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I never thought the "girl" Batman comics, especially the Lesbian one, would be my favorite comics. Go figure. 

Gaffer Tape said:

EDIT:  Also, it was nice to see Bingowings mention me a few times, even if it was to worry about where I was.  Good to know I wasn't forgotten in my absence.  But I should clarify I didn't disappear because of any perceived criticism about my clothing choices or gender identity, so fear not.  :-)

 I noticed, but the last time a pretty girl vanished on me and I kept trying to find her or contact her, I got a restraining order. 

14 Razors. 

14 consecutive times, I've shaved in the shower then arced the used razor over the shower door, off the wall, and into the little trashcan. 

Today the Streak ended. 

Mondess122 said:

Last year was a pretty notorious year for "copycat" films:

Elysium, After Earth and Oblivion ("Earth is sh*t" sci-fi films);

 

And this year, we got Hercules and The Legend of Hercules. 

 Blatant economic parable, movie about monsters smelling fear, and mind-f**k movie about aliens are clones, you are an alien clone, and all clones are Tom Cruise aliens. Seems like a stretch to say these are somehow copycats.

And dont forget "HERCULES REBORN" starring WWE Superstar Johnny Nitro!

Bingowings said:

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Dark City (1998)

The Matrix (1999)

Each film has it's strengths and weaknesses. I guess if I had to pick a favorite it would be The Thirteenth Flour.

Clearly there was a bit of end of the millennium doubt of all things bug going around.

  A professor of religion I used to work with spoke very highly of all these films.

He said science fiction, especially speculating on things like Virtual reality were opening doors to Westerners to engage with these traditionally Eastern ideas and views about the nature of reality. A lot of these notions, he continued, were bubbling around the zeitgiest since the 60s, but were still really hard to express until we started visuallizing them with these computer stories.

TV's Frink said:

Weren't there two directly competing movies about marathon runners?  Google-fu is failing me.

 Prefontain and Without Limit were two movies about the same runner that came out within a year of eachother. 1998 maybe?

Even if I dont care for many of the changes Adywan made, the sheer accomplishment technically (and he looks to be outdoing  himself in ESB:R) blew the doors off what it seemed could be accomplished by 'amateurs.'

And I dont NEED to love everything I see in a movie, especially a fan-edit. But I sure get a kick out of watching SW:R. 

But it's kinda a dick move to say "the changes he made were stupid and disrespectful" but that the arbitrary changes you'd have preferred him to make are brilliant and sacred.  

Bingowings said:

Well done Harmy.

Perhaps this would have been better placed on one of the despecialised threads??

 No. This is too cool. Top forum! 

thejediknighthusezni said:

      THE GIVER

      SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS GALORE

      Interesting.

      Our tale is set in a dystopian future. Fortunately, we have nothing to fear in our time for a society ruled by a tiny enlightened elite who would reduce the populace to pliant zombies with mind melting chemicals and control over the media. A society claimed to be for human benifit, but where any effort to live the way humans are meant to live is rendered impossible. Our free thinking people would never turn against someone who has become conscious with cries of "Conspiracy Lunatic!"

      What some might mistake as an allegory for whitebread suburban American society is an impossible future where conformity, uniformity, and absence of disruptive passions are valued above all. Think drug-addled, homosexual prostitute's conception of The American Dream. Or, imagine the sort of WASPy, control-freaky lefties who would seize control of the neighborhood association of a whiteflight suburb and then take their program to it's logical end.

      Fear not, intrepid moviegoers, for there is a wise elder "Giver" and a youthful protaganist who is called...wait for it...aahhaaaaa "Receiver". 'Cuz freedom's where it's at, myaaaan. Ya gotta, like, open your doors of perception, myaaaan.

     The Giver wears a black blouse with a high collar with a gap in the center and lives like a monk on the edge of the community in a Romanesque rectory full of old manuscripts of forbidden knowledge and with a Mithratic starburst emblazoned in the stone floor in a fashion that NO ONE could EVER call Jesuitical.

    The Receiver is a teenaged boy who has been assigned his function in the community to take the place of the elder Giver as the rememberer of forbidden knowledge (just in case the ruling junta needs to understand banned practices of the past.)

     The Giver must pass on his memories and understanding. Obviously, there is only one possible way for the Givuit to impart such information; by suddenly YANKING naive, downey-chinned boys "almost" onto his lap and smashing their naked skin hard against his. The Givuit does this, and the young Receiver has his mind suitably liberated.

     The Givuit then sends the Receiver on a mission to carry a special Receiver baby across a blazing desert, raging river, and on a snowsled down a frozen mountainside in order to cross the outer borderline, the act of which will cause everyone in the community to remember everything from the past by a method that, I'm sure, made far more sense in the book from which this movie was adapted.

     Our epic closes with the Receiver carrying the special baby boy as an offering into a shrine dedicated to The Rebirth of the Su-... I mean... taking the baby to a large mountain cabin that appears to be celebrating Christmas.

    The moral of the story is clear: Go ahead and surrender to totalitarianism. Let the elite destroy everyone in every possible way. Turn your children over to be defiled and turned utterly depraved. Feed them neuron-melting pills like candy and shoot 'em up with every kind of rat poison. No worries. It's all cool. We have our own Givuits, who are perfectly innocent of all these evils, scattered around all our communities across the country and, indeed, all over the world. These Givuits stand in their temples filled with their secret wisdom ready to be unleashed onto the forces of "evil" oppression. All they need is a supply of pretty little boys, and they're good to go.

      You have the Jesuits' word of honor. ;*)

     This movie had serious flaws attributable to a great love and faithfulness to the book. But, on the whole, I recommend it.

      

 

    

    

     

     

 Did an orderly bring you a bootleg, or do they take you out on fieldtrips like in "The Dream Team?"

http://www.themarysue.com/star-wars-despecialized-edition/

Pretty impressive. Major website. Maybe make some converts to the cause. 

Ronster said:

In the radio Drama Leia specifically calls to use the ion canon on the AT-AT walkers but is told by an officer "They cannot target at this angle"

So that's something they did think about.

 Neat. 

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'm starting to think that Frank Miller's the worst thing that ever happened to Batman.

 The imitators misunderstood it. It was neither "gritty" nor realistic. It was epically insane. Joker killed Dr Ruth. Batman climbed out of a tank to fight a guy just to be badass. He and Superman fight like a couple of insane gods.

SilverWook said:

Don't forget The Abyss, Leviathan, and Deepstar Six, all in 1989.

Also, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket came out about six months apart.

 After subs discovered the wreck of Titanic in 86 America went a little sub-crazy.

Look at the film. 

They don't present any rules AT ALL about the Ion Cannon.

What we know:

• The Ion cannon can apparently disable, at least temporarily, a Star Destroyer.
• It is not used against a ground assault.
• It is not used frequently.
• We only ever see the one.

It's not up to the viewer to invent rules about fictional technology, and then wonder why the film doesn't follow them. We can extrapolate from what we know, and this can be fun, but if what we extrapolate contradicts what's in the film, the film itself does not become 'wrong.'

darklordoftech said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Why exactly did they make her a Mandalorian, again?

to appeal to Traviss-worshippers

That seems to stretch it a bit.

How about "because Boba is one of the most iconic popular memorable OT characters."

hairy_hen said:

Even if they can handwave it away as not technically being a direct contradiction, it still doesn't jive with the intent and tonal presentation of what is said in ESB.

Obi-wan's choice of wording implies that Yoda instructed him one on one, the same way that Luke is taught.  

 I don't see that.

"Mr. Phelps was the teacher who taught me woodworking." Does not imply one on one instruction. 

I can list a bunch of people I'd refer to as "the person who taught me" my profession. My original classroom instructor, the master I apprenticed under, my experienced partner when I started my work who oversaw me.

I for one never saw a problem with this.

Lord I hate that character. 

Sexy little girl Boba Fett! Loves to draw! Purple floral helmet! Bare arms and neck and unarmored tiny little abdomen. Loves to draw! Wears a giant helmet on her pencil thin unarmored neck, but calls the fully armored soldiers "bucket head." And loves to draw!

darklordoftech said:

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Tyrphanax said:

I'll probably be burnt at the stake for this, but Darth Revan.

 Revan was awesome.

Much like Boba Fett, he was cool, bad ass, and mysterious. 

was being the key word

Indeed. So ignore everything else. 

Oh yeah, I thought Exar Kun was pretty cool too.

Tyrphanax said:

I'll probably be burnt at the stake for this, but Darth Revan.

 Revan was awesome.

Much like Boba Fett, he was cool, bad ass, and mysterious. 

As a gag, I’m thinking about inter-cutting “Casablanca” with the Marx Brothers “Night in Casablanca.”

I’ll be using Rudy Vallee’s “As Time Goes By” as the theme.

I’m not sure I can make it make a lot of sense… but who gives a darn.

Waiting for a DVD of “Night in Casablanca” in the mail right now to start.

I’m going to see if I can use some footage of Harpo on a harp, with a harp version of “As Time Goes By” as well.

Eirikr said:

Janson (Wes - Rogue#)

 

 "Nice shot Janson!"

DUCK SOUP

My five year old laughed HYSTERICALLY at Harpo. Good times.

Five Grouchos out of Five.

I for one am more of a moderate PT defender on these boards. 

Frankly, someone can LOVE the PT, they can LOVE the SE. They can think every aspect of the EU is awesome, and that the Mego Disco song should be their first dance at their wedding.

As long as they also think the OOT should be released, I think they're swell.