Tyrphanax

ray_afraid said:

Tyrphanax said:

MalàStrana said:

ray_afraid said:

I’m sorry if you used to think the PT was good. That’s hard to understand too.

However I’m still a big fan of Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars. What are they waiting for to give him a SW animated series again ?

Because his first one wasn’t that great?

Is that the Samurai Jack one?

Yes. Because Star Wars needed Mace Windu jumping a thousand feet into the air to punch a skyscraper-size droid to pieces and that’s apparently much better than TFA or RO.

MalàStrana said:

ray_afraid said:

I’m sorry if you used to think the PT was good. That’s hard to understand too.

However I’m still a big fan of Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars. What are they waiting for to give him a SW animated series again ?

Because his first one wasn’t that great?

DuracellEnergizer said:

I suppose he’s hearkening to the “Earth has gone through several heating and cooling periods through the eons, so what we’re experiencing now is nothing new or unnatural” argument against AGW.

I would argue that it doesn’t matter whether the earth was once a billion degrees on the surface a hundred million years ago, but it does matter if the ocean levels raise 10 inches within the next hundred years.

Will they? I dunno. Be worth trying to figure out and attempt to prevent though.

generalfrevious said:

TV’s Frink said:

Yeah but Dems suck at midterms.

Plus, they can’t change the congressional district boundaries for at least five more years. By then red states will take more seats from the blue ones, because their populations will have grown at a faster rate, and the House of Reps. is fixed to 435 members. Who knows if the Dems will even legally exist by 2022, if they were to pose a threat to Trump in the 2018 midterms?

You’re getting pretty close to doomsaying again, but bear in mind that not much will change in these four years and younger generations tend to vote left.

generalfrevious said:

ferris209 said:

NYT is unreliable.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/19/new-york-times-falsely-states-rick-perry-didnt-know-what-the-department-of-energy-does/

This is why the right always wins.

Eh, it’s not winning, it’s all just taking one news institution’s word over another for no other reason than they cater to your personal political views. Both sides are guilty and buy right into the line that they’re being sold.

As a result, media becomes more and more politically polarized because real objective news journalism doesn’t sell like sensationalized attack “news,” and as a result of that, our political parties become more and more polarized, no compromises are reached (why would you compromise with someone who is obviously wrong and an idiot, after all), and America suffers.

Nobody “wins” in this equation, except for the people making money off of the people who blindly follow the narrative they offer on their “news outlet.” Until news stops being a business focused around driving clicks so they can sell ad space, this decline will continue. Unfortunately, that’s up to the people to not blindly buy what they’re being sold, and since people don’t like to think for themselves, who knows when things will change.

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/822132192767721472

Hah! Classic Rick Perry.

I feel like all this irrational hate for Obama is pretty funny. I mean, at worst his policies did nothing. The country is still here. The economy is still here. We didn’t really start any new wars or have any major attacks on our soil. Our guns didn’t get grabbed. None of us got droned. I’d argue that we’re actually somewhat better off now than we were eight years ago, but for the sake of this post lets pretend he was a total lame duck.

And yet people act like we’re coming out of some sort of horrible medieval dark age. Like Obama was actively standing on their chest for eight years. Hilarious.

TV’s Frink said:

In general every single franchise title sounds stupid to me until I’ve heard it a few thousand times and actually seen the movie.

Although TPM and especially AOTC still sound stupid.

Pretty much.

Tobar said:

I’m sure he would have, had he been given more than four weeks to compose the score. I’d like to hear what he could come up with given a proper schedule.

Definitely agree. I was listening to the Rouge One soundtrack in the car the other day and it feels to me just like the movie does: a lead-in to A New Hope. Giacchino I think did a fantastic job producing a Williams-esque score that transitions into A New Hope in the time he had.

As for the Imperial March, I’m glad that he gave us the reference without outright stating it. In A New Hope, we had a very different Imperial/Darth Vader Theme and the Death Star’s motif and I was thrilled to hear Giacchino reference these throughout the film because to me, these themes represent a more consolidated and confident Empire that is in control (still evil but more low-key, refined, and bureaucratic. If you listen closely, you can hear some of the DNA of the Imperial March within the original Imperial/Vader theme, too), and the power and menace of the Death Star. For me, the Imperial March has always been the theme of a driven Empire, an angry Empire, which is what we see in Empire and Jedi. They’ve been knocked for a loop by the end of A New Hope and it’s time to take off the gloves of refinement and go to war, which is why I was very happy that Giacchino went back and pulled more from A New Hope when scoring the Empire as it’s a time before Skywalker and the loss of their superweapon; the drive we see in Empire and Jedi isn’t there yet, and so there shouldn’t be an Imperial March yet either.

Its reference during the hallway scene is perfect to me because it’s our first real glimpse at a driven Vader with the Empire behind him, so it makes sense to give us a hint of a taste of what’s possible and what’s to come.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

I’m pleased that at least some of the new people coming around for MySpleen invites are making an effort to stick around and become part of the community.

Me too!

ferris209 said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’m going to be very interested to read these posts again in four years.

I still maintain that Trump will not turn out to be the next Hitler nor will he be the great savior. I think when it’s all said and done he will probably be a “meh” president with liberals upset that he wasn’t the catastrophe they rant and rave about and everyone who believed what he said upset that he failed to live up to 95% of his campaign promises.

I more or less agree with regards to Trump himself… I think he’s a bad person, but I doubt we’ll see anything truly groundbreaking one way or the other from him during his time in office (though we will continue to have at least one ridiculous drama or scandal or controversy per day). I’m more interested about his cabinet picks and the Republican-controlled congress.

The right wing has a chance to prove they know what they’re doing with regards to America, and we’ll see if they truly do (or not) in these coming years. They face very little opposition in congress and from the President as well as eventually the supreme court, so it’ll be interesting to see their agendas at (mostly uncontested) work.

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’m going to be very interested to read these posts again in four years.

I wonder what we’ll think of President Pence then.

So many possibilities!

I’m going to be very interested to read these posts again in four years.

suspiciouscoffee said:

doubleofive said:

doubleofive said:

Does anyone have a screenshot of the shot of Lucas’ pad of paper that just says “STAR WARS EPISODE 1” from one of the documentaries? I need it for comedy.

Looks like its in here, but I can’t get it to load at work.

http://www.starwars.com/video/all-i-need-is-an-idea

EDIT: I guess it’s not in there.

EDIT2: It was from the end of The Beginning, I was able to make my joke:

https://twitter.com/doubleofive/status/821832473424384000

ALLOL

Hah!

SilverWook said:

Tyrphanax said:

eiyosus said:

There’s an old vacuum commercial with Frank Sinatra (I think) dancing with a vacuum (or maybe it was Singing in the Rain Footage) that they made sometime after Forest Gump pioneered the technology of placing old actors (or JFK, in the case of Forest Gump) in new footage, so they’ve been at it for a while now.

It was Fred Astaire and a Dirt Devil and they got in a lot of trouble with his estate.

Uh, it was his estate that pimped him out while stiffing documentaries and other legit venues of even being able to use film clips of him. Moral of the story, don’t marry a control freak late in life who will whore out your likeness after you’re dead.

Ah, it was his daughter that was upset apparently.

Good point. But I’m sure we’ll see more now.

eiyosus said:

There’s an old vacuum commercial with Frank Sinatra (I think) dancing with a vacuum (or maybe it was Singing in the Rain Footage) that they made sometime after Forest Gump pioneered the technology of placing old actors (or JFK, in the case of Forest Gump) in new footage, so they’ve been at it for a while now.

It was Fred Astaire and a Dirt Devil and they got in a lot of trouble with his estate.

Maybe they were decommissioned after the Death Star plans fiasco?

Oh, I totally misunderstood then. Sorry!

Try GOM Player?

NeverarGreat said:

Yeah, no single book could capture everything that the movies captured, you have to pick and choose elements to focus on. For example, Children of the Jedi, despite being heavily derided, provided a wonderful look at how Jedi may have lived before the prequels made them into an oppressive baby-kidnapping cult.

Haha, I read that book so many times because I got it at a library book sale and it was one of the few bits of Star Wars EU I owned, all of which I read until it was dogeared and crumbling.

At the time, it was really deeply interesting to see remnants of the Old Republic.

dahmage said:

Tyrphanax said:

R2.0-D2.0

The rest may also apply, but to a lesser degree.

isn’t that a Bib Fortuna line? (r tow-a d tow-a) (sorry, don’t know how it was really pronounced, and can’t figure out how to find a script by googling when i don’t know how to phonetically spell what i am searching for.)

I believe that’s how Threepio introduces Artoo to Jabba, actually.

pushes up his nerd glasses and snaps his suspenders

R2.0-D2.0

The rest may also apply, but to a lesser degree.

Blazers and jeans are only permissible with the proper footwear.