"Revenge of the Sith."

Which, if you have a lisp, could be taken as being about Leia finally smacking Luke around, but good.

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Tip yer waitstaff.

Well, it's not as bad as Send in the Clones.

Damn, I wish I had gone to Comic-Con. Then I could have asked this woman out.

Bring your can-opener.

Saw Bourne Supremacy. Want a 50-year ban on all use of hand-held cameras in non-documentary movies.

Even Ocean's Eleven?

I didn't say it was a truism, just a principle.

Have a high percentage of buffistas gone to ComicCon? Because there seem to be quite a few absences.

So Star Wars I, II and III all make mention of the Sith as the keepers of the Dark Side, or whatever. But no mention whatsoever of the Sith in the original trilogy. Considering how Lucas is always "fixing" the original trilogy, I bet he will redo Episode IV: A New Hope. Right after Vader kills Kenobe, Jar Jar will step out of the shadows and say, "Mesa say you bad Sith motherfucker!"

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I thought in the first movie (Eposide IV), Vader is mentioned as "Dark Lord of the Sith".

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"Revenge of the Sith."

Oh please. Months before it opens, the title will be changed to Return of the Sith.

So I finally saw The Butterfly Effect, which really yearns to be the darkest, most disturbing, most depraved thing you've ever seen. Sexual abuse? Check! Cruelty to animals? Check! People accidentally getting blown up? Check! It's a fucked up movie about fucked up people in a fucked up world.

It takes a looooong time actually getting to any time travel because it has to set up all possible points to jump back to. And then, like clockwork, Ashton jumps back to change something, and ends up fucking something else up even worse. Lather, rinse, repeat. Someone like me? I can take it at face value and just be slightly horrified. I think a lot of you, on the other hand, can view this as a comedy and just laugh and laugh as Ashton fucks things up even more horribly.

It's cool in its own way, though for all its pretensions of having to do with chaos theory, a viewing of the chaos theory featurette actually proves it doesn't explore it at all. The butterfly effect has to do with insignificant events, and Ashton is quite clearly going back to affect very significant events. But still, it's interesting to consider the implications of the concept. And the director's cut ending is rather reminiscent of another time-travel movie we've discussed recently.

So yeah. It's not awful, and it's kind of fun in a really fucked up kind of way.

Yet another brave movie soldier takes one for the team.

I can't say I had any even remote interest in butterfly effect 'cause something about Ashton K makes me irrationally violent. Josh Hartnett has the same effect. But now? Nevah.

Dude. Thanks. Yur my hero.

So I finally saw The Butterfly Effect, which really yearns to be the darkest, most disturbing, most depraved thing you've ever seen. Sexual abuse? Check! Cruelty to animals? Check! People accidentally getting blown up? Check!

Ah. So, much like The Cell, then? Good to know that's another one I don't have to see.