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ThiefCobbler4ever said:

Disney owning Lucasfilm is a major bad move and I don't like Disney handling Star Wars (less Lucasfilm will keep Star Wars to themselves). If anything, Fox should've gotten the Star Wars franchise hands down.

Well, truth be told, there hasn't really been any reason to be optimistic when it comes to Star Wars for many years now, has there? Now, as alien as it may be to my generally pessimistic nature, I'm actually going to invest in some hope now that Disney has purchased Lucasfilm and Lucas is no longer the centre of the SW Universe, but I'm certainly not going to begrudge anyone who decides against following my lead.

I don't mind if more dark siders show up in the sequels, just as long as they aren't Lucas-styled Sith or modern EU-styled Dark Jedi.

Daylight savings time deserves to be unglamourously murdered execution style.

skyjedi2005 said:

Film will be no longer used everything will be cgi and shot on 3D video.

I wish more women didn't pluck their eyebrows.

asterisk8 said:

The Devil's Backbone - 7.5/10

I really liked this film. Unsurprisingly, a lot young people who loved Pan's Labyrinth found this film "boring" and "not scary". Proof that expectations color perception. How some of these same people can enjoy the unremittingly boring Paranormal Activity movies boggles my mind. Apparently extended shots of empty rooms is more entertaining than a well-paced drama about loneliness and abandonment. And jump scares are cooler than existential horror, I guess.

I hope you're not knocking Supershadow. Without him, I'd have one less source to steal ideas from.

Should they ever use Thrawn in a film, I'd like to see Canadian actor Tom McCamus cast for the role. He's played suave villains before, so he'd be perfect IMO.

Building off of Zahn's vision of the Clone Wars hardly qualifies as adapting the Thrawn trilogy, so unless you're afraid that Thrawn himself or C'baoth would feature heavily in such a reboot, I have no clue as to what your problem with the idea is.

"Edge of Evolution" by Alanis Morissette.

I wonder if there are any serious fans of Star Wars in their seventies and up.

If a PT reboot were to be made, I'd want it to take the pre-1999 EU into account and stay faithful to it (the clones would be the enemies, Jedi would have children and marry, lightsabers would come in a large range of colours, etc.). Timothy Zahn and Tom Veitch would serve as creative consultants.

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

What a film - what a film indeed. There are so many things I could say about it - so many things indeed - but where would I begin, where would I finish? Such an undertaking would require superhuman endurance, and I don't thing I could even a halfway decent job. Therefore, I'll just describe the steps that were taken to make this movie.


1. Speilberg buys copies of The Crab with the Golden Claws and The Secret of the Unicorn

2. Speilberg hands the two books to a toddler then says "Here, read these, then write up a screenplay. I don't have all day, so chop-chop"

3. Toddler takes a pair of scissors, and goes to work cutting the books to pieces with gusto

4. Toddler grabs a handful of crudely-clipped panels and begins arranging them all out in what he hopes is a cohesive, sequential order, but just can't get the pieces to fit right

5. Toddler sets about glueing the panels down on a piece of paper, but does a bad job, mucking the whole thing up with sticky glue, wrecking some panels while all but destroying others

6. Toddler takes a set of crayons and begins scrawling a bunch of formless blobs, lines, and various scribbly shit all over the collage

7. Speilberg returns, and the toddler hands him the collage. Speilberg takes the incoherent mess and says "Awesome! Perfect! This is just what I say looking for! There'll be no need for further drafts or rewrites - we'll film it as it is!"


4/10, and I'm being generous.


Star Trek: Generations (1994) - 5/10

I'd like to see the Tales of the Jedi comics adapted for the screen, but only if they stay faithful to the comics, ie. no prequelisms, no "lightening up" the subject matter for the PG-or-lower crowd, etc. Knowing Disney, though, it'd be pointless to give my hopes up. Plus they'd go as cookie-cutter as possible and shoot it with a scrubbed digital look; TOTJ can only work properly if shot on film - preferably in an '80s style - with grain present.

Dementia 13 (1963) - 6/10

The Body Snatcher (1945) - 6/10

I wonder if this will prove to be the final blow which kills the Star Wars franchise or the saving grace which redeems it. Only time will time, I suppose. At the very least, I hope lightsaber colours beyond the plain ol' blue, red, and green will make decent appearances in the films to come.

As I was born in 1987, I don't know if I have any memories of the '80s. My earliest concrete memory - that of being on an operating table to sew up my big toe after dropping a pickle jar on it - only goes back to 1990; I have no way of knowing if any of the images/impressions I have from the time before that go back much further.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) - 6/10

Legend (director's cut) (1985) - 5.6/10

Both Legend of Zelda games for the N64 are creepy to varying degrees.

digitalfreaknyc said:

George's sex life really screwed up the SE's.

^That would definately make the Dadaists proud.

Psycho II (1983)- 6.8/10

Psycho III (1986) - 5/10

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I've never been to the movies. A combination of cheap parents, lack of real close friends, and distance has prevented me from doing so. It's not so much a burden on me anymore, however, because in this age of CGI-overkill and unoriginality, I have no desire to waste the money.

I...don't even know what to say.

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - 5.5/10

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) - 4.9/10

First Men in the Moon (1964) - 6.8/10