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SirPhoebos posted:You guys realize that Star Wars is the spiritual successor to Flash "being a Polo Jockey/Jets QB lets me do anything" Gordon? Also the 80s Flash Gordon had one of the best theme songs. Not that this relates but god drat i love queen and that song
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Chomp8645 posted:I love how like clockwork every few pages someone bursts into the thread "UM ACTUALLY DID YOU KNOW STAR WARS WAS BASED DIRECTLY ON FLASH GORDON AND/OR KUROSAWA??? FURTHERMORE..." as if anyone at all gives a poo poo. They do, and if you don't your a cretin 
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Dec 24, 2015 23:26
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Nothus Infelix posted:He was too stupid to realize the Imperials put a tracking device on his ship and let him escape the Death Star. Is it as dumb as Leia realizing there's a tracking device on the ship and leading them to Yavin anyway? Young Freud posted:It was later codified into the Rule of Two. But, yeah, that's something that could actually be laid at the feet of Lucas (and, like I said, they completely abandon it in the second film). It's a bit of dialogue that could have been written much better, like "There's two types of Sith: a master and an apprentice" and just left it at that instead of dealing in absolutes. I thought the line in TPM very obviously meant that Sith work in pairs. When I found out there were only two in the entire galaxy it was the stupidest thing.
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Dec 24, 2015 23:31
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The Dam Busters is pretty much the last half hour of ANH!
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Dec 24, 2015 23:32
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Also the 80s Flash Gordon had one of the best theme songs. Not that this relates but god drat i love queen and that song It's a really cool song
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Dec 24, 2015 23:40
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I set my watch by it.
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Dec 24, 2015 23:42
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Just saw new star wars and it was pretty good. Yeah, the plot was kind of simple, and the characters aren't particularly deep, but there were about 30 literal children in the theater so w/e. Bb-8's thumbs up is probably the best thing star wars related in ever, and han solo getting a chub from shooting the bowcaster was good too.
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Dec 24, 2015 23:56
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Jurgan posted:I thought the line in TPM very obviously meant that Sith work in pairs. When I found out there were only two in the entire galaxy it was the stupidest thing. Yeah, because it's disregarded by every other Sith afaic. Sith always seemed prepared to totally betray their masters/students to suit their needs. Dooku was training Asajj Ventress in secret until SHEEV (lol) ordered her murdered, and at that point she laid low as a bounty hunter. Vader had a baker's dozen "secret" apprentices in the old EU. I figure old man Sheev for example expects Ani to get a wild hair up his burnt rear end to take on an apprentice, which just gives Sheev another tool to control Vader further. Sure, there's a "rule" but only a wannabe like Rilo Kylie will follow it. Hey 1997 encyclopedia person, please give us a hilarious entry under "O?"
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Dec 24, 2015 23:59
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If you are here to complain about Star Wars movies having unlikely heroes that do amazing things, you're morbidly stupid and shouldn't be taking breaks from humping the furniture to make bad posts.
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Dec 25, 2015 00:37
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bunnyofdoom posted:In fact, Kubaz chefs are famous throughout the galaxy for injecting insect life froms with growth enzymes and gene-splicing them in a quest for newer and more perfect designer foods. Yet another example of the first character of a species defining the rest of the species? EU writers are so lazy. And the kessel run namedrop in the new movie is a mistake
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Dec 25, 2015 00:59
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Gettin' mad about Star Track itt
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Dec 25, 2015 01:40
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effectual posted:And the kessel run namedrop in the new movie is a mistake Why do you think that?
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Dec 25, 2015 01:59
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saw it again. this time with the folks. still great movie. unfortunately i got stuck behind a lovely family with a dad who made a snarky remark at every scene. Including THAT one.
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Dec 25, 2015 01:59
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Yeah, because it's disregarded by every other Sith afaic. Sith always seemed prepared to totally betray their masters/students to suit their needs. Dooku was training Asajj Ventress in secret until SHEEV (lol) ordered her murdered, and at that point she laid low as a bounty hunter. Vader had a baker's dozen "secret" apprentices in the old EU. I figure old man Sheev for example expects Ani to get a wild hair up his burnt rear end to take on an apprentice, which just gives Sheev another tool to control Vader further. Sure, there's a "rule" but only a wannabe like Rilo Kylie will follow it. I'm also getting the idea that Yoda is kind of a dumbass until he goes into exile in Dagobah.
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Dec 25, 2015 02:40
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Also the 80s Flash Gordon had one of the best theme songs. Not that this relates but god drat i love queen and that song You don't know how badly I wanted to use Vultan's theme in my Star Wars campaign. 
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Dec 25, 2015 03:15
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:You don't know how badly I wanted to use Vultan's theme in my Star Wars campaign. Star Wars would benefit by including more 80's Flash Gordon content. 
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Dec 25, 2015 03:23
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William Bear posted:Why do you think that? She already knew a bit else about him, so that specific detail was superfluous in establishing that she's a fan. And if people on backwater planets know about Han's kessel record then he should be a much bigger deal and shouldn't've been stuck in a backwater cantina of a desert planet in the first movie. And It's either a Lucas-level coincidence that she knows all about Han and lives 100 feet from his ship (like how Indy 3 gave all his traits in 1 day), or it's some link that will be expanded on in the next one. But if that's the case, who is she? Luke, Leia, and Han didn't recognize her, nobody did.
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Dec 25, 2015 03:37
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Young Freud posted:I'm also getting the idea that Yoda is kind of a dumbass until he goes into exile in Dagobah. I never liked Yoda's inverted speech in the prequels. He's smart enough to figure out English (sorry, Basic), so I figured the only reason he talked that way was because he'd been isolated for decades and gotten senile. Well, that and it made him seem like comic relief, which fooled the audience into thinking he was unimportant.
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Dec 25, 2015 03:53
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Jurgan posted:I never liked Yoda's inverted speech in the prequels. He's smart enough to figure out English (sorry, Basic), so I figured the only reason he talked that way was because he'd been isolated for decades and gotten senile. Well, that and it made him seem like comic relief, which fooled the audience into thinking he was unimportant. in the originals he also did say straight sentences. just not often. in the prequels they took it to a retarded extreme.
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Dec 25, 2015 04:06
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Jurgan posted:I never liked Yoda's inverted speech in the prequels. He's smart enough to figure out English (sorry, Basic), so I figured the only reason he talked that way was because he'd been isolated for decades and gotten senile. Well, that and it made him seem like comic relief, which fooled the audience into thinking he was unimportant. Bingo. Yoda was introduced as a wise fool character in Empire. He spent most of his time mocking Luke's understanding of the force and Jedi. Even when we found out he was a master, Luke didn't take what he said seriously until he pulled the X-Wing out of the swamp. In the prequels he was a revered idiot. Everyone respected what he said, but he was wrong about basically everything. poo poo, Yoda couldn't tell every clone trooper in the galaxy was going to betray them with a single command. I heard somewhere Yoda's speech was patterned on the way Japanese sentences are constructed, but I have no clue if that's remotely accurate.
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Dec 25, 2015 04:09
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:Bingo. Yoda was introduced as a wise fool character in Empire. He spent most of his time mocking Luke's understanding of the force and Jedi. Even when we found out he was a master, Luke didn't take what he said seriously until he pulled the X-Wing out of the swamp. Normal Japanese sentence structure is subject, object verb. So instead of "Fear leads to the dark side." It'd be "Fear, dark side leads to." “Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.” would be "You powerful have become, I the dark side in you sense." So Yoda's speech patterns are pretty random. 
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Dec 25, 2015 04:22
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I thought they were based on Yiddish grammar. Asimov said if you make a character Jewish and have him talk in inverted Yiddish-style sentences, the audience wouldn't catch on to their hidden motives. In the Foundation Trilogy Preem Palver and his wife are basically Jewish stereotypes, and then it turns out he's the head of the Second Foundation.
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Dec 25, 2015 04:46
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effectual posted:She already knew a bit else about him, so that specific detail was superfluous in establishing that she's a fan. And if people on backwater planets know about Han's kessel record then he should be a much bigger deal and shouldn't've been stuck in a backwater cantina of a desert planet in the first movie. I assumed people on backwater planets know things about Han because he was one of the most important figures of the war. And Rey literally lived inside of wreckage from the war.
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Dec 25, 2015 05:05
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Jurgan posted:Is it as dumb as Leia realizing there's a tracking device on the ship and leading them to Yavin anyway?
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Dec 25, 2015 08:48
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Star Wars would benefit by including more 80's Flash Gordon content. At least Brian Blessed was in Ep. 1.
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Dec 25, 2015 18:31
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Just realized Poe and Hux were the guys from Ex Machina. Holy poo poo.
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Dec 25, 2015 18:35
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Hux is a Weasely twin too. 
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Dec 25, 2015 18:50
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Star Wars would benefit by including more 80's Flash Gordon content. Well, Brian Blessed was in Episode I e;fb
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Dec 25, 2015 18:54
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Otisburg posted:Just realized Poe and Hux were the guys from Ex Machina. Holy poo poo. Poe and Ren were in the last Coen Bros movie too. Although using Oscar Isaac is a little unfair seeing as he's in every movie now.
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Dec 25, 2015 19:01
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Given that Rian Johnson will be directing the next installment and since J.J. Abrams included some of his buddies like Greg Grunberg and Ken Leung in the TFA, what's the over-under of Joseph Gordon-Levitt or at least Noah Segan making an appearance in Episode VIII?
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Dec 25, 2015 20:50
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Tardigrade posted:At least Brian Blessed was in Ep. 1. I was about to look this up because I couldn't believe it, and then The scene where Boss Nass says something like "This'n His'n" or whatever in the Gungan city. And I didn't need to look anything up after that.
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Otisburg posted:Just realized Poe and Hux were the guys from Ex Machina. Holy poo poo. hah gently caress i knew about Poe but I didn't realize Hux
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Dec 26, 2015 03:01
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Dapper_Swindler posted:saw it again. this time with the folks. still great movie. unfortunately i got stuck behind a lovely family with a dad who made a snarky remark at every scene. Including THAT one. I took my special lady friend to see it and it was in a much bigger theater than when I saw it the first night. People clapped at the beginning. People clapped when they showed the mellennium falcon. People clapped when Han showed up. I don't get why people clap in a movie theater... Harrison Ford can't hear you bros
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Dec 26, 2015 04:23
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Clapping during a movie is cool and more people should do it. Audience participation and engagement is great. I mean I don't get why people laugh at comedies, it's not like the actors can hear you 
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Dec 26, 2015 04:30
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Xenomrph posted:Clapping during a movie is cool and more people should do it. Audience participation and engagement is great. but a movie is a pretty passive thing there's not much room for audience participation. I don't think they build room in for audience applause during editing and laughing is kind of the point of a comedy... It's just a weird thing to me that I've never understood why people do it. I guess I can understand it if its one of those weird live events they do at theatres.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:38
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Kylo Ren getting wrecked by an untrained force user makes perfect sense when you realize he is using half his concentration to keep his hair perfectly feathered despite wearing a helmet all the time.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:41
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spacemang_spliff posted:but a movie is a pretty passive thing there's not much room for audience participation. I don't think they build room in for audience applause during editing I saw an anniversary showing of Back to the Future in 2010, and the audience cheered and clapped when George McFly punched Biff out in the parking lot. It was awesome.
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Dec 26, 2015 05:49
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spacemang_spliff posted:I took my special lady friend to see it and it was in a much bigger theater than when I saw it the first night. People clapped at the beginning. People clapped when they showed the mellennium falcon. People clapped when Han showed up. i dont mind that. Its happens in most nerdy movies. hell i like it sometimes. this guy was just being a smarmy oval office making dumb unfunny jokes to his fat wife, plus he got up every 10 minutes to get more food or take a piss. plus when you hear eveything go dead silent when THAT scene plays and the reactions. its fun.
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Dec 26, 2015 06:00
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Xenomrph posted:I guess I can see how it might be weird to some people, but I love it and it's one of the main draws of seeing a movie in the theatre for me is the audience reactions, it consistently makes a movie more memorable for me. Screaming at a horror movie, clapping in general, laughing at funny stuff, cheering characters on, etc. I guess I'd expect it at an anniversary showing of something, or like siging along with those late night showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show. maybe I should start a slow clap at the end of a really bad movie
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I don't like reactions in movies. IMO the theater is just a shared solo experience, much like the library. Hate people clapping. I do that at home, cut it out.
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