chyron8472

ray_afraid said:

chyron8472 said:

What I don’t understand is when someone says they’ve never seen a Star Wars movie.

Like… never ever? Seriously??

I know people who’ve never seen Star Wars. So what?

I just figure it’s culturally iconic. It’s not just a film series; it actually has made a significant impact on the culture. I maybe could see not recommending the SEs to someone young enough not to have seen the OUT, but that’s a different case. It’s like “okay, where have you been all this time?”

What I don’t understand is when someone says they’ve never seen a Star Wars movie.

Like… never ever? Seriously??

UPDATE:

1. ROTJ (DE)
2. ESB (DE)
3. SW (DE)
4. TLJ
5. TFA
6. R1
7. ROTS (edit)
8. ATOC (edit)
9. TPM (edit)
10. TCW

The Last Jedi was on par with TFA until somwhere halfway through, and then it edged TFA out entirely. But it doesn’t beat the OOT.

So we’re basically are still where we were before the Fox buyout, where we don’t really know anything regardng the OT and we won’t until either anything happens or nothing happens?

oojason said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

you think most people are anyway.

What’s a word for “higher than most but lower than all?”

utmost

ut·most
ˈətˌmōst/
adjective

1.
most extreme; greatest.

noun

1.
the greatest or most extreme extent or amount.

Yeah but all would be the greatest or most extreme, so try again.

exceedingly.

hypermajority.
supermajority.

penomnis. (which isn’t in the dictionary but is a derived from the latin prefix “pen-” (eg. penultimate) meaning almost, and “omnis” meaning all, so it could valid, albeit people wouldn’t know what you meant by it since it’s not in common vocabulary.

 
 

I think it’s ‘pen omnis’ (two words) - my Latin is a little rusty - though still remember the smack around the back of head when taking the mick, as young teenagers do, in Latin class many years ago.

Language is fluid. And this is the English language, not the Latin language. English often takes various words or parts of words and smooshes them together to create a new word. In effect, it is one word if we adopt it as one word.

Also, pen is a prefix. I would think saying “penomnis” should be two words is like saying “pandemic” should be two or three words (from “pan” meaning all, “demos” meaning people, and “ic” meaning pertaining to). But again, pandemic in our language does not mean “pertaining to all people”, it means a contagion that pertains to all people. So a word can mean what we want it to or be organized how we want it to.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

you seem to be ranking based on nothing more than trying to be clever.

Yes.

Cool.

Thanks.

I did once have ROTS at the top because I watched (an edit of) it so often to get my occasional SW fix. But then I watched the whole of The Clone Wars TV series and realized how bad Hayden’s acting truly is compared to Matt Lanter who voiced the animated character.

TV’s Frink said:

you seem to be ranking based on nothing more than trying to be clever.

Yes.

But the order of them still stands. R1 falls below TFA because I can’t invest any further in the characters than in that single film, even though I like the story better. TFA’s characters basically have more future potential which makes them more interesting.

And Jedi is my favorite because (the original cut of) Jedi has always been my favorite except for periods immediately following release of the modern films.

 1.    6.
 2.    5.
 3.    4.
 2.5. 7.
 3.9. 3.9.
 4.    3.
 5.    2.
 6.    1.
 7.    2.5.

 * 4, 5, 6 = DE
 ** 1, 2, 3 = Edit

(2.5 is The Clone Wars; 3.9 is R1. I have not watched the Ewok films.)

Many people apparently actually like The Phantom Menace, but it is below AOTC for me because it can be entirely skipped from a SW marathon and no story would be missed. One might say the same for Rogue One, but I feel it adds to an already intesting story while TPM adds little more than fluff and nonsense to a backstory that’s just kind of okay.

Also, I only consider watching prequel edits that implement The Cutter’s idea of not-killing-Padme in 3 and edits of 1 and 2 that match up with said qualifying edits of 3. I don’t mix and match prequel editors’ projects, generally because there are nuances in the stories that don’t fit when you do that.

The Clone Wars film is at the bottom because I can’t stand the Ziro character (why doesn’t he speak Huttese; and why is his voice so annoying?) and the plot of rescuing Jabba’s baby is stupid.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

you think most people are anyway.

What’s a word for “higher than most but lower than all?”

utmost

ut·most
ˈətˌmōst/
adjective

1.
most extreme; greatest.

noun

1.
the greatest or most extreme extent or amount.

Yeah but all would be the greatest or most extreme, so try again.

exceedingly.

hypermajority.
supermajority.

penomnis. (which isn’t in the dictionary but is a derived from the latin prefix “pen-” (eg. penultimate) meaning almost, and “omnis” meaning all, so it could valid, albeit people wouldn’t know what you meant by it since it’s not in common vocabulary.

Seems like it.

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

you think most people are anyway.

What’s a word for “higher than most but lower than all?”

utmost

ut·most
ˈətˌmōst/
adjective

1.
most extreme; greatest.

noun

1.
the greatest or most extreme extent or amount.

But again, criticizing the films themselves is fine, but “finding it funny” that people might like it, or in other words laughing at their expense, is different.

As I say, I really don’t like Game of Thrones, or Breaking Bad, or Will and Grace, and I think Seinfeld is just okay. But my sister loves those shows and if I laughed about her liking them I’m fairly sure she would be insulted.

Possessed said:

I enjoy a [Star Wars film that isn’t edited by George] more than a [Star Wars film that is].

FTFM

Wazzles said:

joefavs said:

If George himself isn’t the problem, I think when the ultimate 4K box set comes out, we’ll probably get a quick-and-dirty HD scan of an interpositive or release print packaged with it as a special feature, a la the GOUT. Not the kind of loving restoration we’d hope for, but something. If he is, I don’t think anything will happen while he’s alive.

Honestly I think a quick and dirty scan would pacify most people, myself included.

ray_afraid said:

chyron8472 said:

He seemed a decent guy

When? Legitimate question.

When I ran into a few posts now and then from him while looking back through a few threads. Not that I paid attention to everything he said, so…

Handman said:

Warbler said:

What stupidity did you witness, if you don’t mind my asking?

I just have very little in common with people my own age and it is increasingly frustrating. I don’t seem to have much in common with people of different ages either. No one just makes sense to me, and the people who do are dead or middle-aged comedians.

I seem to have more in common with people younger than me. I have marginal amounts in common with people my age, and little to nothing with people who are older.

My wife is 3 and a half years younger, for example; and her brother, who is again 3 years younger than her, would be an interesting person to talk to if he wasn’t a bitter, unmitigated jerk. People who are my sister’s age (who is 3 years older), are quite alien to me.

moviefreakedmind said:

Possessed said:

And people who like the prequels are somewhat trolled by the regular members here as well. I like fanedits of them and I don’t care how funny you all think that is.

Yep.

Yep.

TV’s Frink said:

Well, it’s at least a bit funny.

It’s funny that some people like things that you don’t?

I guess that’s another case of knowing ones audience. People generally don’t enjoy openly being derided for liking things.

Condemning the source material, sure. My sister likes several TV shows I can’t see the appeal for. But she probably wouldn’t like it if I laughed in her face about it.

joefavs said:

Side note, does anyone know how to actually type an asterisk in markdown without having it register as italics?

\*

solkap said:

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(formerly on tehparadox):

I hadn’t been on teh in ages. Why was it shut down?

I’ve been trying different audiobook server software lately, because my regular media server setup doesn’t remember what track/chapter I’m on. So many people on the web mention Booksonic or Subsonic or Emby, but all of those have their own failings and I haven’t found a good substitute yet.

For instance, in Booksonic/Subsonic I can’t get it to easily tell what local album art I want it to use, I can’t disable swipe gestures on mobile, and I can’t rename book albums with custom titles or make it use metadata instead of folder names.

I just want to listen to Ender’s Game; have it say “Ender’s Game” and not “Ender 1 - Ender’s Game”; use this local art file and not that one; add the whole book to the queue when I select a single track; and remember what track I last listened to. But apparently I can’t have all of that.

moviefreakedmind said:

I feel like people that don’t like TFA or Rogue One are being treated like trolls. There seems to be little distinction between users that have legitimate and clearly articulated gripes and people that bitched constantly and rudely about how they’re the worst things ever.

Perhaps the trolls are so loud that one’s (valid) argument against the films can in a way sound in support of the trolls’ (supposed) opinion? I think also, given the travesties that are the official prequels, that putting the modern releases below the prequels is difficult to accept or identify with.

Or perhaps people who don’t allow said distinction are also trolls.

moviefreakedmind said:

It’s very clear when someone is trolling or being intentionally provocative.

Not always. Tone and inflection are lost in plain text. It’s not just what you say but how you say it, and the “how” can be lost or ambiguous when reading it. When you read a post, you add your own inflection to it in your mind which may not have been the inflection the poster used. Hence the confusion in conversations many have around here.

Replace the Emperor’s scream as he is thrown down into the reactor with the Goofy yell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUL5w91dzbo

Why those numbers, specifically?