I saw Underworld 2 Friday. It is good if you like the first Underworld, lots and lots of gore that makes you go ‘ew’ and naked Kate Beckinsale. I think I counted at least 3 jaws ripped off. Very entertaining.
Lizzy and Muppet Baby: Do you two also think Stephen Harper is part robot? I’d say robots were trying to take over the world, but they must be really slow robots of they’re planning to launch a campaign for world domination from up here in Canada.
Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/22/2006 12:55 PM
Gabbylicious – I always thought of him as more cardboard than robot, actually.
Chestnuts roasted by Lizzy @ 01/22/2006 1:04 AM
Use the word shoal while you’re at it.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/22/2006 1:13 AM
Lizzy- Fellow Quebecer, eh? Right on. Yeah, the weather is insane.
About Hayden Christensen- OK, I think he CAN act…he was great in both "Life as a House" (which I checked out before Ep.2 so I could get a look at this guy who would be Darth) and "Shattered Glass" (which I saw after Ep.3, to re-assure myself that he can act after all)…
The problem wasn’t him- it was the SCRIPT- My God, lines such as "I wish I could just wish away my feelings for you" leave nothing good for ANYONE to work with- I think anyone would have taken a lot of flack in this role, since the writing was so bad- he is just unfortunate enough to be a lesser known actor and so he REALLY gets blamed. I mean, Ewan, Natalie Portman, even THE MAN Samuel L. Jackson himself all kind of….suck a little….in these prequels- they’re all wooden, as someone here said earlier, and campy. But in a bad way, not the funny, tongue-in-cheek way like the originals.
The script is campy like before, but treated as though it’s serious shit, therefore ruining the campy-ness and wrecking the whole effect…does anyone hear what I am saying??? Argh.
I LOVE Star Wars to death, and because of the way these prequels were done, I now have to spend the rest of my life defending Hayden Christensen!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/22/2006 1:31 AM
Tonite’s episode of SNL was GREAT! My only disappointment was I was hoping they would throw in Toonces, The Driving Cat as sort of an injoke in the Cat Fancy sketch.
I loved the Target sketch mostly because I love the voice the woman uses.
The digital sketch was cool, but still no where near as good as the Lazy Sunday one.
Toupees for Babies was Hilarious.
Peter Sarsgard Sars Guard was funny.
The Pirate thing was funny. Also loved Drew Barrymore’s cameo.
Gays in Space was cute.
The NSA spying sketch was also funny.
Carol has got to go though.
I’m loving the new editions to the cast this season.
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/22/2006 1:42 AM
Sheesh. Mystie, those photos….those PHOTOS….these Choco-Diles, Mystie, these Choco-Diles….
…don’t you realize what this means? You could never work a day in your life. All you would have to do is go to Zern’s every day, buy something for ten cents, then come back and sell it on E-Bay for $50. Fifty dollars a day AT LEAST. Think about it.
Matt used to sell stuff on eBay for a living and now look at him. He is a god among mortals. Just think about that Mystie and if you do decide to do what the God of War tells you to do, can I have your autograph before your website becomes one of the greatest ever? Not that it isn’t already great. I can’t even have a site ever since I posted those nude pictures of me on the interweb. Apparently people went blind.
And I blame the actors and George Lucas and don’t you tell me to forgive George Lucas because he gave us the original trilogy (aka the greatest movies ever, the pinnacle of film), the Indiana Jones films, and THX 1138. 3 words. Howard the Duck. He just should have stopped making films after that. He was a producer; he had the power to stop it. Then the prequels. My god, he made me question my pathetic fan-boy life. I looked at my action figures wondering if it was just wasted money and petroleum. My action figures people! I wondered if I should really plan on going into comic books or film. I worried that if I did, I might end up like George. He made me question my pride, my dreams, and every time that I watch my favorite movies I’ll have to think about Jar Jar. Go to hell George Lucas. And the actors, even the good ones, sucked. I’m going to go cry now.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 9:46 AM
Dohopoki: You raise a good point (and Darth Poop, don’t lose faith). Everybody in their career has their hits and misses, and Lucas has had far too many hits to simply discount the man for a bad three-film run. That would be like saying Martin Brest sucks because of Gigli (while Midnight Run and Beverly Hills Cop were entertaining, and Scent of a Woman was such an amazing film).
When you look at the six films Lucas actually directed, three are considered good and three are considered bad by the general filmgoing public. The good are THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars. The bad are the prequels. While that’s an even number of hits and misses, the hits were so innovative and good that they outweigh the misses. Top all of that off with the technological advances (ILM, THX, etc.), and it’s hard to look down on the guy.
I’m not counting the things Lucas executive produced, because Lucas himself probably didn’t have much of a creative hand in that work (with the notable exception of the Indy trilogy). Exec-producer credits are handed out like candy. Just look at all the movies being "presented" by Quentin Tarantino recently. Kevin Smith got an exec-producer credit on Good Will Hunting just for handing the Affleck/Damon script to the Weinsteins.
Anyway, in my estimation, the prequels fall as much on the heads of Lucas’ yes-men as they do on Lucas himself. If producer Rick McCallum or anybody else in his high esteem would have had the balls or the power to veto ideas, the collaborative process probably would have made for a better series of films.
Darth Poop: You came into this thread talking about the particular classes of starcraft in the film. You seem to have some sort of lust for the new movies, and that’s enviable. Towards the end of the thread, it’s all piss and vinegar about the prequels. Hopefully all of our Lucas-bashing hasn’t soured your prequel-love (or prequel-like) at all. That certainly wasn’t my intention, and there are parts of me that wish I could look at the prequels in a less jaded way.
mtrox- I never loved the prequels. The only reason I know so much about the ships and crap is because I like the clone wars comic books and cartoons and I bought the books from DK publishing with the pretty pictures and facts. I really like the clone troopers solely because I like stormtroopers. I love the original trilogy with all my heart but don’t be mistaken. I hated the prequels before this thread and I will always hate the prequels. I agree with your opinion on the yes men; they can go to hell with Lucas.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 10:38 AM
Well, I’ve been lurking around here for the past…two and a half years or so but I finally decded to post because of those pictures of Zern’s.
Damn! Did anyone else catch that wall of NES Games?
;-; I want them…
Chestnuts roasted by ThePlatinumStag @ 01/22/2006 11:32 AM
I want those He-Man party favors. You have to get little metal balls into little holes, I love those! And that bunny looks depressed.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 11:56 AM
I didn’t like Episode I very much, but II and III were ok…I just had to remember that parts of the OT were pretty cheesy at times, too.
As for Hayden C. acting: Everyone complains that he is a whiny bitch in Ep. II, but I see it as how the role is supposed to be. He’s an adolescent…not Darth Vader the younger…
In Ep. III, I thought he did a great job, given the terrible lines he had to say ("No I love you more?" WTF?)
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 01/22/2006 12:04 PM
I think of it this way: No prequels, no Sin City. No prequels, no Gollum. Of course I guess you could say "No prequels, no Sharkboy and Lavagirl" as well, which doesn’t help the case much, but let’s not splice hairs.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/22/2006 12:20 PM
ummm. . . .Howard the Duck?
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/22/2006 1:10 PM
kb you’ve never heard of howard the duck? It’s about a humanoid duck who I believe is an alien.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 1:24 PM
Sorry for the double post but squee4242 what do the prequal have to do with any of the films that you listed? Am I missing something?
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 1:25 PM
Goosebumps books and tv show were cool. Also Eerie Indiana and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 01/22/2006 1:27 PM
Darth
no, I’ve heard of it, and seen it. Just think there’s a far worse Lucas film than the trilogies.
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/22/2006 1:34 PM
kb- I thought that you had read my earlier post and was clueless as to the train wreck that is Howard the Duck. Good morrow to you.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 1:54 PM
Lucas kind of pioneered the techniques for the use of HD cameras and CGI backgrounds on the prequels and got Robert Rodriguez into it, and of course JarJar was the first fully digital character in a movie…it’s going overboard to say Sin City or Two Towers wouldn’t have been made without the prequels but ILM deserves credit for the ground they broke making them. (Just MHO)
To completely change the subject, who’s totally absolutely positively boundlessly jazzed about The Sopranos coming back in March? It’s been so long, and there’s still a long time to go but it finally feels like it’s getting close…it’s only, what, seven weeks? Cannot wait.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/22/2006 2:41 PM
Yeah but selling stuff on eBay is such a pain. Taking photos, typing descriptions, then they pretty much double-dick you with fees between selling and PayPal. I’d rather spend that time actually playing with my toys. Don’t worry, though. I have a pretty good feeling things will be picking up site wise in the not-too-distant future.
Hey everyone!! I just got back from Smithville (cute little historic town in New Jersey, for any out-of-staters).
Darth Poop, sounds cool bout the GI Joe vehicles you won. DEEEEK!
Ahhh, SNL was EXCELLENT last night!!!!!!!!! That toupees for babies commercial cracked me up!!!!! We laughed at Carol b/c she reminds my boyfriend of someone–can’t remember who he said though–just saying "I’m Carol!" makes him laugh hysterical! Much better than last week’s ep.
I also taped Dennis Miller’s HBO special last night b/c I was in Alantic City, and didn’t get home until 11:25, just in time for SNL. I can miss SNL, of course, but then I gotta tape it. No problem there!
But, whiz kids, lemme put it to you this way–I have not missed an SNL Season Premiere since 1995. I know, it’s pretty bad, but consider this–I was in 7th grade in September 1995. I’m 23 now, and out of college. Yikes, that’s alot of season premieres!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/22/2006 4:01 PM
Darth Poop- You know, if it wern’t for Lucas, there wouldn’t be a Original Trilogy. Of course the prequals are inferior to the OT, but whatever, that’s just your opinion.
Chestnuts roasted by Reid @ 01/22/2006 4:12 PM
I love you Reid. If this didn’t make you scream I don’t know what will.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 7:19 PM
kingklash, I love your plug for the "V of Doom" in the previous blog entries.
This logo stuff is great.
*V zooms out and in three times against a light blue background as creepy Viacom music plays under the logo*
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I saw Underworld 2 Friday. It is good if you like the first Underworld, lots and lots of gore that makes you go ‘ew’ and naked Kate Beckinsale. I think I counted at least 3 jaws ripped off. Very entertaining.
Lizzy and Muppet Baby: Do you two also think Stephen Harper is part robot? I’d say robots were trying to take over the world, but they must be really slow robots of they’re planning to launch a campaign for world domination from up here in Canada.