The end of the world has come.
It really has. The trailer was fun.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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§ ita § - May 24, 2005 9:01:21 am PDT #3314 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ailleann - May 24, 2005 9:02:03 am PDT #3315 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
bon bon, the Mike Judge one is coming out, later in the summer. I just rattled off the "big" movies I could think of (because I work for a movie theater, and am innundated with useless, and sometimes not-so-useless, movie information.
askye - May 24, 2005 9:05:02 am PDT #3316 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
The Dove Foundation (whatever they are) want Burger King to stop their promotional kids tie-ins with Star Wars because the movie is rated PG-13 and not suitable for children. Burger King's stance seems to be that there tie-ins are for all the movies and Sith is the only one rated PG-13
Evidentally they bullied McDonald's into sort of apologizing over the Batman Returns Happy Meals.
Frankenbuddha - May 24, 2005 9:12:31 am PDT #3317 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Dove Foundation (whatever they are) want Burger King to stop their promotional kids tie-ins with Star Wars because the movie is rated PG-13 and not suitable for children.
As opposed to the other creepy king ads which could probably scar children for life. Granted, those aren't suitable for human beings, period. The enourmous breakfast sandwich one alone took a couple years off my life, I think (not as much as the actual sandwich would, though).
Mr. Broom - May 24, 2005 9:14:37 am PDT #3318 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
It is apparently accepted as Star Wars canon that the Rebel Alliance was in its beginning stages in Episode IV. Lucas reportedly decided against creating the Alliance in Episode III for that reason; my guess is that he wanted to highlight the fact that the Emperor did in fact create the peace he said he was after, even though it was a very despotic sort of peace, and that the rebellion didn't start for a good two decades. The prequel trilogy is, as Lucas has said, about how a democracy turns into a dictatorship, like happened in Rome under Augustus. He abolished the Senate and actually created a pretty peaceful state, though he did some evil, evil crap in the making of it.
Hayden - May 24, 2005 9:25:34 am PDT #3319 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I am pro-Miyazaki and looking forward to Howl's Moving Castle, too.
I finished an interesting book the other day that would be a really incredible (albeit more adult-oriented) subject for Miyazaki: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. It has that same "spirit world hovering right beneath the surface of the mundane" idea that Miyazaki pursued in Spirited Away and Totoro, although it's somewhat darker and more complex than his usual subject matter. Maybe it's just that my conception of modern Japanese life is completely drawn from Miyazaki's movies.
Aims - May 24, 2005 9:35:30 am PDT #3320 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Herbie: Fully Loaded looks kinda fun.
Lee - May 24, 2005 9:37:36 am PDT #3321 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I thought so too, Aimee, in a Netflix/Cable kind of way.
Gandalfe - May 24, 2005 9:38:42 am PDT #3322 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
It is apparently accepted as Star Wars canon that the Rebel Alliance was in its beginning stages in Episode IV. Lucas reportedly decided against creating the Alliance in Episode III for that reason.
Too bad he didn't actually follow the MOVIE canon, like the fact (as stated in RotJ) that Leia knew her mother.
Vonnie K - May 24, 2005 10:00:11 am PDT #3323 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I have no interest in seeing the new SW flick (watched the first two of the original trilogy and I *think* I must have watched the third one, but have next to nothing memory of the thing. Can't even remember what Ewoks looked like, which may be a blessing from what I hear), but I kind of want to see War of the Worlds, because the trailer looks wicked cool. I don't have the big Cruise hate-on most people have, although I freely admit that he has scary teeth.
Signed, Liked Minority Report and Cried At A.I. despite being pissed at the emotional manipulation