DuracellEnergizer said:
I'm with you three!
Wait ... that doesn't make much sense.
It does...if you are going to be doing a "binary sunset".
To many pages read. What is the overall assessment? Are these any good or not?
Irrelevant I suppose, since I'm not buying them anyway due to the lack of the OT-TV.
Tobar said:
Anything is charming when it comes out of the mouth of Billy Dee. =P
+1
timdiggerm said:
Another in the Bad Delivery pile...
"Inform the commander that Lord Vader's shuttle has arrived!"
I actually liked the delivery on this line.
These films are unsalvagable. They have no narrative drive, no sympathetic characters, atrocious to mediocore acting, wooden dialogue, inauthentic (and increasingly obsolete) special effects, and no apparent character motivation for actions (characters do things because it is written in the script).
Only the soundtracks are in the same league, although still not as good as, those of the OT.
There were only two scenes in the entire PT that I found entertaining; both of the lightsaber duels from TPM.
How anyone can like these movies is beyond me.
Perhaps we should change the thread title to Best and Worst Decades for Mainstream Music.
Ziggy Stardust said:
theprequelsrule said:
TV's Frink said:
Maybe it won't be boring this time! Yay!
(I'm only half kidding - I should have said "maybe it won't be meh this time)
No, you were right. The movie was boring. Scott is very hit and miss IMHO. When he misses it's never terrible, but almost always bland-city. Alien is one of my favourite movies, but Blade Runner and Robin Hood were snorefests.
How..............................dare you.
Only Sith deal in unabashed Ridley Scott praise!
TV's Frink said:
Maybe it won't be boring this time! Yay!
(I'm only half kidding - I should have said "maybe it won't be meh this time)
No, you were right. The movie was boring. Scott is very hit and miss IMHO. When he misses it's never terrible, but almost always bland-city. Alien is one of my favourite movies, but Blade Runner and Robin Hood were snorefests.
TV's Frink said:
I liked the LOTR movies a lot. Enough to buy them. Enough to decide to give the books a read, including The Hobbit. It was ok, but nothing I'd want to read again.
*shrug*
Yup. The movies were much better than the books.
Infrared Sight said:
It's over Anakin. I have the high ground! Um...WTF??
It gives Obi-wan +6 to his dexterity modifier. What are you, stupid?
DuracellEnergizer said:
theprequelsrule said:
I thought young Beru was hot. I'd perform the "binary sunset" on her any day!
Please elaborate on what the "binary sunset" is and what it entails, and do not - do NOT - skimp on the juicy details please.
You need three people. Two go down...
xhonzi said:
TV's Frink said:
I googled "prequeltrilogy.com" just now and got zero suitable hits.
I guess we need to snag it and turn it into a... *ahem*... suitable site.
;)
Let's do it!!!
TV's Frink said:
I googled "prequeltrilogy.com" just now and got zero suitable hits. I don't get it - you can't get the theatrical version of the prequels, right? Why isn't everyone up in arms over that?
I mean, other than the fact that the prequels suck.
Niiiiiiice.
TV's Frink said:
theprequelsrule said:
TV's Frink said:
xhonzi said:
Which I'd rather sit down and watch:
TPM (I guess...) Or TRM if I can choose a not-yet-existant fan edit.
I'M WORKING AS FAST AS I CAN!!!
*sob*
No tears please.
You're the one who forces stuff on us like "pick from midichlorians and Life Day."
Your pain is my pleasure.
TV's Frink said:
xhonzi said:
Which I'd rather sit down and watch:
TPM (I guess...) Or TRM if I can choose a not-yet-existant fan edit.
I'M WORKING AS FAST AS I CAN!!!
*sob*
No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering.
Think of it this way folks; which of these two ideas is more damaging to, or contributed more to the ruination of, Star Wars? Then the correct answer becomes clear.
Remember, this thread is not "Holiday Special versus TPM", but Midichlorians versus Life Day.
Davnes007 said:
That was the 1990 version boxed set.
Nope, it is the 1992 version (15th Anniversary edition).
Midichlorians are worse.
Anchorhead said:
In the right hands (non-Lucas), this would have made an excellent HBO mini-series.
Fixed.
timdiggerm said:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/users-treat-criticism-of-favorite-brands-as-threat-to-self-image.ars
This felt related to the pro-SE stuff we've seen on bluray.com and TFN, etc.
Same reason people get upset when you challenge their religion, political ideology and...
Crap. I'm still not in the politics thread.
Monolithium said:
"Owen Lars. This is my girlfriend, Beru."
What makes it the worst is that it wasn't followed by Anakin saying this:
"You call that a girlfriend!?"
I thought young Beru was hot. I'd perform the "binary sunset" on her any day!
Bingowings said:
Different people find different things offensive.
^That is true Bingo.
The crux of the matter is that I think when people are offended enough by something they start to convince themselves it is "harmful". Then they try to convince others as well.
Wait, this isn't the politics thread!
ferris209 said:
CP3S said:
She looks okay enough in the picture Bingo posted, but she looks pretty awful throughout the entire movie of TDK. I seem to recall when the movie first came out many other members expressed similar feelings regarding her looks.
She'd be pain enough, if it weren't for the very protrusive cheek bones and the droopy eyes thing she has going on.
She is the type of actress who I can only assume gave absolutely fantastic head on the casting couch.
Agreed. She was ugly to me during the entire movie. Katie Holmes was 10x better than whatever that thing was they picked to replace her.
I told my wife that and she said "She isn't that unattractive."
I told her that was evidence that I was going to be the one who would get the select that third lady if she ever allowed me to.
I think Katie was pretty hot back in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM_OWaItNJM
darth_ender said:
skyjedi2005 said:
Without the Spirit or the Shadow, Batman the comic probably would not exist, and Bob Kane gets all the credit for it when he was not the only creative hand in it.
Its like Stan Lee taking all the credit for Marvel, and Jack Kirby is forgotten.
Xhonzi i think the public opinion on comics goes back to the creation of the comics code and the censoreship which shut down EC comics because they would not do censored books.
Also they claimed the comics had a bad influence on children and it was Communists influencing kids, commie propaganda.
Politicians especially the Religious right violated the sovereign rights of Americans freedom of speech, with this censorship its just like pre code Hollywood before they came in and cleaned up all the sex and nudity to appease hard right Christians.
Too bad in time even liberals got in on censorship like AL Gore's Ex wife.
I remember at my old university newspaper, a black comic author wrote a comic that had the 'N' word in it. I have never see such an outrage! There were demands for resignations and sensitivity training. Never mind how many statements about Christians, Israelis (because you can be anti-Israel and yet not antisemitic somehow), your mother sleeping with the mailman, etc. were stated in the paper. Liberals are interestingly selective in what they censor: if it's vulgar, it's okay; if it's offensive towards certain minorities (and not all minorities, mind you, only special cases), then off with their heads!
WARNING: I am about to make a sweeping generalization.
Liberals tend to want to censor things that they see as inspiring hatred, whereas conservatives tend to want to censor things that are "offensive". I can handle being offended, but hate leads to suffering...
There is also a difference between being liberal and being far-left and between being conservative and being far-right.
re: Tolkien. If I want to read something like LOTR, I just reread Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It is more exciting, and is actual real history.
