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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Jessica - May 23, 2005 9:29:46 am PDT #3171 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ford fampously improv-ed the riposte "I know" to Leia's declaration of love.

t nitpick It's not improvising if they talked about it beforehand (which, by all accounts, they did). t /nitpick

As painful as the Anakin/Padme romance scenes are, the Most Needed To Be Rewritten Line Of Them All Award has to go to "My wife and I have always talked about adopting a baby girl." because it turns that scene into a REALLY CREEPY MOMENT. Was "My wife and I have always wanted a daughter" taken? What was he thinking?? (The timing doesn't help either. If the line were less jumped on, the "Ooh, ooh! I call dibs on the girl!" vibe would have been far diminished.)

DavidS - May 23, 2005 9:29:59 am PDT #3172 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'd rather see QTs Star Wars than Kevin Smith's.

Betsy HP - May 23, 2005 9:29:59 am PDT #3173 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

Interesting performance, no.

Was there an interesting performance? I liked the Emperor, I guess.

Frankenbuddha - May 23, 2005 9:32:58 am PDT #3174 of 10002

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Hee, hee, hee!

I can't take credit for that, but I have no idea where I first heard it. It was in the ether as soon as he was cast.

I also loved Aaron McGruder in the Boondock's having Huey be all bent out of shape and coming up with rhymes about how bad the Phantom Menace was.

To paraphrase:

"The Phantom Menace was wack; the movie needed more Sam Jack."

erikaj - May 23, 2005 9:37:03 am PDT #3175 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

Ok, well, still amusing, even if not homegrown.

Kalshane - May 23, 2005 9:48:47 am PDT #3176 of 10002

GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

It occurred to me, while Darth was being suited up, how utterly ridiculous that suit is. What the hell kind of helmet is that? Really?

I believe it was supposed to look samurai-esque, going back to the Jedi as samurai angle from the original trilogy.

bon bon - May 23, 2005 9:50:44 am PDT #3177 of 10002

It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I can't really blame Natalie Portman. I complain about my sought-after job, and my boss doesn't make me look bad in front of a billion people.

DawnK - May 23, 2005 9:51:05 am PDT #3178 of 10002

giraffe mode

Saw RotS on Friday evening. It was meh for me, but I'm assigning some of that to my horrible mood. The acting threw me out of the scene quite a few times. As others have said, no passion in the performances at all, even with Vadar at the end. I will say that McDiarmid was the exception to that, he was pretty damn creepy. I think that when I'm in a better frame of mind, I need to see it again. I did think that the action sequences were very impressive and the CGI for Yoda was way cool, much better than the either PM or AotC.

Jessica - May 23, 2005 9:53:50 am PDT #3179 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I love Ewan's performance now that I've seen it twice. I don't love it enough to go back and watch AotC again, but he just breaks my heart in the big final battle scene.

§ ita § - May 23, 2005 9:55:40 am PDT #3180 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But promoting her work is part of her job. Is it part of yours?

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