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So any opinions on Po.et?

It seems to be interesting, but with the recent Kodak reveal (which seems to do the same thing), I'm wondering if it will go anywhere.
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Anakin's main problem was that he took the visions of Padme dying at face value. Never once did he consider that Palpatine might be putting those images in his head so that he could seduce Anakin by dangling the perfect solution in front of him.

Yeah, Anakin was kind of a mess. But to be fair, he wouldn't have a reason to believe such a thing until Palpatine's reveal, at which point he was too emotional to think rationally. But definitely he shouldn't have trusted him, and in light of that reveal, reevaluate his decade-long friendship with the man.

I always interpreted the scene as Anakin being in the wrong. He was already in a death-spiral of bad decisions, and this was the final mistake that "made" Darth Vader. The Prequels get a lot of flack, and RotS could've been made better, but I think it did a good enough job of showing Anakin unravel. Plays out like a classic tragedy.
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Obama had the spectacular talent of taking obvious and widely-accepted philosophies and, with a complete lack of self-awareness, deliver them in the most condescending and divisive way possible.

How do you fuck up "It takes a village"? He must have known how that would have come off sounding to a lot of people.

Anyways, as articulated as Obama was, he kind of sucked at speeches. >_>
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Mace, definitely. Put me in his shoes and 10/10 times Palpatine dies.

But Anakin's character, for all its faults, was fairly consistent in the Prequels. He knows in his head what is right. And in his heart he wants to do the right thing. But he cannot overcome his human temptations of fear, anger, and hatred. He can never truly bring himself to make a sacrifice. So Anakin's descent makes sense here, even if at that point it's unsympathetic. He's lost a lot by following the Jedi way, never felt like he was respected by those he swore his allegiance to, and stands to lose more if Sheev kicks it. The choice is between saving the Republic, and saving the one he loves. He's spent the movie trying to save both, but faced with the ultimatum, cannot overcome his own weaknesses to do what's right.

Immediately after Mace's death, the full realization of his actions hit him. He sees what he's done as a point of no return, and the only thing in the world he has left, as he sees it, is Padme. And the only way she lives now, he sees, is if Palpatine gives him the power to save her. There's a sense of hopelessness and detachment in Anakin's actions after this point.

It's interesting that it wasn't until the death of Mace that Anakin was willing to turn Palpatine in. On some level, he was willing to defy Palpatine and potentially risk losing Padme to do what was right. It was only after that clusterfuck of a confrontation that he gave in.
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Star Wars Spoilers >_>

https://youtu.be/ccoq-8qwR0Q?t=17m52s

Also remember Puffy Ami Yumi. I actually found a DVD in the discount bin at a Co-Op. The humor was basically Teen Titans Go, which made me feel conflicted because I love the former and hate the latter. >_>
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Everyone in this topic should just stop, step back, and look at yourselves.

What are you arguing about? How often will it actually affect you? Are you actually going to go treat customers or employees like shit? Doubtful. Arguing about this is making you all bitter and angry at each other over nothing.

Please take some breaths and rethink why youre on CE right now.
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Not knowing the meme, I thought "Ugandan Knuckles" was a fighting move.

Kinda sad now.
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ToPoPO posted...

The porn

No haptic points in erogenous zones bruh
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Theres a lot to pick at in Harry Potter, but later in the series its revealed that Quidditch is "scored" over the course of the season. Theres a plot point one book where Harry has to wait until theyre far enough ahead, because they could win that game, but lose the championship.

Quidditch is still a sloppily designed game meant to show how wizards are whimsical and fun and Harry is at least talented at one thing, but the scoring was eventually made to make sense >_>
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Spooking posted...

Looks like a glitch you'd run into while playing Skyrim.

spits out drink
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Tbh between Oprah and Trump I'd pick Oprah. But I think politics needs to drop "entertainment" for a while. Its become an embarassment.

Then in 2032 after its settled down we can have Oprah VS The Rock. It would be a battle of the ages.
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Michael Jackson is like Elvis or the Beatles. A phenomenon that can't really be recreated, and any attempt to do so will be quickly forgotten.
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Tbh Im not a fan of cgi anime but it's Godzilla written by the guy who did Madoka Magica and Psycho Pass so Ima check it out.

Loved Shin Godzilla but I'm hyped to see some pure kaiju action this time.
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cjsdowg posted...

Doom_Art posted...

SlashmanSG posted...

She was a Rear Admiral and he was just demoted. He fucked everything up because he didn't follow the chain of command.

Which I really like

Someone on here put it really well

"Wow it's almost like ignoring your superiors and concocting elaborate, risky schemes will blow up in your face"

"It is almost like nothing telling people what the fuck is going on when you are losing ship after ship will blow up in your face. "

People died under her watch and she didn't even tell them way, she didn't indicate that there was a plan beyond just going out of their rang. Beyond the New Order should have just sent tie fighters to the take them out. Are called in the back up to cut them off. Holdo's plan was horrible, and not telling people that THERE was a plan at all was even worse.

The real message here is that the new cast is filled with terrible, unlikable characters that can only be defended by how much the other fucked up, and the Rebel/Empire plot in these films is a complete cluster-fuck.
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TLJ didn't ruin Luke. But they did waste the fuck out of him.

Seriously, this is the last chance movie studios have to have Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in a "real" Star Wars movie. Disney's going to milk this franchise until our childrens' grandchildren get sick of it, so they should have given him a grand send-off.

The way they handled him was "okay" within the context of this single movie, but nobody watches Star Wars as a single film. In the context of the larger saga it was lame af and the character deserved better.
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Nah posted...

Nah

Look at these kawaii girls. And the plot of a high school student who is secretly an idol is so glamorous. I can't wait until next week.
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Are you upset?
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solosnake posted...

I think Kylo needs to kill Rey to fully become the new Vader

Then episode 10-12 can be truly epic

Tbh if they have the balls to do that I will take back every bad thing I said about the Sequels.

I dont even hate Rey as a character, but she is set up to be the perfect way to establish a new badass villain.

We thought they were remaking the OT but the whole time they were really remaking the Prequels. >_>
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Episode 7: Rey force swipes the saber effortlessly from Kylo.

Episode 8: Kylo has trained enough to be Rey's equal and the saber breaks in half.

Episode 9: Kylo will have become powerful enough to defeat her.

Thats clearly the direction theyre going, right? >_>
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Yeah the whole slavery thing was not thought out very well.

Are we supposed to root for free house elves? Or is Hermione in the wrong for being so naive and imposing her muggle sensibilities in magical culture?

Like, the whole "house elves like being servants" thing was unnecessary and muddied whatever message Rowling was trying to send.

But apparently in her marathon of post DH continuity, she mentions that Hermione helped end or curb house elf slavery. But until Rowling actually writes a book where any of that shit happens I just sort of ignore all that. >_>
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I dunno. I feel like we should poll people with genetic defects and ask them if they'd rather be dead.

Wonder what Peter Dinklage feels about the issue. Or maybe go back in time and ask Andre the Giant. Or maybe that guy with the harlequin-fetus disease who became a marathon runner.

Wonder what their choice would have been. >_>
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You put a clock in a suitcase and take it to school.

Thats the secret.
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I heard the comeback tour is gonna be crazy.
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Tbh Blue had the better exclusives.

Sandshrew > errthing
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jsb0714 posted...

AlisLandale posted...

jsb0714 posted...

Anyone who thinks this movie would kill interest in future ones has obviously never seen the prequel trilogy.

The Prequels had the promise of Vader's turn. That was the whole reason they exist.

The sequels dont have the legacy of Western medias most popular sci-fi villain to draw people in.

What the hell? It had the heroes of the original trilogy making their return.

And in TLJ they unceremoniously blew that load.

Rather than an exotic, 64 page cross-over orgy doujin, they had a quick deed-sesh to a dirty picture of Malon lusting after a wanted poster of Shiek. Han is out. Luke is out. Leia is going to be out. All before the final act.

I dont think this will put a serious long-term dent in American audiences, but any reason we had to go see TFA was pushed aside by the end of this movie. Except this movie didnt have a whole lot to get hyped about unless youre still waiting to see Oscar Osaac fuck a droid
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marthsheretoo posted...

People complain about the Luke character assassination (which was bad) but ignore the Poe character assassination.

Poe is terrible and nobody cares >_>
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jsb0714 posted...

Anyone who thinks this movie would kill interest in future ones has obviously never seen the prequel trilogy.

The Prequels had the promise of Vader's turn. That was the whole reason they exist.

The sequels dont have the legacy of Western medias most popular sci-fi villain to draw people in.
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The film did have a lot of flaws. I can see why most people would feel deflated by it.

Pretty much nothing mattered until the very end. Yeah they established "the rebellion is back" but thats only because, in a meta sense, they're recycling the same conflict from the originals. And "fight to save what we love" was a good line, but we dont know what we love. The Republic got nuked after 10 seconds of screen time and all the characters we love are being phased out.

I still liked it. But there's no real hook with TLJ. Its basically a side story given a numbered entry. >_>
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Jingle All the Way and Jim Carrey's Grinch get the most play.

But thats only because I always have a dilemma with Nightmare Before Christmas. On Chistmas I feel I should watch it on Halloween. But on Halloween I feel like I should watch it at Christmas.
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RotS for me. R1 close second.

But on this dialogue business, if you watch RotJ again, pay attention to when Luke and Leia are talking to each other right before he goes to Vader.

The whole conversation is spent with two characters describing each other and expositing rather than conversing.

Imo, stuff like "My point of view", etc could have been delivered better but arent awful inherently. But theres so much of that RotJ style "Youve always been such a good person and your father and your love of someone and now you must face the destiny because youre strong and love and yadda yadda yadda" permeates the story-telling.

Shmi Skywalker isnt even a character. She's a vehicle for exposition. >_>
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Yoda's initial reluctance to train Luke was because Luke "had too much of his father in him". After the Anakin debacle, I can see why he'd he hesitant to do it again. >_>

Anyway I dont know if I agree totally with Hamill on what they should have done. I do feel like Luke was completely wasted in this trilogy though and they should have done a lot more.

Idk, I think in their desire to move on they were too timid on relying on old characters for the big scenes. But this transition is exactly when they should have milked the ogs as much as they could. Now that Disney has the franchise, they'll be making these until the Second Coming. Should have just really used who they had when they had them. <_<
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Any 8bit RPG, really. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Mother. Grinding was like, at least 50% of the gameplay.
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s0nicfan posted...

So this is something I don't quite get about Bitcoin... don't you need a site like coinbase to convert from dollars to bitcoin? I know you can mine bitcoins directly through a hardware wallet, but for trading purposes don't you need to go through an exchange? Or is there a way to "cash out" after a trade and keep everything local?

You can use changelly to buy crypto with a card directly into any wallet (private or exchange-based).

Fees are out the ass though. >_>
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I can understand hiding it until after a few dates.

But thats a pretty big thing to hide for very long. I personally think it would be good form to let someone know early. Definitely before sex.
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ClunkerSlim

I can see that, actually. I don't mind the universe the PT gave us, though.

Asherlee10 posted...

They are decent to me and I still enjoy watching them.

Oh, I still enjoyed them. I actually was surprised by how much I was enjoying AotC. They're those kinds of things where the more I think about them, the more their problems start to bug me. If I'm sitting down and actually watching them they're quite fun.

CapnMuffin posted...

I think a big problem with the acting was the over saturation of CGI and green screen.

It bugs me to no end that the Clone Wars look like the cutscenes to a PS2 game. >_>

But yeah, I think Lucas is just a technophile who uses Star Wars to play with all the cool movie-making toys. The CGI in the prequels did not age particularly well at all.
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Has your mom ever watched Breaking Bad? If she did, you should be suspicious.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

AlisLandale posted...

I actually missed the majority of Marvel movies not called "Iron Man" or "Guardians of the Galaxy". >_>

I really can't give a single care for Hulk, Thor, or Captain America. Or any of the other nobodies like Ant Man or Black Widow.

I liked Dr. Strange. But to be fair, that's probably because that movie was just "What if Dr. House was actually a wizard" <_<
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I'd take it.

1 million is a 10 year, 100,000 dollar salary. Times that by five and I shouldn't have to work another day in my life.

Though if I own a business and that 10 mil is something I was expecting to invest in growing my business then yeah I guess I'd be mad.
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Looking back it's kind of funny how the good guys were the government and the bad guys were an alliance of traders, manufacturers, and bankers. >_>
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It might be. I never saw Avengers 2 though.

I actually missed the majority of Marvel movies not called "Iron Man" or "Guardians of the Galaxy". >_>
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Chaika
Hell Girl
Akagi
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tl;dr: The Prequel Trilogy feel like the first draft to much better movies. Unless you're bored you can skip the rest. >_>

Like, the main two problems are the acting and the dialogue. The former could have been easily fixed with a different cast or director, but not even all the cast was that bad. The latter would need a lot of work, but there's not anything fundamentally wrong with whats there. The issue is not what the characters are saying, but how they are saying them. When Anakin confesses his love to Padme, he recites this cringey emo poem. "Haunted by the kiss you should never have given me." "I hope this memory does not become a scar"

There's nothing wrong with the content. In fact, I actually like it. The problem is, nobody would actually talk like that. You'd either have to rewrite all the prequels so those kind of flowery speeches seem natural. (I could totally see Toby Stephens delivering it quite well in Black Sails, actually. >_>) Or rewrite the entire scene to convey those same feelings without sounding like you're plagiarizing Marie from Persona 4.

So, yeah, good ideas, bad execution.

But another major problem is Anakin himself, they tried to do too much in too little time. He had almost no development in TPM, and in AotC he was almost a completely different character. So in two movies they had to build Anakin, establish his relationships with Obi Wan, Padme, Palpatine, and the Council. Then they had to establish his longing for his mother. His internal conflict between his Jedi training and his natural passion. (When he's explaining Jedi's views on love to Padme, I actually think that was a good character moment. He's trying to finagle his religious beliefs as to not feel guilty about his feelings.)

Anyways, after they establish all that, they THEN have to bring all those relationships to a point of conflict and start deconstructing all of them. Over two movies this would have been fine, but this all happened in one. They saved the ramifications of these things for three, sure, but we're never given time to appreciate Anakin's character as it was before this nonsense happened.

RotS is actually very good, imo. If you go into it without the baggage of the first two, and with a general understanding of Star Wars lore, I think it's a great movie about Anakin's turn. But that's mostly thanks to a brilliant performance by Ian McDiarmid.

But anyways, yeah. Anakin came off as practically schizophrenic because of how much they did and how fast they did it. A solution would be to relegate the general story of TPM to a prologue. (An abridged Duel of the Fates, saying goodbye Shmi, talking to Padme, mourning Qui Gonn, etc) Then make the first movie showing us Anakin and Obi Wan together as friends and partners. You should show the Council's distrust and Palpatine's manipulation in the background over the course of the movie. Anakin could have nightmares about his mother like he did in AotC, building up that plot thread. He could be dreaming of Padme (who wouldn't see him after a prologue until the second movie)

Then, AFTER you've got the audience hooked and invested in Anakin, start throwing all that crap at him in the second movie. And you can keep RotS mostly the same.

In summation: It's a shame how bad the movies ended up being, because there is clearly a really fun and interesting story being told in them. They just needed a better storyteller.

Also in summation: Can we please get Toby Stephens to play a lead role in a Star Wars movie? I want that now.
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SpiralDrift posted...

I'm not convinced it has a future as a currency that people actually use. There will be a US-backed digital currency at some point and it will probably be something new.

Not in its current state, no. Its got way too sharp of a learning curve, and getting started can take days and the exchanges arent exactly reliable.

We'll know when a cryptocurrency is about to take off when your job offers to pay you in it instead of a live check. >_>
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It copied ESB fine.

A war plot that went bumfuck nowhere while the force users moved their character arcs in place for the finale.
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Slavery is still legal though. Its even right there in the ammendment.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

>_>
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I married an immigrant and the process is a pain in the ass.

Her income cant count for us since its not made in the US. And she cant work in the US until she gets her residency.

But, surprise surprise, to get a residency you need to be above the poverty line so they knpw you wont mooch the government as soon as you come here.

So despite us being financially stable a fluke in the system requires us to get a cosigner to say "we will mooch off this person before the government". And this person needs to prove their income as well.

And then theres the hundreds of dollars in fees because the application to get in costs at least a thousand. And if you fuck it up you have to pay again and refile again. And in the time that happens their legal visa could expire anyway.

So you gotta make sure you have some legal representation which is more money.

And then you gotta tell these guys everything about your life for the past 20 years because theres a lengthy interview process where they try to see if youre just doing the whole green card marriage thing.

Of course before that they take your fingerprints and shit so youre on the record regardless.

Who are these people cheating the system and can I get in on that racket?
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clearaflagrantj posted...

Oscar Isaac is fucking pure sex though

Too bad the only person he's going to fuck is BB-88
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