Tyrphanax

I can't believe it took us this long to get to Ric.

FanFiltration said:

Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

Um.......  Um...... Well..... Um...... 

Perhaps this will help.

Leonardo said:

okay. you're a commie!

There's a threat for that kind of talk.

georgec said:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_VI:_Return_of_the_Jedi

 

The film is set in 4 ABY, one year after the Empire's occupation of Cloud City, when Luke Skywalker and friends travel to Tatooine to rescue their friend Han Solo from the vile Jabba the Hutt.

 

I win. That's for a guy that ate SW trivia up in the 90s but hasn't thought much of it since.

I believe the EU states that that year was spent looking for Solo, as well, so no time to visit Yoda.

Yeah, if you look at the EU, the atrocities Vader commits are all the more egregious as well, beyond just murdering most of the Jedi.

His manipulation and enslavement of the Noghri, massacring an entire city of Falleen, killing even more Jedi, enslaving Kashyyyk... it goes on and on.

Oh I don't really care, it's just fun to watch people doing their thing and then discuss it, especially when they are being antagonistic. I have no real beef with the guy.

Ultimately, whoever it is has no effect on my life whatsoever.

You_Too said:

In a way it might sound complicated, but it gives me complete control over how each frame looks.

You know 3PO's oil bath scene, in that one I handpainted the lights behind him, the blinking light behind Luke when he's playing with his spaceship toy, and R2's light since they all had the wrong color. Compared to that scene, this one's a walk in the park.

Your dedication is admirable.

I completely identify with your reasoning, as well. I feel like I would do the same thing myself, were I involved in a project like this.

zombie84 said:

I don't think it's a contradiction. Yoda is saying there is nothing more he can teach him, but that he still needs to confront Vader to graduate; confronting  Vader isn't something Yoda can provide so this is something Luke needs to seek out. I think in fighting Vader in ESB, and learning from that and meditating on it, and practicing in the months since then, he is in the place that Yoda wished he was at the end of ESB--capable of taking on Vader, emotionally and physically--and now he just needs to go ahead and finally do it.

This is what I've always thought. By confronting Vader and not succumbing to the Dark Side at a very emotionally vulnerable stage, showing that he would rather die than to join the Dark Side, despite the fact that his own, long-lost father was asking him to, he proved that he was indeed ready to be a Jedi.

At that point, whatever else Yoda might have wanted to teach Luke during ESB was moot because Luke had already surpassed it with real experience.

I think that, if you take the prequels into account, the confrontation on Cloud City also showed Yoda that maybe he had a thing or two to learn himself and that maybe the Jedi Order's teachings were flawed all this time; that maybe this young upstart was actually more right about what it is to be a Jedi than Mr. 900-year-old, "my-own-counsel-I-will-keep" professional Jedi Grandmaster did, and I feel that this is proven at the end of ROTJ when Yoda and Ben look on at Luke proudly alongside Anakin (who not long before they had written off entirely): they acknowledged that their way of doing things was wrong, that they had been dealing in absolutes themselves (Anakin being irredeemable), that there's no such thing as "too far gone", that anyone can be saved, and perhaps things like emotions and attachments are not so bad after all.

For the record, though, I also agree that Yoda's death was kinda lamely handled.

VII: The Longest Toy Commercial

VIII: Dark.Like.ESB

IX: Setup for the Sequel

I think the antagonism is more veiled this time, but it's there.

I had Ackbar saying "It's a trap!" for text messages from certain people before.

So does just knowing how to spell things.

<_<

Been watching the Bond movies from Dr. No again.

It's good times. I should probably be rating them.

He needs a better agent.

Puggo, for instance.

Yeah, it sounds like the situation is in hand for now, I just get really passionate about things like this and tend to rant.

Maybe it's Sifo-Dyas?

Or that guy I got into it with on Reddit.

Wait, wasn't that Sifo-Dyas?

Yes, yes it was. Also there was another guy, though.

The highest bidder!

Sometimes I fix elderly people's internet for them.

Usually by turning a Chrome icon into an Internet Explorer icon and uninstalling all their toolbars and cursors.

I like you, Mrebo.

Tobar said:

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

A while ago I found myself somewhat fascinated by the Military Scifi subgenre. Turns out there's quite a bit of it out there. Luckily, I happen to have a friend who is into it. So he gave me a list of books to check out and Starship Troopers was at the top of the list. I was already curious because I've seen the film and the aforementioned friend HATED it. It was pretty good. Far bigger in scope than the film and why in the world would they leave out the mech suits!?! Those would be amazing on the big screen! Ah well, maybe someday they'll actually try to make a faithful adaption.

Aw, the movie is awesome in a "campy, tongue-in-cheek, propaganda-laden satire-of-militarism" way. Less so in a "true-to-the-source" way.

I think Starship Troopers III had the mechs. The sequels lose all the "deeper" satire and parody and actually do suck, though.

I don't understand how someone can accuse people of grandstanding when they themselves won't stop arguing why they think something is good and passive-agressively putting other people down for disagreeing.

There's just so many mountains made from molehills around the posts. I don't think anyone here really cares if someone likes something they don't; plenty of prequel fans around, and Zombie (one of the most respected people around here) loves the two most maligned Indy films. Everyone is welcome and nobody cares; the question is "why is it regarded as bad?" not "why is it bad?"... it just feels like intentional conflict-stirring to me.

But then I've never been one to victimize myself.

I can't wait.

D_E speaks truth. A lot of stuff can be done anonymously. Sometimes you have to put yourself in the position of being the villain in order to do the right thing. The people who actually matter will come around eventually, even if they're angry at first.

The part about victims is also true. The whole stereotype of a woman going back to the guy who beats her because "he's so sweet when he's not bashing my face in" is there for a reason; it's shitty, but it happens over and over and retraumatizes everyone involved. You can tell she's not filing the restraining orders for the "right" reasons, because she's prioritizing the cheatings (which she likely blames the other women for) over the beatings (which she likely sees as her fault); I'm inferring a bit there, but in my experience...

Either way, the kids are going to need so much therapy. I can just see these poor kids growing up to do just what's happening now to their own kids, and then those kids doing it to their kids... it's incredible how perfectly these situations mirror one another from generation to generation, and how it's such an unconscious thing that it's almost "fated" to happen (unless one of the kids is imbued with an incredible sense of insight and breaks the cycle); the boy grow up to be an abuser of people and substances in an attempt to regulate the emotions he has no control over, and the girls grow up to seek men like that on a subconscious level, because that's the only male figure they've ever known.

Regardless, they need the counselling now, while we can still feel sorry for them, before they're old enough to get the point where they become the problem like their parents are (no offense Warbs).

I'm not saying this to pressure Warbs or anything, just continuing the conversation because it's something I'm incredibly passionate about. This is a delicate situation, and Warbs has to do what he thinks is the right thing to do.

As an aside: This is why people need to take advantage of birth control.

Birth control, birth control, birth control. Please.

Especially if you have the presence of mind to realize you're screwed up. Having kids isn't something you do willy-nilly and let come what may; having kids is a huge responsibility, because you are not only altering your future, but the future of your children, and the future of people that they come into contact with. If you abuse your kids, you're effectively abusing their kids, and their significant others.

This isn't stuff you mess with, so you better be one hundred percent goddamn sure you're ready to have kids before you go fucking around without protection. I wanna strike people who give that "well we've been doing it without protection for like three months now and she hasn't gotten pregnant yet" because it's gonna fucking happen at some point. Birth control is cheap; a box of condoms or the pill/morning after pill* is nothing compared to the price of an abortion, or the cost of birthing a child, or adoption costs, or raising that child.

Factor in the cost to society of the kid being raised by the 17 year-old girl who brings home some stoner asshole 25 year old dude with no job who beats her and has three other girls knocked up on the side and all involved in that cycle of shit and the condoms are basically free in comparison. Yeah, sometimes you get the guy who cures cancer out of this shitpile, but I don't want to pay for the hundred thousand other kids who will be in and out of jail for hitting cops and beating someone else's daughters and raising more of this useless ilk just to get that one gem.

*I also wish people would get it through their heads that the morning after pill is not an abortion pill. All it is, is just a higher dosage of the normal pill and works the exact same way; by impairing implantation, not by interfering with an existing pregnancy. We need to be able to get it over the counter everywhere, and we need to educate people about all of this so we can stop this bullshit cycle of abusers pumping out kids that they'll in turn abuse.

It's getting kind of heretical in here, D_E...

Wouldn't want to have to report anybody to any inquisitorial officers...

Seems to me that every single post is super-defensive or passive-aggressively insulting. Seems like every other post has some little jab here and there.

I dunno if perhaps it's the "dry English wit" and I'm missing it, or if they're just being a jerk to be a jerk and hiding it behind a thin facade of "paling around."

Whatever it is, it's beginning to wear on me. I find myself thinking "Why are you even here then" after every post I read.