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Black Adder the Third - "Duel and Duality"

Edmund: I want to be remembered when I'm dead. I want books written about me, I want songs sung about me. And then hundreds of years from now I want episodes from my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.

Baldrick: Yeah. And I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard.

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Bat-stinkin'-tle-stinkin'-field-stinkin'-Earth.

I don't even have to be watching that dusty bent turd for it to piss me off.  If I was Bruce Banner, this movie would be why I was angry all the time.

What?  Of COURSE I own it!  I have to show people that it's worse than they can possibly imagine!  They'll say, "No, no, the worst movie ever is Prometheus/Spiderman 3/From Justin to Kelly!" and I'll say, "Siddown."

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My dad was a federal narcotics agent and this was one of his favorite cop movies in terms if realism, believe it or not.  Oh the villain was a bit overblown (forgive the pun), but the way they depicted Crystal and Hines's characters, their relationship, their relationship with other cops, how they did their jobs, etc. was apparently pretty close to reality.

I'm completely astounded as to just how good these are.  It's not that I'm surprised that you can come up with stuff this good, Michael, it's just that it's amazing that you produced this on your own with no pay or giant studio behind you and yet what we ended up getting, which should have been amazing with all of the resources at Lucas's disposal, was crap.  But even with all things being equal, really well done, man.

I don't remember where this came from, but it seemed like way back when ESB came out, there was a rumor that the reason Dagobah was a swamp was because of an epic Force battle between Yoda and some dark Force weilder or other in the culling of the Jedi, and the cave that was strong with the Dark Side was perhaps where Yoda finally defeated and killed him.  Further, the reason Yoda lived on Dagobah was because the immensity of the Dark Side of the Force that remained masked his presence on the planet from Palpatine, who otherwise would be able to sense such a strong Force user.  No idea where I read that or otherwise came across it, but I seem to remember that was the theory behind the question as to why Yoda stayed on Dagobah and why Darth Vader never knew he was still alive.  Anyone else got a line on that or where that might have come from?  At any rate, it'd be neat to incorporate some sort of exploration into the reason for Yoda's situation in ESB into these rewrites.

But once again, really really well done.

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Just saw this.  Some stuff I dug, most I felt let down by.  I really thought the trailer was amazing.  The movie didn't really bear that out.  Ah well.  I agree with Trey in that I enjoyed it more than any other big name superhero movie this summer, so there's that.  But one thing I haven't seen addressed in this thread:  Did anyone else really feel like Michael Shannon's portrayal of Zod kind of, I dunno... sucked?  It was flat, uninspired, almost clumsy, I thought.  Was that just me?

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Nathan Fillion as Dogberry?  What?  Totally should be Don Pedro.

Edit: Alan Tudyk.  That's your Dogberry.

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I dunno.  I'm going to reserve judgement until actual failure or success happens, because this is so bizarre, there's no telling what's going to happen.

That being said, I just feel like doing direct sequels with older Luke, Han, etc. is going to end in tears, blood, and fire.  Returning to characters later in their lives seems to disappoint much more frequently than it succeeds.  The new ones should really be set 100-200 years down the road.  What have the Jedi become after the reboot with just one master with no formal training to guide them?  What have the long term effects of the overthrow of the Emperor been?  Stuff like that.

I'm not saying another story with the Boys won't work.  It's just, to coin a phrase, I have a bad feeling about this.

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The thing I found fun was the fact that some seriously crazy stuff can be going on, maybe even next door, and no one else on the ship gives a rat's ass about it.

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I will.  Game of Thrones, hands down.  Don't get me started on BSG.

What, to you, was the finest moment in any television series ever?

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Has anyone suggested The Last Starfighter yet?

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I have to rather sheepishly admit that I was hoping for Marcus Cole.

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Greetings, programs.  My name is Marcus and Teague went the Brody route with my subtitle.  I'm going to assume it's the bad ass Raiders Brody and not the post-carbonite doof sickness Last Crusade version.  I'm a DBA for a community college in Mississippi, but I like a bit of acting every now and again.  I also like pie a good deal.