? Seems to be a thing with some discs about a decade old now.

I have a few DVDs that look, for lack of a better analogy, waterstained. I don't think most of them are a decade old, though -- one I bought brand-new only a few months ago.

skyjedi2005 said:

People still buy DVD's?

I haven't the budget to get anything better. Besides, I'm satisfied with DVD-quality definition -- I don't need anything better.

I only wish the movies I want to own were more available. For someone largely limited to buying secondhand DVDs and DVDs available in local supermarkets (I can't buy anything online), it becomes a pain in the ass to find anything.  

DVDs I've added to my collection ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (theatrical cut) (1966)

Independence Day (threatrical cut and special edition) (1996)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Jurassic Park (1993)

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)

The Machinist (2004)

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Mutant X (season 2)

Mystery Men (1999)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

The Simpsons (seasons 1 & 3)

Sliders (season 1)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Soylent Green (1973), The Time Machine (1960), Forbidden Planet (1956), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), all together in a four-disc set

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Super 8 (2011)

Superman: The Animated Series (Volume 2) 

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (special edition) (1991)

DVDs I've removed from my collection ...

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The Beast from 20000 Fathoms (1953) and Them! (1954), both on one disc

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961), both on one disc

Cloverfield (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

1408 (director's cut) (2007)

The Good German (2006)

The Prestige (2006)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Strangers on a Train (American and British versions) (1951)

The Village (2004)

Tack said:

All I can say is, thank the Lord for TCM.

 I wish they'd play more sci-fi/horror beyond Forbidden Planet, though ;-)

Tack said:

What did that take you, like, half a second? George throughout the whole making of the film (3 years) never took himself back and said "Maybe a small augmentation's in order." and came up with such a simple, but still sensible, conclusion as your own.

I think Lucas just decided to rip off Titanic's main storyline and combine it with some of his own Buddhist sentiments without thinking about how it would all turn out in the end.

I've felt for sometime now that if there had to be a "forbidden love" aspect to Anakin's characterization, then it should have been because the Jedi weren't allowed to fall in love with people outside the Order, not because they weren't allowed to fall in love period. Making them chaste warrior-priests just added to the dehumanization of the Jedi in the prequels.