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#527893
Topic
Highlander
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/527893/action/topic#527893
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InfoDroid said:

In spite of hearing about it for many, many years from people who are into the same kind of movies I am, I had avoided seeing Highlander up until last week, when my friend finally forced me into watching the first one.

The concept of the story was good, but ultimately my first insticts were right, I thought it was a badly executed film. Undeniably 80's. I was surprised to hear the prominent use of some Queen songs in there that I was familiar with from elsewhere, like "Who Wants To Live Forever", which is one of my favorite songs.

For me, it's difficult to see Clancy Brown as anything else but the prick captain of the guard in "The Shawshank Redemption". Christopher Lambert has the personality and like-ability of dogfood. And Sean Connery all but phones in his performance.

As a whole, I can take the film for what it's worth and appreciate it in the context of the time it was made. It was mildly interesting. Mildly entertaining. But when the story ends in the first one, that's it. Case closed. Story over. Period. End of conversation. There's absolutely no room for sequels.

Yet there <span class="Italics">are</span> sequels. Many of them.

I hear the sequels are pretty much unwatchable.

They say "There can be only one." Well, maybe there should've <span class="Italics">been</span> only one.

--InfoDroid


Pure secular blasphemy.

Post
#527850
Topic
The Atheism thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/527850/action/topic#527850
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TV's Frink said:



skyjedi2005 said:

These days most don't even have the balls to call themselves atheists they call themselves secular humanists or agnostics.



Yes, I'm not agnostic, I'm an atheist with no balls.


Ah, this reminds of a Young Earth Creationist Fundie I encountered on a theology forum some months back. He made the bold assertion that almost all agnostics are really closeted atheists.

Sigh ... the Internet's like women ... can't live with it, can't live without it.

Post
#527835
Topic
Prequel Rewriters - Questions to think about
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/527835/action/topic#527835
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Jedi1520 said:


Some of the better ideas I read about have to do with a (forgive the noun) "alien" force threatening the republic. The problem with this is that if there is no "outside" power mentioned in any of the OT movies. And it does not make sense that, if such a power had existed, it would just show up and collapse without a trace. For this reason I think we should adopt as a rule that:

the Anti-Republic force MUST consist of political elements and species that exist in the OT.


Well, if we go by this logic, then there are many things we couldn't include in our rewrites. For example a prostitute character couldn't be added because prostitutes weren't mentioned or alluded to in the films, or ice cream men because ice cream wasn't mentioned, etc.

Post
#527571
Topic
Religion
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/527571/action/topic#527571
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I guess I would classify myself as a pro-theism agnostic with mixed feelings about religion. I like the idea of a benovolent God existing and there being some sort of plan/design to the universe, though I myself can't believe in either at this time due to a lack of conclusive evidence. As for religion, I believe that in the right hands it can be a progressive force for good, encouraging self-improvement, brotherly love, and cultural evolution, while in the wrong hands it can be used to gain personal power, spread ignorance, nurture intolerance, and control others.

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#527447
Topic
How did you imagine The Star Wars Prequels before they came out?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/527447/action/topic#527447
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twooffour said:



DuracellEnergizer said:

 
5. I expected Palpatine to be more of a background character - someone who wouldn't be focused on until the final prequel


 


That's kinda what happened, though :D


I meant that I didn't expect Palpatine to be shown that much until it came time for him to seduce Anakin to the dark side and rise to power. Maybe he'd make one or two appearances throughout the PT, a few references to him would be made perhaps, but that's all I expected. I didn't expect him to be the puppet master pulling the strings of galactic events as he was shown to be throughout the PT.