xhonzi

That's what happens as you get older...

I really liked the trailer for This is It!.  The movie was just too slowly paced for me...  I was a big MJ fan back in the day, but I fell of the wagon once it started going down crazy street.  Bad was the beginning of the end for me, I think.  There's no way I would have gone to the concert- so maybe the movie wasn't really for me.

Wow, I didn't like Avatar.

Just kidding.  :)

I saw This is It! last night.  I was looking forward to enjoying it.  At 1hr51min, it felt like 3hr51min.

Hmmm... if I had to chose between 4 and Returns...  hmmm.... hmmm... is suicide a third option?

Hellloooo?  Skynet?

This thread is now about:

Star Wars: The Original Trilogy.

XD XD XD

^ That's the ridiculously happy cinema.

QFT!

That's what I want to know!

xhonzi, as C3PX accurately guessed once upon a time, is the Albanian phonetic spelling of my actual last name "Jonesy" or "Jones" really.

TV's Frink said:

... and Professor Frink from The Simpsons.

 WHAT?

Akwat Kbrana said:

My name represents the height of utter nerdiness. Akwat Kbrana was a Mon-Cal Jedi I ran for years in the old West End Star Wars RPG.

 Hence the picture of the Witch King, got it!

TheBoost said:

I like www.skeptoid.com about critical thinking.

www.PendantAudio.com has some fun and high quality fan made radio dramas, including a long running Star Wars show.

 

 

 That's that Blue Harvest, right?  I tried, help me I did.  I could only make it through about 3 10 minute episodes.

Purgatory?

EDIT: And Yay! Freemasonry or whatever!

C3PX is an assassination droid sometimes comicly mistaken for C3PO.  I don't know what a CP3S is...

That's Senor Spielbergo!

You had my hopes up.  The fanedit.org guys sound like they're kind of poo-pooing an edit.

Seriously- they can edit Transformers eight different ways from Sunday, but they think Avatar is unsalvagable?

It's one thing to dislike the movie.  I think it's a little silly to pretend it has no redeeming qualities just because you don't love it.  I hope you all don't think that's what I've done.

Maybe we should start an OT.com podcast!

Wait... what would we talk about week to week...?  Maybe we could interview prominent members of our community, such as myself and Ric Olie.

Huh... I didn't know that!

Maybe Indy follows the Star Trek curse, except reversed.  Where the even numbered movies are not on Par with the odd ones.  Crystal Skull could be Indy's "Final Frontier" and maybe we're due an "Undiscovered Country" next...

By the by... I have solved the riddle of the Star Trek curse!  Every time Nicholas Meyer was writer and/or director... it was good!  Every time he wasn't... they sucked.  So... maybe have Meyer write/direct Indy 5?

I agree with your thoughts there, Frink.  (Don't believe me? check the first post!)  I really enjoyed the parts I enjoyed.  But there were enough of those things we both mentioned that took me out of the movie that the "shroud of fantasy" sort of just evaporated and kept me from caring anymore.  There are so many great movies out there, I'll just watch something else.  Unless someone can produce a decent fan edit.  ;)

On the surface, the Na'vi are Native Americans.  I think the subtext is that they're Middle Easterns, or that as Americans we haven't changed our ways since our treatment of the N.A.'s and that our dealings in the Middle East or on Pandora might as well all be the same thing.

The conflict with the N.A.'s involved outsiders ("us" hereafter) trying to find a new land to call home and finding lots of it that the N.A.'s weren't already living on, but might have been living near.  We were "civilians" and "families" just trying to make our own way too.  Some N.A. tribes were more hostile towards that than others, but in the end- we expanded into their territories, or close enough to their territories that it went to war and we (apparently) won.  I don't think anyone made the N.A's an enemy so that we could take their land.  We were taking (arguably) their land, that made them mad, emotions escalated and then we were enemies.

In the Middle East, we have companies mining for oil.  Some people think that there is a campaign to get the Western world to go to war there as an easiery way of getting to the oil than simple business negotiations.  At least, that is the sentiment Jake Sully is referring to when he says, "When other people have what we want!  We make them an enemy so that we can go take it!  Grrrrr!"

That's why the Na'vi actually had more to do with Middle Easterners, in my humblest of opinions, despite their outside appearance.

Man!  Freeis tazed me sooo hard it misspelled my name!

That's the same book that featured the line, "As gay as Rob" too, right?

Wait a minute... someone's not counting correctly.