DuracellEnergizer

2014's still nineteen minutes away for me, but since I'm here, I may as well reminisce. 

Ah, 2013 ... the year I watched and became a fan of Twin Peaks; became a fan of David Lynch in general; watched and became a fan of Sliders; became a fan of Heather Langenkamp; watched most of the episodes from the first three live-action Star Trek series'; read the first two novels in the Dune series; got sick three times in three different months (January, September, and October); watched way too many movies; and got rid of most of my R. L. Stine books.

Overall, it wasn't the worst year I've ever experienced (but it certainly wasn't the best, either).

Dooku's a lousy villain. Regardless, he should have had a blue lightsaber in AOTC (or anything other than red).

^Agree 110.110% with everything you just said.

ray_afraid said:

I read 'Heir To The Empire' back in 1991 or '92, but it didn't feel like Star Wars to me, so I never followed up. Even the cover was off-putting. I remember it was like a wizard with lasers shooting from his fingertips. (just looked it up and I'm not wrong!)

If you consider Force lightning to be lasers, then yeah, you're not wrong ...

^Who cares? The universe creeps closer to heat death regardless.

TV's Frink said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - 6.5/10

 

 You can't take anyone seriously who gives the same rating of 8/10 to Wizard of Oz, WarGames...and Wes Craven's New Nightmare!

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Mr. Sardonicus (1961) - 7/10

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) - 6/10

V (1983) - 7.5/10

The Graduate (1976) - 8/10

The Incredibles (2004) - 8/10

What can I say? I was mildy amused -- emphasis on mildly.

Yes, they do.

Personally, my eyes glaze over when I starting reading a comment on the 'Net that's just an atheistic diatribe. More often than not, they attack a lot of strawmen and stereotypes that are only partially true at best.

Fire in the Sky (1993) - 7/10

The Dunwich Horror (1970) - 6/10

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - 7/10

Lord of Illusions (1995) - 7/10

Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) - 7/10

The Tommyknockers (1993) - 7/10

Signs (2002) - 7/10

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) - 8/10

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009) - 6/10

Hancock (2008) - 6/10

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - 6.5/10

Scrambled Aches (1957) - 6/10

Scrap Happy Daffy (1943) - 8/10

Snow Business (1953) - 6/10

Muzzle Tough (1954) - 6/10

Hot Cross Bunny (1948) - 8/10

From Beyond (1986) - 7/10

The Beguiled (1971) - 7.5/10

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - 10/10

I don't mind if someone wants to poke fun at something I like -- hell, I've done it myself. But crass, mean-spirited humour is not my scene.

buddy-x-wing said:

THRAWN  it's years since I read the Heir To The Empire trilogy, but he never made much of an impression with me. he certainly wasn't a villain I loved to hate.

 Was he ever meant to be, though?

danny_boy said:

Simple solution.

Watch it lo-fi(VHS,Beta,V2000, laserdisc)!

It forces you to focus on the characters and the storytelling and nothing-else.

Effects and sets are obscured by the relatively low quality picture that you have no choice but  to follow the story.

Maybe Star Wars fans have been too obsessed with Pixels and picture quality in the last 17 years(at least since the advent of DVD-1997) that it forbids them from just enjoying the film itself.

I know that the counter aurgument is that the picture quality is so bad(for NTSC VHS in particular) that it is too much of a distraction to enjoy the flick.

Or is that because we are so used to being spoiled in the high -definition era?

I am fortunate enough to  own a 4K Sony 1000 projector.

I can watch the likes of Oblivion,Elisium,Looper,Pacific Rim,Man Of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness on this projector  upscaled to 4K, enjoying every last ounce of pixel information/detail that these flicks have to offer.

They may look fantastic but IMHO all the above are just average movies---great style....but little substance---I re-iterate---in my opinion!

So yeah.....I get more of a kick watching my beat up ol' 1982 1st release(library rental) VHS video tape of Star Wars than watching  any of the above movies in 4K.

I actually own the OOT -- and the SE, for that matter -- on VHS. Less-than-high definition doesn't really bother me -- though I don't really prefer it -- the fact that the tapes will eventually degrade to nothing does, though.

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

no children (and never will, even if I do find a wife one day, though a part of me wants to).

 Feel free to ignore this personal question, but are you incapable or is it a lack of desire?  If the latter...desires change over time.  They certainly did for me and my wife.

If I'm infertile, I wouldn't know it. Anyway, I just don't want to bring children into a world as screwed up as this one is.

^Two minutes in, and I shut it off. I've got better things to do with my time than listen to a bunch of obnoxious douchebags piss and moan over a movie for an hour and a half.

I have one mother, one father, and one sister.

I have no wife (unfortunately) and no children (and never will, even if I do find a wife one day, though a part of me wants to).

I wish Heather Langenkamp's filmography was larger/richer.

RicOlie_2 said:

the new Jabba was created with pristine, state-of-the-art CGI and looked just like the puppet!

This is nonsense.

It looked better than the puppet.

Forcing myself to watch so many bad entries in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series over the past week has put me in a rather somber mood. It's no fun watching something that starts out so good turn to complete shit.

Ah, well, now that I've rewatched them, I'll never need to rewatch them again, and I can start trying to forget that parts 4, 5, 6, and Freddy vs. Jason even exist.

The only major problem I had with The Black Cauldron was that I couldn't help but to think of how it would work if it were a story set in the SW Universe; it really kept me from getting into the movie.

I have a goal to rewatch and reevaluate all the movies I can remember watching from my childhood/early twenties. FernGully was on the list, so I watched it.

Jason X (2001) - 4/10

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) - 5.5/10

Scrooged (1988) - 7/10

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) - 7/10

The 6th Day (2000) - 7/10

Freddy vs. Jason (2003) - 3/10

The Exorcist III (1990) - 6.5/10

Gremlins (1984) - 7/10

Tack said:

In 1986 they attempted to extend the lifetime of the Kenner Star Wars line, and one of the concepts was literally two Star Destroyers smashed together. No kidding.

 I kinda liked the concept myself, hokey though it is.

I don't currently subscribe to theologically conservative, inerrant Christianity because I find -- from what is admittedly only a theologically-uneducated layman's POV -- vast chunks of the Bible to be either internally inconsistent or historically inaccurate. I do think there could be validity to theologically liberal, non-inerrant forms of Christianity, though.

I also don't subscribe to atheism. I find it presumptuous to reach such a conclusion when mankind hasn't even reached full understanding of the physical universe, let alone what might be beyond it. Also, on a more emotional note, I'm not comfortable with the nihilism I believe is inherent in an atheistic universe.

As for other religions/metaphysical worldviews, I don't know enough to reach a conclusion on them. All I can say is that, from a superficial reading of them, some are more appealling to me than others.

I'm not really comfortable with my agnosticism -- I want to believe in God -- but in lieu of objective or subjective evidence for such an entity, I find cautious indecision to be the best course of action at this time.