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  1. In Topic: 91 Reasons to Hate Episode III

    Posted 21 Jul 2005

    "Only a Sith deals in absolutes"

    Dude, what the crap? Palpatine uses moral relativism to pull Anakin to the dark side, and now ONLY a Sith deals in absolutes. Did I miss something?

    Here is a sampling:

    "Do or do not, there is no try."

    "CHANCELLOR PALPATINE IS EVIL!!"

    "I will do what I must."

    "If a planet is not in our records, then it does not exist!"

    " Once you start down the dark path, FOREVER will it dominate your destiny!"

    I' m sure there are more, but you get my point.
  2. In Topic: The Mustafar Duel

    Posted 13 Jul 2005

    QUOTE (jariten @ Jul 12 2005, 11:24 PM)
    What bothers me is the hypocracy. Do people intentioanlly turn a blind eye (and slip on the rose tinted OT glasses, if you will) to the parts of the OT that are identical to the parts of the PT they are attacking?

    Remember Chefelfs oh so insightful WIND critique? REMEMBER THE LANDING PLATFORM ON CLOUD CITY? If you dont complain about why han and the others werent blown off then YOU ARE LAME.

    The whole thing is tired, really really tired.


    I've asked myself this question before many times, and I pose it again. Can a gusher ever defend the PT without attacking the OT in some way? It would seem not.

    How about actually trying to raise your beloved PT up instead of trying to tear the OT down to your level?
  3. In Topic: New trilogy

    Posted 2 Jul 2005

    You people amaze me. "Man I hate these prequel movies, they torture me, make it stop Good, episode III is here so finally this horrid trilogy comes to an end.......when is the next one coming out?"
  4. In Topic: Japor Snippet (Padme's Necklace)

    Posted 1 Jul 2005

    It sure was.
  5. In Topic: fleshing out chefelf's "wind" nitpick

    Posted 28 Jun 2005

    QUOTE (dougte @ Jun 28 2005, 09:06 PM)
    link to full review

    For those complaining about chefelf's "wind" nitpick, I think this review does a better job fleshing it out. I don't think it's so much a lack of wind that causes the nitpick, but the "digital clean" feeling throughout all three movies....
    ...After all, the Lucasian universe is drained of all reference to bodily functions. Nobody ingests or excretes. Language remains unblue. Smoking and cursing are out of bounds, as is drunkenness, although personally I wouldn’t go near the place without a hip flask. Did Lucas learn nothing from “Alien” and “Blade Runner”—from the suggestion that other times and places might be no less rusted and septic than ours, and that the creation of a disinfected galaxy, where even the storm troopers wear bright-white outfits, looks not so much fantastical as dated? What Lucas has devised, over six movies, is a terrible puritan dream: a morality tale in which both sides are bent on moral cleansing, and where their differences can be assuaged only by a triumphant circus of violence. Judging from the whoops and crowings that greeted the opening credits, this is the only dream we are good for. We get the films we deserve...
    ...All of the interiors in Lucasworld are anthems to clean living, with molded furniture, the tranquillity of a morgue, and none of the clutter and quirkiness that signify the process known as existence. Illumination is provided not by daylight but by a dispiriting plastic sheen, as if Lucas were coating all private affairs—those tricky little threats to his near-fascistic rage for order—in a protective glaze. Only outside does he relax, and what he relaxes into is apocalypse. “Revenge of the Sith” is a zoo of rampant storyboards. Why show a pond when C.G.I. can deliver a lake that gleams to the far horizon? Why set a paltry house on fire when you can stage your final showdown on an entire planet that streams with ruddy, gulping lava? Whether the director is aware of John Martin, the Victorian painter who specialized in the cataclysmic, I cannot say, but he has certainly inherited that grand perversity, mobilized it in every frame of the film, and thus produced what I take to be unique: an art of flawless and irredeemable vulgarity. All movies bear a tint of it, in varying degrees, but it takes a vulgarian genius such as Lucas to create a landscape in which actions can carry vast importance but no discernible meaning, in which style is strangled at birth by design, and in which the intimate and the ironic, not the Sith, are the principal foes to be suppressed. It is a vision at once gargantuan and murderously limited, and the profits that await it are unfit for contemplation.

      The review was too harsh for my liking, but at least with the section I've provided the author has a point.


    Not that I don't agree to a point, but the guy that wrote that sounds like a major jackass. You can be too educated for your own maturity, and the guy probably needs to wedge his head out of his own butt.

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