A Long, Long Time Ago...

[Alatriste]

The Return of the Jedi maimed the dream, the Phantom Menace did truely kill it forever.

You're a fag.

Well, I'll be damned if hating piano playing giant purple puppets, cheap fanboy service with slave princesses that should have worked with their deadly Jedi friends and, like, prepared something akin to a workable plan, evil masterminds that always leave killing their captured enemies for tomorrow, lame ass bounty hunters, burping giant sand monsters, 'Deus ex Machina' intuition of unknown sisters, hordes of little cuddly teddy bears, imperial armies of Keystone cops, cliché butt ugly evil emperors with broad malign grins that can't kill a fly in less than three hours, "fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original, heartbreaking family reconciliations in the moment of death and happy ghosts holding hands and singing kumbaya (only male ghosts, by the way, throwing some doubt on Annakin and Obi Wan sexual orientation after all... Alas for poor Amidala, first seduced, then murdered and finally forgotten) makes one a fag!

IIRC the only minutes that didn't stink belonged to the bike chase. Because there was no plot and no dialog, perhaps?

[Viking]

The Return of the Jedi maimed the dream, the Phantom Menace did truely kill it forever.

You're a fag.

Well, I'll be damned if hating piano playing giant purple puppets, cheap fanboy service with slave princesses that should have worked with their deadly Jedi friends and, like, prepared something akin to a workable plan, evil masterminds that always leave killing their captured enemies for tomorrow, lame ass bounty hunters, burping giant sand monsters, 'Deus ex Machina' intuition of unknown sisters, hordes of little cuddly teddy bears, imperial armies of Keystone cops, cliché butt ugly evil emperors with broad malign grins that can't kill a fly in less than three hours, "fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original, heartbreaking family reconciliations in the moment of death and happy ghosts holding hands and singing kumbaya (only male ghosts, by the way, throwing some doubt on Annakin and Obi Wan sexual orientation after all... Alas for poor Amidala, first seduced, then murdered and finally forgotten) makes one a fag!

IIRC the only minutes that didn't stink belonged to the bike chase. Because there was no plot and no dialog, perhaps?

yeah, how the blue muppet could play piano with those huge short fingers amazes me constantly.

[Syt]

The Return of the Jedi maimed the dream, the Phantom Menace did truely kill it forever.

You're a fag.

Well, I'll be damned if hating piano playing giant purple puppets, cheap fanboy service with slave princesses that should have worked with their deadly Jedi friends and, like, prepared something akin to a workable plan, evil masterminds that always leave killing their captured enemies for tomorrow, lame ass bounty hunters, burping giant sand monsters, 'Deus ex Machina' intuition of unknown sisters, hordes of little cuddly teddy bears, imperial armies of Keystone cops, cliché butt ugly evil emperors with broad malign grins that can't kill a fly in less than three hours, "fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original, heartbreaking family reconciliations in the moment of death and happy ghosts holding hands and singing kumbaya (only male ghosts, by the way, throwing some doubt on Annakin and Obi Wan sexual orientation after all... Alas for poor Amidala, first seduced, then murdered and finally forgotten) makes one a fag!

IIRC the only minutes that didn't stink belonged to the bike chase. Because there was no plot and no dialog, perhaps?

Dude, you're reading way, WAY too much into this, expecting Shakespeare or Sophokles where it isn't. That's like expecting Raiders of the Lost Arc to be a treatment of the Faustian theme before a World War 2 backdrop while examining the effects of totalitarian foreign regimes on colonial countries.

[Alatriste]

Dude, you're reading way, WAY too much into this, expecting Shakespeare or Sophokles where it isn't. That's like expecting Raiders of the Lost Arc to be a treatment of the Faustian theme before a World War 2 backdrop while examining the effects of totalitarian foreign regimes on colonial countries.

Now I would like to watch that movie 

But seriously, after 'The Empire Strikes Back' I expected a reasonably good movie that an adult could watch with his brain switched on. I didn't expect 'The Return of the Jedi' to be such a load of rotten, stinking rubbish. With the second trilogy I knew what to expect; they were bad movies with plot holes the size of Texas and so called 'acting' on a par with the latest porn hit, but I was prepared beforehand.

Even so, the midichlorians managed to astound me with their sheer stupidity (hey, the Jedi aren't a Mesianic cult, only a friendly bunch of honest-to-God Nazis) but they were quite funny, if in a twisted way.

[Josquius]

I didn't see it until the easter after when I got the video.
Meh.

[Caliga]

Dude, you're reading way, WAY too much into this, expecting Shakespeare or Sophokles where it isn't. That's like expecting Raiders of the Lost Arc to be a treatment of the Faustian theme before a World War 2 backdrop while examining the effects of totalitarian foreign regimes on colonial countries.

I think he has become the Sith apprentice to Darth Spellus.

[Syt]

Dude, you're reading way, WAY too much into this, expecting Shakespeare or Sophokles where it isn't. That's like expecting Raiders of the Lost Arc to be a treatment of the Faustian theme before a World War 2 backdrop while examining the effects of totalitarian foreign regimes on colonial countries.

I think he has become the Sith apprentice to Darth Spellus.

What about Bill Kristol?
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=228041&title=american-idealogues
(At 1:20)

[Neil]

The Return of the Jedi maimed the dream, the Phantom Menace did truely kill it forever.

You're a fag.

Well, I'll be damned if hating piano playing giant purple puppets, cheap fanboy service with slave princesses that should have worked with their deadly Jedi friends and, like, prepared something akin to a workable plan, evil masterminds that always leave killing their captured enemies for tomorrow, lame ass bounty hunters, burping giant sand monsters, 'Deus ex Machina' intuition of unknown sisters, hordes of little cuddly teddy bears, imperial armies of Keystone cops, cliché butt ugly evil emperors with broad malign grins that can't kill a fly in less than three hours, "fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original, heartbreaking family reconciliations in the moment of death and happy ghosts holding hands and singing kumbaya (only male ghosts, by the way, throwing some doubt on Annakin and Obi Wan sexual orientation after all... Alas for poor Amidala, first seduced, then murdered and finally forgotten) makes one a fag!

IIRC the only minutes that didn't stink belonged to the bike chase. Because there was no plot and no dialog, perhaps?

See?  There's no helping you.  You're totally gay.  You should probably just kill yourself today.

[jimmy olsen]

"fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original

It wasn't finished.

[Alatriste]

"fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original

It wasn't finished.

"As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!"

Are you saying the Emperor is a liar? 

[jimmy olsen]

"fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original

It wasn't finished.

"As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!"

Are you saying the Emperor is a liar? 

He's saying the weapons are online, just because it works doesn't mean it's finished. The outer later is less than half done.

[Savonarola]

I didn't see it until the easter after when I got the video.
Meh.

Does the Geordie Easter Rabbit deliver bad movies rather than eggs and chocolate? 

[Syt]

"fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original

It wasn't finished.

"As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!"

Are you saying the Emperor is a liar? 

He's saying the weapons are online, just because it works doesn't mean it's finished. The outer later is less than half done.

Though probably just support systems were missing. Fighter bays, additional gun towers, shopping malls, fitness clubs, spas, nudie bars and the holodecks.

Though I wonder (if I may step into Clerks for a moment): where did all the contractors working on that thing live? Were they housed in the already finished parts of the station? So that there was only a skeleton military crew? Was there a big worker city on the moon of Endor, like the contractors for the Pyramids?

[Savonarola]

"fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original

It wasn't finished.

But it had an outlet to the nuclear reactor core in the Throne Room; that's fundamentally poor engineering.

[Syt]

"fully functioning space stations" definitely NOT improved over the original

It wasn't finished.

But it had an outlet to the nuclear reactor core in the Throne Room; that's fundamentally poor engineering.

No kidding!