As a 6th grade teacher, I can honestly say I wish corporal punishment was still allowed. Some of these kids are practically getting away with murder.
Maybe Luke was just in charge of establishing the base? And then the really important personnel started arriving afterwards.
This whole topic is explained in "Star Wars - Incredible Cross Sections" (which is an absolutely AMAZING book, btw). And stop ripping on the guy for asking a question.
TIE fighters set down into a docking bay and the pilots get out via ladder. The TIEs are then taken to maintenance (if they need it) and "docked" into these overhanging holders from the ceiling, ready for their next mission. Pilots get to them from catwalks along the ceilings before being launched. This means that most pilots will never be in the same TIE fighter more than once.
Edit: Here is the picture of the launching dock from the book (minus the descriptive text.) But you can see the catwalks and the two TIE fighters turning into the launching queue from the back of the line.
TV's Frink said:
What Plans? said:
Telephone - Lady Gaga
Oh....you mean, you're a....
LoL... yeah. Although "Telephone" is the only song of her's that I like. Which is odd, cuz it certainly wasn't one of the really popular ones.
Thanks :D
Telephone - Lady Gaga
DuracellEnergizer said:
Everytime Guy Pearce went back in time to save his girlfriend, his past version was nowhere to be found.
LoL... you need to rewatch the movie. He only went back in time to save her once... and he purposely came a lot earlier to avoid his past self. He quickly takes his girlfriend out of the park and tells her "I'm going to come over later and be upset that you didn't meet me. But just remember that I love you..." etc etc etc.
So yeah, they totally address it.
IV: Revisited
V: Will be Revisited. SE DVD for now.
VI: I'm sure it will end up being a personal Revisited/SE mix (Depending on how much Ady changes the ending).
I just thought of what is probably my biggest childhood misconception. Biggest not in plot or story development, but biggest because I STILL have this misconception today!
Probably the most famous line in Star Wars: "No, I am your father," I still to this day hear as "No, I am the father." And it's sooo hard for me to remember that that's not what it is. It's usually after I see ESB that it occurs to me that I heard it wrong again.
Quackula said:
'Lapti Nek' didn't even seem like a 'musical number' to me, it was just a background element similar to the cantina song.
100% agree
captainsolo said:
So...bad puppets in the background or bad CGI aliens in the extreme foreground-you take your pick.
There's absolutely no doubt that the puppets were bad. But I think they are MUCH MUCH MUCH less distracting than the CGI. The Special Editions came out when I was in 5th grade... and even then I thought the CGI was TERRIBLE in that scene. If a 10 year old can spot it... it must be awful.
I get it... it's not for everyone. And I never saw her in Stargate, but I loved her in Firefly. Her character was my favorite of that group.
And once again... it's Morena, not Monica :P
Yes and no, I tried watching it about 5 or 6 times because I really really wanted to like it (as I said... the novel is my favorite book). But the movie just didn't engage me whatsoever. The acting was terrible and the movie makes one big mistake that the 2002 didn't repeat... it's too much like the book.
Unlike the 2002 version, which goes off in its own direction, the original movie tries to copy the book a lot. So much so that the parts that are different feel like a complete slap in the face to the book. It makes is very uncomfortable to watch. Especially the Morlocks... omg... don't get me started on the Morlocks...
I originally thought Ben said "They're not for sale if you want them" instead of "They're up for sale..."
And in ESB, I used to think that the wall with Luke's lightsaber in it was being moved by the Wampa, because it looks like the whole wall is moving toward him when the camera is actually just moving toward the wall. (I didn't understand the force very well as a kid...).
Ripplin said:
^Unless they've never heard a Mac start up. :p I don't even know anyone that owns one.
Well no... I mean, it's become such a pop-culture thing. I've never owned a mac either, but I still recognize the sound. It was even used in Wall-E as the sound he makes when he finished charging.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Had the incongruities been ironed out of the film's method of time travel, and the film run longer, I'd probably agree.
Just out of curiosity... in what ways do you think the method of time travel was incongruous?
And why the "lol" Ziggy? It's a great movie...
That would be a bit long. This is the sound I had in mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAGsESUwW7k&feature=related
It's nice because pretty much everyone recognizes it.
LoL... just a funny idea I thought of... what if the Battle Droids all make the old Apple iMac sound when they are first activated?
xhonzi said:
I should have said, "The end of that scene was cut." I think there's an animatic or something on the DVD that shows how the actual destruction scene would have gone.
Ah... gotcha. Although that may have seemed a little too stretched out anyway. I like the way it was presented because it's more scary. You don't know exactly what's going on... all that you see is that the world has turned into hell and the time traveler has to get out of there ASAP.
xhonzi said:
^ I love the first 20 minutes or so of that movie. It totally sucks (to me) once he meets the eloi. I wish the "broken moon rains down on metropolis" stuff wouldn't have been cut. That sounded rad. I guess the timing of 9/11 sort of killed it.
I did, however, really like the ubermorlock's theory on why he couldn't change time. I don't think I've heard/seen that one anywhere else before.
That stuff wasn't cut... there's a scene where he stops the machine a few years after visiting the NY Library in which the moon is raining down in pieces and the city is totally destroyed and in flames. It's an awesome scene!
EDIT: I found this short clip from that scene on YouTube. The quality sucks, but it shows the moon cracking.
MJPollard said:
The original (the first miniseries, not The Final Battle or the TV series) wasn't "all action-packed and full of battles" until perhaps the fourth and final hour, when the Resistance clumsily starting being proactive.
I couldn't even work up much emotion about Monica Baccarin;
I didn't mean the original was action-packed. I just added that because a lot of people, including yourself, compare it to the original. And now that I know it was a parallel for dictatorship and the Nazis, I'm glad I didn't watch it. That's been done countless times before and since.
As for MORENA Baccarin, I LOVE LOVE LOVE her character on V. I am really rooting for her to win. Though I've recently begun to realize the potential of Lisa's reign as Queen (And Diana's as well), I still admire the cool collected efficiency of Anna. It's almost like the Borg from Star Trek. You can't be mad at them, they are not evil, they are just following their natural instincts. I would love it if the show ended with the Visitors winning.
My favorite movie is the 2002 version of "The Time Machine." I went to see it in the theater like 3 times back when it came out. I still like to watch it a lot, especially with my friends. 2 of them are Philosophy majors, and we all love picking apart the subtleties of the movie. Makes for great times :)
But even aside from the social aspect, the movie itself is fantastic. Great story, great visual effects, FANTASTIC music. Oddly enough, "The Time Machine" is also my favorite book. But the book and the movie are so completely different in almost every way, that I appreciate each of them for their own unique stories.
Well, despite some complaints, I LOVE this series. I never miss an episode and I am definitely loving Season 2. Season 1 was fantastic, but Season 2's episodes are so much more suspenseful. I love the fact that the show is mostly about plotting and outsmarting the other group. I would have turned it off right away if it was all action-packed and full of "battles." I never saw the original past like 10 minutes. But this version definitely has me hooked :D
I don't know if this has been brought up yet or not, but the series was released on VHS in the US too. My Hollywood Video used to carry it when I was a kid and I rented them just once (right around the time the Special Editions came out). I don't know if it was the "full" series, but it was definitely released.
I never understood why Jabba killed the green girl instead of the fat lady with 6 breasts.