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'Shindig'
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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.
Betsy HP - May 25, 2005 8:47:29 am PDT #3362 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Mr. Broom - May 25, 2005 10:41:06 am PDT #3363 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
The final Star Wars movie Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith has been slated by outraged fans, because it's riddled with continuity errors. Viewers have inundated website Moviemistakes.Com complaining director George Lucas's blockbuster contains 14 glaring mistakes. One film fan says of the latest film, "When he is telling Anakin how proud he is of him, Obi-wan's eye color shifts from Ewan McGregor's natural blue-green eyes to a dark brown." Another fumes, "When Samuel L. Jackson says, 'I don't think the boy can handle it, I don't trust him,' his lips don't match his dialogue." But the mistakes in the current release are nothing compared to the original 1977 film Episode IV - A New Hope which contained 214 mistakes, and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back, which contained 144 errors.
In the words of Mission of Burma, that's when I reach for my revolver. Pistol whippings for the lot of 'em. The one thing a fanboy cannot stand is a worse fanboy, and there's always a worse fanboy.
Betsy HP - May 25, 2005 5:38:28 pm PDT #3364 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Some people are really, really, really unclear on the care and feeding of geeks.
My employer is sponsoring a free showing of the new Star Wars movie for its employees... June 2 and 3.
At 9:00 A.M.
Jessica - May 25, 2005 6:20:59 pm PDT #3365 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There's a 9 a.m.?
Cashmere - May 25, 2005 6:48:06 pm PDT #3366 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
My employer is sponsoring a free showing of the new Star Wars movie for its employees... June 2 and 3.
Talk about closing the barn door after the geeks have escaped.
Volans - May 25, 2005 9:57:49 pm PDT #3367 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Sounds like that showing's for the tragically unhip who wish they could be geeks, now that geeks are cool.
Any cred to the rumor that Tom Stoppard helped write the screenplay for ROTS?
Matt the Bruins fan - May 25, 2005 9:59:35 pm PDT #3368 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If there is, he should commit hari-kari now before anyone can confirm the rumor.
Sue - May 26, 2005 3:02:34 am PDT #3369 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Any cred to the rumor that Tom Stoppard helped write the screenplay for ROTS?
That sounds like a sarcastic joke more than anything.
Volans - May 26, 2005 3:59:40 am PDT #3370 of 10002
move out and draw fire
So, standard Lucasian fare, then, huh? I saw the rumor in the New York Times review...probably what happened was that Lucas faxed Stoppard the treatment and offered a million dollars if Stoppard would screenwrite. Stoppard's response was probably something about all the tea in China.
Or, you know, maybe he did help out. Maybe in response to the fax, he sent back an edited version with the note "I was never involved in this, but here's a freebie" and all Jar-Jar's scenes cut out.
tommyrot - May 26, 2005 6:03:08 am PDT #3371 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Or else he changed all of Jar-Jar's dialog to nothing but profanity.