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Mark Hamill (Simpsons)
Oh god, I haven't watch an episode of the Simpsons since 2007. I remember the exact episode I stopped watching, too. I remember Mark Hamill sees Homer being attacked by a mafia goon and tells him to "use the fork," which I guess was funny in the 90s, but today would definitely not get a laugh.

I wonder what the reaction would be if you took a 2020 comedy and sent it back to 1990. Would they still think it's funny?

I love you + I know
One of the best improv lines of all time. Harrison Ford hates Star Wars, but the man was still willing to give it his... most, and I appreciate that. The original dialogue is this:

Leia: I love you. I couldnt tell you before, but its true.
Han: Just remember that, cause Ill be back.

Can you imagine those lines being used? I can, and it wouldn't ruin the scene or anything, but brevity, as they say, is the soul of wit.

Star Wars Manga
I read the sequence posted. It cuts out the part where they actually analyze the Death Star plans! If you were just reading this with no knowledge of the movies, it would be pretty confusing.

This was actually enjoyable to read, even if it's just a direct translation of the movie into anime form, right down to unaltered dialogue. This kind of stuff amuses me.

Anakin x Padme
Among the worst movie romances of all time. Legendary, even. See, the basic idea of a celibate monk falling in love with one of the most powerful women in the galaxy, and her returning his affections but not wanting to get involved because it would ruin both of them, is okay. In fact, it's even good. But that's not really how it's played? It's very nebulous what the Jedi Order thinks of sex, all we get from the movies is that you aren't supposed to have worldly attachments, so Anakin's motives are only like 80% clear. Worse is Padme, who has no particular reason for not wanting to bang Anakin, because it's never established if she'll get in trouble for it or not.

But beyond that, the more basic issues are the dialogue and acting. Basically I can't do this better than RLM, so I won't try, but I will say that pretty much everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong.

Imperial Probe Droid
Weird little spindly legs, a revolving turret-like head, it's all very nice. You can easily imagine the Empire building a billion of these things and just shooting them everywhere to check for Rebel scum. Great design, great usage.

JJ Abrams
Someone nominated him in my Star Trek topic as well. Abrams is... bleh. He's so hard to rate. The Abrams movies I've seen are Armageddon, Super 8, Cloverfield, and the Trek and Wars movies. What I'll say about Abrams is that he's a very competent director, I guess. I'm never confused about what's going on when watching his movies.

Look, I don't know. I don't want to say that Abrams ruined Star Wars, but he's at least 30% of the reason Star Wars is ruined. I don't know if it was his idea to remake ANH as TFA, but he did it either way, and then he made the sloppiest Star Wars movie in existence with TRoS, which I'm sure was all him. Yeah, Rian Johnson screwed everything up, but really, Abrams' strategy in the first movie was just to plant "mystery boxes" everywhere and assume it'll all work out well. We never even got the answer to how Maz Kanada got Luke's lightsaber (but that's a story for another time).

Super 8 is bad, by the way.

The Joker (Batman TAS)
The definitive Joker. More Joker-y than even the comics Joker. No one has or ever will nail the Joker as perfectly as Mark Hamill. That evil laugh is the eternally perfect evil laugh of all villains.

Hitler vs Vader (ERBoH)
I prefer the ERBoH that aren't so one-sided. Don't get me wrong, obviously I like Vader more than Hitler (I can't believe I had to type that), but this clearly wants you to side with Vader. Also, they completely abandon Vader's iconic breathing for the sake of the song, but boy, if there's any one thing Vader's worse at than screaming NOOOOOO it's rapping. The voice just doesn't work for that, whereas Hitler's screeching madness works perfectly.

2010, huh. No way this gets made today.

Darth Revan
Basically wasn't a real character in KotOR, any more than the protagonist of Baldur's Gate or whatever. I like the idea of a Jedi who can't stand by while innocent people die, but his attachments cause him to fall to the Dark Side, but that's not really the point of this character. The point of this character is to have an amazing plot twist partway through the game. And it is a great plot twist, don't get me wrong.

I never saw Darth Revan while playing TOR (I don't know if Republic players get to meet him), but I looked him up just now and he's kind of a boring bald guy. What a waste. My Revan was the one with a lot of hair.

Being Out of Ideas
What a clever way to nominate Disney's use of the Star Wars franchise! I kid, I kid (but not really).

Being out of ideas sucks. You're passionate and want to contribute, but you just can't think of any way to interact with the thing you like. I know that feeling, bro.


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Started: July 6, 2005