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1,302 2010-09-29 12:29:57
Re: Star Wars 3D (45 replies, posted in Off Topic)
To be honest, I'm surprised people are even bothering to justify why they're excited. It's not about the podrace or the trench run. It's about a deep-seated Pavlovian need to consume anything called STAR WARS. George Lucas could smear shit on his face and do a naked rain dance, and as long as he called it STAR WARS the majority of the moviegoing public would pay $10 for a ticket and be damn grateful for the opportunity. If he released 2 GIRLS 1 CUP in theatres and called it STAR WARS it would make a billion dollars. People would see it multiple times. And he knows it.
You kids have fun storming the castle, but let's not pretend it's about the trench run.
1,305 2010-09-27 10:02:14
Re: Moon (35 replies, posted in Episodes)
I really think Brian's mistake was, as he himself has phrased it, reading into the movie instead of out from it.
Duncan Jones doesn't know that Brian Finifter wants to see "the APOLLO 13 that hasn't happened yet." It's not his fault that he didn't make the movie he had no idea Brian was going to think he was making.
1,314 2010-09-23 13:14:32
Re: Cannabis, Prop 19, and how to make a water pipe out of your bathtub. (48 replies, posted in Off Topic)
And we all remember how the Civil War turned out for the redcoats.
1,315 2010-09-23 11:20:57
Re: Cannabis, Prop 19, and how to make a water pipe out of your bathtub. (48 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I'm sure it would be a simple matter of handwaving around it with a careful definition of what constitutes "highly" addictive substances.
1,316 2010-09-23 10:05:29
Re: Cannabis, Prop 19, and how to make a water pipe out of your bathtub. (48 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Ahhhh, good point. The addiction angle is one I hadn't considered. I revise my position on those grounds.
1,317 2010-09-21 16:19:34
Re: Cannabis, Prop 19, and how to make a water pipe out of your bathtub. (48 replies, posted in Off Topic)
1,318 2010-09-21 10:39:27
Re: Cannabis, Prop 19, and how to make a water pipe out of your bathtub. (48 replies, posted in Off Topic)
1,320 2010-09-20 15:29:07
Re: The Fifth Element (68 replies, posted in Episodes)
I had a really close friend growing up, an Indian girl, and we had what I thought was a little secret language that we shared. Which her mother later informed me was Hindi. So at some point in my childhood I apparently kind of knew Hindi without realizing it.
1,321 2010-09-20 00:08:18
Re: Cannabis, Prop 19, and how to make a water pipe out of your bathtub. (48 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I don't smoke pot, but the idea that alcohol should be legal and weed not is senseless, puritanical madness.
I say legalize it all, frankly. You want to get all fucked up in the comfort of your own home, go for it. You go outside and start trying to drive around that way, you get to go to jail just like if it was alcohol.
1,323 2010-09-16 10:16:35
Re: The Empire Strikes Back (96 replies, posted in Episodes)
Oh, I thought that was going to be about the cats. But the movie's cool too. I guess.
1,324 2010-09-16 10:01:52
Re: The Empire Strikes Back (96 replies, posted in Episodes)
Of course Lucas thinks ESB is the "worst" one. He's a control freak and it's the one he had the least control over.
Plinkett points it out very adeptly at the very end of his TPM review: when Lucas finally had absolute creative control and effectively unlimited funds and resources, he made the prequels. He wasn't struggling with a studio or forced to make any compromises. He made them that way on purpose.
It's shocking to everyone else, but the sad truth is: the prequels are what George Lucas thinks STAR WARS is supposed to be.
So if the prequels are what he's always wanted from STAR WARS, it's very little wonder that EMPIRE, being the exact opposite of the prequels in pretty much every facet, will strike George as being the "worst" of the bunch. It fails to accomplish what he thinks a STAR WARS movie should.
Which, of course, is exactly why it's great.
Also, I hate those Brain Bug cats. They're ugly and whoever first decided to selectively breed them that way is history's greatest monster.
1,325 2010-09-14 10:10:43
Re: Terminator: Salvation (22 replies, posted in Episodes)
Thanks for the clarification. I knew as I was saying it that I was getting the details wrong, but close enough to make the point.
Cargo cults come up a lot in skeptical discussions when discussing the difference between scientific and magical thinking, which is where my incomplete knowledge of them comes from. And that's always the point. We're all human beings and our brains are all structured to think this way. Cargo cults are a powerful illustration of how wrong we can go in our thinking, particularly when we mistake the process for the result.
One of the reasons it happened to be on my mind this time (the idea of a "cargo cult sequel" could have equally applied to the Matrix sequels, particularly RELOADED) is that I'd heard a recent reference to cargo cult science, which is the stuff that, for example, Intelligent Design creationists "practice." They put on white lab coats and they hold up test tubes and look at them, and they think this constitutes "doing science." But they're just going through the motions, understanding superficially what science looks like but not the underlying reasons that it looks that way.
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