Seriously though, I know all that stuff sucks. Doesn't change the fact that the Star Wars stuff I love outclasses everything else.
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Seriously though, I know all that stuff sucks. Doesn't change the fact that the Star Wars stuff I love outclasses everything else.
GameplayWhore
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I know, I'm playing with you.
A New Hope is amazing, if a little slower paced than we're used to these days. Empire Strikes Back is shockingly good (and even with stellar pacing!), and Return is quite great, even if some elements falter. Tons of the video games rock, some of the books are great, the aforementioned animated Clone Wars is solid, the role playing game is well put together.
The fan films are often very fun, too. TROOPS, for instance, is masterful.
And I never wanted to run around with a phaser when I was a kid.
(on the matter of slave leia versus Starfleet miniskirt, my judgement is clear: the more the merrier)
edit: TROOPS (I wish there was a better copy out there -- there probably is, but I'm too lazy to do a real hunt)
I know, I'm playing with you.
A New Hope is amazing, if a little slower paced than we're used to these days. Empire Strikes Back is shockingly good (and even with stellar pacing!), and Return is quite great, even if some elements falter. Tons of the video games rock, some of the books are great, the aforementioned animated Clone Wars is solid, the role playing game is well put together.
The fan films are often very fun, too. TROOPS, for instance, is masterful.
And I never wanted to run around with a phaser when I was a kid.
(on the matter of slave leia versus Starfleet miniskirt, my judgement is clear: the more the merrier)
How I wish George Lucas wasn't the writer/director of the prequel trilogy. They could have been so good but that stupid little fuck had to make literally every wrong decision the entire way. I love KOTOR 1&2 as much as the original trilogy, such fantastic games.
GameplayWhore
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Incidentally, I may have already mentioned this, but the 30s Silent Edition of the films is actually very watchable. I had it going at a party a couple weeks ago, and a bunch of the people there was glued to the screen for five hours. Nice thing is that because the speaking parts are replaced with dialog cards, you get vastly improved dialog in the prequel trilogy, and people who want to just enjoy the party and ignore the films can do so without distraction.
I need to watch these.
better than Star Wars
Kccitystar
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gonna get in my delorean and gun it to 88 with my doc brown hair
brb time travel
brb time travel
GameplayWhore
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No, don't drink Dave; he's not nutritious!
Professor Beef
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You're saying you don't want Dave inside you?
GameplayWhore
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Not in my mouth. I have standards.
SteveWinwood
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Proof: http://youtu.be/DK8ednS0skQ
About a week or so it was on fx and I was just walking through the mall and they had a tv set up in one of the random chair sitting areas.
I watched the whole movie.
Jamesfrom818
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Finally home. H Pro has the most interesting toilet reading material.
ClassyPenguin
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gaffer's + food + alcohol= a fun time.
Chuckie
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Things I don't understand about Gaf:
The Olivia Munn hate. On Gaf it seems she's almost worse than Hitler
The Big Bang Theory hate. I know it's not a great comedy, but it seems entertaining enough. Is it 'Geek-culture' that is not properly 'displayed'?
Batman Begins love. Nice movie, but for me had some flaws (Irish white old ninjas), when I dared mention it I got crucified.
I think I'm just not into the whole "galactic" setting. It was never my thing, but I make exceptions every now and then.
A lot of things about geek culture are completely lost on me. Whenever there's some obscure reference, I find myself completely lost and dumbfounded as to what everybody is talking about. So you're not alone there.
A lot of things about geek culture are completely lost on me. Whenever there's some obscure reference, I find myself completely lost and dumbfounded as to what everybody is talking about. So you're not alone there.
seriously? you're an idi- awesome person!
clearacell
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I just woke up right now after the shortest 4 hour sleep ever....time to get my day started!
People have lined up to have me in their mouth.
Then who was she texting last night!?
.la1n
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Chuckie
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The original link was more interesting.
Microwave slightly before use
RobotNinjaHornets
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For me, I just dislike how completely off the funniness
opularity ratio is.Also it's not cynical enough.
*the most cheerful cynical bastard you will ever meet*
Who are you again? I dont recognize your picture.
.la1n
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I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that I needed approval for my posts. I'll contact you before I do something that stupid again.
.la1n
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GameplayWhore
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This amazes me from a sociological perspective. It makes total sense. I and my contemporaries love Star Wars for the same reason why somebody fifty years older than me loved the Flash Gordon serials, or why someone a hundred years older than me was glued to every Verne book that came out, the moment they reached the local book store. It was something so radically different** from what came before, that there was nothing to compare it against from a perspective of quality. It was like an entirely new kind of fun.
Nowadays, all the tropes are so set in stone that the trendsetting things that the movie and its sequels did are normal and therefore completely uninteresting. Oh, the bad guy really has a bad guy controlling him? Whatever. Oh, there's a secret twist at the end that changes the whole storyline. Well, just shammalammadingdong me dead, I've never seen anything like that more than once a month at the cinemas!
It's like Mel Brooks's "History of the World, Part I". Pretty much every good joke there now exists in other films. Hell, Brooks himself stole some of the better jokes. The theme song from "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" came from that movie, and it annoyed me that so many people loved the latter film when it did so much shameless ripping off of his earlier stuff. But that's another discussion.
Point being, every generation has new experiences that had never existed before, and they get hard written into the brains of people being developed at the time. After this point, the experiences have no novelty, because they can be found elsewhere. Motion controls are no longer a super hotness. You're not going to sell your system on the basis of it having that analog stick. Wow, having a 64-bit processor really isn't that great anymore. Lol, unshaded polygonal rendering.
I saw the first episode or two. It felt like it was making fun of me and my friends. How would you feel if, for instance, you were gay and all the jokes in "The Big Wang Theory"* were about how uncomfortable it is to be around gay people and how they're weird and shit?
You stole my sleepy. I was unable to sleep until 4:30am.
This one stays today. It's too touching and I'm in a sentimental mood
Standards have dropped. In my day, a GAFfer would have photograph themself hugging someone and put it up.
* ...sorry.
** Remember how the Matrix had that clever slow-mo photography trick that made it cool, because before then we'd only seen it in a GAP commercial? Well, that's pretty much the degree to which the entire length of the first Star Wars film differed from pretty much any movie that had been around before.
This. A lot of people find it hard to like Star Wars because they weren't able to appreciate it in the time in which it was presented... and...
Being a fool in what way? What is he/she doing?
RobotNinjaHornets
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This. A lot of people find it hard to like Star Wars because they weren't able to appreciate it in the time in which it was presented... and...
I always find this weird. Is it really that hard for people to not appreciate that something was great for it's time?
.la1n
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I did not mean to steal your sleepy, I am sorry. You can have it back tonight. I would photograph myself hugging someone and put it as my avatar if I actually had anyone to hug.
ClassyPenguin
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Me and him have a long history that I was completely oblivious too. He's taken issue with how often I disagree with him, apparently believing it to be a personal vendetta against him.
How egotistical.
ClassyPenguin
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