Look what's shooting downstairs next week: [link]
Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.
'Out Of Gas'
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Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2012 9:34:49 am PST #18051 of 30000
hwæt
Dana - Feb 10, 2012 9:35:28 am PST #18052 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Can I come live with you, Tom? I promise to not lick Jeremy Renner.
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2012 9:35:59 am PST #18053 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Uh, Tom, she's clearly untrustworthy.
Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2012 9:37:49 am PST #18054 of 30000
hwæt
I'm a straight guy. I don't understand.
Kalshane - Feb 10, 2012 9:53:07 am PST #18055 of 30000
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.
Based on how the last 3 movies turned out (not to mention Indy 4), I don't think it's exactly a tragedy to mankind that he flounced off and decided not to inflict more of his craptacular vision on the viewing public.
Agreed. Though the handful of episodes of the Clone Wars series that I've seen have been decent. Of course, I don't know how much input he has on that.
tommyrot - Feb 10, 2012 9:55:00 am PST #18056 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, Lucas says The Empire Strikes Back is the worst of the six films. (That's the one he didn't write or direct.)
What a wanker.
juliana - Feb 10, 2012 10:00:27 am PST #18057 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Oh, Lucas. Please, just, shut up.
Fellow THard fans, did you see the montage of his workouts? [link] Good gods, y'all.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 10, 2012 10:28:36 am PST #18058 of 30000
"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
I'm a straight guy. I don't understand.
I'm not, and Renner's appeal escapes me too.
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2012 10:34:53 am PST #18059 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dana knows I don't get it either.
Jessica - Feb 10, 2012 10:35:57 am PST #18060 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I hadn't seen any of the prequels since they were in theatres, but I remember thinking Attack of the Clones was a decent political thriller/action movie begging to be set free, and some of Sith I actually quite liked. (Right up until "Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!")
Then I tried to watch Phantom Menace with Dylan a couple of weeks ago (he asked to see a Star Wars movie he hadn't seen before). I thought there was no way it could be as bad as I remembered. Surely I had just built up an exaggerated and unfair caricature based on years of fannish mocking? It was probably just an average juvenile action movie, right?
OH MY GOD IT WAS SO MUCH WORSE. Like, I was prepared for the horrific racistness of Jar-Jar, but I had completely forgotten the slanty-eyed untrustworthy traders. And I had only vague memories of the bulge-nosed greedy desert merchant.
And just when you start to think hey, these are aliens, let's give George the benefit of the doubt that he didn't really mean them to come across that way...Anakin starts talking. And you get lines like "Are you an angel? My mother told me they're the most beautiful creatures in the world!" And then Obi-wan starts going on about the fucking midichlorians and I don't even know what crimes against filmmaking are in the second half because I turned it off.