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"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
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Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
"I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"Comment
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I just saw the film a second time because my mother wanted to see it and had no one to go with. I actually enjoyed it more the second time. Quite a bit more in fact.PLesa excuse the tpyos.Comment
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Amen brother.Originally posted by creekster View Post
<http://io9.gizmodo.com/star-wars-the...ond-1749319663>You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
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When Han Solo calls out to Julian Casablancas uglier brother, before stepping on the catwalk, it sure sounded like he called him "Ben" instead of "Ren". I probably heard it wrong, and don't know why that would be significant, other than he was named after Obi WanComment
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I missed that part due to one of several bathroom runs with my kids, but my wife told me later his name actually is Ben.Originally posted by Art Vandelay View PostAin't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
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GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!Comment
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His name is Ben. He doesn't call his son "Kylo Ren," a made-up name that he presumedly gave himself.Originally posted by Art Vandelay View Post"I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"Comment
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No, you heard right.Originally posted by Art Vandelay View Postτὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσινComment
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Ren is derived from "The Knights of Ren""The first thing I learned upon becoming a head coach after fifteen years as an assistant was the enormous difference between making a suggestion and making a decision."
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Yeah. Where did Kylo come from? A combo of Skywalker and Solo?Originally posted by Jarid in Cedar View Post"I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"Comment
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I have a bad feeling about this.
He was really into Rilo Kiley during Jedi school and it motivated him to kill everybody so the name is kind of a tribute to that band. Read that somewhere.Originally posted by Commando View PostComment
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...ar-wars-851209
But my one serious beef with The Force Awakens is this: George Lucas was an innovator, and J.J. Abrams is an imitator. Lucas had depth, for all his faults as a filmmaker, while Abrams is a genius at flashy populist spectacle that evaporates into stardust almost as soon as you leave the theater. Star Wars created its own ever-expanding universe of myth, allegory and fairy tale; The Force Awakens is full of sound and fury, but signifies nothing."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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George Lucas was a directing and story genius in the 70s and then became a genius on the technological side of movies in the 80s and 90s. In the 80s and 90s, he also forgot how to direct movies, so we had the prequels.Originally posted by Moliere View Post
American Graffiti is an outstanding movie. Star Wars was an incredibly original movie, how many A list science-fantasy movies were being made at the time.Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”Comment
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Oh brother. Just read that whole thing. Talk about revisionist history-- practically deifies Lucas and how the original Star Wars was Shakespearian-- a distilling of adult ideas for kids--wooden dialogue notwithstanding--, while JJ has just made Harry Potter in space.Originally posted by Moliere View PostIn building the Star Wars universe, Lucas drew on Jean-Luc Godard and Sergio Leone, Frank Herbert's epic Dune fantasy novels, the hallucinatory writings of hippie cult favorite Carlos Castenada, and Joseph Campbell's seminal 1949 book on mythic archetypes, Hero with a Thousand Faces. He also included lightly disguised references to President Nixon, America's then-recent disastrous defeat in Vietnam and his own Skywalker-esque childhood in Modesto, Calif. On top of this, he layered Wagner and Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud, Nordic sagas and Greek tragedy, Arthurian legend and Biblical allegory. A deep, dense, heady mix, indeed.
Maybe he forgot that Lucas was just trying to do Flash Gordon but couldn't get the rights so had to resort to penning his own story/cobbling together ideas from Saturday Morning serials, which ended up miles away from where he started based on budgetary limitations, a time crunch, and revelatory art concepts by Ralph McQuarrie.
Um yeah. I've seen all the movies, read all the reviews, and never have the original Star Wars movies been so thoroughly fellated by a critic. If you agree with this guy, you might be a hipster... or George Lucas.Yes, The Force Awakens is a terrific reboot of a stagnant franchise. But it is also pure sensory spectacle, devoid of substance or subtext. While the original Lucas films invited curious minds to explore a vast cultural hinterland, this new chapter only looks inwards to itself and its own mythology, with perhaps a few comforting echoes of the Hunger Games and Lord of the Rings series. A conventional studio action franchise, in other words. A multibillion-dollar cash cow, whose chief legacy will be theme parks and intergalactic merchandise profits.
Last edited by Commando; 12-30-2015, 09:52 AM."I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"Comment
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Go ahead and shoot me, but Carrie Fischer is awful in this. Saw it a second time, and she didn't get better.Comment
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