Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Obsidian Forum Community

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Featured Replies

thought you gents might like this lovingly created article that makes fun of all 3 trilogys of The Matrix, Star Wars (both trilogys amazingly), and LOTR.

 

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/trilogy.html

Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition!

 

Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.

...

Criteria No. 3 - Story Themes and Symbolism

 

The Matrix

 

None.

 

Star Wars

 

Cold, gut-tangling paranoia. That's the key to the Star Wars tales. The central meaning in both trilogies is our modern need for protection and safety against the cold, uncaring horror of existence. The films unflinchingly portray disaster after disaster for all who are left unprotected for even a moment; we see women's need to constantly be protected (and rescued) by men, man's own need to always be protected and kept aloft by catwalk railings in a world where they are still millennia away from invention, a space station exhaust shaft's need to be protected by a hard covering or at least some protective grating to stop foreign objects.

 

It is a theme that resonates in these new, dangerous times unlike any other. Who is protecting your exhaust shaft, America?

 

As if this were somehow not enough, Lucas shocks us with a point of view that is almost heresy in a 21st Century USA. Lucas believes it is justified to destroy the inhabitants of a large building, if it facilitates the means of those called to martydom by The Force. Further, aggressive military action is never to be unilateral and pre-emptive. Han Solo knows he is in mortal danger in the Cantina scene... but he waits until Greedo fires before responding with deadly force. This is a lesson a certain American President could learn.

 

The Lord of the Rings

...

American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, in his famous 1968 speech, pleaded to "let freedom ring" across the land, "ringing" in a new era of racial harmony. In Bakshi's film, we have that very "ring" in our hands, the "ring" of freedom and racial equality, the "ring" that will let every white and black child play with race-blind eyes.

 

Frodo's mission is to destroy the ring.

 

The Orcs are to be wiped out, not integrated into society. The elves are to slowly die off, not to be merged with the world of man.

...

vadermouth2.gif

...

>factor 12x: no monkeys vs. no monkeys vs. no monkeys

...

  • How to Write a Screenplay in 72 Hours. George Lucas. New York, Skywalker Press, 1989. 205 pp.
    All My Heroes are White. James Pinkerton. Toronto, Beaver Press, 1993. 857 pp.
    Cleansing the Gene Pool: In Defense of Genocide. James Pinkerton. Toronto, Beaver Press, 1996. 994 pp.

...

GOLD

OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS

ingsoc.gif

OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT

I like this:

 

graph1.jpg

 

:D

 

DL

[color=gray][i]OO-TINI![/i][/color]

  • Author

figured at least SOMBODY would like it.

Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition!

 

Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.

I love David Wong and John Cheese's work.

Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!
http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdanger

One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there.

I read it a long while back. It is the most objective study on the subject.

And very true.

OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS

ingsoc.gif

OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT

;) Classic.
sig2.gif

Odd

Even.

OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS

ingsoc.gif

OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT

Straight

Baley.

Hahaha.

Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!
http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdanger

One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there.

Oi! Less of that... Baley is my bitc.... ermm... friend... :o"

 

DL

[color=gray][i]OO-TINI![/i][/color]

I think we are beginning to see evidence of the Stockholm Syndrome ...

OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS

ingsoc.gif

OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT

  • Author

oh wow... is Launch the Victim or is baley the one trapped in launches bacement?

 

I thought you guys might like the Hasslehoff meter.

Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition!

 

Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.

oh wow... is Launch the Victem or is baley the one trapped in launches bacement?

 

I thought you guys might like the Hasslehoff meter.

There's no victims in our relationship... :blink:"

 

DL

 

P.S. I believe I already expressed amusement by the Hoff graph

[color=gray][i]OO-TINI![/i][/color]

oh wow... is Launch the Victem or is baley the one trapped in launches bacement?

 

I thought you guys might like the Hasslehoff meter.

There's no victims in our relationship... :blink:"

 

DL

 

 

Yeah, no victims except the human race...

 

 

Grey.

Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!
http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdanger

One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there.

You know too much... :blink:

 

DL

[color=gray][i]OO-TINI![/i][/color]

You can't get anything past ol' Lou Gutman...

 

 

PI!

Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!
http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdanger

One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there.

  • Author

There may be no victims in life but there are victims in the realm of the damned.

Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition!

 

Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.

Okay, I expect this sort of thing out of Mr. Gutman, but not from the rest of you. If you don't stop all this, then baley himself will visit this thread, then it will only go downhill. Back on topic or the thread gets it!

 

The link is.... weird. Clearly, however, they were wrong. Lucas is underrated. He gets a 10.

Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community:  Happy Holidays

 

Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:
Obsidian Plays


 
Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris.  Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends!

I sincerely hope none of you took that article seriously, considering its a joke...

Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!
http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdanger

One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there.

So is saying Lucas deserves a 10.

Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community:  Happy Holidays

 

Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:
Obsidian Plays


 
Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris.  Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends!

  • Author

with lines like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" or it's translation "DO NOT WANNNNNNNNT"

Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition!

 

Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.

Create an account or sign in to comment

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.