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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: The D on Jul 15, 2005, 11:17:05 PM
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So I went and saw War of the Worlds and peeked into another theater where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was starting so watched that as well.
WotW:
A creepy movie but it was only so-so.. hell, in some ways ID4 was better, even with Will Smith.
The good:
- The movie was centered around Ray's (Cruise) family, and didn't show what was going on from other points of view. It was a lot like Signs in that case, but Signs was a better movie overall. In some ways this worked, but it also sucked.
- The tripods actually looked kinda cool and were more faithful to the book.
- It was pretty creepy. Dead bodies floating down a river, giant tripods striding through a town, people being ripped in half or blown to pieces or being sucked dry. A 747 that crashes in a neighborhood. A flaming bullet train that flies past. Alien parasites covering a yard, farmland burning and charred, fields of bodies.
- Some of the city battles with the tripods reminded me of the giant Spiders in HL2.
The bad:
- The fact the movie was set in a limited third-person view (rather than a godly view) was annoying for those who expect this to be like ID4. You don't see what's going on around the rest of the world.
- The battles are extremely limited. this is a WAR of the worlds, I demand huge battlefields with thousands of combatants and explosions all over!
- The entire story revolves around a plot of "Run, hide, run, hide, run, hide, run, hide." Oh shit, they've copied off of ROD TV's plot!
- I miss the stalk eye. :(
- The worst part was the purpose of the alien tripods. Supposedly they had been underground for thousands of years until now, so this begs several questions. First, why didn't the aliens take over Earth back then? Two, why didn't we notice the tripods while laying pipe/wires/subway? Three, if they had visited back then why didn't they know about our germs? Four, why did they bury the damn things in the first place?
- Also, we assume the aliens want our planet for their own. They start terraforming it by using human blood to create a kind of alien terraforming fungus. If they needed humans to harvest, why did they vaporize humans in the first half of the movie? That would be like me shooting cows. And why didn't they harvest animals as well?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
I have no complaints... really. Well, except maybe that the jokes were't really that funny to me, but they got kids giggling so I guess they worked. Depp played a great eccentric inventor, and I like the fact that they explained Willy Wonka's past and made him into a true 3D character unlike the 2D brats and their generic parents.
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:nurinono:
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Maybe everyone thought you did such a good job, that it didn't neen any more comment?
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Or we don't care?
What about FF4?
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I just have no plans to see either movie.
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Haven't seen F4. Might go just to hear the Thing growl "It's clobbering time!"
And nur, you must at least go to see Charlie, it's such a fun movie!
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I'm usually a whore of anything with Tim Burton's name on it, but CATCF seems like a movie I can wait till it's on video to see. I may however see The Corpse Bride if we even get it around here.
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What the fuck was he smoking when he thought up "Corpse Bride"?
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The same stuff that makes the Andy Millarkis show entertaining.
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Wedding crashers has got to be the FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER
besides pirates of the caribbean, of course
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Wedding crashers has got to be the FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER
besides pirates of the caribbean, of course
You sound like a tagline for a product box!
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Johhny Depp was a terrible Wonka...Chris Walken should have gotten the role--him or Jay Mohr.
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Walken is good in everything.
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Johhny Depp was a terrible Wonka...Chris Walken should have gotten the role--him or Jay Mohr.
<_< Please.
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Your mom.
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My Mom would love to fuck him.
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Shit. I probably would.
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You'd cum in his eye, then slap him in the face as you call him a 'fag', right Dert?
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well shite, I was wondering what "FF4" meant. Why would you use the second F AND the 4? WHY?
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Dunno. It's kinda queer like that.
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You'd cum in his eye, then slap him in the face as you call him a 'fag', right Dert?
Quiet you.
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Haha...you know I'm right.
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Johhny Depp was a terrible Wonka...Chris Walken should have gotten the role--him or Jay Mohr.
What about Willem Dafoe? (who names their kid 'Willem'?)
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If he had a mouth like that when he was a baby... me.
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Dunno. It's kinda queer like that.
Then the extra F must stand for Fantastic.
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FF4= Fantastic Fantastic 4?
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Charlie was considerably better than I expected. Eddie thought the ending was too fluffy, but then he wanted to see The Devil's Rejects. :P
Corpse Bride will be on our list - saw the preview before Charlie. Interesting to see that Tim Burton and Danny Elfman are all snuggly again. His soundtracks are sounding good again - for a while there, I swear he was just midi-mixing the same 16 bars of music.
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FF4= Fantastic Fantastic 4?
Fantastic Fucking 4?
Corpse Bride is something I wanna see on looks alone.
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FF4= Fantastic Fantastic 4?
Yeah, you see that's what I get for not being a very big FF fan. I forget that the F already stands for Fantastic.
Ok....How about Freaking Fantastic Four?
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How about shitty ass movie?
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I didn't see it....So I can't say one way or another. Buddy of mine said he liked it, but he is a whore for everything FF. He reminds me of the Trekkies that say Enterprise was as good as TOS.
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Well that's a bald faced lie.
TOS didn't have nearly the budget Enterprise did.
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Well that's a bald faced lie.
TOS didn't have nearly the budget Enterprise did.
What's budget got to do with it?
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TOS? You're speaking Greek.
The New X-Men could go either way. It's kinda like the Patriots, while some big names have left, some of the hardline things that made it work have remained.
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I bet you get beat up alot...
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Me? o.O
I'll kick your Mexican ass.
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Spanish...not Mexican. And I'll cut you for that one, esse'.
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It's the same damn thing.
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No, Spaniards are white, Mexicans aren't.
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Um, so no spainards ever mixed with the Moors?
Plus, why use such a title? My skin is not white, just creamy.
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I would prefer to be called mexican than a spaniard.
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Thus proving she is a foreigner.
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I'm a mutt.
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Fantastic Fucking 4?
Throw 'Lesbians' on the end of that and you have a pr0n title.
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Oh. The Original Series.
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TOS? You're speaking Greek.
Close....I'm speaking Geek.
I would prefer to be called mexican than a spaniard.
You can't be called either since you arn't from Mexico or Spain. You're Peruvian. It would be like if people started saying I was Irish just cause I was caucasian. I don't drink and therefore cannot be Irish.
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Yes, but you'd rather be called a hoosier than a Londerner, by the same logic.
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You can't be called either since you arn't from Mexico or Spain. You're Peruvian. It would be like if people started saying I was Irish just cause I was caucasian. I don't drink and therefore cannot be Irish.
wrong. i have a spanish visa.
besides, i said JUST IN CASE i had to choose between being called mexican or spaniard, i would prefer to be called mexican.
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Then you just have a Spanish Visa. You don't live in Spain and you weren't born there....you're not a Spaniard.
A Canadian with a working Visa in the US, is still Canadian.
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And wierd.
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Weird.
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Whatever.
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Then you just have a Spanish Visa. You don't live in Spain and you weren't born there....you're not a Spaniard.
A Canadian with a working Visa in the US, is still Canadian.
nah, MAYBE i was born in spain..hmmm
i would still prefer to be called a mexican rather than a spaniard
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Yeah, anything's better than being a stinky Peruvian.
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nothing worse than being YOU.
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My comeback was infinitely better.
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your comebacks always suck
that and your ability to kill threads
:highfives Rumble:
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You two spend enough time insulting each other...I could read an entire set of Encyclopedia's with the time and effort you two spend verbally sparring.
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Oh. The Original Series.
Ha, guess I'm a dork for already knowing that?
The New X-Men could go either way. It's kinda like the Patriots, while some big names have left, some of the hardline things that made it work have remained.
Wait, wait, who left?
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You two spend enough time insulting each other...I could read an entire set of Encyclopedia's with the time and effort you two spend verbally sparring.
It's more written, isn't it?
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Where the fuck did I get verbally from.....I feel stupid now.
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Oh. The Original Series.
Ha, guess I'm a dork for already knowing that?
The New X-Men could go either way. It's kinda like the Patriots, while some big names have left, some of the hardline things that made it work have remained.
Wait, wait, who left?
Brian Singer and his production company, and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler.
Now it's the people who did Rush Hour 2...
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NO NIGHTCRAWLER?!
Will there be Colossus at least?
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Yeah,but no russian accent. The guy can barely act.
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Tsk. That's a shame.
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In Soviet Russia, movie act you! Meh, I'll live without Nightcrawler. I could also live without Storm, too. *HINT*
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Lets not forget about Sabertooth...people were able to live without him... And if the rumors are true, people will beable to live without Prof. X and Cyclops at the end of the movie...heh...heh...
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Yeah, there's tons of mutants to choose from. As long as they keep Hugh Jackman because I needs teh Hugh.
Where the fuck did I get verbally from.....I feel stupid now.
Maybe because you read it and hear voices for them in your head, hence making it verbal at least in your own mind?
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As long as they keep Hugh Jackman because I needs teh Hugh.
You sound like my brother. :P
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Lets not forget about Sabertooth...people were able to live without him... And if the rumors are true, people will beable to live without Prof. X and Cyclops at the end of the movie...heh...heh...
I really don't understand the logic in killing Cyc instead of Storm. One the acto whor plays Cyc is far less likely to anal rape the studio for more and more money for each sequel they do like Berrie is sure to do. Ever since she got the oscar for Monster's Ball she seems to have a inflated opinon of self worth. Which according to Catwoman and Gothika is pretty much all in her head. You'll also kill any chances of a spin off "X-Factor' movie without Cyc. We are getting Beast and Angel which completes the first 5 X-men.
I can see why Stewart wanted to distance himself from X-men now, he already had to put up with a rabid fan base in Star Trek, and I doubt he wants to trade in Jean-Luc for Prof. X.....course I think it's far too late for that now.
I will miss Nightcrawler though. He has always been my fav X-man and I like how Cummings played him and I'm sad to see him go.
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Lets not forget about Sabertooth...people were able to live without him... And if the rumors are true, people will beable to live without Prof. X and Cyclops at the end of the movie...heh...heh...
Since the script hasn't even been finished, I doubt that.
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When I saw War of the Worlds there was a poster for X-3 at the theater. Is it really smart to be putting up posters and release dates for a movie, who hasn't started shooting and doesn't even have a finished script?
I heard they are trying to beat Superman to the screen, which is going to almost impossiable, since that has begun shooting already.
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Has that ever stopped them before? No. I dunno why it would now. Actors are under contract, people will see the movie. Why wouldn't they have a teaser?
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You'll also kill any chances of a spin off "X-Factor' movie without Cyc.
Yep. They'll have to do Alpha Flight, God help us. :blink:
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Alpha Flight? Fuck that!
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Yeah, Fuck the cheap Canadian rip off.
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They have a gay, right? No wait, or was he just dying or somethin'? Damn, I don't remember shit about Alpha Flight.
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Ya, Northstar. Total phag.
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My brother & I were helping with a Marvel Super Heroes demo at a convention once, and drew the Alpha Flight model. :joe: I played Northstar and he played twin sister Aurora. We won something. :P
Marvel wimped out with the storyline. Everything was in place for him to come out with teh AIDS, then it was, "oh, you & Aurora are not of this world, and that's why your immune system is trashed." :rolleyes:
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They should have killed Northstar.....not cause he was gay mind you, but because he was a complete waste of space superhero. Course that's most of Alpha Flight
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They did kill him. He's one dead fag. Jesus smiles now according to Jerry Fawell.
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Hey, I'm smiling too! You think I might be Jesus? I hope not, cause Faye will have me doing that water to wine trick all night.
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hmmmm sangria....
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Everything was in place for him to come out with teh AIDS, then it was, "oh, you & Aurora are not of this world, and that's why your immune system is trashed."
[doHTML]And then Marvel came out with <S>the Legacy virus</S> AIDS later anyway.[/doHTML]
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Then they had Colossus sacrifice himself to save everyone, something that I think was beautiful and a perfect death for him...
And then that fuck Joss Whedon brings him back to life.
Plus they keep killing Psylocke and Jean Grey, but let the White Queen parade her skanky ass all over the books. Marvel's been pissing me off there.
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Joss Whedon's a sucktard.
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Definately.
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And Astonishing just went into "Hiatus".
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That's where people who want to rape Wonder Woman should go.
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Marvel has dissapointed me. That's why I only read Outsiders now.
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The Ultimate Books remain my only salvation. It's Claremont free.
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Considering I'm probably the only Sebastian Shaw fangirl in existence, I have scant reason to peruse X-Men. <_<
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So you must have been upset at the most recent St*r WarzzZZ redux. :ph34r:
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Eh?
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Megs reads his credit, he does! :lol:
British actor Sebastian Shaw played Anakin in Return of the Jedi & got digital Botox in the revised release. Looks just like Hayden now.
I was of course referring to Marvel Black King Sebastian Shaw who, unlike the actor, does not stay dead for very long, but they can never do anything interesting with the character. And Tessa betraying him was totally beyond the pale. Bitch. :angry:
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British actor Sebastian Shaw played Anakin in Return of the Jedi & got digital Botox in the revised release. Looks just like Hayden now.
I feel sorry for that duder. Fuck George Lucas up the ass. Did I say that already? I don't believe I have....
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Could you find something big enough that he'd notice?
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Howard the Duck.
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Lucas has clearly lost his mind. He is not the same guy that was the brain behind the first trilogy, Indiana Jones, and other good films like American Graffiti. He's just lost it. I blame his kids....made him soft.
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Maybe he never had "it" to begin with. I personally believe that he stole his ideas from other people. Take St*r WarzzZZ for example. There are too many holes in the plot of the story and it does not run smoothly like it should.
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First three work just fine.....Not any plot holes I can tell other then Luke kissing Leia...which is just four kinds of wrong.
I'd be willing to write off St*r WarzzZZ as a fluke, if it where not for American Graffitii and THX-1138. Both where good movies with good scripts. St*r WarzzZZ was really the biggest of 3 hits movies that he had written and directed in a row. So he had something.
And Lucas himself will admit that a lot of SW was stolen. He took what he liked, threw it into a blender and then presented it in a way no one had before. That was part of the appeal of SW. It was so radically different, yet so familar all at the same time.
But it was after SW that GL did what he should have done for the rest of his life....and that was come up with Ideas and let other people handle the foot work. After SW he was sucessful enough to do that, and he should have kept doing it. Cause when you really look at it, he is a amazing creator and storyteller, but a medicore director and one of the worst Screen-Writers ever. There almost has to be a buffer between Lucas and the public made up of Producers, Screen-Writers, and directors to turn his idea into something marketable. When Lucas is the producer, writer, and director we get the Prequels. Which at their core, the prequels where good stories that went so wrong in the details. If he had people like Kurtz(Producer SW, ESB,The Dark Cystal )and Lawrence Kasdan( Writer ESB,ROTJ, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Big Chill) working on them they would have turned out far better. Instead he had Yes men all around him like Rick McCallum. That's how you get talking jackass Frogs and offensive Sterotypes mixed in with some of the flatest dialouge ever.
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Rama is right on the money. GL reached that rarified level at which everyone is afraid to say "no" to him. Except a lot of former fans at the box office. :P
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Rick McCallum is a giant tool. Lucas is a lot like Chris Claremont.
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I've always held that Kurtz was the most responsiable for making Lucas's ideas into Good Films. Kurtz was the co-producer on Graffitii and full Producer on St*r WarzzZZ and ESB. Shortly after wrapping on Empire, Lucas and Kurtz had a falling out. Wouldn't be surprised if it was because Kurtz was telling Lucas what he could and couldn't do with his films, but I don't know the details of it all.
ROTJ went ahead without Kurtz, replacing him with Howard Kazanjian, and is considered the worst of the orginal 3. Then the Prequels came along with McCallum, who Tom correctly summed up as a Tool, and they sucked 100 times worse then ROTJ. Just shows you how much impact a good producer can have.
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It's sad when all the featurettes feature McCallum more than they do Lucas...
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Rama is right on the money. GL reached that rarified level at which everyone is afraid to say "no" to him. Except a lot of former fans at the box office. :P
"No, Motherfucker! NO NO! You soooo crazy, bitch!" Hmmm, it doesn't seem that difficult to me. :lol:
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Shut up stupids.
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Rama is right on the money. GL reached that rarified level at which everyone is afraid to say "no" to him. Except a lot of former fans at the box office. :P
"No, Motherfucker! NO NO! You soooo crazy, bitch!" Hmmm, it doesn't seem that difficult to me. :lol:
Yea, but if you say that to his face, he calls on his clone troopers to work you over a bit. And if he's really mad at you, they take you to a dark cold cell deep underground where they sodomize you with discards from the prop department.
I've noticed it when I watch the documentaries that come with the prequels and the edits, he always talks about "this is how I wanted the movies to be, this is how I envisioned them." He's so self-centered and believing that the universe revolves around him that I'm shocked his head hasn't turned into a black hole yet.
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Rama is right on the money. GL reached that rarified level at which everyone is afraid to say "no" to him. Except a lot of former fans at the box office. :P
"No, Motherfucker! NO NO! You soooo crazy, bitch!" Hmmm, it doesn't seem that difficult to me. :lol:
And 10 mins later you're standing outside the locked gates of Skywalker ranch with pink slip in hand.
Seriously, his limitless sucess in the 70s and 80s has really givne him a god complex.
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"I WILL FILM EVERYTHING DIGITALLY"
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I thought someone was kidding when they said he was going to add the Clone Trooper Armor with CG-I over the actor....but they weren't. For Fuck's sake...just make the costume.
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Who the fuck needs actors? Lucas has scanned all the actors in, and sampled thier voices. Pixar was the begining.
I think Carrie Fischer just didn't wanna suck him off, so now he has a grudge against actors.
Gimme Tarantino and Rodriquez.
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SIN CITY FOREVER!
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Gimme Tarantino and Rodriquez.
I'll add Alfonso Cuaron for those calmer evenings.
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Shut up stupids.
Your momma!
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Darth Stupid. That's you.
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I don't think Megs should be allowed to use the words "Stupid", "Shut, or "Up." and/or any combination thereof.
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Oh yeah? :angry:
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Die. :angry:
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I'm a little let down. I was expecting "Shut up Stupid!"
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Darth Stupid. That's you.
Don't make me go over there, queerbot.
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I'm a little let down. I was expecting "Shut up Stupid!"
Yes, Ted, that was the joke. :rolleyes:
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Yeah see....still let down.
I need 20ccs of wit over here stat!...Megs is going into unfunny arrest.
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Well someone is, but I don't think it's Megan.
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I havn't seen anything I can steal lately, so I have an excuse.
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Excuse denied! Denied denied denied! So fucking denied! Yeah!
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I see your a few razorblades short yourself. Must be the weather.
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Shut-up! I'm hot!
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Yeah it's pretty warm in Cali too.
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*Turns down AC at work*
What is this "heat" you speak of?
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Silence, you damn Yankee!
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W-what? I couldn't read anything for a moment... I seemed to had nodded off in the cool, crisp, refeshing, recirculated air.
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You one eyed bastard!
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god bless the AC
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No, you god bless the money you can spend to run the damn thing, because, Unlike the rest of us it seems, you don't have to worry about MONEY.
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thats true, and i LOVE being able to afford the AC, thankyouverymuch
actually, right now i only have 10 dollars left:'(
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Yeah! Take that, bitch!
<<=== has five bucks left. and change.
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No, you god bless the money you can spend to run the damn thing, because, Unlike the rest of us it seems, you don't have to worry about MONEY.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Stupid princess.
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Atleast no one mocks me for having AC...
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Maybe you should try wearing a micro miniskirt first, and see if it changes from there.
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What do you mean by "if"?
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Well I'm sorry but points are deducted for paleness and unsightly body hair.
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Aw damn! I'll never be Miss Drag Queen 2006 at this rate.