The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

[MissThundercat]

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Saving Christmas is now the worst movie in IMDB's history

Good.

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Did he die well?

[The Rube]

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Cleanskin

Sean Bean is in it. Gave it a watch just on that. About Muslim extremism and bombings of London. Spy thriller.

It was okay. A good time-passer, but nothing outstanding.

[St. Clown]

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Sorry, but C-3P0 is a whiny little beech than grates on me to no end. Always has, always will, even when I was a kid.

I always felt that way, too.

Brent, you know you're wrong when Kepler agrees with you in the realm of movies and TV show.


I don't know anyone who likes the lines C-3PO's given for purely comedic purposes, but he's far less annoying than Jar Jar for the simple fact that there are also moments when he's funny because it's situationally relevant. A droid spitting out probabilities of surviving an asteroid field while the pilot is evading capture/death, that's funny because it fits the moment. A droid forgetting that it turned off the comlink, that's not funny and it just wouldn't ever happen.

[FreshFish]

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Sorry, but C-3P0 is a whiny little beech than grates on me to no end. Always has, always will, even when I was a kid. I get that Jar-Jar was a "replacement" for him, and while annoying, he wasn't THAT annoying in comparison.

except for the one scene in Return of the Jedi in which C3PO tells the Ewoks the story of the battle, that was pretty well done.

it is annoying to me how "they" feel they had to tie everything together, too. So 9-year old Anakin builds C3PO? and is an ace pod-racer pilot too?

[Kepler]

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Sorry, but C-3P0 is a whiny little beech than grates on me to no end. Always has, always will, even when I was a kid.

I always felt that way, too.

[The Rube]

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Sorry, but C-3P0 is a whiny little beech than grates on me to no end. Always has, always will, even when I was a kid. I get that Jar-Jar was a "replacement" for him, and while annoying, he wasn't THAT annoying in comparison.

[state of hockey]

I'll take Jar-Jar over C-3P0 any day. Any. Day.

Please do. I hope you take him far, far away.

[The Rube]

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I guess I am in a minority in that I liked Phantom Menace (except for Jar-Jar Binks, of course. Those scenes I'd delete if I could).

I'll take Jar-Jar over C-3P0 any day. Any. Day.

[FreshFish]

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Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command, all three were written by Timothy Zahn, released in 1991, 92, and 93.... The Zahn books, AKA, the Thrawn Trilogy, were very good at capturing the mood and characters of the original three movies.

Yes, those are the three. I agree that they were very good in the way you describe.


There also were several "young adult" series written for Scholastic Books by Jude Watson that were quite good, IMHO:
- Jedi Apprentice series of Obi-wan's apprenticeship with Qui-Gon Jinn.
- Jedi Quest series of Anakin Skywalker at the Jedi Academy
- The Last of the Jedi series, set between the end of Revenge of the Sith and the beginning of A New Hope,about Obi-wan's attempt to save the other Jedi that survived Order 66 (Ferus Olin, who was an apprentice along with Anakin in the Jedi Quest series).

My children were in middle school back then and we had a custom in which I'd read aloud to them on school nights at bedtime that carried over from their younger years.

[St. Clown]

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Hmm... I remember reading the "official" episodes 7, 8, and 9 years ago. I guess they have revoked that status, then.

Potential spoilers in white, though maybe not any more:

I was looking around for those books today so that I could cite author and title but apparently they are now in boxes and I don't want to rummage through them.[/COLOR]

Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command, all three were written by Timothy Zahn, released in 1991, 92, and 93. While it's credited as the series to begin the Star Wars Expanded Universe, there was another book written prior to the release of The Empire Strikes Back by another author, but it wasn't very good. The Zahn books, AKA, the Thrawn Trilogy, were very good at capturing the mood and characters of the original three movies.

From Wiki on the EU stories being tossed in the dust bin:

Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm[edit]After Lucasfilm was purchased by The Walt Disney Company on October 30, 2012, it was decided that a sequel trilogy would be made. These movies will not tell stories of the Expanded Universe, and instead be completely original stories. On April 25, 2014, it was revealed that existing EU material would be republished under a new banner, Star Wars Legends. Also, a new line of EU material would be published by Disney Publishing Worldwide, starting with Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller, a prequel to the upcoming TV show, Star Wars Rebels. This would be followed by Star Wars: Tarkin by James Luceno, Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne, and Star Wars: Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp. To ensure continuity within the Expanded Universe going forth, a close story group has been formed by Lucasfilm to watch over all Star Wars development.

[FreshFish]

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Lucas Films has declared that the old books are no longer considered relevant.

Hmm... I remember reading the "official" episodes 7, 8, and 9 years ago. I guess they have revoked that status, then.

Potential spoilers in white, though maybe not any more:

Leia and Han get married (duh!) and have twins who are force sensitive. The Empire, although it lost the Emperor, doesn't completely surrender, their is a rump force that fights on and there is an admiral who is a brilliant tactician who is nearly impossible to defeat. Someone gets ahold of the clone-making equipment and clones Luke and turns the clone to the Dark Side (J'orus C'both??) Luke has to fight his clone self.

I was looking around for those books today so that I could cite author and title but apparently they are now in boxes and I don't want to rummage through them.

[dxmnkd316]

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Comedy Central also has sponsors to worry about. HBO? *laughs*

[Kepler]

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I don't think so. I would rather he stay on HBO. They give zero fks. Comedy Central has censored south Park before.

Agree. Oliver says some unbelievably subversive stuff.

[dxmnkd316]

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He is the best...


Can Jon Oliver do a daily show on CC and still do the HBO thing?

I don't think so. I would rather he stay on HBO. They give zero fks. Comedy Central has censored south Park before.