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Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

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that feel when there's a Peter Jackson $250 mil. Middle-earth epic coming out in three days, and the whole world is talking about Star Wars instead...
 
I walked out of a midnight showing of "Resident Evil: Afterlife"
Movies are expensive to watch.

If you're gonna waste your money on straight2video-tier garbage like the Resident Evil series, then don't complain about movies being expensive to watch. :shrug:

Well, I didn't care much for "Inception," "The Hobbit," "Avatar," or "Cloud Atlas" either. (And, these movies were seen based on hype, word of mouth, or curiousity). And since I did pay with my time and/or money for those particular films, like any other moviegoer who was dissatisfied with their viewing I can complain if I felt those certain films turned out to be duds.:shrug:

;)

Joel_Kirk said:
If the public shouldn't criticize any work of fiction

I don't think anyone is actually saying that... it has only been noted that the reaction to the prequels was unusually persistent, hyperbolic and over-the-top in certain quarters.

High profiled films usually do receive that kind of attention. Even one of my favorite films "Skyfall" isn't immune. ;)

Han, Leia, and Lando are real people names? Or maybe they've just been in circulation for 30+ years.

As for card numbering, the Topps cards weren't always in chronological order. For the most part they were but not always.

Maybe not Lando or Han, but I have known a few Leia's in my lifetime. (Although, it was pronounced LEE-AH rather than LAY-AH).
Well Lando is a surname. (Actor Joe Lando is the only example off the the top of my head). Han is a Chinese name.

And, I do recall the Korean-American 'Han' from "The Fast and the Furious" films...:lol:

Episode 2 is better than Skyfall!

Whaaa?

*I coming to join you Elizabeth!*
 
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Javier Bardem should have been a Sith Lord, if only to see how sinister and creepy a bastard the guy could have made the new Sith apprentice introduced in Episode II.
 
I meat Episode 2 of Star Wars is better than Skyfall. At least Episode 2 didn't forget everything that happened in the first hour when it got to the second hour.

I don't think I've ever seen a duller action movie tahn Skyfall, which has the same plot as Crocodile Dundee 2, the same MacGuffin (for the first hour, until it doesn't matter in the second) as Mission Impossible, all with a hero who looks like he's about to fall asleep out of boredom. People complain about the lightsabers in Episode 2 being a crutch, but Bond would not have survived without his obvious transmitter, or his fancy Aston Marton machine gun car. And at leas I cared where the first wave of the Empire's stprmtroopers came from.. I did not care that spy organizations are so useless that they spend all their resources protecting themselves from people who would still lists of who is in those same useless spy organizations..

Yeah, Episode 2 is better.
 
Episode II of Star Wars (in the common tongue known by a name "Attack of the Clones") is also better than The Desolation of Smaug.

There, I've said it.
 
To be fair, any Star Wars movie is better than most sci-fi and fantasy films because the majority of them are boring, uninspired retreads or just a big pile of bovine fertilizer with cool special effects to distract from the lack of a good script. Attack of the Clones is the worst and weakest of the Saga as far as I'm concerned, but it's an Oscar nominee and high art compared to a lot of the crap that's been released since the Prequel Trilogy first started hitting theaters.
 
^^^ Agreed. Juxtapose the entertainment value of Star Wars with either Interstellar or Gravity and Wars wins hands down. When it comes to sci-fi I go to be entertained not to attend a science class.
 
Um, seriously beg to differ about Gravity. That movie was more thrilling, intense, and exciting than all the prequels put together in my book.
 
^^^ Agreed. Juxtapose the entertainment value of Star Wars with either Interstellar or Gravity and Wars wins hands down. When it comes to sci-fi I go to be entertained not to attend a science class.

Hey c'mon I haven't seen interstellar yet but Gravity held my interest, and is something I would definitely re-watch again. Sometimes light entertainment is great. Sometimes a little more realism is great too.
 
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