Same as xhonzi's games, only a worse movie.
lolz. I will have to give this a shot later, though I have previously done my best to purge this nonsense from my memory.
So, perhaps it is like golf- where the lowest score wins?
I haven't figured out how to do this either.
Which is the sadder state? That people don't help these people? Or that these people choose to live like this is the first place?
That's the saddest part to me. Though it does suck that there is such fear of being hurt that we don't stop to help more. I wish I could just go out and help all of the people who look like they need help... But there's a risk involved and there are people that rely on me (like my mortage company) and it's not very responsible of me to put myself at risk like that all of the time.
Is that a valid excuse?
I had a thought yesteday after posting all of this:
Perhaps it should just be a forum for people writing new Star Wars stories, Fan Fics I guess, though that term carries with it such baggage.
When I sat down and watched Raiders on DVD, I thought they had removed the infamous "grab his hat from under the closing stone door" bit. I WAS SHOCKED! Then my brother reminded me that it was in Temple of Doom instead. I made him prove it, then I believed him. :)
I thought about it... but I have too much on my pile of shame. No thanks, in part to you.
TheBoost said:
And the fact that Marion is captured and BEING RAPED during the climax and robin heroically saves her isn't enough? She should have been crying and cooking during the scene as well?
Are you suggesting she was, in fact, already pregnant in this scene?
Ohhhhhhh....
TV's Frink said:
I'm resisting the obvious mom joke here.
You leave my mom out of this thread and in the Robin Hood thread where she belongs!
Yeah, I forgot to mention (though I've said it elsewhere) that my wife read the Thrawn Trilogy with me and has read all of the Legacy comics and so... she's pretty willing to play along even if she "doesn't like it."
She's always up for SciFi movies and stuff too. Though I did have to sit through 5 hours of Pride and Prejudice again as a form of payback. I had to make chit-chat too that proved I was paying attention. I just hope they finish that P & P & Zombies soon so we can at least watch that version instead.
Tell her you do it for the lolz.
Excellent.
Well... okay!
I'll tell my mom that too, but I doubt she'll understand what you meant HotRod... anyone else?
Perhaps you recall when I told you all that my wife suggested we watch the Star Wars Trilogy perhaps no more often than once per decade.
She then proceded to tell me that she would rate it about 6/10.
I realize we got married during the Dark Times, before the Fan Edits of the prequels, and I wasn't really feeling my Star Wars OatsTM at the time so I might have forgotten to stress what a nerd I was/am...
But she's pretty cool with it. She has let me keep the giant Millennium Falcon on top of our dresser in our bedroom since Christmas... indefinitely until I can find another place to keep it. She did the whole family costume thing last Halloween and she even pretends to listen to me when I ramble off about how great the OT really is.
So I guess I lucked out after all. I dated other girls who were more into Star Wars... but at least one of them ended up really liking the Prequels and I know I couldn't quite put up with that. Probably would have been grounds for divorce.
Anyways, I know at least one other forum member here (whom I won't out, but he is free to identify himself) has a rather serious SW fan for a wife... it just got me thinking: there aren't a lot of female posters here (you know who you are) and obsessive geek behaviour does seem to be carried primarily on the Y chromo...
What are your experiences with Star Wars girls?
Here's a link to the video that's not blocked.
http://dissociatedpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hasselhoffian-recursion.gif
I'll just tell her about the other comments.
Frink 1:
I actually saw it in the theaters on a date with a really foxy redheaded girl.
Frink 2:
So did I. <see it with xhonzi's mother>
BAM!!!
Are you calling my mother a foxy redheaded girl? She'll be so flattered, if a bit confused...
Warbler said:
do NOT click on that(if that is what I think it is).
It's not, Warbler. Feel free to click on it.
*snicker*
Can anyone recommend any Space Fantasy Art Books? Something along the lines of McQuarrie or something. I would really like that thick McQuarrie books, but I don't have the $130 or whatever to snag that one on ebay. (Hopefully it sees reprint and we can all buy it on Amazon for $30 or something, but that's another story).
I'm mostly looking for aliens, spaceships, alien planets, space battles, etc. Like every cover to every SciFi paperback ever, or something. The library had nothing.
Any suggestions?
I have to honestly say: I hope not, but probably. I'm all about details and minutea, but to the degree that people "fill out" the universe around the movies and books... it makes me a little sick and I find it to be a complete turn off.
I've been privately suggesting that Prequel Rewrites get their own forum here on OT.com. Moth3r asked I start a thread in Suggestions trying to gauge interest in the idea.
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/New-Forum-for-Prequel-Rewrites/topic/11468/
Please go voice your opinion.
I've been privately suggesting that Prequel Rewrites get their own forum here on OT.com. Moth3r asked I start a thread in Suggestions trying to gauge interest in the idea.
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/New-Forum-for-Prequel-Rewrites/topic/11468/
Please go voice your opinion.
I suggest there be a new forum for Prequel Rewrites. There are a number of people interested here in the subject, but we don't have a good forum for it. I know that I put a lot of my ideas and thoughts in the subject in the General Star Wars Chat forum and that a lot of ideas are discussed in the Fan Edits forum... but without a forum of its own, it's my humble opinion that the projects will never take off, seeing how there is so much to discuss.
Here's a thread from Fan Edits that started as a project to make an animated Star Wars story, then became an animated Prequel Replacement, and, as far as I can tell, became a general discussion on rewriting the prequels:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-Movies-Animated/topic/10088/
Here is EyeShotFirst discussing his thoughts to write a novel series that would be alternate prequels:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Prequel-Trilogy-Fan-Edits-in-Novel-Form/topic/11458/
This thread is more about editing the movies in radical ways, rather than starting over with a complete rewrite... but it has some of the same ideas:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Prequel-Radical-Redux-Ideas-Thread/topic/9911/
And a bunch of threads I started/hijacked so that I could discuss my ideas for a total rewrite:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Prequel-Approval-Ratings-Speculation/topic/10641/
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Infinities-and-What-it-could-mean-to-the-Prequels/topic/10723/
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/I-cannot-disobey-my-master/topic/10669/
Why Jedi don't do battle (you have to have the book too)
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Which-pre-99-EU-Book-is-this/topic/10675/
This thread beginning at this post:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-would-you-have-done-ROTJ/post/366464/#TopicPost366464
And some from this post:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Vader-and-Dark-Empire-Emperor-Clones/topic/4463/
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Prequel-total-rewrites/topic/3605/
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Hypothetical-What-would-you-KEEP/topic/10309/
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Fall-to-the-Dark-Side/topic/8843/
There are so many facets of a total rewrite to discuss. I think having a forum that can have a thread for each discussion would help these projects along.
What interest is there in a seperate forum?
I saw it with my mom. :(