Watching the Stars Wars prequel is like a lesson in civics
sounds fun
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ the article for which the word "challop" was invented
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:42 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that's not even challop-quality, too earnest
i mean
Chances are you don't even remember these words of Darth Maul: "Fear is my ally."
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
He's written a number of things.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
There is no scarier scene in the entire Star Wars canon than the one that takes place in Attack of the Clones between Anakin and Amidala when they are having a discussion about the politics of the republic, and Anakin suggests that the system is broken and needs to be replaced with something where one person in charge has the power to enforce laws he feels is for the good of the people. To which Amidala replies, rightfully, that what Anakin is talking about sounds like a dictatorship. And then these all-too-familiar words from Anakin: "Well, if it works."
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
dont you see??? the iraq war is OUR fault. for NOT LOVING THE PREQUELS.
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
The Disappearance of Sunday Best and the Relaxation of Proper Church AttireWhat is acceptable to wear to church changed quite a bit over the last quarter of the 20th century.
The Effect of Crime Scene Investigation Technology on the Private Detective ShowWhat ever happened to the traditional detective show on TV? The crime scene investigation show killed it, that's what happened to the traditional detective show on TV.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Class Warfare, Ideology, and the Ways in Which Rap and Country Music Are Identical EntitiesSome of the greatest music in pop history was forged by the rebelliousness engendered by class warfare; then there's rap and country music in which class distinction created the desire for assimilation into the capitalist ideology.
do you think you could find anybody (outside of skywalker ranch) these days who will go to bat for these movies, specifically to argue that they are better than the originals? do this person exist?
I'm not sure we have that individual data here.
― well I'm married to a limping, crescent-shaped abortion (sarahel), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
There is no scarier scene in the entire American canon than the one that takes place in between McCain and Palin when they are having a discussion about the politics of the republic, and Palin suggests that the system is broken and needs to be replaced with something where one person in charge has the power to enforce laws he feels is for the good of the people. To which McCain replies, rightfully, that what Palin is talking about sounds like a dictatorship. And then these all-too-familiar words from Joe The Plumber: "Well, if it works."
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
What Do You Know About Weddings?Weddings are one of the oldest and longest-lasting rituals known to man. The joining of a man and a woman in matrimony is a rite of passage shared by civilizations across the planet.
Bio:Timothy Sexton was named AC's very first Content Producer of the Year. If you get the message on his home page here that he has published no content, understand it's a glitch: he's published 3500 pieces of content on AC alone.
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― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Titles that I Published This Week that You Probaby Weren't Notified OfI did not receive notification of most of these articles having been published so I assume most subscribes did not. I simply want to bring attention to the fact that I was published this week. Not a lot, but here are some you may have missed.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
With the Adoption of Preventive Detention Pres. Obama Becomes the New CheneyYes we can? Oh no, you didn't! Obama's acceptance of preventive detention means suspects can be jailed without evidence based on what they might do in the future. Is Obama really just Cheney in disguise?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Is the Catholic Church an Institution Too Silly to Be Engaged in Serious Discourse?Isn't it time to relegate the Catholic Church to the same peripheral status we give to Flat-Earthers and right-wing militias and neo-Nazi skinheads.
Yes, isn't it.
How to Quit Wasting Time and Start Making the Most of Your DayA little lesson in time efficiency.
On that note.
I have distinct memories of LOTS of people around me going to bat for these when they first came out (particularly I, but also III) but 10 minutes into Phantom Menace I basically became a completely unforgiving asshole about Lucas and his general horribleness and had a lot of arguments with various apologists.
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The Effect of <something_you_like> on <something_you_hate>.What ever happened to the traditional <something_you_like>? The <something_you_hate> killed it, that's what happened to the traditional <something_you_like>.
― grocery groin (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i think a lot of people were in denial early on, kinda like everyone i was with at this midnight screening of 'the matrix reloaded'
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i went to the matrix reloaded with like 12 of my friends and we all came out and before anyone said anyhting i was like well that was a huge piece of shit and then no one would talk to me for the rest of the night
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
theres a picture somewhere of me as a junior in high school with a bunch of other dudes outside a movie theater where theyre all giving a thumbs-up sign and im standing slight off from the group giving a thumbs-down
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
brand loyalty is a weird thing
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I STILL stand by my claim that the series went to hell with Empire Strikes Back. They'll have my Star Wars original edition DVD-R sourced from LaserDisc when they pry it from my cold dead utility data.
I wasn't really ever bothered by moving Jabba, and only moderately bothered by Greedo shooting first. What bugged me the most was all the shit added to Mos Eisley. I loved it when it felt more like an empty and evil version of Barstow.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I did kinda like the production design and architecture of II and III. It was like all the Kelly Freas and Omni magazine covers brought to life.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
that's an unusual claim... imho Empire's the best one, the only one that's really enjoyable start-to-finish.
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I'm more bothered by all the extra shit added to THX 1138
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^this, except instead of having lots of arguments, I just quietly ended lifelong friendships and eventually moved out of the state completely.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a couple little nephews (8 and 10) who still get really upset whenever I am forced to admit how much I hate the prequels
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
That's...extreme.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
it was a pretty bad fuckin movie
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:58 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dont know about only one but it is weird to think EMPIRE of all things is where it went wrong... it's where the series went RIGHT!
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, Elvis - any chance of hooking a brother up?
― NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dude, yessssss! (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
it's ok for a kids movie. except all that stuff about trade disputes and campus data collection.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I was exaggerating a little bit. (Although I do have two friends with whom I maintained only trivial contact after I moved out of state (for non-Star Wars related reasons) in part because their endless enthusiasm for the prequels, even after they came out and proved to be almost physically painful to endure, made me examine whether we were really all that compatible, friend-wise, or whether our friendship was mostly logistically driven.)
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't give a shit about Star Wars, but I think George Lucas made a dumb cameo on The O.C. once.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwxrGHiS6Y
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
guys reading this in the library was a fucking trial
― bentley cadence (gbx), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, for about a year after Episode I came out I was pretty insistent that it was a good movie, I wanted so much for it to be a good movie it took a while to admit that it wasn't.
― Detroit Metal City (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
It's good that we know each other now, then.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Thing is if you read the first draft of the original star wars story it's terrible. Then he reworks it a bit and it's still terrible. Then I dunno he goes and reads The Hero with 1000 Faces or whatever and suddenly you've got this gem. And ok he sustains it for Empire but Jedi is pretty bad... so realistically what we're talking about here is not the betrayal of a lovable and long-lasting franchise, more the failure to repeat one or two flukes.
― last night i dreamt somebody shoved me (ledge), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
so realistically what we're talking about here is not the betrayal of a lovable and long-lasting franchise, more the failure to repeat one or two flukes.
very true - when you look at his overall career arc its pretty bad, there was nothing in it to suggest that these sequels were gonna be anything other than terrible. (Altho you have left out the anomaly of American Graffiti, which is pretty good.)
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my bosses lives next to George Lucas and I have to continually bite my tongue whenever he's blathering on about something "cool" he heard about/talked about with/witnessed involving George
(oddly I do not have to bite my tongue at all with my ILM-employed bandmate, who, as an employee of Lucas's, is entirely cognizant of his failings)
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Everyone has opinions exactly what is wrong with them and how they can be fixed but movie editing software is so cheap and easy to use now. I mean... have at it, guys!I await your results.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
the editing is the least of these movies' problems
*star wipe*
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I've read off and on how enterprising nerds were able to excise Jar Jar and Jake completely and seamlessly from the series, and that sounded pretty impressive.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno if this is challops or just overfamiliarity with the cliches thanks to decades of teen comedies, but American Graffiti did pretty much nothing for me when I finally saw it a year ago.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
when you look at his overall career arc its pretty bad
As a writer-director-producer, yeah. As a film-technology guy, he's been immeasurably important, esp. in terms of sound design, sound editing and nonlinear film editing.
― I am moving on baby, I am moving on (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link