generalfrevious

BTW Is Cameron ever going to make those Avatar sequels? It's been nearly five years since the the movie came out, and that is not a good sign for a possible franchise. 

I'm kind of afraid Battle Of Five Armies is going to ruin the whole Jackson LOTR franchise for good:

http://www.pajiba.com/trade_news/how-peter-jackson-continues-to-miss-the-point-of-tolkien.php

Fortunately I have never seen the last two Hobbit movies, but I think the main problem is that you can't make three movies out of one book. LOTR at least made sense: it was split into three books in 1954, and thus Jackson made three movies. I guess as long as Jackson doesn't alter the actual Tolkein books, we shouldn't get too mad about his film adaptations.

At least PJ made more movies than George; and from what I know there was no 20 year gap between directing films either.

Peter Jackson really can't hold a candle to George Lucas' incompetence. All Jackson did with making three Hobbit movies is trying to relive his glory days a decade earlier. You could say that George was doing the same thing with the PT, but I wanna say he is worse than Jackson because the LOTR is not being reedited   to fit in with the Hobbit trilogy. Plus, the PT was to George's mind bigger in scale than the OT, and he wasn't directing overlong movies in between sequels.

darklordoftech said:

They should have revealed that Jar Jar is Plagueis. ;)

 Jar Jar as a Sith lord would have made much more sense in the prequels!

Don't all Jedi and Sith have masters?

Maybe; you could have Palpatine exploit Anakin's lack of a biological father by saying that Plagueis created him, and that his destiny belonged to the dark side of the force all along, which could be a motive for becoming Darth Vader.

Or just never mention Plagueis at all, that wouldn't affect the story much.

I don't know; only people with negative IQs would defend Jar Jar Binks. He was just another Tickle me Elmo knockoff from the 90s that failed miserably.

Darth Id said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

generalfrevious said:

C'mon, the prequels were just avant-garde toy commercials.

Associating the word "avant-garde" with the prequels is placing them on a pedestal they aren't worthy to rest upon. 

 Even calling them "toy commercials" is a flattering stretch.

 Just because I use the word avant-garde doesn't mean it is automatically good; what it really means is that it is always nonsense. No sane person could understand or even like the PT, with or without the Star Wars name attached. Even george probably can't watch any of the prequels in one sitting. 

DuracellEnergizer said:

generalfrevious said:

C'mon, the prequels were just avant-garde toy commercials.

Associating the word "avant-garde" with the prequels is placing them on a pedestal they aren't worthy to rest upon. 

 You got to admit, who else is ballsy enough to combine CSPAN and Saturday morning cartoons?

C'mon, the prequels were just avant-garde toy commercials. They can't be fully understood because they are supposed to an ambiguous counter-narrative to the original trilogy. They are the evil twins of their corresponding installments: TPM with ANH, AOTC with ESB, and ROTS with ROTJ. They were the experimental films George Lucas always wanted to make, and just slapped on the star wars brand on them to cover the costs of CGI.

If Han Solo is stupid, it is because his character was written by a stupid person.

At least Woody Allen wasn't in any of the Star Trek films.

FanFiltration said:

Star admits to child molestation

Stephen Collins, who played the father and pastor on the family-friendly series, has reportedly been caught on tape admitting he molested three young girls, according to TMZ.

Sick and disturbing if these allegations are true. I'll never be able to look at "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" the same way again.  YUCK!

Too bad it was Illia and not Decker who held the moral code not to take advantage of a sexually immature species. 

 Yeah, Decker probably touched those kids :( 

ray_afraid said:

generalfrevious said:

You know, for some reason I really hate John Kerry. He can go fuck himself.

 You hate John Kerry because he can fuck himself?

 No it's because I think he is a terrible secretary of state.

You know, for some reason I really hate John Kerry. He can go fuck himself.

Why is it that the US is the only country in the world that doesn't use the metric system? We are a really backward country in that manner, as even the Burmese and Liberians are going metric!

Does anyone here visit Agonybooth.com? They recently wrote an article debating wether Picard should have died in "The Best Of Both Worlds" two parter. (Spoiler: yes, and it would have made the franchise better)

Side note: I don't think they like any movies or TV shows on that site; and IMO it started going downhill when they started focusing on video series instead of text recaps.

The question is, will he top George Clooney as the worst batman? If dark knight rises was the batman forever of the reboots, will batman v superman be this generation's batman and robin?

Either make him so that he wasn't the creator of Star Wars, or that he actually did make the "smaller independent films" he said he planned to do after the OT.

Or how about erasing him from film history altogether and replacing him with Gary Kurtz. He would have made the prequels great.

But RLM is never wrong; their opinion has to be my opinion.

Prince kicks ass, especially in the 80s! Almost every album he made in that decade is essential (except maybe Batman).

Liking a Movie, and then realizing that other people thought it sucked. Redlettermedia just did that with Boyhood.

You know the nuking the fridge scene in Crystal Skull? Same thing happened to Batman in the Dark Knight Rises. Characters surviving nuclear explosions without any nuclear fallout instantly takes me out of any movie.

What about disney and sony? The latter holds on to Spider-Man with an iron fist. This could be the same situation with the OT, but I highly doubt it. They don't idolize SW like Sony does with Spider-man. 

But then there's the X-men To think about.

Raiders is clearly first

Last Crusade second

Temple Of Doom close third (maybe a tie)

Crystal Skull distant fourth, probably shouldn't count, even though it's not as bad as it's reputation suggests.