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I thought we were all riding around on top of a giant turtle? Didn't I hear that someplace? :confused: ;)

I wonder if Family Guy will ever do the PT?

How is this for his personal gain? I don't see it as different than slashing him in half with a lightsaber and tactically, choking him was smarter. The force lightning I can see as evil because it's being tortured to death.

The Indy franchise was sold to Disney, too. I still say a movie set in South America in the 50s or 60s involving Nazi-hunting and some sort of supernatural item would work, though.

We took my daughter shopping at Macy's this weekend. There was a large area of the young women's section devoted to Star Wars. Full print dresses even. Heavy marketing.

I think either Abrams or Kennedy realized the fanbase would go insane, either because it was Coruscant or because it would have been so incredibly derivative of ST09.

Tattoine's second sun in ANH is actually Coruscant. Just act JJ... Seriously, in ST09, Vulcan is larger than the Sun in Spock's field of vision on Delta Vega. You suppose Abrams ever actually looked up in our own sky and wondered "hey, where are the planets? This pollution is really bad!"

I'm sorry it took me so long (real life intervened, not in a bad way), but I started the TNZ thread for us to discuss constructivism and objective truth. http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=11412245#post11412245

Some of the critics reviewing TFA may not have been alive when ANH was released. It's entirely possible that many of them never saw it in a theater or it may have been decades since they actually watched it. The fact that so many of them refer to it as a "reboot" tells me everything about the...

Other than Dooku in their second duel in ROTS, did Anakin/Vader ever defeat anyone who was his equal in a fair fight? He gets his ass handed to him by Dooku in AOTC and Kenobi in ROTS, fights an older Kenobi essentially to a draw in ANH, defeats a clearly inferior Luke in TESB, is defeated by...

I see your point now, thanks. And I would almost certainly have enjoyed seeing the duels you describe, a few random lightsaber duels would have been cool, never been done (e.g. all of the lightsaber battles have been between major characters in a central point to the plot). Nonetheless, the...

Yeah, I've never understood that. Why in the hell is one of the cruelest villains in cinema considered so iconic. I mean, people buy Christmas ornaments of the character. Even in the OT, he was a brutal murderer. I just don't get it.

I'm not sure I follow. How does it undermine the strength of the character? Wouldn't Vader have been just as responsible for the child-killing, just by leading the attack and knowing the younglings would be killed? Ultimately, on or off screen, they had to be killed. They were a huge loose...

I didn't want to cut your post up. Before we went to PM, I did want to acknowledge that you responded and that it was a very thoughtful and appreciated post. I felt it disrespectful to you not to say it in public when your post was public. I suspect you are right about derailing the thread...

While I agree with you on the representation of women and minorities (including sexual minorities) in media, your post goes too far and is actually dangerous in a democracy. There is absolutely objective truth. This is why people have certain inherent rights in a constitutional democracy, we...

You're right. As an example, I sometimes hear people say that Christianity is a myth. Folks who say this are not denying the existence of the religion, or of priests/pastors/deacons, or of the buildings, or the believers who fill those buildings. In those conversations, they clearly believe...

Definitely some of this, he turned and maybe went further than he really intended initially when he gave into his pent-up emotions. His attack on the Separatists on Mustafar is completely in line with the character. He's been fighting a war with them for years, they've killed or tried to kill...

Meh, Gone with the Wind was a December release that was in theaters for well over a year. Most of the films on the all-time list prior to the 80s weren't summer releases. Most cinema historians I've read think the summer blockbuster started with Jaws. Spielberg and Lucas both timed their film...

I don't know how the system works, but I was referring less to his ownership of the property and more to things like royalties from the Directors and Screenwriters Guilds. I didn't look at the credits to see if he was listed, but I know writers get royalties when characters they create are used...

I wonder if Lucas receives any royalties from the new products?