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hydrospanner said:

I was in middle school. I remember there being tons of hype for it and it was the most excited I had ever been for a movie. After seeing it with my friends we all convinced ourselves it was still a good movie even though it maybe wasn’t a great Star Wars movie and that the Star Wars name had our expectations way up and it would have been impossible for it to fully deliver on all of the hype. We all agreed it wasn’t quite what we pictured it would be like and that some elements of it like Jar-Jar, little kid Anakin, and maybe the battle droids were kind of lame. We also believed that since it was just the first one of the new trilogy that it was just setting the stage for the next two which would surely be great Star Wars movies.

It’s interesting how a lot of fans tended to blame themselves at first for the movie being unenjoyable.

TV’s Frink said:

When I think of the hype, I actually think first of this review which was written just prior to theatrical release, but I didn’t discover until much later.

Summary:

Those of you waiting in line for Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace are, in my opinion, setting yourselves up for a grave disappointment. Either that, or you’re about to brainwash yourselves into the short-term, delusional embrace of a sub-par cinematic product – which is even worse.

JEDIT: I forgot how entertaining the comments are.

You have no right to criticize the genius of George Lucus. What he does is some thing of great beauty. You are a sad, sad person and I take pity on you. You have no life seeing that you can write such filth.

Thanks bunghole.

You’re awful, angry and bitter. See you in line on the 19th! 😃

I was sorry to read your review. You have obviously lost all sense of the innocence and childhood within you. I feel sorry for people like you. Most of us are still in touch with our inner child. You are obviously not, and I pity you. I pity you. For that, and also because you’re probably one of the most hated reviewers in the world now. People like you should have their ‘opinions’ taken away before they can tell others of them. God I hate critics. All you do is try to spoil others’ fun. Well good luck to you – I’m just sorry for you that you’ll never know a level of being and enjoyment that most of us do.

May the Force be without you.

There’s a great comment where someone says that Darth Sidious is obviously not the Emperor from Empire and Jedi and the author needs to get his facts right because Palpatine was the Emperor’s name, not Sidious.

Wazzles said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

It’s not inconceivable, assuming that it’s comprehensive (multiple cuts, all old special features). Look at the 6 film Middle Earth set- the MSRP is $800, but they’re “discounting” it to $400 because literally no one would pay that much.

Why would anyone pay 400 dollars for that?

That sums up the people who saw it ten more times and came up with a pointless theory on why the movie is secretly good before realizing that it was actually just really boring.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

and now the Senate will revoke the filibuster for the Supreme Court nomination.

Your post made me think this had happened but at this point it’s not even clear if the Dems will force it, let alone if the the Repubs will follow through with it.

Sorry if that was unclear, but I think it’s almost a certainty. Trump has endorsed they do this, giving them any justification they need. Seeing as they essentially did the same thing in the less-formal committee, I don’t see why they wouldn’t go through with it in the Senate if they could.

Trump Says ‘Go Nuclear’ as Democrats Gird for Gorsuch Fight
President Trump, seeming to relish a fight with Democrats over his nominee to the Supreme Court, encouraged the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Wednesday to invoke the so-called nuclear option and abandon the 60-vote threshold for confirmation.

“If we end up with that gridlock, I would say, ‘If you can, Mitch, go nuclear,’” the president said.

Democrats are weighing strategies for opposing the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch and debating how aggressively to pursue a battle over a seat that many of them believe was stolen from their party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-trump.html

well for thing, it might bite them in the butt if the Dems gain a majority in the Senate. Think about what would have happened under Obama if the Republicans couldn’t filibuster.

If they do get rid of the filibuster, I it is time for all out war(not violent or the illegal kind). The Dems should block/disrupt/refuse to cooperate/fight the GOP in every way shape and form possible at all levels of government. This includes state and local level. They should also look into a possible constitutional convention. This pisses me off. After all the filibustering the GOP did during the Obama years and now they have the nerve to get rid of it now that the shoe is on the other foot.

It’s almost like they’re massive hypocrites or something.

Or it’s almost as if both parties are two sides of the same coin.

Forced by Republican obstruction.

How is that any different than the Republicans doing this now?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/politics/obama-supreme-court-merrick-garland.html?_r=0

Not to mention that Obama deliberately picked a centrist and Republicans threw a year-long hissy fit about it, and are now pissed because Democrats are pissed about an extreme conservative pick from Trump after throwing a year-long hissy fit about Obama’s centrist pick.

That was three years after the article Handman shared.

That’s insane. I wouldn’t pay more than 20 dollars for it.

EDIT: preferably with free shipping.

MathUser said:

Did anyone notice Lucy Liu and Shaq were in the React video? There is a howard stern react video recomended too. He was so sad that it sucked. He was under a gag order and he still reviewed it.

I remember that Howard Stern summed it up perfectly. It’d make a ton of money because people needed to see it for themselves, no matter how disappointing it was.

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

and now the Senate will revoke the filibuster for the Supreme Court nomination.

Your post made me think this had happened but at this point it’s not even clear if the Dems will force it, let alone if the the Repubs will follow through with it.

Sorry if that was unclear, but I think it’s almost a certainty. Trump has endorsed they do this, giving them any justification they need. Seeing as they essentially did the same thing in the less-formal committee, I don’t see why they wouldn’t go through with it in the Senate if they could.

Trump Says ‘Go Nuclear’ as Democrats Gird for Gorsuch Fight
President Trump, seeming to relish a fight with Democrats over his nominee to the Supreme Court, encouraged the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Wednesday to invoke the so-called nuclear option and abandon the 60-vote threshold for confirmation.

“If we end up with that gridlock, I would say, ‘If you can, Mitch, go nuclear,’” the president said.

Democrats are weighing strategies for opposing the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch and debating how aggressively to pursue a battle over a seat that many of them believe was stolen from their party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-trump.html

well for thing, it might bite them in the butt if the Dems gain a majority in the Senate. Think about what would have happened under Obama if the Republicans couldn’t filibuster.

If they do get rid of the filibuster, I it is time for all out war(not violent or the illegal kind). The Dems should block/disrupt/refuse to cooperate/fight the GOP in every way shape and form possible at all levels of government. This includes state and local level. They should also look into a possible constitutional convention. This pisses me off. After all the filibustering the GOP did during the Obama years and now they have the nerve to get rid of it now that the shoe is on the other foot.

It’s almost like they’re massive hypocrites or something.

Or it’s almost as if both parties are two sides of the same coin.

Forced by Republican obstruction.

How is that any different than the Republicans doing this now? (Give me an answer other than “Trump is worse than Obama”, because in their minds Obama was a nightmare that they had to prevent).

In a way it’s neat that all of the characters have a backstory, but I hate that their backstories are so terrible. Is it necessary for the Walrus Man to have been best friends with Grand Moff Tarkin’s brother-in-law?

RicOlie_2 said:

If what North Americans call corn is usually called maize in the UK, would/do they call corn mazes “maize mazes”?

That’s why they lost the war.

ray_afraid said:

The Wind Waker HD should be arriving any day now. I never got to play much of it on the GC, so I’m excited to finally play what seems to be a great game.
It’ll also be the last of the major LOZ titles for me to play through before BotW’s release.

The Wind Waker was really good. Wasn’t it released in HD years ago though?

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

and now the Senate will revoke the filibuster for the Supreme Court nomination.

Your post made me think this had happened but at this point it’s not even clear if the Dems will force it, let alone if the the Repubs will follow through with it.

Sorry if that was unclear, but I think it’s almost a certainty. Trump has endorsed they do this, giving them any justification they need. Seeing as they essentially did the same thing in the less-formal committee, I don’t see why they wouldn’t go through with it in the Senate if they could.

Trump Says ‘Go Nuclear’ as Democrats Gird for Gorsuch Fight
President Trump, seeming to relish a fight with Democrats over his nominee to the Supreme Court, encouraged the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Wednesday to invoke the so-called nuclear option and abandon the 60-vote threshold for confirmation.

“If we end up with that gridlock, I would say, ‘If you can, Mitch, go nuclear,’” the president said.

Democrats are weighing strategies for opposing the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch and debating how aggressively to pursue a battle over a seat that many of them believe was stolen from their party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-trump.html

well for thing, it might bite them in the butt if the Dems gain a majority in the Senate. Think about what would have happened under Obama if the Republicans couldn’t filibuster.

If they do get rid of the filibuster, I it is time for all out war(not violent or the illegal kind). The Dems should block/disrupt/refuse to cooperate/fight the GOP in every way shape and form possible at all levels of government. This includes state and local level. They should also look into a possible constitutional convention. This pisses me off. After all the filibustering the GOP did during the Obama years and now they have the nerve to get rid of it now that the shoe is on the other foot.

It’s almost like they’re massive hypocrites or something.

Or it’s almost as if both parties are two sides of the same coin.

Exactly.

Also, if the OUT inexplicably cost hundreds of dollars, how much of their potential customers would just torrent it? Not to condone piracy of course, but I really don’t think that even 5% of people who would like to see the OUT on blu ray would spend hundreds for it.

DominicCobb said:

Tobar said:

You guys forget how much of a special case Star Wars is. The dvds for things like Droids and the Ewok films go for hundreds of dollars on the second hand market.

A boxset packed with special features for the OUT? They could and probably would set the price in the hundreds.

Yeah but before those went out of print I was seeing them in the $5 bin at Walmart.

I got the initial Blu-ray release day one at Target for $70. Doubt a set with less movies would go for more (even if we knew it was better). 4K would change things, but not that much.

Right. None of these things are expensive until they’re out of print. Also, studios don’t really price things in terms of how great the movie is. They don’t think in terms of, “this is a great movie so we can raise the price on it”. The only example of a really high priced home media release was the Wonder Years dvds recently, but that’s because they had to pay for close to 300 songs in order to put that together, but even after a few months they started selling it for a reasonable price.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

And people paid $250 for it in 1993.

But it’s not 1993. Premium home entertainment is no longer a niche market. There certainly would be people buying it at $250 plus today, but they would make more money selling more at a lower price. In 1993, you already had to have money to have laserdisc, but BD is a format for the relative masses.

Home entertainment in general was a total luxury. Video tapes used to be so expensive that the only way to watch a large selection of tapes at home was to rent them, usually along with a rented VCR too. It’s just not that way anymore.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

And people paid $250 for it in 1993.

But it’s not 1993. Premium home entertainment is no longer a niche market. There certainly would be people buying it at $250 plus today, but they would make more money selling more at a lower price. In 1993, you already had to have money to have laserdisc, but BD is a format for the relative masses.

BD is as cheap as dvd.

digitalfreaknyc said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

It won’t cost that much, because most people wouldn’t pay that much. Economics.

And people paid $250 for it in 1993.

That’s because laserdisc was a totally unique medium. It isn’t like Star Wars came out on a slightly higher quality VHS tape and they charged 250 bucks for it. The difference in quality between VHS and laserdisc was also night and day. The difference between blu ray and 4K blu ray is not.

I agree. Usually they list for 60 and go down to 30-40. This was the case with Indy and Alien.

I have an n64, I just don’t want to pay the ridiculous prices for Mario Kart, which I don’t have.

I bet an OOT set would be around $60 or so. More than that is pushing it, but I’d be shocked (and wouldn’t buy it) if it were one of the prices that has been thrown around in this thread, like 400 dollars for example.

OK, I don’t think I’m tech savvy enough to figure that out.

The hype was sickening. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and the fact that the movie wasn’t even good makes it all hilarious, and a bit tragic, in hindsight. All of those people that camped out to see it opening night seemed really ridiculous to me. I mean, you’re going to get a chance to see it. You can’t wait a few days?

Does anyone here know of a single n64 emulator that isn’t full of weird bugs and graphical glitches?

Wazzles said:

moviefreakedmind said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Wazzles said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

doubleofive said:

1. Most 4K discs can be found for $25-30, the same price DVD or Blu-ray was at first.
2. You’re telling me you wouldn’t pay $45 each for a 4k restoration of the OOT? I’d be first in line.

That boxed set with the extras retailed for, if memory serves, $250 in 1993. Figure that out with inflation. That was totally worth it back then.

About $415-420.

And, tbh, if they released the OT with all extras and documentaries, I’d pay it.

I wouldn’t. That’s an insane price for movies on a medium that trends around 10% of that price.

I think $250 for a comprehensive set would be my limit.

I wouldn’t even pay that for three movies. Entire TV series cost less than that.

digitalfreaknyc said:

Wazzles said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

doubleofive said:

1. Most 4K discs can be found for $25-30, the same price DVD or Blu-ray was at first.
2. You’re telling me you wouldn’t pay $45 each for a 4k restoration of the OOT? I’d be first in line.

That boxed set with the extras retailed for, if memory serves, $250 in 1993. Figure that out with inflation. That was totally worth it back then.

About $415-420.

And, tbh, if they released the OT with all extras and documentaries, I’d pay it.

I wouldn’t. That’s an insane price for movies on a medium that trends around 10% of that price.