You talk about "then" as if being able to suck it is unsatisfactory! My computer sucks the past. The entire past! Can your dust bunnies measure up to encouraging the natural flow of time?
Well... figuratively speaking, of course. But what an experience that would be, huh?
That's what she said.
Is it wrong that I read that last "Yesss!" in an Ed McMahon voice?
Man, I hate what that new movie did to the look of U.S.S. Voyager. That ship in the picture doesn't look anything like the Voyager from the TV series!!!
xhonzi said:
*coughs up milk, some of which comes up my nose* What? The DVD's not that bad? Have you compared Revisited to the 2004 DVD? I know you're a woman, but surely you have more discerning tastes than that, Gaffer?
I'm not talking about either Revisited or the 2004 DVDs. I'm talking about the original version. And no matter what the quality, watching the original is always preferable to anything else. The GOUT isn't great, but it's certainly watchable.
That does remind me. ScrewAttack's Video Game Vault did a review on the Shadows of the Empire game for the N64, and they seemed to imply that it was bad because there was no "lightsaber battles or force pushing." I usually love their stuff, but I rolled my eyes.
She liked him because he was a real bang...
But they couldn't keep running forever.
With an invading army, a jealous husband, and seven metric tons of TNT, all you're left with are:
INDEPENDENT HEARTS
I would assume they had to license the music. Because life's a bitch like that.
This summer Jim W. Gettys has something less... than a prayer.
Thank you, Mr. Frink. Hmm. I guess my computer just sucks then... even though it doesn't do that on any other video. Boggles my mind.
Maybe that was just an assumption my part, but all of those little elements we get in the OT (that one's a master, one's a knight; that one is the superior of the other; that one teaches in different ways; that one might have had the skillset to train Anakin while the other didn't) were very important because, as zombie says in his book, Yoda was basically just a replacement Obi-Wan. They were, in essence, the same character. So you really needed those distinctions to separate them. But for some reason in the PT, all of those are done away with. Obi-Wan becomes a Jedi Master, so he's basically of the same rank as Yoda. Yoda fights with a lightsaber, so he basically does the same job as Obi-Wan. They're both wise Jedi. They both seem perfectly capable of training Anakin... or they both seem equally indept depending on which view you want to take. Really, the only differences that remain are superficial. Obi-Wan is a human, Yoda is a little green thing. Obi-Wan speaks with a British accent. Yoda speaks like Time magazine back in the 1930s.
Thank you. I think I'm good for now, but I do appreciate the standing offer.
If someone wouldn't mind doing me a favor... When I've tried to play this particular video back on YouTube, it has this bizarre habit of starting playback at 0:02 unless I manually adjust the playhead back to 0:00. I've never seen another video do this before, and it makes the drum beat at the beginning sound rather clipped. Is this just happening to me? Or did it happen to anyone else?
Bingowings said:
In the OT Jedi seems to mean more than just Jedi Knight.
I always felt the same way. And it was for that reason that it somewhat annoyed me in ROTS when Obi-Wan was made a Jedi Master. That seemed to come out of left field. Obi-Wan was a Jedi Knight. He fought. He was a warrior. He had been in wars in his youth. Yoda was a Jedi Master. He was a teacher. He was a philosopher. He was more spiritual. It seemed an important distinction to me as a child, but that distinction was done away with in the prequels.
Wow. One day we as viewers can really experience what it's like to have Ron Jeremy's boner in our faces?
That's... just...
I can't even finish this sentence. I'm just going to vomit and go to bed.
That's not what I've heard. The whole movie is on YouTube (not the best gauge of human intelligence, I know), and you should see some of the comments there. I showed it to my mother, and, while she eventually came to marginally enjoy it, she complained that it was boring. Of course, she also initially complained, "I hate old movies," to which I replied, "It's only three years older than you!"
Anyway, I do get something of an impression that it's one of those things film buffs "have" to see, like a textbook or bad tasting medicine, that's really good for you but not has to be forced down. Again, I just don't get it. Not only do I find it extremely educational and fascinating to analyze, I find it genuinely enjoyable to watch.
Oh, good heavens. They're doing Harry Potter in 3D? Yuck.
Continuing on from Me and Orson Welles...
Citizen Kane. I still love this movie. I have no idea how anyone can consider it boring.
Well, I hated Serenity the first time I saw it, but that was just because I was horrified at some of the things that happened in the story. I've since calmed down and learned to really like it.
"And I think the only group complaining about the changes are those from that first batch of people who saw it originally. Kids now won’t know the difference, so in another 10 or 20 years, that will be a completely moot point."
Ugh, this comment from the author makes me facepalm. Doesn't he understand that that reasoning is exactly what makes the point all that more important? That Lucas has so successfully rewritten history that people are no longer going to "know the difference" isn't a big deal to him?
That's what I thought you said.
doubleofive said:
Chewtaco the Bookie
I thought his name was Fozwacca the Cookie?
Indeed. I knew about Star Wars for years before I actually saw it (or at least had some vague understanding of it) just from watching Muppet Babies every Saturday morning for the first formative years of my life!
doubleofive said:
4. Muppets Take Manhattan ("It's Time for Saying Goodbye" is too depressing)
That's the best damn part! Damn depressing but damn good!
And don't think I hadn't noticed. ^_~
But since you're here, I wanted to thank you for making that black and white logo for me. I remember at the time I had said that that hadn't been what I meant, but as soon as I thought about making this video, it immediately sprang to mind as being perfect for the "A FUSION Quickie" logo... and then I couldn't find it. I could have sworn I had saved it, but I guess I didn't, so I scoured my PM box and this thread until I finally came across it.