logo Sign In

SilverWook

User Group
Members
Join date
9-Dec-2004
Last activity
6-Apr-2023
Posts
22,080

Post History

Post
#1067970
Topic
Random Thoughts
Time

Some people upgrade so often, you might be able to assemble a system piecemeal buying used components on Ebay. People upgrading to 4K have to get new receivers capable of passing the newfangled color information, so slightly older models capable of 7.1 and HD audio formats can probably be had for a lot less these days.
Thank goodness they’ve never made speaker connectors obsolete. I’m still rocking the same speakers I’ve owned since 1994. 😃

Post
#1067869
Topic
Introducing Star Wars to young children
Time

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Honestly, there’s nothing in the OT that I would shy away from showing a 5 year-old kid. It’s not like they show them burning alive.

Don’t give George any new ideas! 😉

Seriously though, I have to give him points for only showing it long enough to register, and not lingering on it. It would be a few more years before we could freeze frame it.

One wonders what nightmares we all would have had if Walrusman lost more than an arm as originally planned!
http://www.revengeofthe5th.net/2017/03/ponda-baba-almost-lost-his-head.html

Post
#1067865
Topic
Introducing Star Wars to young children
Time

Mocata said:

Well then it’s time to put that to the test and throw the 6 year olds in the deep end 😛

What I mean is horror is too broad a genre to only think of it only in terms of blood and guts. A psychological horror film could also give a kid the screaming meemies, without so much as showing a single severed head. 😉
The imagination fills in a lot of gaps if the filmmakers do it right.

Post
#1067805
Topic
Introducing Star Wars to young children
Time

Just goes to show how mileage will vary with kids on what’s scary/upsetting or not. The only thing in the OT that phased me as a kid was the shot of the Taun Taun guts popping out. That shot still kind of squicks me to this day.
I think I had already seen some WWII documentaries on PBS back in '77, so the Lar’s family cookout was not as shocking as it might have been otherwise.
For all the overblown controversy over violence in Star Wars when it came out, it was pretty tame compared to what one could get away with in PG rated film back then. I nearly tossed my cookies during Jaws. 😉

Post
#1067750
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Alderaan said:

Bill O’Reilly was the worst. Except maybe Hannity. If Hannity and Maddow could get caught up in some scandal together and both get fired, the world would truly be a better place.

Wouldn’t that be like mixing matter and anti matter? Hell, if they were even in the same room, that could rip the very fabric of space and time!
Bad enough we’re living in the alternate 1985 timeline as it is. 😉

Post
#1067715
Topic
Star Wars Insider celebrates the 40th anniversary with...
Time

TV’s Frink said:

Was the first one subtitled Strange Magic: The Forgotten Movie? 'Cause I’ve never heard of it.

More like The last Lucas helmed production we’re dumping in the middle of January, with zero promotion, and wont even release on Blu Ray. 😉
The usual suspects who rail against any and all perceived attacks on Lucas apparently never heard of it either.

Post
#1067486
Topic
Justify why you have your opinion of certain episodes from the "Star Wars universe" as being canon (or worth watching).
Time

Alderaan said:

Lord Haseo said:

Alderaan said:

Lord Haseo said:

Can it also calibrated to detect excrement?

This just shows how irrational you Disney people have become. This place is turning into TFN.

I’m pretty sure this is an imitation of some of you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgLa3eKMYs

Just so you know I don’t really care about canon, official or otherwise. I’m at the point in which I don’t even try to make it all fit into a collective story. But the petty, infantile amount of ‘hatred’ you have inside yourself and the compulsion to make it known to us is ironically something of note.

Anyways, keep doing you I guess.

This post of yours is ironic, especially the “petty, infantile” remark, since there are about half a dozen posters who behave this way to anyone who is vehemently anti-Disney. Fink responds aggressively to literally 100% of my General posts. A few of these half dozen users have made up and attributed things to me that I’ve never said.

If you don’t like me or my viewpoint, don’t respond. It’s really easy.

The OP made a post and started a thread that alluded to canon. Several other people gave their responses. Then a user said he only cared about official canon. I said official canon is dumb. Fink said he thought I was dumb for holding that opinion, which is also a valid response from Fink, if that’s what he thinks.

So far, so good.

Two problems then developed in this thread, and neither of them have to do with me, the OP, his thread idea, or many of the perfectly appropriate responses. The two problems were:

A few of you posters who behave like children, yourself included, view any appearance by me or someone you dislike as an invitation to engage us in a hostile manner. Sometimes, as Fink did in this thread when he said he thought my position was stupid, that kind of response might be warranted. Another example is when generalfrievous made his ridiculous out-of-bounds post about slavery in another thread. I agree, there may be times when you have to respond forcefully in a negative manner towards another user.

Unfortunately, that’s not what some of you choose to do. You dislike a user’s posting history or agenda, and you hunt them down from thread to thread with insults and attacks that usually have nothing to do with the topic at all.

And that brings us to the second problem in this thread, which is minor compared to the other. That kind of toxic atmosphere affected the judgement of Wook, who is usually very fair minded and even keeled. It’s clear he and I have differences of opinion regarding the ST and Star Wars going forward in general, but this was the first time I felt like he was letting bias get in the way of how he engaged me. Again, this is minor and I don’t have a beef with Wookie, it’s just something I wanted to point out.

Really, the bottom line is that I have a point of view that the Disney movies suck, and that Disney should be held accountable for not restoring the OOT. If you are still in that STAR WARS!, I ****ING LOVE STAR WARS, MORE STAR WARS! phase of your life, and my critical posts bother you that much, then ignore them. As you said, do your thing. I’m not going to stop posting because it hurts your feelings. As many times as you post equivocations and excuses for Disney and their **** movies and their **** treatment of the OOT, there shouldn’t be any problem with me criticizing them just as many times.

The only toxic vapors affecting me come from the dead Taun Taun you repeatedly beat into the ground at every opportunity. Give it a freaking rest.

Post
#1067413
Topic
Justify why you have your opinion of certain episodes from the "Star Wars universe" as being canon (or worth watching).
Time

Alderaan said:

Lord Haseo said:

Can it also calibrated to detect excrement?

This just shows how irrational you Disney people have become. This place is turning into TFN.

I’m pretty sure this is an imitation of some of you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgLa3eKMYs

Post
#1067239
Topic
Info Wanted: 2006 GOUT Full Screen DVDs?
Time

JayArgonaut said:

Williarob said:

Another “See how much better the new SE version is” tactic.

Yeah, we’ll give you the originals but in the worst possible form that we can get away with - just to spite you all. At the time Lucas had said something like, “let’s see how well they do”, implying that no-one would want them and with such blatant sabotage at play, that outcome wouldn’t have been a surprise.

George Lucas taped over the Original Trilogy

If only the 1993 LD masters had been taped over. Even the old Japanese LD transfers looked better.