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I skip the crawls on all of the movies, most times.

Nothing beats homemade pasta. I strongly reccomend the JUPITER BRAND PASTA MAKER!!! It's the KING OF PASTA MAKERS!

Gaffer Tape said:

  But it does seem to be a problem with our society that men will rush to the aid of a woman in distress whether or not she actually needs it. 

Perhaps I'm hung up on semantics, but if she's in distress, doesn't she need help?

TheBoost said:

EyeShotFirst said:

And they will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. I don't think you can be sane and not feel some remorse for bad things you've done. I know I would. I regret some shit I said when I was 5. Hell, I regret some shit I posted on here a year ago.

 Get over it, jerk!

 I regret saying that. Sorry.

EyeShotFirst said:

And they will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. I don't think you can be sane and not feel some remorse for bad things you've done. I know I would. I regret some shit I said when I was 5. Hell, I regret some shit I posted on here a year ago.

 Get over it, jerk!

Doctor M, the scene you're thinking of is only in the Alan Dean Foster novelisation, although there is a "Lost Cut" where in the final shot Indy and Marion both leap into hyperspace right before the final credits.

I found a box in my dad's garage with old issues of "Starlog" and my badges to my first comic/sci-fi conventions at the Shrine Auditorium in LA.

There used to be a mystery to being a sci-fi geek. There was lore, and the challenge. The thrill of a mail-order catalog, and the glorious joy of a 3rd generation "Dr. Who" VHS. Guys swapping stories and reccomendations at the local comic shop. The importance of all-night monster movie marathons on cable because that was the only way you were EVER going to get to see "Taste the Blood of Dracula." A convention was awesome, because it was a unique oppurtunity to meet fellow geeks and feed your need for new interesting materials- books, tapes, magazines, screening rooms, etc.

The internet (and the wide availability of DVD releases) has kind of taken the challenge and mystique away from the world of geekdom. Also to blame is the mainstreaming of the geek-world by the successful big budget movies that gave the masses, the kids who used to look down on us in school, equal access to Frodo, Spider-Man, and the Clone Wars. Now Comic-Con isn't about watching weird anime or buying old "2000 AD" comics, it's about meeting the cast of Twilight.

I'm not saying it's all bad, or that if I had my druthers I'd switch it back to the old ways. I don't know what I'm saying except expressing a pleasent nostalgia for the way being a geek used to be.

• 0:00:00- OPENING LOGOS
• R2 and C3PO meet
• Qui-Gon gets stabbed
• Queen Amidala 1st Appears
• Qui-Gon vs. Maul first fight
• The Invasion of Naboo begins
• Heroes meet Boss Nass
• Jedi meet the Queen
• Anakin steals a fighter
• The Queen commends Artoo
• The Senate votes for a committee!!!
• Entering Watto's shop.
• Arrival on Coruscant
• Darth Maul arrives on Tatooine
• Qui Gons funeral
• Podrace starts!
• Jar Jar gets his head zapped.
• Padme says "NO! I'm really the Queen!" to Boss Nass
• The Council tells Anakin he won't be trained.
• Darth Sidious 1st Appears (via hologram)
• Ani hugs his momma for the final time
• Maul gets sliced
• 2:04:00 Credits roll

Same as xhonzi's games, only a worse movie.

Put the events in the correct order and then guess the time each event starts.

The correct order is worth 10 points, and any item out of order will lose you a point! Guess the time (the hours, minutes) each event starts. Each time is worth 3 points if within five minutes, 2 within ten minutes, and 1 point within 15 minutes.

Times are taken from the DVD version of the film.

Feel free to post your answers below. The only prize is knowing how well you know TPM, wghich is a dubious distinction at best, so cheating is, of course frowned apon.

If you haven't created your answers yet, you probably don't want to read below.

Warbler said:

 

I'd like to think I'd do something.   It would certainly be the right thing to do.   But I do know what I'd really do.  

I've gone to Philly(and couple of times to NY) and seen homeless people on the street and did nothing(of course I do give to charities that help the homeless).   How do I know any of them weren't sick or dying and need of medical attention?    Maybe you've never been in a big city and walked by and saw a homeless person it is easy to say you'd do something until you are in the situation.   I confess there is an instinct in me that says "I don't want anything to do with this situation".    I hope I would do something, but I'm going to put myself above these people that just walked by.  Perhaps, I'm just as bad as they are.   I don't know.     

 

I know for a fact that walking down the streets of Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma I've probably passed literally hundreds of homeless people who may have been dead/dying.

I doubt that they were, and didn't think they were at the time, assuming they were sleeping, but I just kept walking.

Sluggo said:

I wouldn't mind seeing that man's relatives suing every single passer-by who ignored the man.

Is there a binding legal obligation to help a stranger who you can't be sure of if they are in distress? 

Warbler said:

they had to toughen her up,  heaven forbid they depict her as the damsel in distress.   Morgan's character was added just so they so say there movie had a black guy.    

of course no one describes their own actions as P.C..  Most wouldn't be willing to admit to such a thing.   

you do know that P.C. stands for Politically Correct, right?

 I do know that, and it's a term used when someone thinks what someone else does is stupid.

So that fact that Azeem is the most interesting part of the film matters not at all, just some people wanted a black dude in the flick.

And the fact that Marion is captured and BEING RAPED during the climax and robin heroically saves her isn't enough? She should have been crying and cooking during the scene as well?

Warbler said:

   I also didn't like the fact they added Morgan Freeman's character, just to be P.C.  They also had to P.C. Maid Marion's character.   I also couldn't stand  the fact that they added that witch character.    

 No one ever describes their own actions as "PC." PC is what the other guy does that we don't like.

I thought Morgan Freemans character was a welcome addition, tying Robin's origin to the Crusades and contrasting Islamic learning with the British medieval time gave that film a unique charm and intellectual depth.

And how did they "PC" Maid Marion?

xhonzi said:

 

 It's like Alfred Molina.  In his career: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000547/

He's played:
French
Mexican
English
Russian
German
New Yorker
Ancient Persian
Modern Iranian
Egyptian
Italian
Belgian
Jew
AND
Canadian

Apparently, we in America see him and say, "Well!  I don't know where he's from, but he's not from around here!"

 To be fair people of Alfred Molina's basic complexion do make up a much larger part of the world's population than people of Kevin Costner's complexion.

 Back to work on this, although it's becoming more of a Mexican/English hybrid cut. the only shot I'm planning on yoinking from another film is the ship at sea, and I still haven't found one good enough.

I'm REALLY happy with how Swan Lake and a couple of cues from "Dracula's Daughter" is adding to the film. There will be very little scoring, but I think it heightens it at points, while not ruining the eerie silences at others.

I'll see if I can find that silent Sherlock Holmes, thanks for the tip.

vaderios said:

Here the gif for your consideration :)

-Angel~3 Days left~

 AWESOME. If something like that could be pulled off, that would be a very solid addition to the opening.

Moth3r said:

 

 

But I believe Hot Rod's point was, why would the Antipodean Russell Crowe be any better at an English accent than the American Kevin Costner? Although I did read that Crowe has been taking intensive voice-coaching to attempt to speak with an accurate North-Notts accent (an accent not too far away from my own).

 I recall reading that Crowe, as "The Spaniard" in Gladiator wanted to do a Spanish accent, and Ridley Scott had to convince him that the only way the audience would know he was playing a Spanish member of the ancient Roman Empire based in Itally was to do a gravelly British accent.

I think VIHN packed off after the heated "Wrath of Khan/Herd Mentallity" discussion.

It's a pity. Despite frequent disgreements, I enjoyed his contrary nature.

The chart and the games were both a lot of fun. This charts from the webcomic XKCD.

Perhaps I should do a "How Well do You Know The Phantom Menace"?

Hey... is that JUPITER THE KING OF PLANETS there in the background?

Warbler said:

   Also, I think the game they played in Casino should have been Baccarat, not poker.  

But no one understands Baccarat. I've played it and don't understand it. Poker is a simpler game that people already understand, and is popular enough to be at every casino in America and covered on cable TV.

When I hear Crowe and Ridley Scott say how they want to distance Robin Hood from the feathers in his hat and the green outfits, and the Merry Men, and all of the things that make it Robin Hood, I wonder "why make a Robin Hood movie?"

He's not a historical figure that needs an accurate portrayal. He's a legend.

It's like that King Arthur movie that said "We want to make a King Arthur movie that doesn't have any of the bits of the King Arthur mythos that make it the King Arthur mythos."

I'll see the film, and it will probably be pretty good, but does the world need a grim, gritty, realistic Robin Hood?

captainsolo said:

And Leia would have 50 costume and hair changes in 20 minutes.

I've never thought that's fair.

Is there ever a point where Amidala is changing clothes where it's not appropriate for a Galactic Senator/Queen? Palpy get's his fair share of outfits too.

And Leia seems to change clothes as much as reasonable for the stories she's in.

Octorox said:

I've never been able to sexualize Carrie Fisher, mainly because I grew up with her as Princess Leia, I think in some way she's desexualized, the same way most children who grow up together naturally don't sexualize eachother.

xhonzi said:

Nice ideas, TheoOdo...  1 quick question while I digest the other things you wrote: Why Tatooine?  I always thought it was a big mistake to put any of the Prequels there... it's already a little hard to swallow that they would "hide" Luke under his father's actual surname... if they also hid him from his father on his father's home planet...

I've thought long about that one myself, and I'd still start the story on Tatooine.

One of my goals is to make Obi as little of a liar as possible.  The lies he tells to Luke in "Star Wars" are to spare the boy's feelings, and he probably means to tell him the whole truth when the current crisis is over.

Im wokring that Anakin, his sister Beru, and her husband Owen are settlers (a nice Western-movie trope) who fled to Tatooine to find oppurtunities as the endless civil war of the collapsing Republic have made oppurtunities scarce. Owen and Beru are farmers, and Anakin flies supply runs. So it's not really Vader's home planet.

(also, I'm planning that Vader never even knows he had kids or that his lady was preggers, so another reason it works to hide Luke so carelessly)

 I think it's that when I rememeber the film, I remember it in sequences, not as jumping between things.

If I think of the Endor forest scenes, I can go straight through them in my head from the landing to Han and Leia kissing and Yub Yub. I don't recall when the stories cut from one to the other.

Just putting them in order took all of my brainpower.

Also, as a kid I had a VHS copy taped off of HBO that started with C3PO and Artoo walking to Jabba's palace, so I never even noticed that the first scene of Vader arriving at the DS wasn't on the list.

This has been great fun.