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  1. 29-Jul-2010 #136
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    Shiiiii. You guys are the ones in denial. "It's too supernatural, waaahhh". Yeah, and the original three weren't?

    I'm not saying its as good as Raiders, but it's not as bad as some people make it out to be. Things could've been A LOT worse.
    BITCH I'LL TAKE SOME OF DAT HEAT.

    -without your nostalgia tinted glasses the original star wars trilogy is just a weird western that rehashed old fantasy stories and samurai movies. Entertaining enough, but not great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hellsing View Post
    BITCH I'LL TAKE SOME OF DAT HEAT.

    -without your nostalgia tinted glasses the original star wars trilogy is just a weird western that rehashed old fantasy stories and samurai movies. Entertaining enough, but not great.
    The original Star Wars trilogy were technical landmarks and spurred a generational zeitgeist of unimaginable proportions. Re-hashed stories is definitely one way of putting the material, but you could just as easily have said re-discovering and modernizing the myth cycle for the contemporary viewing public. <--- Yeah, cheesy & Campbellesque, I know, but there's some truth in that angle as well.



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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    The original Star Wars trilogy were technical landmarks and spurred a generational zeitgeist of unimaginable proportions. Re-hashed stories is definitely one way of putting the material, but you could just as easily have said re-discovering and modernizing the myth cycle for the contemporary viewing public. <--- Yeah, cheesy & Campbellesque, I know, but there's some truth in that angle as well.



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    Honestly i challenge anyone to find something that isn't a rehash or some sort.

    Nothing hollywood produces is really new.

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  4. 29-Jul-2010 #139
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    I love how this thread is basically everything except WWZ.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    I love how this thread is basically everything except WWZ.
    Yeah, waiting for Trin to come back in and sigh at us all.

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    I'm torn about that. Yes, many times the threads stray from the o.p. but that doesn't mean it's not a good discussion that's happening.

    Everything evolves. Inlcluding threads.

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    "All i care about is money and the city that I'm from, imma sip until I feel it, Imma smoke it till' it's done, I don't really give fuck and my excuse is that I'm young,and I'm only getting older, sombody shoulda told ya, I'm on one !"
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    Well, you know I agree. Some of our best conversations wander all over the map.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    Well, you know I agree. Some of our best conversations wander all over the map.
    I concur.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    Yeah, waiting for Trin to come back in and sigh at us all.
    I keep coming back in here looking for the Batman thread, then I see all this great Star Wars stuff and get distracted, then I go back to the homepage and look for that great Batman thread...

    lol

    Just for the record, I am the LAST person to care about threads drifting off topic.
    Just look at my face. You can tell I post at HPOTD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    "Well, when you're 18 you can have as much sex as you want, take half hour showers and watch all the Episodes I through III and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull you want...but NOT under my roof!"
    Fun...I've still yet to see 'Raiders' and 'Crusader' but, have seen 'Temple' and 'Crystal Skull' which are considered the worst.
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    Cancel this post I just posted, going to start a "Batman" (1989) thread...

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    Fuck dude....I already replied.

    I'll copy and move it to your batman thread, I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    Fuck dude....I already replied.

    I'll copy and move it to your batman thread, I guess.
    My bad, I figured I would try to keep this thread from degenerating any further and actually set us up for a real Batman thread.

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    Anyways................ back to WWZ

    I want to see so many of the segments in the film but besides Yonkers, which ironically would be great shaky cam (sorry MZ), the space station segment springs to mind. Tie that in with India and Pakistan (i think) nuking each other. add a dose of the bombing of the Indian pass through the mountains and you've got movie gold.
    Thers is too much material in this book for 1 movie.
    Fuck it. Make it a trilogy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.G View Post
    Agonizing? You've seen episode I, right? If you start him there he may never get to episode IV. Without having the experience of 4-6 first...he won't have the investment to watch the first (later) three.

    AND if you were a proper dad you'd make him wait 3 years in between to watch each movie...just like the rest of us!
    True, but on the other hand he's barely 5 years old, so Ep I might be right at his intellectual level.
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