Quick Protip: Instead of humoring this clown, how about we take him at face value? When Bozo tells you he's got a $70,000 Versace Tux in a closet at home he's probably lying. Wait, stop - don't move! A fuse is out. You mean someone on the internet is making absurd claims?!?!? Call the AP, this shit is sandy, dandy, and fit to print.
From now on he is the only one allowed to post in this thread. I'm putting my clown shoe down.
No one knows who he is, he has done nothing of substance but make claims. That's all it is, and it doesn't matter.
Yep, that analogy is completely sensible. It makes perfect sense. Kudos and thumbs up Gomer, you're one Hell of a thinker. I.... uh.... am just like those people because they.... uh.... didn't like the Original Trilogy.... and today... uh.... I don't like the Prequels.... so, um, because they uh, they're exactly the same just in different time periods and I'm just like those people because I must just hate the "here and now," and we're all a bunch of dummies that hate all that is good and new and shiny. Everyone in government and bad today is Hitler because he was a bad government figure of the past. There is not spoon, did that cat just walk by twice Gomer? Was it the same cat? I challenge you to a Rod Race. Pod Racing is soooo cool Gomer. My other Pod Racer is a Jar Jar!
The prequels were bad movies, you like them because you have poor taste. My opinion lords over yours because, quite frankly, I'm smarter than you Gomer. A better mover and shaker as well, a real dancer, a real trouble maker. A fire starter.
Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic So in your case the reason you didn't like the prequels had nothing to do with nostalgia, you just have a horrendous attitude?
The only thing horrendous about Stinky-Dinkins is his horrendous whale unit. How do you like them apples Gomer? I'm talking in 3rd person now. You are a real sassy salamander and for that I respect you.
I don't give a fuck about George Lucas, nostalgia, or the like. I enjoy watching good movies. The prequels were poor movies. Most of America has poor taste - it's reflected by the shows we watch on TV, the movies we pay to see, and the music we listen to on the radio. If you enjoy the prequels - more power to you Sally. Honestly, I wish I were at your level - able to eat crap as if it were candy. I would love to love the prequels.
Originally posted by: Raul2106 The powers that be have put me in a very difficult position. Apparently "Mike" a LFL employee that is a resident of this site has been talking to mods and now I am forbidden to post anything regarding next years DVDs. So for all those who were expecting screenshots and new info today I'm sorry. The funny part is I am believed to be a liar, yet nobody is questioning if "Mike" is who he says he is. LOL To all those who DO believe in me you will not be let down. 2007 is not that far off and soon enough the truth will be known to all.
Thank You!
Raul Xavier
I know George Lucas personally and I have ridden dune buggies with his daughters. I helped make Star Wars. It's cool to see more insiders here on the forum. I will post proof at a later date.
Obi Wan: Anakin! I am the only one in this film who comes close to being able to act.
Padme:*falls to the ground like a loser*
*CG lava razzle dazzles the audience*
Doctor Bot #1: I do not know why she is dieing. Perhaps she has lost the will to live.
Doctor Bot #2: That's not even a legitimate medical explanation.
Doctor Bot #1: Does not compute.
Padme:*dies due to "losing the will to live"*
Vader: Where's Padme and her large hats?
Emperor: You killed her!
Vader:*Frankenstein's Monster dance*
Vader: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!
Seriously go fuck yourselves fellas. Hey just kidding. If you want to enjoy the movies go right ahead, there's no accounting for taste. Lots of people genuinely enjoyed Hitch. It's not my fault you have the sensibilities of a retard, running around movie theaters all slack-jawed and cum-drunk watching whatever poo they fling on the screen. Arguing about matters of taste is generally a waste of time, opinions aren't provable... some people simply have horrible, idiotic opinions (that's my opinion and you can take it to the bank, Jack.) My dislike of the prequels has absolutely nothing to do with my love of the original Star Wars movies (I'm lukewarm on many parts of Jedi,) or how I feel about what should and should not be in the Star Wars "universe," it is simply because they were completely lack-luster films - SkyWalker Ranch tech demos. "Wow look at them walk around slowly and talk Star Wars politics... don't those ships in the background look amazing. Look, they're flying."
Right now I'm sitting here at work listening to In the Air Tonight and eating home-made chili - so you can take that right home to Howard, and you can tell Howard that he can shove it right up his ass.
I felt like I was watching 3 hour long PS2 games when watching each prequel.
Horrible movies. Horrible acting, horrible CG, horrible characters, horrible plot. The decline of the Star Wars films began with Jedi and those absurd Ewoks, it was given a few decades to marinate it in its declining rotten stank and thus the prequels were born.
I got completely shitfaced for the last two prequels hoping it would help. It didn't, and usually with enough Jack Daniels I can watch an infomercial and maintain some degree of interest. One of my buddies sitting next to me even fell asleep during the last one, he woke back up after close to an hour and kept saying "Did I miss the battle, did I miss the battle?" like a confused drunk retard. I told him to go back to sleep.
What the fuck else are you going to do in highschool ceramics class, make a fucking jar?
I used to bring a piece tin foil to school all the time during my Junior and part of my Senior year and make it into a bowl real quick during lunch and take a few rips on the football field with my buddies. How we never got caught is beyond me.
Originally posted by: Hot.like.fire what on earth was the huge post about? i started reading it but my eyes got all blurry... that guy on the bus reminds me of a time my friends and i went on the bus drunk. there was this total creeper who moved seats to come sit closer to us and in the end my friend scared the crap outta him. at one point my friend tracy was "like JT (we named him justin timberlake for kicks) are we making you uncomfortable?" and he was like "yeah kinda". then we'd laugh hysterical cuz he was a creeper who got creeped out by us. LOVES IT.
Originally posted by: JediSage Anyone watch the other show by Chris Carter called "Millenium"? That show was AWESOME for the first two years, then they jumped the shark when they brought him to Washington and paired him with a partner. Lance Henriksen was great in it.
Amen brother, Frank Black mother fucker. After Millenium was cancelled I believe they resolved the series in an episode of the X-Files (I remember it being sloppy and disappointing, though.)
X-Files jumped the shark shortly before Mulder left; T-1000 was a shoddy replacement.
I used to watch the show religiously years and years ago, it was far better than anything else on television at the time. In addition to being genuinely fun to watch (especially the strange stand-alone episodes,) the shows that tied into the running storyline were interesting (at least to me) because they perfectly encapsulated the public's general distrust of government and widespread belief that the whole of world events and significant evil deeds are perpetuated by a small handful of evil, calculating men sitting in smoke filled rooms. No matter how absurd or unbelievable the event it was always incorporated into some grand conspiracy that only the most fringe-thinking (Mulder) would ever suspect and have the courage to expose. The Cigarette Smoking Man reaffirms America's tendency to believe outlandish and unlikely conspiracy theories even in the face of logic, evidence, and reason - and within the confines of the show logic, evidence, and reason have no bearing on actual events. The Cigarette Smoking Man even murdered Kennedy in the show and set up his good buddy Oswald to take the fall, as silly as that sounds.
Being that the country was founded partially on the concept that if the government were to become overbearing and oppressive the American people would be expected to exercise their authority and forcibly remove it, most of the public today tends to question every state-sanctioned baby step in an age where removal of the government by the people is a virtual impossibility... They probably feel as though endless scrutiny is the only way to ensure that an increasingly powerful federal government doesn't operate only on their secret, self-serving whims and move beyond the public's political influence. The controversy that inevitably envelopes all of the moon landings, JFK assassinations, and 9/11's of the world always fascinates me, regardless of glaring evidence and almost complete public exposure most people absolutely refuse to believe that the government did not have a hand in purposefully misleading/damaging the citizenry in every major world event. Not to say that the federal government has never been responsible for vicious acts or depraved conspiracies but the belief that everything is a conspiracy is reflected perfectly in the X-Files. "Trust no one," "The Truth is Out There," "I want to Believe," etc.
I also think it is somehow comforting for people, though, that they believe there is no incompetence within something as powerful and controlling as the Federal Government - only carefully planned events scripted by a small collection of brilliant, malevolent man tweaking the country's invisible puppet strings (after all… at least some one is in control, right?)
Fantasy is more exciting than reality though, so in the X-Files everything really is a conspiracy - and it does it brilliantly.