No, that was Niobe Dean and the character was...
...something else. I think.
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No, that was Niobe Dean and the character was...
...something else. I think.
Welcome to the forum, Greg.
And...uh. No. Hadn't thought of that. And that seems obvious in retrospect. God damn it.
Eddie and his wife had themselves a baby this morning.
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Revelations? I got nuthin.
That's a stunning room.
*reads a few pages*
This was either written by Rick McCallum, or is the saddest thing I've ever seen.
Plinkett: "Describe the following Star Wars character WITHOUT saying what they look like, what kind of costume they wore, or what their profession or role was in the movie. Describe this character to your friends like they ain't never seen Star Wars."
This is to examine the characters' personalities, basically who they are. According to Stoklasa, if you can describe a character at length without mentioning the above things, he/she is a strong character.
RLM questions five different people, who alternate between original trilogy and prequel characters. They start with Han Solo. Mostly they repeat the same things: rogue, arrogant, charming. One guy points out Han's mean streak (shooting Greedo), but that he has a heart of gold underneath. All accurate observations. I'll let it slide that the girl calls Han "sexy" (her opinion, and also his looks), and that they call him a "womanizer" (something that doesn't show up until TESB).
Then they try the game on Qui-Gon, and the way they go about it isn't pretty. While this review had already resorted to a number of tricks to make its case, this is the point when the bias becomes truly blatant and outrageous.
One guy says Qui-Gon is "stoic," and then acts as if he's struggling to think of anything else. The girl pretends that she doesn't remember who Qui-Gon is, despite how much of TPM is spent following him. Yeah, right. More of Stoklasa's amateur actors (oops, I mean friends and regular people) put on a show to supposedly support his claim that Qui-Gon is a nothing, a blank slate of a character who can't be described in any way. It's one thing to think that the original trilogy characters were superior to the prequel characters (not an outrageous opinion at all), but to act as if you can't come up with a single descriptive word is just over the top. Not a single adjective...except for one guy who displays an ignorance of vocabulary by laughably labeling Qui-Gon as "stern." Qui-Gon Jinn, a stern man...
No, Qui-Gon Jinn is most certainly not "stern." In fact he's the complete opposite, and can basically be summed up as an idealized father figure. Strong, brave, in control, but also kind and soft spoken. The type of man many people probably wished their dad would be like when they were kids. Qui-Gon is calm and patient when dealing with others, and he believes in the people he takes under his wing. He quickly saw Anakin's potential and believed that the boy would go on to do great things. His faith in Anakin was so strong that he trusted the boy to win the podrace and save the mission.
EDIT: I guess it's unfair to call this sad, even though it is - so is RLM's review, if anything. What's strange about this is the paranoia I pick up off of his writing. It's even evident a bit in the above quote, saying that the girl "pretends not to know who Qui Gon is," so on and so forth. She's lying, rather than honestly can't remember the name of a character from a movie that didn't connect with her. That kind of thing permeates the whole essay.
No problem here, clearly because the United States is the best god damned country between Mexico and Canada.
SHIFTY FOR THE WIN
THANK YOU SIR
Welcome to the forum, rubs.
Yeah. It took you that long to become "rubs."
I went partially deaf in my left ear for a month or two this year, it was going on when I went to the Rally with Dorkman and JayHair. That's some terrifying shit, especially in a crowd. You want 360° hearing.
Lucasfilm logo.
You know. I don't actually remember saying that. Fuck.
Thanks, Zarb. Come to LA sometime so we can all buy you a drink.
Sigh. Hellboy.
Had a very full chat room today, and I'm glad it was at its fullest for JEDI, because I'm really happy with that commentary. Thanks to the 25+ that came out! Sorry if I missed anybody's questions.
Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, Hereafter, Inception, Iron Man 2, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Tron.
Alice in Wonderland: There was some cool VFX stuff in this, lots of sets, plus the requisite big creature fight. Ultimately nothing stuck with me as a major VFX achievement unlike anything we've seen before, and it has the handicap of having come out a million years ago.
Harry Potter: There was some magical (lol) fucking VFX here, but I think they're gonna save everything for DH2. We're gonna get a bunch of actor noms with that one, too. Twenty on Rickman.
Hereafter: This film has a solid shot because nobody saw it and therefore all respond with "there was visual FX in a movie I've never heard of?" Nevermind.
Inception: I'm not happy about it, but I think Inception wins. The movie was huge and good, the FX were huge and good.
Iron Man 2: lol no.
Scott Pilgrim: I'd love to see this one win, but I don't think it has much of a shot. Nobody saw this one either, and it doesn't have the "majesty" factor that Inception and TRON have in montage form.
TRON: I think this wins if Inception doesn't. Inception feels more important, and doesn't have Clu's hit-or-missness to contend with. Which is a shame, because I think TRON is visually outstanding.
So, my take on it is that it's Inception's year. I wish it was TRON's year, because I know a lot of those guys and I loved TRON like a sad little child loves any sort of attention. Both movies were fucking dazzling, but like I said, Inception feels more important.
Thoughts?
That's an intriguing thought.
It's all for you.
Hey not-on-the-podcast forum folks: how do you feel about Jedi?
Give us some opinions to discuss.
What are you best at, passable at, and what do you think you could handle?
One of my favorite albums is Mindless Self Indulgence's "Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy," which is thirty short tracks by an obsessive tweaker who ordered them alphabetically.
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