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eiyosus said:

 

skyjedi2005 said:

They could have done it as a film way back when but it was way too much a ripoff of Hidden Fortress.

 

Oh REALLY?  Because the 1974 draft the comic is based on bears no resemblance to Hidden Fortress.

 

QFT

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Hidden-Fortress/topic/10397/

DominicCobb said:

This looks like one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I've wanted to know what that story would've looked like for practically all my life (I know that sounds a little ridiculous).

Not all my life, but since I got the annotated screen plays in the late 90s, I've been imagining this story in my head. 

skyjedi2005 said:

They could have done it as a film way back when but it was way too much a ripoff of Hidden Fortress.

Kurosawa as a director was on an entirely different plain as a director than the hack Lucas was/ is.

Eh, Kurosawa got away with ripping off Dashiel Hammet's "Red Harvest" to make "Yojimbo," so I think it would have been fine. 

Bingowings said:

 

I would still like to see Paul McGann on telly for more than the TV Movie.

He got really unfairly shafted, arguably more so than Colin Baker was.

I agree. And he aged well. 

Hell, he's the Doctor who went through the Time War, right?

I'm really getting into Matt Smith, despite his face resembling melted wax. 

I was at the tattoo parlor this weekend, and honestly considered getting "LEVITICUS 19:28" in Olde English letters on my bicep.

Nothing to see hear.

darth_ender said:

  And Mrs. Peacock was a man!

 

+1

conquistador on horse

xhonzi said:

 

By-the-by... don't we have a "Words Mean Things" thread.  Oh, wait... that was a TheBoost thread.  And he didn't send me a Christmas Card last year so screw'em.

Here's an example of a non-ad hominem insult:

Xhonzi is a poo head. 

"ad hominem attacks."

• PERSON ONE: Here's my point.
• PERSON TWO: You're an asshole.
• PERSON ONE: Lay off the ad hominem attacks. 

An Ad Hominem argument requires that you claim that a person's argument is invalid because of who they are, not because of the argument. It has nothing to do with insulting someone. It could conceivably be complimentary.

• PERSON ONE: I think great people should get candy.
• PERSON TWO: You're only saying that because you're so great.

That's an ad hominem 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let this be true.

darth_ender said:

 

 Let's assume God is real for a moment.  Let's assume that a modern-day Moses exists and the whole world knew this man was a prophet of God.  Let's go on and imagine that God provided commandments that were completely consistent with our way of thinking in the year 2013.  Let's then imagine that we wrote down these commandments and preserved them for 2,000 years.  Let's then say with great certainty that the people of 2,000 years in the future would look at our society, our people, and our values as a bunch of idiotic baloney.  Then they look at our scriptures that match our values, and decide that the God (which we already are assuming exists) must be false simply because he spoke to a more primitive people in a way that they would understand.  You don't have to believe the Bible is true, and you may give a number of reasons why you think that way.  But if you think God is false because he was working with a primitive people, you're kinda expecting a little much from him.  

So this same God gives the Book of Leviticus to these people, which is mainly list after list of really really specific instructions to follow.Are these people really SO PRIMITIVE, that in that list of 500+ laws He couldn't throw in "Don't rape people" or "Don't keep slaves" or "Don't kill dudes because they screw other dudes." 

Were the people who built the great cities of Egypt and Babylon, who irrigated the Fertile Crescent, so primitive these laws would have made their brains overheat?

I think Mark Hamil should rock an Obi Wan beard.

So, did anyone do anything fun for Passover?

I like to make gingerbread cookies of Egyptian babies, and bite their heads off. 

Just watched "The Three Doctors."

Doc 3 totally has a wicked MMA fight with a reptile monster from Omega's mind or something. I dunno, but it totally got him in a rear naked choke. 

I liked TCW, but frankly I'm really glad "Detours" wont see the light of day. Those clips were atrociously unfunny.

To celebrate Palm Sunday I drove to Palm Springs and had fish tacos (because Jesus told the disciples to be fishers of men).

Bingowings said:

I remember having a long discussion with the Canadian author Geoff Ryman about the Nightmare On Elm Street series.

We came to the conclusion that it all about parental neglect.

When he was alive the Elm Street parents failed to warn their children of the dangers of people like Freddy so he molested and killed many.

When he was set free they took justice into their own hands.

When he comes back he takes his revenge on their now teenaged children.

He succeeds because of flaws in the characters of the parents.

Addictions to booze, drugs, sex, money, religion all blinds them to what is happening to their kids.

Ironically Kruger refers to his victims as "his children" and the parents refer to them as 'his kids' too.

I can't wait to watch this again with this in mind.

NeverarGreat said:

Interpreting the obelisk symbol, 2001 was about the evolutionary educational possibilities of the cinema.

 

I hear something like that, and I'm just not certain that interpretation is IN the movie. We can make that interpretation, and then impose it on the film, and it might even fit really well, but it's a concept that came from outside the scope of the film. 

Trooperman said:

SilverWook said:

Maybe we will finally see some female troopers? ;)

Wow.  Excellent idea Silverwook. Even if the movies were bad, that would make them good. 

And besides, we all know women can't drive, and revealing the stormtroopers to be women would explain why they can't shoot for crap in the OT.  :p

Win-win.

I love boobs and all, but when I see this stuff, all I can think of is a broken sternum when she takes a hit.

And I have no lingering questions I want answered. 

AntcuFaalb said:

TheBoost said:

Best work day ever. It's standardized testing day, and all my students are done so I'm watching Star Wars Revisted with my class.

Nice!!!

Are they enjoying it?

We had a blast. Well, half did (maybe 7) the other half just texted people or whatever it is kids do on their phones the whole time.

End of the day I gave the disk to a kid. 

Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Papa don't preach.

?

I believe she's in trouble deep.

huh?

They're quoting old Madona lyrics.

Was Captain Lou Albano in that video?

Warbler said:

I could be wrong, but I believe he is just Francis, not Francis I.   I think he  would only be called Francis I if another Pope takes the name of Francis.     

Thus he shall be known as Francis, Bishop of Rome, First of His Name.

The new pope Francis the 1st, or as I call him, Frankie 1.0.

I hope within the next hour he tweets "Hey Africa, use some freaking condoms!" and "New Rule: No buggering children."