But are you positive???????? How do you know???????? Maybe it was a clone!!!!!!
And Warbler, regarding decent people working on the Death Star, have you ever heard of conscription? I don't think they had the option of quitting.
Star Wars
1. C-3PO knew about the princess, as he said there'd be no escape for her. Then he knows nothing more than that she might have been a passenger on his last voyage. He clearly wasn't intending to lie. So why the lapse?
2. It takes an incredible amount of energy to blow up a planet. It could be rendered uninhabitable by a powerful weapon, but to cause such a massive explosion that would hurl its own matter at such fast speeds would require the same amount of energy as our sun produces in 8,000 years! But this power was held inside of a space station the size of a small moon. Source: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Beam/Alderaan.html
3. What is up with stupid Rebel tactics in fighting the Death Star? For instance, when most of the TIE fighers had retreated and only Vader's squadron was fighting the Rebels, why didn't other Rebels provide backup and get behind Vader and his compadres?
4. Or why didn't they approach the trench closer to the reactor shaft so they didn't have to get stuck with pursuing fighters for so long and actually have room to maneuver?
5. Or even in the trench, why didn't they have multiple fighter groups in the trench simultaneously? Luke, Biggs, and Wedge could have followed Red Leader and his wingmen at a greater distance in case Vader tried to drop behind them. And if Vader tried to get behind Luke and his wingmen, they could peel out. If he pursued them, it would buy more time for Red Leader. If he stuck with Red Leader, once Vader got in front they need only drop in behind him.
6. If it wasn't foolish enough during all previous trench runs, when it was most critical Wedge simply fled when he could have saved Biggs and provided more help to Luke. What a coward!
7. If Ben Kenobi is such a powerful Force user, why did he not telekinetically flip the switch to shut down the tractor beam power instead of climbing out over a bottomless pit?
8. For that matter, since size matters not, why didn't Ben simply fling the Death Star away when it grabbed the Falcon in its tractor beam?
9. Anyone think to install security cameras on the Death Star? Could have helped them locate some escapees.
10. So shy does the Death Star simply pop like a firecracker? We know it houses a powerful reactor, plus it was comprised of its own dense materials. It appeared not to be suffering any kind of cataclysmic failure, and the lights didn't even flicker for Tarkin, but suddenly it simply *popped* into glowing little fragments. You'd think it would have more debris and would blow up more violently than even Alderaan.
11. Does Leia ever redo her hair and makeup while prisoner on the Death Star? She looks exactly the same as when she was first captured, despite numerous apparent torture sessions as well.
12. Why would the Death Star have such a poorly designed tractor beam station? I mean, we all hate those stupid Christmas light strings that go completely dead when a single bulb burns out. You mean to tell me they set up the entire station's tractor beams in the same manner?! You'd think they'd have redundant systems, not codependent.
13. I know everyone asks this question, but what kind of speciesists wouldn't give Chewie a medal?
14. Heck, despite Wedge's cowardice, why didn't he get a medal? He fought through most of the battle. Han only showed up at the last second with minimal threat to himself, shot one fighter (not even the obvious one that really would have made a difference), and he gota a medal.
15. Why was Threepio complaining that his joints almost frozen after walking a mere 100 yards in the sand? He walked much further after that apparently.
16. Wouldn't the Star Destroyer Devastator have at least captured in their tractor, if not flat out shot, any escape pods from the Tantive IV? There could be something valuable in there, like, I dunno, maybe Death Star plans. Hopefully that gunner got a Vader choke.
17. Why was Leia cool with leading the Empire back to the Rebel base, since she was so confident that the Falcon had a homing beacon? As pointed out by How it Should Have Ended, you'd think she'd be smart enough to trasmit the plans somewhere else. If the Rebellion was so farspread and well organized, you'd think they'd have spies at multiple drop points.
18. Does Luke really need to whine so much? "But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters. Waaaaa."
19. "STOP THAT SHIP! BLAST HIM!!!" There's no better way to grant your quarry time for an escape than by shouting your intentions so loud that he could hear instead of giving silent orders before he even knows you're coming.
20. Interesting how the ships seem to be subject to the physics of atmospheric flight even though they're in space. For instance, there appears to be a limit to their speed. They turn like they have flaps guiding their motion. They change direction in spite of only having rear-facing engines. What happened to interia?
21. How do eight separate energy beams pause in the middle of space so all the others can catch up, coalesce, and change direction so they all shoot straight instead of at their initial angles? You and your friends try and replicate that with eight laser pointers.
22. How does a man like Vader every use the potty?
23. Ever since I was a child (until they obviously changed it for the SEs), why was everything red during that dianoga eye shot?
24. I love how they take an untested pilot (Luke) and put him in one of their best fighters. I mean, surely they could have either found another pilot. Either through some amazing coincidence
25. (I'll have to edit this later at a different computer where I can include pictures, as I can't access the advanced editor features on this one; I'd like to include pics). Who is that guy who says, "That's impossible, even for a computer," in Wedge's voice? He sure doesn't look like Wedge. And why don't we ever see him again? Or for that matter, why don't we see any of those pilots (except Gold Leader) again? Heck, even when the X-wings are taking off, we only see guys with plain white helmets with blue Rebel insignias, but we never see those guys again, as everyone in the actual battle has fancy helmet designs. Of course supposedly there were initially 30 ships, and really we only see like 15 faces, but still, why so little connection between the hangar and the battle?
26. Okay, we're talking about a massive space station, right? That likely means it stations a lot of ships there, right? Leia caught on pretty quick when she noticed they only sent four TIEs after the Falcon that their escape was too easy. But you'd think that once the Battle of Yavin commenced, especially after they realized the dangerous potential of the Rebels' attack, they'd have sent more fighters to take out the X- and Y-wings, just to be sure.
27. Why does Red Leader look like he's laughing as he crashes into the Death Star surface?
28. Why did Red 10 fly with his eyes shut when he said, "There's too much interference"? Did he have a migraine? Was he trying to use the Force and got poor reception with lots of Force static?
29. "This one's locked, move onto the next." So if you're searching for someone, and you find a locked door, that usually seems like a pretty good candidate as the location of your prey.
30. If Vader sensed a presence since he'd not felt since...don't you think he'd probably investigate further or at least wait around to see if Kenobi is on the ship? I'd be anxious for the results of the scan myself.
31. I know we already all know this one, but come on, "Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise" in their shooting, yet Luke, Han, and Chewie always manage to outdo them, even when the baddies already have their guns pointed at them.
32. Now I may sound like Father Skywalker, but seriously, was there any moral dilemma in the minds of the Rebels when blowing up the Death Star? They could have probably evacuated their sparsely populated moon before the Death Star got there and regrouped. But instead, they chose to kill probably hundreds of thousands if not millions who were on board that station, many of whom were probably decent people.
33. Did Luke even care about his uncle and aunt? Sure, he looked bummed when they died, but he handled it pretty well and seemed to get over it quickly, never mentioning it again. He seemed far more distraught at the loss of Kenobi, whom he had only really gotten to know in the previous few days at most.
34. Back to the TIE vs. X- and Y-wing battles, if I were Vader, I think I'd actually come at the Rebels from above, not behind. That way they could still be under fire from the turbolasers, plus I could keep striking at them.
35. Why was it so imperative to "stay on target" during the earliest trench runs? Obviously when time is running short you just gotta take out your target, but why didn't Gold Leader and Gold Five just leave the trench when they saw their comrade die and noticed Vader? Sure, they lose a few minutes, but then they can handle the more pressing situation of being attacked by TIEs, and when that's been cleared up a bit, then they can traverse the trenches and launch their torpedoes unmolested.
36. Leia seemed to handle the loss of her family and everyone she probably knew growing up surprisingly well. She looks frightened when Alderaan blows up, but we never see her cry or in shock, and even later she tells one of the Rebel commanders, "We have no time for sorrows," regarding the event. Does she ever need therapy? How did she handle this so well?
I'm sure I could come up with more, and some of those are really trivial, but at least we see that no movie is above criticism.
That actually sounds like a very good thing. I was pretty annoyed at how he became captain in the first place, so some resentment and more undercurrents of personal conflict could be quite interesting.
^Not a bad idea. Even if they only physically build the upper torso, they could have moved the camera around it and then added the rest of him with CGI. But now that we're on that topic, is it just me or did Jabba seem too small in ANH SE? He seems significantly larger in ROTJ. Gosh, now that I'm complaining, I wish they'd done his voice closer to the original as well; he was so much more intimidating in ROTJ.
Ha ha! Don't forget my purpose in creating this thread. It was not to really destroy these movies. My criteria for critiquing them was that I had to thoroughly enjoy them. I created it when people were bashing The Dark Knight Rises for things I felt were largely insignificant. I mean, sure, there were plot holes. But if a film is enjoyable, it easily overcomes small plot holes in my opinion.
Nice rebuttals, timdiggerm, though a lot of them are speculation and a few don't quite satisfy the nitpicker in me. But really, many of them are quite good, and I especially liked the reasoning for why they didn't take down walkers like General Veers' (which has always bugged me, but I can now find more acceptable) :) I could probably try to counter some of them, but then that probably defeats the intended humorous nature of the thread.
Xhonzi's review of The Dark Knight Rises. Since his was made in a more serious light than mine, I include a link to his original post, and if you read on, you can read some potential rebuttals.
xhonzi said:
I didn’t hate this movie, but I certainly am having a hard time saying I liked it.
It’s a lot like Prometheus where anything good is pulled down by all of the bad... but in this case I don’t think the good is as good.
A lot of it came down to the accumulation of little things which all added up to a big negative:
1. The plane hijacking was cool. But the CIA guy was really dumb and incompetent to be taken in that way. Also, whoever investigated the crash... The wings and tail were pulled off but the plane didn’t crash for another couple of miles? And a guy (still in a body bag? I don’t remember) whose bloodtype (some of it, anyways) matches a wanted physicis must be the physicist in a plane crash that doesn’t look accidental and probably wasnt’? And no one looks into this?
2. How cowardly/stupid the physicist must have been to willingly go along with the plot, knowing that they would kill him. If he was trying to preserve his own life, he only deferred his execution. Way to go bud, not only do you die but your actions ensure that you take 8 million of your closest friends with you.
3. Let’s talk about the reactor/bomb some more. So, without the core, it will become unstable to the point that it will explode. I’m not a nuclear physicist (but I did stay in a Holiday express last night) but wouldn’t an instability make it more and more likely everyday that it will go off, but with no degree of certainty when that will be? Isn’t that the definition of instability? Is it like a non-licensed electrician putting some faulty wiring in my house that will, without a doubt, someday, given enough time, burn my house down... and then putting a digital countdown timer to the exact second that it will light up? I think a 5 month calculation is fine, but I think you would have a margin of error of no less than a month. Certainly not down to the second. And when you’re getting close to that margin, I think driving it around on a truck would probably be the last thing you’d want to do with it. Strike that... the last thing you’d want to do is detonate an explosive right next to said truck, causing it to violently vere into the railing and drop 30 feet to the street below... with the police commissioner in the trunk with it.
4. Did Talia still have the clicker? Did Batman tape the jammer to the bomb when he flew off with it? I hope against the former, but in its event I hope in favor of the latter.
5. What is Talia’s motivation exactly? She is trying to fulfill her father’s mission or not? Is Gotham still the festering cesspool that concerned the league of shadows? Didn’t Batman/Dent/Gordon clean it up almost completely? Did Talia want revenge on her father’s killer? She said that was just a bonus. Was she concerned about the organized crime and corrupt cops? Or capitalism run wild?
6. I thought Bane was really interesting and scary until Talia appeared holding his leash. This turned him into a petty thug in my mind.
7. How did the Daggett/Bane/Talia thing work anyways. Before the ending, I thought Daggett hired Bane because he was a skilled mercenary, didn’t realize he bit off more than he could chew... and actually thought that Bane would just disappear once the job was done. However Bane saw an opportunity and didn’t want to let it go, so he took advantage of it. Once we learn that Bane and Talia have been working together all along... where does Daggett come in? Did Talia manipulate Daggett to do what he did? How did she put Bane in contact with Daggett? Outwardly Talia and Daggett appear to be bitter rivals. Was this simply a show?
8. If Talia/Bane knew the bomb was going to go off, and this was allegedly what they wanted all along, why give Batman, the cops the chance to stop it? Just click the Button as soon as Batman shows up/the cops riot and make sure your 5 month siege ends with an earth-shattering-kaboom even if it is 10 hours premature.
9. Batman hid “The Bat” on top of a skyscraper with a camo net for six months?
10. How did the occupation work, exactly? Did people still go to work? I don’t think there are any farms in Gotham, so food supplies on the island would be gone within 2-3 days. I saw trucks taking GD Twinkies and pop-tarts to a convenience store... how could a couple hundred thugs manage the herculean effort of feeding 8 million Gothamites everyday. I didn’t see a lot of people in the streets... how were people getting food? How could a single organization provide for that many shut ins? This is something that takes a million people to do, each pursuing their own employment, all day everyday to do, and that’s when people come into their shops with money and trucks bring whatever the people want to buy?
11. John Blake figured Bruce was Batman because he was faking being happy? I think that’s a bridge too far. I think you could fix this with. Blake: All of the orphans idolized you. The Billionaire orphan! We’d come up with elaborate fantasies about you. And what could be better than a billionaire orphan playboy, than a billionaire orphan playboy who was also the Batman? It was ridiculous to be sure, but then it started to make sense. Bruce Wayne came to Gotham the same time Batman did. Batman went into hiding the same time Bruce Wayne became a recluse. Of course, I wasn’t totally sure, until you let me in today.
12. “Did you come back to die with your city?” “No! I came back... to stop... you!” Really?
13. I know Batman hates guns. But how many innocent lives is he willing to spend to keep this ideal? He fights Bane mano-e-mano and almost loses (twice!) when a well placed bullet to the head could have ended things pretty quickly. 8 million lives are on the line, but Batman still refuses to use a gun. [JohnAdams]Incredible.[/JohnAdams] Henry Jones, Jr. could have ended that fight a lot sooner and wouldn’t have put so many innocent lives on the line.
14. Blake, a trained cop, uses his gun once, looks at it in disgust and then throws it away? I know killing a perp can be very difficult for the most seasoned officers to cope with... but this seemed like a cheap moment to try to make Blake seem like the perfect Batman replacement.
15. I have to agree with Warb- Batman seems to trust Selina much more than he should/would. She was directly responsible, several times over, for what was going on. Once she and Batman established some kind of working relationship, she betrayed him and caused the people of Gotham to suffer for 5 months. If she had a change of heart, she should have had to work much harder to earn Batman's trust back. She should have been trying to convince him... not he her.
16. Bruce is still broken up about Rachel 8 years later? Truth be told, I think Harvey in TDK acts a little too over the top at her passing. Maybe my wife of 10 years, but not a girl I had been dating long enough to be quasi-engaged. Rachel must be some girl that both Harvey and Bruce can't live without her.
17. But then he sleeps with Talia.
18. Why did Bane totally wreck Batman when they first fight, but Batman can easily take him on after a couple months of recovering from a broken back? Was he in better fighting shape after being in the jail.
19. Two minutes until a nuke goes off in downtown Gotham, but Batman stops to makeout with Catwoman, and then give a cryptic hint to Gordon about his real identity (does he think he's the Riddler?). Really? Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!
20. Gordon says "Bruce wayne?!?" to make sure that no one in the audience is thinking, "What is that Bat-Man talking about?!?" after the clue and the flashback. Maybe test audiences still didn't know Bruce's secret identity until they added this clever bit of exposition in.
21. Not that Bruce seemed very concerned about hiding his secret identity in this movie. Again, Bruce and Batman return to the scene on the same day. He shaves the beard and loses the cane (wouldn't these have been good disguises) and expects no one (except John Blake, whose expertly honed orphan skills can't be fooled!) to figure out he's Batman?
22. Wayne Manor was rebuilt and already looked 100 years old and somehow they got the exact same Bed? Hmm... smells more like they just returned to location.
23. I agree with Gaffer that the OWS/99% thing was laid on too thick. Dude, I got it.
24. For the first time, the Batman growl-voice annoyed me. Perhaps everything else above had suspended my suspension of disbelief... Perhaps I have heard too many spoofs of the voice... that Bale's voice sounded a lot like in this movie.
25. Batman's first night back in Gotham- he has about 20 hours to stop the bomb from killing everyone- and he spends the entire night rigging skyscraper windows and the bridge supports to burn a Bat signal when he pushes a button? Was that really the best use of his time? How many people (besides Bane) even saw them? I heard the Bale voice spoof growling- "Look! I... spent all night... rigging those fires... because fires are cool... bats are cool... bats on fire are super cool... except that they're hot... because they're on... fire."
26. I thought the ending was a total cheat. I am so sick of fake deaths in films, and superhero films are some of the worst. I thought Nolan might have been above it. Guess not.
27. Why was this even a Batman movie? He's hardly in it. It's more about Bane and John Blake. Why not just make that movie. It's almost like Nolan made a Batman movie under duress. He was contractually obligated to put Batman in at least 15% of the movie, so he did... but that didn't stop him from making 3 or 4 other characters be more interesting and have more screen time.
28. WaitforthetwisthereitcomesJohnBlake'sfullnameiswaitforitwaitforitwaitforROBINJohnBlake
holycarpyoudidn'tseethatonecomingisn'tthatawesomewetotallyfooledyouandwe'reawesome
becausehisfirstnameisfrinkinROBINhowawesomeisthatitissoawesomeIbetyoycan'tbelievehowawesomeitisAnd this is probably the final kicker for me: Bruce was Batman for how long before the end of TDK? 2 years? Can it be that long? Could it be as short as a couple of months? And then he goes into 8 years of retirement. He reappears for a couple of nights and then disappears for 5 months... and is back for one more day before he's "dead" again. There’s no room for any more Batman stories. No other villains. Nothing. I understand that Nolan and company wanted to tell the end of the Batman story
xhonzi said:
Oh, I forgot one more- 29. When Selina corners Daggett and asks for the Clean Slate I was thinking, Gosh, I sure hope they tell me what the clean slate is in a totally natural, non-groan-inducing-expository way. And man, did it deliver!
Since Batman Begins is my favorite or close second in the series (I'd have to see how TDKR holds up to repeated viewings) and is one of my favorite movies of all time, you'll understand that what I am about to say is not intended to critique the film itself, but rather to provide an analogy to those who are reading too much into TDKR. It seems that a light is held up to BB while the others are judged by some bizarre qualities that affect enjoyment, rather than simply sitting down and letting the film please them.
Problems with Batman Begins:
1. Batman should have experienced a "Darth Maul ending" as he clung to his grappling hook attached to the train and collided with several objects including sheet metal.
2. The microwave emitter should have caused everyone to cook over whom it passed on the train, as humans are largely made of water.
3. The pattern of the microwave emitter is inconsistent, as it trashed the Narrows immediately, but seemed to only affect the pipes over which it passed on the train.
4. Check out the water pressure at a fire hydrant. That's from the city water supply. How could the Arkham inmates poor water into a city water pipe that should be under extreme pressure?
5. (Credits to GafferTape, since I'd forgotten to mention such an obvious problem and instead included one that wasn't an error) "The whole first scene where Bruce declares his intentions not to kill. He tells the League of Shadows to stuff it. He will not kill people. Then he blows the whole place up, most likely killing everybody except for Ducard. That prisoner didn't seem in any shape to escape the blast. I mean, he was tied up, so he probably died anyway. So instead of killing one man because it's morally wrong, he ends up killing everybody except one man, and it's not even the man he was trying to stop from killing!
In your scene where you're trying to express the thematic importance of not killing people, it really hurts to punctuate that point with a big explosion showing bodies flailing through the air. At least with the Batmobile and train sequences, while it's implausible no one was killed, it's not impossible. In this sequence, it's like they went out of their way to show as many people die as possible."
6. I thought Batman didn't kill anyone. As Alfred said, "It's a miracle no one was killed," and he said that for the audience's wellbeing, after Batman crushed all those cop cars.
7. Batman/Gordon also should have at least injured, if not killed, dozens more with their destruction of the elevated rail and the explosion from the microwave emitter. Was there really no one in that underground garage?
8. Now that I'm saying it, Batman does go on with wanton destruction whenever it serves his purpose in all three films, and somehow no one gets injured as he blows up cars or rides his bike through a mall. I know this is getting away from BB, so this will be my one exception.
9. How could they not find the Batmobile? It's massive and they had a helicopter. Even if they lost it at the last moment, all they had to do was follow where Batman's path led until they got to a dirt road with massive tire tracks leading back to a cave beneath Wayne Manor. I think a pretty undevoted police investigation would still have found what they were looking for.
10. I can't help but wonder how Bruce got the black Batmobile from Wayne Enterprises to Wayne Manor. Did he simply drive at night, make no wide turns, follow the speed limit, and always use his turn signal to attract no attention?
11. How did the Batmobile avoid crashing through the tiled roof of that one building.
12. That puny little rocket might garner some speed, but it couldn't lead to a rampless jump without angling downwards and putting out far more thrust and flame.
13. Economics are never merely citywide. Gotham alone could not be trapped in a depression while the rest of the country (or world) is doing fine, especially with today's economics.
14. Ra's al-Ghul's motives were pretty convoluted. He created a self-fulfilling prophecy. Gotham's corrupt. So we try to destroy it economically and thus make it more corrupt. But those darn Waynes died due to the actions of a gunman (who was motivated by the League's economic actions, but of course it's not al-Ghul's fault at all, it's Thomas's for not taking action). This makes the city a better place. We have to make it corrupt again so we can destroy. The League was able to infiltrate it and make it corrupt again. It sounds like much of its evil is due to the League's own actions, and that the League considers itself plenty evil to blend in so well among them.
15. Batman released a couple of inmates from Arkham with his little pyrotechnics. That was silly.
16. Oh, I almost forgot, how did he manage to park the Batmobile close to Arkham without anyone noticing?
17. How did the toxic water vapor not affect thousands of other Gotham residents as the sewer tops popped off and released the gas into the air? You even see several people by it.
18. How could the police not tie so many crimes to Falcone? Everyone knew that he ran things, but somehow they couldn't make any legal connections.
19. How stupid is it to give that little blond boy your cool little Spy Kids tool to show all his schoolmates? If Batman was smart enough to keep his own fingerprints off it, I suspect that the tool could still be traceable to its point of origin through a serial number or manufacturer. If it wasn't a Wayne Enterprises toy, its purchase could sitll likely be tracked.
20. How did the nearly paralyzed, only half-conscious Batman get down from that roof when affected by the toxin so deeply? Did Alfred climb up there to get him? Did he manage to gain his wits just enough to get down without killing himself, though he clearly seemed almost completely incapacitated when climbing up there and calling Alfred? It would have taken a few more minutes for him to arrive, and by that point Bruce would be further affected.
21. How could a man, clinging to a snowy cliff by nothing more than his sweet gauntlets, manage to curl a 200+ lb, 6'4" man in armor in order to save him? Even with all his training, I find it hard to believe anyone could be that strong.
So while I may be alone, I think this thread is lots of fun and should be used more. So I'm going to consolidate it a bit by including my Batman Begins review (with some corrections) and xhonzi's The Dark Knight Rises review here. I also wanted to do a review of A New Hope and The Hobbit. We'll see how soon that happends, but I should get it done soon. Anyway, here are the other two reviews along with a bump, hoping some others will join in nitpicking enjoyable films.
I was left a little deflated after ST09, to be honest. Despite the action, I think the TOS was substantially quite different from ST09. But I enjoy action movies, and the latter has grown on me quite a bit. Just seeing the previews for STID has gotten me excited, and I think I've internally made peace with the fact that this is a different version of Star Trek, and I can simply enjoy it for what it is instead of complaining that it's not what the other Treks were.
Well, shucks. Why do you have to be so darn considerate. Actually, that's probably best, but I sure hope it works out, as it's a hilarious idea.
:( Maybe aalenfae could help. I don't know if he'd appreciate me suggesting him, but he's very talented as well. Couldn't hurt, and the worst he'd say is, "No," possibly followed by, "I know where you live and I'm going to hunt you and darth_ender for even trying to get me into this >:("
In all seriousness, if you PMed bobgarcia, I'm confident he'd help you out. He's skilled and he clearly is a fan of the Ridiculous prequels and has supplied you plenty.
Someone on YouTube said:
"wotfan1000, not all internet trolls and spammers are bad people. some are just silly bored people who write stuff to piss other people off. other trolls mock tribute sites, which truly is wrong. pick and choose ur battles. dont argue? with somebody who says that the force sucks and that the hulk can smash the all and that the star wars prequels prequels R the worst fights ever!!!!!"
Frink loves repetition?
I agree, put it in there, and look for every excuse to get her to use it. It'd be a hoot! Sadly I cannot offer any expertise, but I think you should do it.
You bet I am! But I find it impossible to believe that I've the only one who designed Star Trek or Star Wars ships on paper ;)
He's been logged on for days, from December 10 till now it appears. He's been a member since 2006 without contributing more than one post in all that time. Who is he? What does he want with us? It's a mystery.
Indeed. I had the same problem. And when I tried to remove it, I experience the Great Computer Crash of Aught-Five. Since then I've looked to various free resources to protect myself.
I used to have Norton. It was such a pain to be honest. If I were to go the paying route, I think I'd avoid anything from Symantec. I've had some crummy times with that company.
While it had its problems, I have never hated Nemesis. Bear in mind I haven't seen it for some time either. But I feel there were some interesting moreal questions there, such as, 'what makes a man good or bad, and could a different life have made a different me?' Some stuff was gimmicky, some stuff was completely stupid (such as the mind-meld Troi rape), but I feel a decent fan edit could make it a good film. Oh, and I thought it was about time someone did something with the Remans. I actually had thought about why we didn't hear mention of the Remans in middle school and drew warships that were supposedly their design.
Hardee har har, you sickos ;) In reality, I have a feeling I got it on my quest to find rare digital Star Wars antiquities in less reputable places. I had Avira antivirus, which was supposed to be the best of the freebies. Never had a problem before. Now I'm trying Avast! While it has a slightly lower detection rate on some review sites, it seems (only in personal experience) to be better at active protection and catching/blocking viruses in the act. So far I'm pleased. But Sophos found something the others didn't. It appears I've had some very stealthy stuff on the computer, so even now I don't trust it to allow me to do anything really important like banking. That's why I'm going to reinstall Windows when I get the chance.
Well, the time is at hand. I don't even engage in most personal activities on this computer anymore because I still have a virus. I will not do anything money related and I altered all my passwords on clean computers. I thought I'd completely gotten everything, but clearly I have not, as Avast! keeps catching various .exe files trying to access a malware site out of the blue. Several scanners had caught nothing, but finally Sophos identified a new rootkit that it successfully removed to some extent, but not completely. I manually deleted the files, but I'm just tired of all this crap. I'm going to reinstall Windows and make a recovery disc right away. I have a lot of stuff I hope I can backup, but I worry about backing up the viruses as well. What a nightmare!
6,363 :)
TV's Frink said:
darth endeor was a meanyhead.
I was watching The Dark Knight Rises for the first time since the theater, and I took a break so I could read this. I think it was totally worth it! I swear, if you never see me post again, it's because I died reading this guy's crap, laughing, and thus choking on my tongue! I've never read anything more idiotic. I think Adywan's right, he's just an attention-seeking troll. He loves that he gets a response. He loves to get people worked up. All guilt has been rescinded. I'm forever immortalized as the meanyhead of the forum, and I will wear that like a badge of honor!
Just looking at his Youtube comments, he hops all over the place making the most useless statements. There is seriously something wrong wtih that guy, and I'm pretty confident he is not 20ish. Anyway, regardless of how others feel about him, I've really enjoyed his company. I haven't laughed so hard in months!
I honestly would love for you to post them!