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Title: i love star wars!
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 22, 2005, 12:38:51 pm
Sorry, I just had to say that, being the Star Wars nerd I am.

Talk about how awesome star wars is, cause it just is.
Title: i love star wars!
Post by: sacredpossum on October 22, 2005, 12:44:55 pm
hell yeah!

darth vader is the cooooooooolest
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 22, 2005, 01:22:52 pm
There were some guys dress up as stormtroopers at armageddon, I took some photos but they turned out crap cause I was too excited to see them and couldn't work my camera right.
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Post by: gray_man on October 22, 2005, 01:44:55 pm
Quote from: Space Monkey
There were some guys dress up as stormtroopers at armageddon, I took some photos but they turned out crap cause I was too excited to see them and couldn't work my camera right.


R18 post

you guys shoulda seen him soon as he spoted the storm troopers he sorta started shaking around a bit making these wierd facial expresions, then the storm trooper came up to him and said "is that sauce on your pants or are you happy to see me?" spacemonkey just sighed......

not sure if this reply is funny or not.... if its not il delete it and pretend it never happened.....
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 22, 2005, 01:55:55 pm
I had a real good photo of him aiming the gun at me, but it came out all blury cause I didn't switch the flash on.
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Post by: Zarkov on October 22, 2005, 02:52:44 pm
Meth's stormtroopers are way better.
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Post by: bloodyYOKEL-NZ on October 22, 2005, 03:59:46 pm
Why do you always have to diminish the mood?

Anyone looks good in a stormtrooper suit
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Post by: Zarkov on October 22, 2005, 04:19:31 pm
Some look better then others.

Sometimes I say funny stuff.
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Post by: bloodyYOKEL-NZ on October 22, 2005, 04:35:18 pm
i guess your right.

but its so hard to tell the difference between them however so you have to assume they have no affect on your appearance
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Post by: m3th on October 22, 2005, 06:12:21 pm
yep, i was one of the biggest star wars fans physically possible.

loved it, read the books, played the games and watch the movies.

the sad fact is Lucas is actually a shitty director. His whole push is for the 'kids movie' angle of star wars. always has been. little furry ewoks destroying the best trained and equipped force in the galaxy, the new movies (for christs sake) all run in this 'its just a bit of fun' angle.

that's fine. but it means i don't really like star wars then. it took me a long time to realise this.

im a hardcore science fiction fan. I read a lot and collect movies with a passion. So when you put this fairy land bullshit up against some solid science ficition, it just sucks.

Damn pity Lucas is such a fag. Some brilliant concepts there (all stolen of course, Knights of the Round Table, the Second World War development and 'action science fiction' which I love).

The best movie I feel was 'Empire Strikes Back'. The only reason I give star wars any credence anymore is because of that film. The action is believealbe, tense and awesome. The script is mindblowing. It really is, if you watch that through just listening carefully to what they actually say and the way they say it you come away thinking 'holy shit'. Anyway i could go on.

The point here? LUCAS DIDN'T DIRECT ESB!

He didn't. hence it doesn't suck. Go and look it up. The man responsible for Robocop 2 did, Ivan Kershner (spelling..).

So anyway, Star Wars could have been my ultimate ficition. It was my love of fantasy combined with science fiction. However, Lucas carefully turned it into a pile of shit to rake in money from parents with nagging kids.

So be it, Jedi
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Post by: Zarkov on October 22, 2005, 06:45:53 pm
What about Jar Jar Binks Space Monkey?

Explain that.
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Post by: m3th on October 22, 2005, 07:39:12 pm
Quote from: Zarkov
What about Jar Jar Binks Space Monkey?

Explain that.


see my above post
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Post by: - NicK - on October 22, 2005, 10:05:49 pm
I like to pretend the prequels never happened.
Then the series kicks ass........ ignoring the whole ewok thing of course.
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 22, 2005, 11:53:25 pm
Luacs didn't direct Jedi either. But ESB was by far the best, Ivan Kershner is one of the best directors ever, I loved listeing to the director comments on ESB.

Jar Jar Binks was the result of a tumor in Lucas' brain.
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Post by: m3th on October 23, 2005, 05:28:05 am
yeah, but what else did Richard Marquand do that's worth talking about?

to be honest the only other thing Kershner did was Robocop 2 that I recognise. He did Seaquest DSV but that was a pile of shit.

anyway, Lawrence Kasdan   returns from ESB to lend his script writing that makes RoTJ at least a million times superior to the new episodes.

Quote
Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough. He told me you killed him.
Darth Vader: No. *I* am your father.
Luke: No. No. It's not true. That's impossible.
Darth Vader: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Luke: Nooooo. Nooooo.


maybe its ESB's darkness that makes it so awesome. The lack of Hollywood clichés and happy endings.

The music is something I haven't mentioned yet. If you watch episode 4 all the way through, paying careful attention to the score you'll notice the ENTIRE movie has an orchestral accompaniment, each scene with it's own brillant and spell-binding music. This adds tension and generally contributes to that 'star wars feel' that we all long for.

It's back for ESB. I remember specifically the end part where Luke is closing the panel on his new hand and we zoom back to see the medical frigate he is on. The music swells, an all too familiar undertone takes hold and BAM we hit the credits with the theme blasting. Only the end of Revenge of the Sith came close, however the rest of the score was comparatively crap. John Williams (lets here it for the Aussies!) obviously just didn't have the motivation or ability that he did 20 years ago.

yep, Star Wars is dead to me. Like an old friend that you remember the good days, but don't want to see anymore because of the way they turned out. You wish it could be like it was, but know it never will be.

The only part I can remember from the new movies is 'Order 66' or whatever when the Jedi were betrayed in episode 3. However I still think it didn't have the power of earlier scenes, the understated menace and evil allowing your mind to fill in the terrible blanks.

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Darth Vader: Calrissian. Take the princess and the Wookie to my ship.
Lando: You said they'd be left at the city under my supervision.
Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.


It was also the characters. The mix was perfect in the old movies. Leia was hot and kicked ass, the perfect heroine. Han Solo, well. What the fuck can you say about him. He kicked more ass than should be legal and was a bloody legend while doing it. Hilarious comments routinely came from him but when the shit got nasty he was the Harrison Ford we all know as Indiana motherfucking Jones.

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Princess Leia: Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder.
Han Solo: Who's scruffy-looking?


and Luke. Mark Hamill went on to really do fuck all after the Star Wars films. I saw him in Wing Commander 4 and again on a couple of TV shows, but really, his peak was SW. However because of this, because of his newness to the acting and movie scene his youth and inexperience was perfect for the character he played. As he matured over the years as Star Wars became the incredible success it was so did his character. By the time RoTJ came out he was Mark Hamill, lead actor of the biggest blockbuster saga of the decade (maybe all time). Hence the confidence he brought to his character in that movie was perfect for the grown and ready man that Luke Skywalker had become. Pity about the final screenplay.

Quote
Yoda: It is finished. No more training you require.
Luke: Then I am a Jedi.


the supporting cast, Chewie, Lando, Admiral Ackbar (ITS A TRAP lol) and others were all solid.

There is really no way the new movies could equal this and they didn't. Not even close. It all relied on unfinished stories, Star Wars fandom and basically the franchise carrying it where the old movies (particularly episodes 4 and 5) stood completely on their own.

I could go on for days about this lol, but ill shut up. I've written thousands of words on the Star Wars saga but the conclusion is always the same. It's dead. The longer I try and prolong it the more I shit on the greatness it once was.
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Post by: Black Heart on October 23, 2005, 09:17:16 am
its a shame they didn't have a  younger Solo in the last film. Like a survivor from the jedi academy or something. Not to have any role, but to acknowledge his existance.
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Post by: gray_man on October 23, 2005, 11:42:53 am
Quote from: Black Heart
its a shame they didn't have a  younger Solo in the last film. Like a survivor from the jedi academy or something. Not to have any role, but to acknowledge his existance.


they have the milenium falcon in the prequels, just a quik scene as it flies in the back round, just after they land that big f*&ked up on fire space ship early on in the third prequel.
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Post by: Verrt on October 23, 2005, 04:03:01 pm
I don't think that is needed
It anoys me that they just chuck in characters just for the sake of having them
chewbacca shouldn't have been in it, neither should jengo/bobo fett or young greebo and countless others



You can tell m3th is absolutly fuming about starwars can't you
It's like George Lucas  has come and raped his childhood
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Post by: m3th on October 23, 2005, 05:34:15 pm
heh, naw I was mad around the time Revenage of the Sith came out earlier this year.

Now im just dead inside
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Post by: KiLL3r on October 23, 2005, 07:00:20 pm
Quote from: Space Monkey
There were some guys dress up as stormtroopers at armageddon, I took some photos but they turned out crap cause I was too excited to see them and couldn't work my camera right.


i can just imagine space running around with a bunch of hyperactive 12 year olds :D
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Post by: sacredpossum on October 23, 2005, 10:39:01 pm
i don't know how anybody can say that george lucas is a crap director

he's fuckin awesome, totally innovative and really what makes a good director? there is no checklist here, if there were set guidelines anybody could be one, there are plenty of shit directors out there and lucas isn't one of them.

to me a good director tells a story and they tell it well, star wars has an awesome story and it is very entertaining.
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Post by: gray_man on October 23, 2005, 11:55:06 pm
possum for ur sig u need to get a pic of napolean bailing on his attempt to "get like 3 feet of AIR" such a funny movie
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 23, 2005, 11:59:36 pm
Yeah, Lucas is a good director, and Star Wars is his movie, so he is allowed to do what he wants with the new movies.

And I think ROTS came pretty close to the level of the orginal movies, and made up for the other two movies.

And AOTC wasn't that bad, and the pod race from the first one was pretty cool.
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Post by: sacredpossum on October 24, 2005, 12:40:50 am
Quote from: gray_man
possum for ur sig u need to get a pic of napolean bailing on his attempt to "get like 3 feet of AIR" such a funny movie


lol yeah that movie is so funny :D

yeah i liked all of the new star wars movies, especially episode 3, that rocked, r2d2 was so hardout haha
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Post by: Verrt on October 24, 2005, 02:40:27 am
Have you watched the first two of the new movies recently and on a TV sized screen?
they totaly suck, especialy the middle one
once it's off the big screen it looks like some crappy straight to TV movie made by the sci-fi channel
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Post by: sacredpossum on October 24, 2005, 03:25:52 am
Quote from: Verrt
Have you watched the first two of the new movies recently and on a TV sized screen?
they totaly suck, especialy the middle one
once it's off the big screen it looks like some crappy straight to TV movie made by the sci-fi channel


yes I have them on dvd

nothing wrong with them, ppl are way too harsh on some movies, once some ppl start to insult a movie it becomes a trend to do so
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Post by: m3th on October 24, 2005, 03:42:08 am
Quote from: sacredpossum
i don't know how anybody can say that george lucas is a crap director

he's fuckin awesome, totally innovative and really what makes a good director? there is no checklist here, if there were set guidelines anybody could be one, there are plenty of shit directors out there and lucas isn't one of them.

to me a good director tells a story and they tell it well, star wars has an awesome story and it is very entertaining.


Yes it's Lucas's story.

A director has a vison for the movie. It's played out in his head and he converts what he sees in his head into what we see on the screen. So most of the big desicions like editing, script and acting really all go through him.

The reason Lucas is a shit director is because his movies are not great cinema, they are tech demos. He's an incredible tecnical director, Industrial Light and Magic is his company. However there is a lot more to a movie that special effects (or graphics in a great game title).

The reason 99% of people say they like ROTS is because it tied up loose ends. It answered questions and put on the screen scenes we have wondered about since the series conception (remeber originality is what made Star Wars famous in the first place). Did it do it well thou?

Remember:
1) Robots bumping into each other and saying 'sorry'
2) the infamous Darth Vader 'NOOOOOOOO' scene
3) Grevious. Who the fuck was he?
4) the way Anakin and Obi Wan fought and fought for ages, doing incredible stuff and all of a sudden 'I have the higher ground'. what the fuck? a second ago we were jumping through the air like ninjas, swinging lightsabers like demons and all of a sudden the 'high ground' means you just don't go there.
5) The ease of which Anakin turned to the dark. Years of training, everything that makes Anakin powerful is due to the training from the Council. Palp said a few words and bang, Anakin is with him. Don't you think it would have taken a while? At least some serious event? Oh that's right. He had a dream. I think people who base actions of real life on dreams are called delusional.
6) Anakin wants to save Padme, so he strangles here. That's right, the reason he turned to the dark and basically did masses of crazy shit he suddenly decides isn't important and does the force choke on her.

I haven't seen it for a while, but I remember when I did this list went on forever.

It's just not compelling (for me). It just reeks of a silly, childish story with no real basis in anything and all the characters are painfully one dimensional.

Last night I saw 'Raging Bull' for the first time. It is truely one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. Im normally a cynical fuck, but this blew me away.

The reason I call Lucas a hack director? Go and hire 'Raging Bull', directed by Martin Scorsese and starring De Niro in a role that makes him really one of the greatest actors of all time. You'll see its like chalk and cheese.
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Post by: Princess Aura on October 24, 2005, 08:53:07 am
Quote from: sacredpossum
yes I have them on dvd

nothing wrong with them, ppl are way too harsh on some movies, once some ppl start to insult a movie it becomes a trend to do so


Some people are more easily satisfied than others.
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Post by: Darkov on October 24, 2005, 09:54:12 am
Star Wars movies were only averege because the Empire didn't win.

Stormtroopers > Ewoks
Darth Vader > Skywalker
Empire > Republic

That really annoyed me, I remember seeing the movie and thinking how godly the Empire was with all it's huge battlecruisers and deathstars and legions of henchmen.

Then they get beaten by some two-bit rebels and....furry little critters who swing rocks at them....WTF!?

btw: The Imperial March is the best tune ever, it seriously rocks, the ultimate pwnage music.
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Post by: sacredpossum on October 24, 2005, 11:25:53 am
Quote from: Princess Aura
Some people are more easily satisfied than others.


and why should some ppl be so harsh? i'd like to see the fatsos that watch these movies and complain go and make an awesome movie and makes millions of dollars. movies are for entertainment, thats all.

i'm not easy to please, i just know the hardwork that is put into films because i'm a film maker myself, i look at movies in a different light to some people who are always ready to judge
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Post by: KiLL3r on October 24, 2005, 01:39:47 pm
Quote from: m3th


Remember:
1) Robots bumping into each other and saying 'sorry'
2) the infamous Darth Vader 'NOOOOOOOO' scene
3) Grevious. Who the fuck was he?
4) the way Anakin and Obi Wan fought and fought for ages, doing incredible stuff and all of a sudden 'I have the higher ground'. what the fuck? a second ago we were jumping through the air like ninjas, swinging lightsabers like demons and all of a sudden the 'high ground' means you just don't go there.
5) The ease of which Anakin turned to the dark. Years of training, everything that makes Anakin powerful is due to the training from the Council. Palp said a few words and bang, Anakin is with him. Don't you think it would have taken a while? At least some serious event? Oh that's right. He had a dream. I think people who base actions of real life on dreams are called delusional.
6) Anakin wants to save Padme, so he strangles here. That's right, the reason he turned to the dark and basically did masses of crazy shit he suddenly decides isn't important and does the force choke on her.

.


you just ruined the 3rd movie for ppl who havnt seen it
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 24, 2005, 03:24:27 pm
Quote from: KiLL3r
you just ruined the 3rd movie for ppl who havnt seen it


Who ever hasn't seen the 3rd movie is a loser anyway.
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Post by: m3th on October 24, 2005, 04:17:36 pm
heh.

DARTH VADER IS LUKE'S FATHER  :eek:
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Post by: m3th on October 24, 2005, 04:28:27 pm
Quote from: Darkov
Star Wars movies were only averege because the Empire didn't win.

Stormtroopers > Ewoks
Darth Vader > Skywalker
Empire > Republic

That really annoyed me, I remember seeing the movie and thinking how godly the Empire was with all it's huge battlecruisers and deathstars and legions of henchmen.

Then they get beaten by some two-bit rebels and....furry little critters who swing rocks at them....WTF!?

btw: The Imperial March is the best tune ever, it seriously rocks, the ultimate pwnage music.


hm, this is a good point and why ESB rocks the way it does.
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Post by: Darkov on October 24, 2005, 09:16:15 pm
EMPIRE FTW
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Post by: Flash on October 25, 2005, 05:45:43 pm
Yo Star Whores!

Yes it's me Jar Jar!

Putting in a special guest appearence for Space Monkey and Possum!

What's up little buddies?
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Post by: bloodyYOKEL-NZ on October 25, 2005, 06:11:14 pm
That picture reminds me...

I found a shootemup internet game featuring jar jar binks. Your objective: shoot every jar jar you see into a bloody mess. I forget where it is but its brilliant. I played it for ages and got the rank of jedi (never missed).

episodes 1 to 3 were kinda lame, no movie should leave me thinking how they could have done it better but i enjoyed them anyway. At least to me the action well compensated for plot, lucas is a shit director maybe but i credit his enginuity for fight scenes. has anyone seen the technical wizardry behind those battles?

Thats my view towards the films, since we all look at it differently i cant argue with anyone else for how they see it
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 25, 2005, 07:57:20 pm
Quote from: bloodyYOKEL-NZ

episodes 1 to 3 were kinda lame, no movie should leave me thinking how they could have done it better but i enjoyed them anyway.


Well you have high expectations, when I see a movie I always see better ways things could have been done, but that doesn't mean I don’t like the movie.

People nowadays have become too critical of movies, I hate it, every time a new movie comes out people always have something bad to say about it.
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Post by: m3th on October 26, 2005, 04:05:42 am
although Maddox can be an incredible fag at times, SOMETIMES he sums up my views on a situation so clearly that I have to admit he is not a total fool.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=episode3

p.s. Don't read if someone insulting you over the Internet will make you run into the bathroom and slit your wrists while listening to grunge music and wearing a black leather trench coat.
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on October 26, 2005, 10:12:20 am
I can understand how people can not like a movie, what I don't understand is how someone can waste their time writing a whole page on how crap they think it is, whats the point of doing that. If someone doesn't like a movie, they should just get over it, not go on about it.
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Post by: sacredpossum on October 26, 2005, 12:27:49 pm
Quote from: Space Monkey
I can understand how people can not like a movie, what I don't understand is how someone can waste their time writing a whole page on how crap they think it is, whats the point of doing that. If someone doesn't like a movie, they should just get over it, not go on about it.


totally, movies are not made to cater for everybody, you can't please every single person, there's always a person who likes to harass stuff, its just ashame some ppl listen to the trash that they say
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Post by: Verrt on October 26, 2005, 12:49:10 pm
Ha, I don't think anyone listens to Maddox
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Post by: Caveman on October 26, 2005, 01:03:12 pm
Lol shame on me I still haven't seen Episode 3. I definaltely like episode 4,5,6 better than 1 and 2 bar a few cool fight scenes
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Post by: bloodyYOKEL-NZ on October 26, 2005, 04:54:23 pm
Quote from: Space Monkey
Well you have high expectations, when I see a movie I always see better ways things could have been done, but that doesn't mean I don’t like the movie.


no i dont, i did like the movie, i simply felt it could have been done differently, I once watched dragonball Z episodes and old black and white sci-fi flops so i dont mind lame. The fact is that it was.

I sure dont listen to maddox, i thought the special effects were very well done.
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Post by: Flash on October 26, 2005, 10:28:26 pm
Eh Oh!
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Post by: Verrt on October 27, 2005, 01:14:49 am
I think Tinky-Winky needs a shave
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Post by: m3th on October 27, 2005, 03:31:20 am
Quote from: bloodyYOKEL-NZ
I sure dont listen to maddox, i thought the special effects were very well done.


I think your missing his point there, mate. Maddox was saying it's not the special effects themselves that were the problem, it was the use of them. I agree, it was every scene. Lucas managed to overdo the effects to the point where seing a space ship was no longer something amazing. The lightsaber fights were so over the top that they became formulatic.

Maddox was saying Lucas managed to take the 'special' out of 'special effects'. If every scene has them they are no longer special.

Episode 5 (and even 4 and 6 to some extent) had SOLID dialouge sequences and character development outside of the blasters and space ship fights. It's this balance (along with character balance, plot balance and others) that makes episode 5 a great movie and episode 3 an (at best) average one.

You see, the problem with me and Star Wars is that I really loved it. Thought it was fantastic when I was a teenager and sent me on a grand journey of science fiction. However as I got older (and had read some of the great works) I started to realise that Star Wars in certain areas left much to be desired. That was the old movies.

Of course the new ones came out that were even worse and that was the end of my interest really.

I'm reading a great book at the moment. Called 'The Forever War' it's a great science ficition by  a guy called Haldemen. Last week I finished Hienlien's 'Starship Troopers'. Let me tell you, if you though the movie was shit the book certainly isn't. I'm trying to think of some more titles ive read this year but its late and I can't recall specifics at the moment. Anyway, I just feel once you've read some of these 'serious' and 'adult' science fiction works with proper character development, complicated and dark plots and awesome fictional technical detail the only Star Wars movie to even rate on the same scale is Empire Strikes Back.

Oo, I just remembered. 'Do Andriods Dream Of Electric Sheep' by Philip K Dick. The movie 'Bladerunner' is based on it (a great science fiction movie).

It's that 'dark' element that makes the movie seem serious, draws you in and makes you think 'hey, this isn't an american cliche, what the fuck is going to happen next?'.

The new Star Wars just didn't have this. The characters were never really in danger (it seemed), the shitty everyone happy ending was always just an hour away and the characters were so single minded, one dimensional that we could predict what they were going to do before they did it.

To try and illustrate what im talking about with 'depth' in a movie, try this.

Got a copy of 'Bladerunner' hanging around? Never seen it? (gasp)
Well get it, and watch it through. Then tell me:
'Is Deckard (Harrison Ford) a replicant himself?'
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Post by: Xt1ncT on October 27, 2005, 03:10:28 pm
I was never really a big fan of Bladerunner.

IMHO everyone just got on the critical bandwagon and says its so good etc. Although I do like the question m3th poses, and I think no-one will ever really know the answer to that one.

One of the best science fiction books (series actually) I've read is Frank Herbert's Dune. It has strong well thought out characters, and excellent plots and sub plots. The following Dune messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune are all great as well.
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Post by: bloodyYOKEL-NZ on October 27, 2005, 05:09:25 pm
we have the entire film series of dune. indeed If books turn out better than the film then i need to find out where the books are.
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Post by: Verrt on October 27, 2005, 05:34:05 pm
The first dune book was amazing totaly killer
the follow ups are examples of the worst writing Frank Herbert has ever done
I thought they were reaal average, and you know how bad average sci-fi can be

the first dune movie with sting was ok, not great but ok
but so far I don't think anyone has done the book justice as far as movies or a series are concerned
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Post by: Xt1ncT on October 28, 2005, 08:46:15 am
Quote from: Verrt
The first dune book was amazing totaly killer
the follow ups are examples of the worst writing Frank Herbert has ever done
I thought they were reaal average, and you know how bad average sci-fi can be

the first dune movie with sting was ok, not great but ok
but so far I don't think anyone has done the book justice as far as movies or a series are concerned

I liked the other books. I first read it as one - The Great Dune Trilogy"

But the first one "Dune" is just fantastic - deep and powerful. BY the film is nothing compared to the book.
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Post by: bloodyYOKEL-NZ on October 28, 2005, 04:23:16 pm
Quote from: Xt1ncT

But the first one "Dune" is just fantastic - deep and powerful. BY the film is nothing compared to the book.


as i had suspected, i beleive we also have a series of the books packed up above the ceiling somewhere. I only have seen the films. Even then i didnt think the film and its sequels were that bad.
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Post by: Verrt on October 28, 2005, 04:48:50 pm
Quote from: Xt1ncT
I liked the other books. I first read it as one - The Great Dune Trilogy"


I supose for sci-fi they were alright
but for frank herbert they were pretty crap, all I could think of while reading them was
"this isn't as good as any of his other books"

I recomend getting a book called EYE, its a recent publication of short stories by Herbert
awsome read
only problem is it just wets your appatite
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Post by: deamora on October 29, 2005, 03:26:45 am
kinda like babylon5 - any thoughts?
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Post by: Verrt on October 29, 2005, 08:02:44 am
maybe Im wrong
but ot just seemed like another startrek to me

anyone else?
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Post by: bloodyYOKEL-NZ on October 29, 2005, 02:15:46 pm
babylon 5 never struck my fancy. Perhaps its because i only watched 5 minutes of each episode but it fell to the ranks of startreck; deep space 9. needed more giant ships getting blown to smithereens
Title: i love star wars!
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on May 01, 2013, 01:18:10 pm
Star Wars Day is coming up soon. 4th of May.

What will you be doing?
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Post by: Black Heart on May 01, 2013, 01:25:30 pm
laughing about the banned thread necromonkey?
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Post by: deadmeatwalking on May 01, 2013, 01:46:52 pm
Quote from: Black Heart;1524490
laughing about the banned thread necromonkey?

haha i was about to say ... another monkey necro'd thread
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on May 01, 2013, 01:55:46 pm
It was relevant to the topic.
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Post by: Speakman on May 01, 2013, 05:44:57 pm
Quote from: deadmeatwalking;1524494
haha i was about to say ... another monkey necro'd thread


Someone has to do it since xsannz bullied tiwa away
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Post by: SteddieEddie on May 01, 2013, 06:43:29 pm
Come back tiwa, miss your quotes mate.

I am going to celebrate the 4th by allowing my 4 1/2 year old  to watch copious amounts of clone wars. I have 5 series for him to wade through.

Might get him a tee shirt also.
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on May 04, 2013, 10:46:14 am
May the 4th.
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Post by: Bounty Hunter on May 04, 2013, 02:49:41 pm
Quote from: Spacemonkey;1524787
May the 4th.

Be with you!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH STAR WARS DAY!
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Post by: Zarkov on May 04, 2013, 04:14:24 pm
Droll.
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Post by: Emrico1 on May 04, 2013, 05:36:31 pm
International day of the virgin
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Post by: Pyromanik on May 04, 2013, 06:03:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f9plD-JZsw
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Post by: Dr. Acula on May 04, 2013, 06:20:06 pm
Me and the missus are having a Star Wars marathon, it is great! :D
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Post by: Easymeat56k on May 04, 2013, 08:19:13 pm
http://yuq.me/u/2188018/JtqLjpZaDO.png
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Post by: Xsannz on May 05, 2013, 09:25:44 am
Quote from: Speakman;1524526
Someone has to do it since xsannz bullied tiwa away

 
Ha i didnt bully him.

And he has been seen in the wild recently....
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Post by: Obble on May 05, 2013, 09:59:55 am
Quote from: Xsannz;1524810
Ha i didnt bully him.

And he has been seen in the wild recently....

Watchout Xsananananz, you've got Speakman thugs and co. after you.
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Post by: Xsannz on May 05, 2013, 10:16:11 am
Quote from: Obble;1524811
Watchout Xsananananz, you've got Speakman thugs and co. after you.

 

fan diddly tastic.. i shall get out the metal shaving filled lube , the bunny beads and ball gag, and decorate the dungeon in a jabba the hut theme....

speakman can be Princess Leah,  his thugs can be sand people and i'll play jabba....
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Post by: Pitchey on May 05, 2013, 10:52:30 am
For some reason this reminded me of what happened a couple of weeks age.

Was in Burger Fuel getting dinner with a female friend, she sees the refurbished Pacman game and is watching the Ghosts running around the maze.

"Which one is Casper?" she asks.

I was about to lol when I realised that she was serious. OMG!
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on May 06, 2013, 08:54:01 am
Quote from: Pitchey;1524813
For some reason this reminded me of what happened a couple of weeks age.

Was in Burger Fuel getting dinner with a female friend, she sees the refurbished Pacman game and is watching the Ghosts running around the maze.

"Which one is Casper?" she asks.

I was about to lol when I realised that she was serious. OMG!

Did you tell her they're called Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde?

Because you should have.
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Post by: Pitchey on May 06, 2013, 12:42:42 pm
Started to explain but then gave up. Burgers were ready.
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Post by: deadmeatwalking on May 06, 2013, 02:17:52 pm
Quote from: Pitchey;1524828
Started to explain but then gave up. Burgers were ready.

shouldnt have said anything :P might have got laid :P
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Post by: Pitchey on May 06, 2013, 02:46:12 pm
lol, naw, shes just a mate.
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Post by: deadmeatwalking on May 06, 2013, 02:53:07 pm
Quote from: Pitchey;1524835
lol, naw, shes just a mate.

from toks ?

seems legit :P
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Post by: Pitchey on May 06, 2013, 04:24:31 pm
toks?
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Post by: deadmeatwalking on May 06, 2013, 05:35:21 pm
Quote from: Pitchey;1524846
toks?

lol tokoroa :P

nvm :P
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Post by: BerG on May 06, 2013, 05:47:44 pm
Tokoroa cant afford a movie cinema.

Or a Burger Fuel.

They just have the countries biggest KFC, bro.
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Post by: Pitchey on May 06, 2013, 06:22:46 pm
But I live in the capital?
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Post by: BerG on May 06, 2013, 07:50:48 pm
Quiet.
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Post by: Pitchey on May 06, 2013, 08:58:09 pm
: - (
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on May 07, 2013, 08:08:34 am
Anyway I watched Empire Strikes Back.


I like that movie because the good guys win.
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Post by: PrinceTuiTeka on May 07, 2013, 09:31:03 am
Han tricked by old friend and delivered to Bounty Hunter for transport to crimelord + Luke beaten by Father/sith lord = Good guys win?
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Post by: Scunner on May 07, 2013, 12:10:52 pm
Quote from: Spacemonkey;1524888
Anyway I watched Empire Strikes Back.


I like that movie because the good guys win.


The good guys win in Episode 3 too.

In related news ...

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/ea-snags-exclusive-deal-to-make-star-wars-games/

TL;DR: EA makes multi-year deal with Disney for rights to Star Wars games; DICE, Visceral and Bioware to make them.
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on May 07, 2013, 12:14:23 pm
In before all the EA haters go on about EA will ruin star wars.
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Post by: O-L-W-A-G on May 07, 2013, 06:06:17 pm
Starts hating
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Post by: Dr. Acula on May 08, 2013, 03:03:39 pm
I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about, yea it's EA, but it's not like they're the ones that actually make the game, they're just publishers. I'm sorta glad they have it now since Bioware will be making it, I'll be looking forward to a Mass Effect-esque, Star Wars game.
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Post by: Bounty Hunter on May 08, 2013, 03:57:40 pm
Quote from: Dr. Acula;1524981
I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about, yea it's EA, but it's not like they're the ones that actually make the game, they're just publishers. I'm sorta glad they have it now since Bioware will be making it, I'll be looking forward to a Mass Effect-esque, Star Wars game.

Yeah but the publisher pays the developer, and he who has the money, has the power.

dice: we want to put wookie's in it
EA: our data shows that people dont relate well to wookies, put jar jar binks instead
dice: but jar jar binks is shit
EA: but we pay you
dice: so im still not going to do it
EA: put in jar jar binks not wookies
dice (except replaced by a more compliant dice): ok
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on May 08, 2013, 05:00:09 pm
And people will still buy the game anyway, and EA will still keep making money.
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Post by: Zarkov on May 08, 2013, 05:06:11 pm
Quote from: Spacemonkey;1524987
And people will still buy the game anyway, and EA will still keep making money.


You're the reason Jar Jar was in there in the first place.

It's your demographic.
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Post by: Xsannz on May 08, 2013, 05:53:46 pm
Quote from: Zarkov;1524988
You're the reason Jar Jar was in there in the first place.

It's your demographic.

wow just notice if you and spacemonkeys avatars have babies youd have ewoks.. or hairy yoda's...
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Post by: EnjoyTheSauce on May 09, 2013, 04:28:45 am
Quote from: Dr. Acula;1524981
I'll be looking forward to a Mass Effect-esque, Star Wars game.
Errr ummm KOTOR?
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Post by: Pyromanik on May 12, 2013, 12:37:36 am
Quote from: Xsannz;1524812
fan diddly tastic.. i shall get out the metal shaving filled lube , the bunny beads and ball gag, and decorate the dungeon in a jabba the hut theme....

speakman can be Princess Leah,  his thugs can be sand people and i'll play jabba....

Leia.


Goddamn noob.
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Post by: Pyromanik on May 12, 2013, 12:39:48 am
Quote from: Dr. Acula;1524981
I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about, yea it's EA, but it's not like they're the ones that actually make the game, they're just publishers. I'm sorta glad they have it now since Bioware will be making it, I'll be looking forward to a Mass Effect-esque, Star Wars game.

You don't know how the world works do you?
Like what happens when a publisher BUYS the studio. Since Bioware now IS ea, one would have to say that yes, ea ARE in fact the ones making the game.
Espeically when they then have the hire/fire power and get to dictate things like art direction and all the things. Because they OWN the devs.
Bioware isn't a thing anymore. It's just another division of EA.
Like Maxis.
And DICE.
And Westwood.

And Infinity Ward is to Activision.

Quote from: EnjoyTheSauce;1524997
Errr ummm KOTOR?

And KOTOR2.
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Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 19, 2014, 05:53:40 pm
I loved listeing to the director comments on ESB.

I have no memory of this.

I'll have to listen to it again.