FanFiltration said:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Not as bad as I was expecting it to be.
Were you expecting it to jump of of the screen, raid your fridge, kick your dog, and give you herpes?
Cuz if that's the case, I agree with you. It wasn't THAT bad.
xhonzi said:
TheBoost said:
Someone at the library told me "Speaker for the Dead" was "brilliant". I almost hit her.
I read that Card only wrote Ender's Game as a means of setting up the book he really wanted to write- Speaker for the Dead.
If that's the case then perhaps he's a little like George Lucas. IIRC "Ender's Game" was originally a novella that he expanded. Maybe he inadvertently crafted something great.
Anchorhead said:
Just a general EU question here. What is the feeling toward Timothy Zahn's take on the EU? Just from looking back through this thread, it seems somewhat positive.
I know I'm in the minority, but I have problems with Zahn's storytelling.
Without spoilers.
The main villain, evil genius Grand Admiral Thrawn is nifty enough, but it's plain that Zahn likes him more than he likes our heroes from the OT. Thrawn is smarter, cooler, and better than they are, and in his later works Zahn makes it clear Thrawn is more moral, farsighted, and noble than the "heroes."
Ultimately I dislike that Luke and company are mere observers for Zahn's new characters to go about their business, and can only occasionally comment on how cool Thrawn is.
TV's Frink said:
TheBoost said:
Seriously thought, did I miss something? What pisses a dude off so much that he actually takes the time to go through deleting all posts?
The last bit of his post is saved where I quoted him, but basically he was acting like a spoiled little kid because no one wanted to tell him how awesome his new train set is.
Geez. And a incomplete train set no one has seen yet at that.
timdiggerm said:
Right, and that could briefly be told in the opening crawl. "After tracking the vile gangster, JABBA THE HUTT, to the remote world of [MADE UP NAME]..."
"After tracking the vile gangster, JABBA THE HUTT, to the remote world of Medupnaym..."
TV's Frink said:
TheBoost said:
Darth Stewie said:
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Seriously thought, did I miss something? What pisses a dude off so much that he actually takes the time to go through deleting all posts? Why can't anyone ever leave this forum normally?
Darth Stewie said:
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timdiggerm said:
That does leave the "I'll meet you at the rendezvous point on Tatooine." line a little strange, but not unsalvageable.
Not at all. They met at Tatooine and started searching. They knew Jabba had dealings there. They couldn't well start the search in the Medical Frigate.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Now, for stupidity that does bother me.
Yep, the proto-Jedi & proto-Sith colour coded their swords. :rollseyes:
The EU gets worse all the goddamn time.
What. In. The. Blue. Hell. is that from?!?
I need to know so I can avoid it, burn down wherever sells it, and salt the Earth.
greenpenguino said:
*sigh*
I'm currently showing my younger siblings the Star Wars Holiday special. They seem to like it though, so that's worrying...
It's really kind of a silly/fun romp. Parts are crineworthy, but IMHO the legend is worse than the product.
"Little Big Man"
Great movie with unusual pacing and the blakcest of black humor.
Old age makeup has come a long way since then.
Easterhay said:
kilik64 said:
I dont care what anyone else says, TPM is a steaming pile of shit. Only way to watch it is a fan edited version. My preferred one is L8wter's, its pretty damn good movie after he fixed it up.
"I don't care what anyone else says" - then you won't mind me not giving a tinker's cuss about what you say either.
hmmm...
Easterhay said:
Figure of speech. Pretty common, really.
Far from being clever, you now just look stupid with that remark.
I know some have said that they see flaws in Tatooine as the setting for the first segment of ROTJ, for various reasons.
But there's no reason Jabba has to be on Tattooine. Is it possible to turn Tatooinne into another planet? Perhaps re-matte the sky with weird clouds, or make it an odd color, tint the sand to make it red maybe.
The crawl would have to be re-done, as well as cutting Luke's line "I grew up here you know." Other than that the changes would just be cosmetic.
I don't know if this is doable, or even necessarily a good idea, but it occured to me watching ROTJ this weekend.
I'm collecting EU figures for my kids (when they're old enough... they're two and negative six months right now).
When you only have the main characters from the movies, there's a limit to how many stories you can play with your figures.
So far I have, Cad Bane, all three Starkillers, Xixor, Thrawn, and Talon Carde. Anything that looks cool I'll grab if I catch it at WallMart
Easterhay said:
Thanks, Alexrd. I was considering leaving the forum alone but I think I'll stay now, in the hope that someone can be tolerated for having a different opinion here, and not be called a "troll" or a "dick" (amazing that such insults fly over the moderators' heads) just for going against the grain on some issues.
I've been a PT defender, CGI defender, and Lucas defender many times on this board, and have never been called a troll nor a dick.
I think acting like a troll and a dick is what gets you called that.
Just the other day I was telling my class that a state test would be given by the assistant principal, while I'd be elsewhere due to scheduling.
"And I warn you, Mr. David is not as forgiving as I am."
I felt pretty cool.
Rob said:
It is so obvious that these people must all be either homophobes or anti-semites.
You're gay AND Jewish?
Hmmm... too great tastes that taste wierd together. My forward thinking liberal tolerance is being harshly tested.
CO said:
Could someone just change the name of this thread, "Is Princess Leia a racist?"
;)
I think only Smatt can do that, and he thinks we're all a bunch of jerkoffs
I met him one when canvassing a neighborhood in LA for some non-profit I was working for. He was very polite and friendly.
CP3S said:
However, from what I did read... YES WARB!!! Do it! Abandon your love of the NFL and follow college sports instead. More and more sports fans are doing that, and professional sports deserve to lose as many fans as are willing to venture elsewhere to have their needs fulfilled.
Forget that. The only sport truly free from this kind of shennanigans is the world of the WWE. There athletes get paid entirlely on the whim of the owner. Not only are they not a union, technically they aren't even employees, inelligible for health benefits.
skyjedi2005 said:
Speaking of EU i will be reading Fate of the Jedi Conviction tomorrow
I don't keep on the EU releases, I just grab anything that says "Star Wars" when it shows up on the library's New Release table.
Interestingly my library doesn't have this book yet, at any branch.
doubleKO said:
Too far?
It was really only my top two paragraphs that were serious :)
Oh. Nevermind then.
On a side note.... it occurs to me that Han calling Jabba a "slimy piece of worm ridden filth" doesn't fit this conversation about 'racism' or 'speciesism' so much.
That's an insult that could just as easily be directed at a human. On top of that, there's no reason to think Jabba's species is particuarly slimy, filthy, or worm-ridden. They're just a series of non-specific insults.
Just the other day I was called a 'greasy bastard' after winning a wager. I actually have quite dry skin, so I assume it was figurative.
doubleKO said:
The fact is that George is a racist and sub-consciously injected his prejudices into Leia's character, which it is why it is ambigous. It is not a statement but a fuzzy reflection.
I think this discussion is interesting and has value, but I think this is a pretty heavy step to take based on what was meant to be a funny line in a rip-roaring adventure film.
I'm not sure that any insult-humor is automatically indicitive of the author being subconsiously racist. I'm also not sure that one character being rude to another (and I have no doubt it was supposed to show Leia was not a sweet lady) means the author is promoting an ideology.
Warbler said:
never heard of it, I'll do some research on it.
I love chess, mysteries, and Christopher Lambert... but trust me, "Knight Moves" are moves you don't want to make.
SPOILERS
This was the movie that my father taught me the #1 lesson of mediocre thrillers.
10 minutes in he took out a pen, wrote down who the killer was, and laid the note face down on the coffee table. At the end he was right!
Do you want to know the killer? Look for the character who doesn't have a good reason for being in the first few scenes.
