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So it looks like JJ Abrams is doing Episode VII. Thoughts?

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J.J. Abrahams is decent as a visual director, but Goddamn, have you seen revolution? have you seen how retarded that show was? Have you seen lost, have you seen how retarded THAT show was (I called it from episode one: it was just going to be vague **** with no real plot with the mystery of wth is going on to keep people watching. and like rats in a trap they did.)

 

If you like J.J.'s love for excessively large plotholes in excessively formulaic and simple plots, then yes, I guess he would be a good choice.

 

But as a visual director he kicks ass, I'll grant him that.

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Werner Herzog should do Star Wars VII.

 

Everyone will die, except the main hero who stands alone with a cold manic stare, talking to himself and being completely out of his mind.

 

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Well it's owned by Disney, it will be a children's movie. There will be nothing even remotely controversial or challenging about it. If you recall there was some. Or at least some people believed the last movie to be a jab at the Bush administration.

 

Give it to Lars Von Trier. It will either be brilliant or boring 50% chance of either.

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Lars Von Trier seems to be a hit or miss. He suffers, so he wants the actors to suffer, the movie to be a suffering experience, and to have the audience to suffer from it. But it can work at times.

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"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

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J.J. Abrahams is decent as a visual director, but Goddamn, have you seen revolution? have you seen how retarded that show was? Have you seen lost, have you seen how retarded THAT show was (I called it from episode one: it was just going to be vague **** with no real plot with the mystery of wth is going on to keep people watching. and like rats in a trap they did.)

 

If you like J.J.'s love for excessively large plotholes in excessively formulaic and simple plots, then yes, I guess he would be a good choice.

 

But as a visual director he kicks ass, I'll grant him that.

 

We had a fantastic thread on this forum for LOST, it went all six years and was filled with all our theories and interpretations.  I can't really think of any show I've had more fun with.  

 

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/54118-lost-season-six/?hl=lost

 

Could only find the season 6 thread.  Dang search button.

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Should have gone to David Lynch

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"Well it's owned by Disney, it will be a children's movie."

 

Not all Disney movies are for children. On top of that, all SW movies have been for children. Why should that change?

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Just watched Lincoln, very good film and not too much Spielsberg sentimentalism, but at a few points I was left a little bemused. Mainly when the revered gentleman was pontificating on how the world would change with slavery being outlawed, forgive me if i'm wrong but hadn't the largest empire and political entity on the planet (England) abolished slavery quite a few years before the United States? Don't mean to denigrate the USA and Mr Lincolns achievements, but that was surely the world changing blow against slavery.

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Drive -  eh, somewhat entertaining but it left me feeling like the main character was a little bit..slow. Or just way too focused on specfic things while completely blank on a whole lot of other things. But good music and some nice visuals.

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Blood Diamond on Friday, third time I've seen it. Love it.

 

Now, on to Star Wars - it's in good hands. Abrams, Arndt, Kasdan, Kinberg. What I really want to know though, is who's going to be cast. I hope they bring the original cast back. As for the story, I think it should be about Luke struggling to rebuild the Jedi Order. Maybe the new villains are able to do something similar to what the Ysalamiri can do, only amplified and directed solely at enemies. That would provide additional opportunity for other non-Force user characters to play a significant part (i.e. Han making an important sacrifice to weaken the enemy).

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Blood Diamond on Friday, third time I've seen it. Love it.

 

Now, on to Star Wars - it's in good hands. Abrams, Arndt, Kasdan, Kinberg. What I really want to know though, is who's going to be cast. I hope they bring the original cast back. As for the story, I think it should be about Luke struggling to rebuild the Jedi Order. Maybe the new villains are able to do something similar to what the Ysalamiri can do, only amplified and

directed solely at enemies. That would provide additional opportunity for other non-Force user characters to play a significant part (i.e. Han making an important sacrifice to weaken the enemy).

 

I think the original cast is either under contract, or all willing to come back. I heard Harrison Ford say that he wants them to kill Han if they to bring him back though. I know he's all old and can't be an action star, but if they bring him back Han will likely be some bigwig in the new Republic or something rather than being the dashing rogue of yore. This will be about their kids and will only have the original cast to tie it together if they are used at all.

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J.J. Abrahams is decent as a visual director, but Goddamn, have you seen revolution? have you seen how retarded that show was? Have you seen lost, have you seen how retarded THAT show was (I called it from episode one: it was just going to be vague **** with no real plot with the mystery of wth is going on to keep people watching. and like rats in a trap they did.)

 

If you like J.J.'s love for excessively large plotholes in excessively formulaic and simple plots, then yes, I guess he would be a good choice.

 

But as a visual director he kicks ass, I'll grant him that.

 

We had a fantastic thread on this forum for LOST, it went all six years and was filled with all our theories and interpretations.  I can't really think of any show I've had more fun with.  

 

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/54118-lost-season-six/?hl=lost

 

Could only find the season 6 thread.  Dang search button.

 

 

alright that's pretty cool, but have you seen this one:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/424093/ ?

it's purgatory

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I saw Movie 43 yesterday.

 

It was like a live-action Family Guy.

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I was really disappointed with John Dies At The End but that's mostly because I really enjoyed the book and the movie adapts maybe 25% of the plot and then skips to the end. The parts that were in there were pretty much spot on, but I saw two of my favourite moments from the book and the rest wasn't there. No random exploding dog, no FPS send up, no evil advertising, no Vegas.

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Here Comes the Boom.
 

Kevin James as 42 year old biology teacher given in to apathy who ends up getting a reawakening to save fellow teacher Henry Winkler's job and attempts to raise money for the music program by getting into mixed martial arts out of school...

 

One of those odd films that follows the standards of the genre, and isn't particularly great (although Salma Hayak is one of the supporting characters) but still somehow manages to be fairly uplifting.

Although the finale bit of Viva America and the whole push on America the land of Dreams is a wee bit over the top.

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Watched Beasts of the Southern Wild. Good movie.

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I watched Iron Sky and all I can think about is ‘why did I watch this?’ This is the snip-it “having secretly fled to a base on the moon at the end of World War II, Nazis put the final touches on their plan to launch an invasion of Earth.” Reading that I should have known. 

 

I also just watched the Lon Ranger trailer…I am kind of torn I don’t know how I feel about it.

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Watched (most of) the extended edition of Aliens. Some of those extended scenes may drag the action down a bit, but I still like them for the added bits of character.

 

I'm still mad about Alien3 and the abrupt, pointless way they tossed aside the two other surviving characters. It's fine that they weren't a part of that film/story, it's just the way they did it. Bah.

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Your picture reminds me of an article I read recently that says that cats kill 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year…we may think there cute but underneath that cuteness is a cold blooded killer that does a very good job of killing things in the yard that I don’t like (and leaving something for me to step in).

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Watched the first two episodes of "The Following," some new FoX show with Kevin Bacon. I liked it. I'm not seeing myself liking it past a season or so (I think I'd tire of the potential never-ending conflict they seem to be setting up), but seems like it'd make for a good season or half-season. At any rate, it's fun to see Bacon in a series.

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