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Warbler said:

Nanner Split said:

Bill Maher. I liked his movie "Religulous", I like his TV show sometimes, but I saw his most recent stand-up special and it was way too crazy-guy-spouting-conspiracy-theories-on-the-street-corner for me.

yeah,  I don't like Maher all that much anymore.  He comes across as someone who is bigoted against religious people. 

Well, the man is plainly and outspokenly against the whole idea of religion as a phenomenon. Is it possible to hold that view and not be 'bigoted against religious people'?

I'm currently of the opinion that the "Clone Wars" show is all the PT needed to be.

As a television series, it's automatically a different animal, and doesn't easily compare to the OT. Apples and oranges, so it avoids the unfavorable comparison the PT has going for it.

I don't need every single aspect of Anakin's and Obi's life explained. Anakin's a Jedi. Obi's his mentor. He has a secret wife. Perfect... that sets up the OT all I need.

Palpatine is Chancellor AND the Big Secret Bad Guy?! Whoa!!!! I don't need to know how Palpy got elected.

I think the show, for what it is, has succeeded at its aims far better than the PT ever did. If we didn't have the PT movies, and just this show, I bet we'd all absolutely love it and say "Great job Lucas! Too bad this isn't a trilogy of movies!"

This thread is about AUTISTIC POLITICIANS playing VIDEO GAMES

I'm fairly progressive on many views, but I wish I could cut Michael Moore's throat.

Octorox said:

sean wookie said:

Washington (CNN) -- A federal court ruled Friday that the evidence supporting an alleged causal link between autism and a mercury-containing preservative in vaccines is unpersuasive, and that the families of children diagnosed with autism are not entitled to compensation.

It wouldn't surprise me. Pharmaceutical companies would do anything to make a quick buck.

Cause nothing's quicker or easier than decades of development, years of clinical trials, and the millions and millions of dollars spent to achieve FDA approval.

I'm sure Big Pharma is just swimming in the money they make off somehow giving kids autism by a completely undetectable (and statistically insignificantly success rate) method through the moderatly inexpensive basic vaccination series.

ABC said:

Worth to notice the site names itself "OT.com" and not "PT.com"...

 Tis true, but when a discussion starts with "What do we think of X?" with X=any aspect of SW except the PT, and within three posts is some variation of "Lucas betrayed us all with the PT! Jar Jar suxxor!" it does seem to take it a tad far.

I think the fact 3/4 of all discussions evetually became "I hate the PT" coupled with a bit of burnout (it is a finite saga) contributed.

TV's Frink said:

New Category! Thanks to VFP for the idea.

The Reasonable Question / Non-Helpful Answer Sub-Category


TheBoost Wants Help Reading Japanese
Can anyone read Japanese?

 I totally remember that!

Those were the days. Look at us. We were all so young then.

Sigh.

neebis said:

There are also connections between the unfilmed Dune (developed by director Alejandro Jodorowsky), Star Wars and Alien...

 

The project was sabotaged in Hollywood. It was French and not American. Its message was not "enough Hollywood". There were intrigues, plundering. The story-board circulated among all the large studios. Later, the visual aspect of Star Wars resembled our style. To make Alien, they invited Moebius, Foss, Giger, O'Bannon, etc. The project announced to American the possibility of carrying out science fiction films to large spectacle and out of the scientific rigour of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky.asp

 Jodorowsky is a damn loon, and his film would have been pretencious trash. The Lynch Dune, flawed as it is, is infinitly better than Jodorowsky on his best day.

"The visual aspects of Star Wars resembled our style" is vague, unprovable, and for my money nonsense.

BarBar Jinkx said:

heading for the Vid store to cheer up the wife (bad day with the kids) don;t know what to get!!!

 Don't get "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Saphire," "Up," or "The Notebook."

I reccomend "Starship Troopers 3: Marauder" or "Funny Farm" with Chevy Chase. 

captainsolo said:

Murder on the Orient Express. Classic.

 That's funny. I watched "Evil Under the Sun" last night, one of Peter Ustinoff's Poirot films.

Albert Finney is definitly truer to the book, but I have a real fondness for Ustinov's somewhat sillier take.

American Abstract Pop Art?

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????

It seems like a vaguely amusing youtube video but nothing I'd pay to see.

I had a ten page outline of NewEp1, but lost my flashdrive.

But someone on another thread mentioned a secret clone army that's in stasis, ready to awaken and kick ass. That idea was SO BADASS that I'm rethinking everything about the "Clone Wars."

I'm sorry... I just... I just can't handle the self-referential surrealist humor in the other threads, and the Politics thread makes me nasty

I don't even know what this thread title means, but the "Racism" and "Sexism" threads were both fairly interesting.

So... thoughts?

Ripplin said:

^Hahaha. Fly!

P.S. If you're a fan of Matt Berry, I sincerely hope you have watched Garth Marenghi's Darkplace!

 

 I;m an American. We havent been blessed with a release of that.

Nanner Split said:

Watched "Moon" a couple days ago. I can't recommend this movie enough. Sam Rockwell is brilliant.

 I keep meaning to see it because I heard Matt Berry from "The IT Crowd" was in it, and he has to be the greatest actor of all time.

TheBoost said:

TV's Frink said:

I'm curious why David Bowie isn't #10 on your list.

 Because after listening to "Paralyzer" 3 times, you get a little board. But when you listen to another song then you realize how much you miss it.

Oh, ok.  I thought you were ranking your favorites, not the order you listen.

Btw, if you listen to "Paralyzer" 6 times, do you get a big board?

 Wait... when YOU list your favorites you dont feel the need to listen to them fully, in order, as you do it!!?

That's why I don't do Top Ten favorite movies. It would take all weekend!

TV's Frink said:

TheBoost said:

1- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

2- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

3- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

4- Underground- David Bowie

5- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

6- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

7- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

8- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

9- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

10- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

I'm curious why David Bowie isn't #10 on your list.

 Because after listening to "Paralyzer" 3 times, you get a little board. But when you listen to another song then you realize how much you miss it.

1- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

2- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

3- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

4- Underground- David Bowie

5- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

6- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

7- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

8- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

9- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

10- Paralyzer- Finger Eleven

Just to clarify... that's 2015 in the GREGORIAN calendar?

TV's Frink said:

You're supposed to follow something like that with "what, too soon?"

 But it's not too soon!

It's too late.

To late for "Lisensce to Drive II: Class C"

Now we'll never get a "Liscense to Drive II"

no one will guess who this is now that I killed theBoost and hacked his account password was password what a moron lol

anyway who else thinks lucas is the worst person ever and the pt is a big scam lol

The project is currently on hiatus, but one of the shots I did darken so that Villarias's face wasn't as obviously un-Lugosi in a long shot. I think it works. I'll post a screen-cap.

I really liked the book "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and it's sequels (hey, I work at a middle school).

Now there's a movie coming out, and while the trailers look faithful, I can't imagine it can capture the feeling of the book.

NO SPOILERS, but the book is the diary of a little kid. He's a little bastard with zero empathy or understanding of other people, but because the book is from his point of view, it's kind of charming because you see everything he does from his kid-logic viewpoint and how he actually doesn't realize what a bastard he is.

The movie though, with it's omniscient camera, is either going to have to change him fundamentally, or make a movie about a really really dislikeable kid.

It got me thinking about adaptations, and which have the most challenges, and which have it easy, and which are faithful, and which totally miss the point.

One that I thought of was "Count of Monte Christo" and how SPOILER ALERT in the book it's not clear who the count is, or what characters know who he is or not. But in the movie, with actors and closeups of reactions it's harder to pull that off, so even though the most recent adaptation was marginally faithful to the book, in one fundamental way the narrative was completely changed.