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I have no doubt that I wouldn't like the potter prequels, but then I stopped liking the books towards the end and never watched the last three movies. Imagine if Luke beat the Emperor because Palpatine had taken out a mortgage on the Death Star and Uncle Owen had been on the board of directors of the bank that owned the mortgage and the Emperor had been relying on revenue from Jabba, so he had actually missed the last few payments, so halfway through Luke's final confrontation, he realized that he could just repossess the Death Star and evict the emperor into space. And then Nien Nunb just kinda beats Darth Vader to death with his bare hands, but that's not the important story.
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May 16, 2020 18:27
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7p1 is the best Harry Potter film, you missed out. Harry, Ron and Hermione get hosed up in a forest for two hours.
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May 16, 2020 18:32
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I always liked 5 and 6 best. As both films and stories.
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May 16, 2020 19:35
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I read the first book and skipped the rest and all the movies and stuff it's not a choice that I've ever regretted
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May 16, 2020 23:48
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https://twitter.com/dril/status/1261939006805180416
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May 17, 2020 09:49
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https://twitter.com/Jwhitbrook/status/1261970991712014337
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May 17, 2020 16:48
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The subtitles the prequels deserve. FINALLY.
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May 17, 2020 18:06
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If you telnet into towel.blinkenlights.nl episode 4 is played out in ASCII glory. Still better effects than the PT.
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May 17, 2020 23:37
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CainFortea posted:If you telnet into towel.blinkenlights.nl episode 4 is played out in ASCII glory. I'll agree to this, but by the same logic it is also better effects than the OT
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May 18, 2020 02:27
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CainFortea posted:I mean he died. He also liked phantom menace. I'm not saying those two are connected............ nice to see scumbag poo poo like this is still the norm in this thread
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May 21, 2020 01:17
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e: whatever
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May 21, 2020 01:22
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Oof, I must have missed that. Yeah, please don't do that Edit - But I would also appreciate a report instead of posting in the thread. Didn't really need to a public call out. Roth fucked around with this message at 01:31 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 01:22
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General Grievous is kind of a wasted opportunity, not particularly because other sources had cooler takes on the character concept than the movie did, but because he doesn't really have any purpose in the movie other than distracting Obi-Wan while Anakin's busy falling to the dark side. He's the Zam Wessel of the movie. Also it was weird that there was a whole thing where Utapau was being held hostage somehow? Weird that he had to do that whole thing instead of just going to a plain ol' Separatist planet. That whole sequence was just kinda overly long for something that carried no emotional weight in the movie.
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May 21, 2020 03:53
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SlothfulCobra posted:General Grievous is kind of a wasted opportunity, not particularly because other sources had cooler takes on the character concept than the movie did, but because he doesn't really have any purpose in the movie other than distracting Obi-Wan while Anakin's busy falling to the dark side. He's the Zam Wessel of the movie. It's not just that other sources had better takes, you need to watch the other sources to even have somewhat of an idea of who he is. Why does he cough? You needed to have watched the Tartakovsky clone wars series that originally aired in 3 minute episodes on Cartoon Network on Friday nights. Even then I just watched that and have seen the CGI clone wars series but I'm still not sure where he came from, why he's in a robot body, why he's a general or why he hates jedi. I think some of that might be answered in that series but it's 7 seasons most of which are 20+ episodes. I just watched the prequels after watching Rise of Skywalker because I wanted to see how they hold up and I think it's pretty funny how twice he's like "haha I win!" as he flees for his life. I still don't think the prequels are very good but I will admit I have more of an affection for them now after watching the newest ones. GokuGoesSSj69 fucked around with this message at 10:15 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 10:09
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my favourite character in the prequels is the dumb alien in charge of the cloning facility some random dude shows up "oh you must be the guy who ordered a billion clones, I never really saw the guys face" Obi Wan: (sweating profusely) "Clone army?! A clone army, a whole army of clones?!" "yeah this dude ordered it" "They've been dead for ten years! A loving clone army jesus christ" "oh word? Yeah. Maybe in the decade we've been making a billion clones we should have sent an email, or talked to more than one dude? Project is still on right? lol sure hoope we got paid up front. Anyway, are you saying you don't know about the clone army???" (Most obvious lie anyone has ever told) "no I know about it, HAHA, show me my clone army what I ordered haha" "oh ok"
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May 21, 2020 11:24
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Yeah, it rules. It's up there with Indy seeking the tapestries.
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May 21, 2020 14:17
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In the clone wars CGI show those aliens with the long necks literally walk into the next room over when there are jedi there and talk to Dooku over hologram several times so again it's the jedi who are the dumb ones.
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May 21, 2020 17:36
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count dooku and the long-neck aliens have been talking poo poo in fortnite
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May 21, 2020 17:51
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:It's not just that other sources had better takes, you need to watch the other sources to even have somewhat of an idea of who he is. Why does he cough? Even in the future, nothing works.
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May 21, 2020 18:31
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:In the clone wars CGI show those aliens with the long necks literally walk into the next room over when there are jedi there and talk to Dooku over hologram several times so again it's the jedi who are the dumb ones. lol you mean the writers of a kids show also realised how dumb that scene was Does the cartoon explain why the trillion dollar clone project that is highly important and sensitive is carried out 10 feet above a raging, stormy, ocean??? Do they just open up the floors and dump the bad clones?
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May 21, 2020 19:50
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I for one demand to know why people are bothering to moisture farm on one of the dryest planets in the galaxy. Lucas sure hosed that one up!
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May 21, 2020 21:58
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Calico Heart posted:lol you mean the writers of a kids show also realised how dumb that scene was When the sea is calm, it looks like a mirror hiding the huge, willy-womkaesque facility hidden in and under the endless inscrutable ocean from which the kamino crawled alone
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May 21, 2020 22:22
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josh04 posted:I for one demand to know why people are bothering to moisture farm on one of the dryest planets in the galaxy. Lucas sure hosed that one up! They're subsistence farmers scratching out a living on the frontier, contrasted with the sleek, modern styling of the ultratech Kamino cloners. This is a dumb comparison. That said, I just assumed the Kaminoans lived underwater and the stuff above the surface was a dock and reception.
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May 22, 2020 00:08
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josh04 posted:I for one demand to know why people are bothering to moisture farm on one of the dryest planets in the galaxy. Lucas sure hosed that one up! They don't export the water off of Tatooine. They're doing it so they don't have to import water from offplanet. If that doesn't sound like a profitable business model that would make homesteaders relevant within the galactic economy as opposed to just some nobodies out on the frontier, it's not.
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May 22, 2020 00:10
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I assume the people that have lived on a storm planet for who knows how long and has cloning tech are able to build cities that can last in that environment.
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May 22, 2020 00:11
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also kamino is  and easily one of the best-looking planets in the whole series, which is impressive in a series with coruscant, mustafar, naboo, cloud city, tatooine, the death star, and none of the locations from the sequel trilogye:actually, let's offer a bit more substantive criticism. the casino on casino planet looks nice but casino planet itself is remarkably bland. krait is decent but feels like a marginal improvement on hoth, except there are pokemon as well. exogol is just the phrase 'it was a dark and stormy night'. ungulateman fucked around with this message at 01:13 on May 22, 2020 |
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May 22, 2020 01:10
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Calico Heart posted:lol you mean the writers of a kids show also realised how dumb that scene was A ton of that show is explaining stuff that doesn't make much sense in the movies, like almost everything about Anakin. The good parts are pretty good, but like I said above it's 7+ seasons, five of which are over 20 episodes so there's also a fair amount of other stuff in there that's not that great. Then there's stuff that's so dumb it's good, like Savage Opress. Just look at that glorious villian name. It's been awhile but at some point, I want to say like season 3 or so it goes from being for kids to, uh, not really being for them, or at least they aren't the target audience anymore. It gets pretty violent and there's stuff like a plotline about a jedi who purposely throws clones lives away because he doesn't view them as really being people.
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May 22, 2020 02:05
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Wait why do you need to know why the cyborg naga has a cough Perhaps he is unhealthy Why does artoo not have a proper voice box? Why is Vader's breathing so prominent? Why does Chewie hate losing holo chess so much? Why why No doubt there are answers for these inane questions in some bad comic/novel/game/etc but it's best to look within and trust your own feelings.
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May 22, 2020 03:50
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Blood Boils posted:Wait why do you need to know why the cyborg naga has a cough because he has no other discernible personality traits other than threatening to harm the protagonists people are hungry for a story because the stories the prequels do tell range from insipid (anakin) to inane (obi-wan)
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May 22, 2020 05:23
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the only part of the prequels I actually enjoyed was during the pod race when the Sand People sniped a pod racer just because they're assholes
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May 22, 2020 05:48
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Cease to Hope posted:because he has no other discernible personality traits other than threatening to harm the protagonists He's a cowardly mustache twirler
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May 22, 2020 05:49
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Roth posted:He's a cowardly mustache twirler he's a coward until he notices it's time for a dramatic confrontation so the audience doesn't get bored
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May 22, 2020 05:54
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Cease to Hope posted:he's a coward until he notices it's time for a dramatic confrontation so the audience doesn't get bored I wonder why a coward would feel confident about fighting a dude with a couple thousand of his soldiers watching. Notice he immediately runs away again when the tables are turned.
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May 22, 2020 06:16
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Roth posted:I wonder why a coward would feel confident about fighting a dude with a couple thousand of his soldiers watching. You mean, the soldiers he waves off so he can fight Obi-Wan himself?
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May 22, 2020 06:42
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Cease to Hope posted:You mean, the soldiers he waves off so he can fight Obi-Wan himself? Have you never seen a movie or read a book where a normally cowardly character feels confident they can take on someone else because they've got their cronies backing them up, ready to spring into action when things go wrong?
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May 22, 2020 06:56
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Grievous rules in both interpretations. Genndy Tartakovsky's interpretation made him a mysterious badass. George Lucas' interpretation made him a scenery-chewing Snidely Whiplash, and good meme fodder. I 100% understand people hating on Lucas' version after seeing the microseries, but Grievous grew on me the more I saw it.  And my favorite: 
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May 22, 2020 07:01
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ifunny
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May 22, 2020 07:07
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Cease to Hope posted:because he has no other discernible personality traits other than threatening to harm the protagonists Why does Boba Fett have those hair braids? Why is threepio goldplated instead of silver or bronze? Why do we never see Chewie use his pouch? What's he keep in there So hungry for answers, yet Lucas is starving me Why
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Roth posted:ifunny no, he's funny, you're just insipid
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