On 26/09/2011 06:01 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Here's something funny: I haven't been able to find a torrent of it. How
> bad does a movie have to be that *nobody* is pirating it? ;-)

BUUUUUURN! :-O

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On 9/26/2011 10:57 AM, Warp wrote:

>    At the time I liked them, and none of the arguments that were made back
> then against them sounded very convincing. It just sounded a lot like people
> were complaining because of "they changed it, now it sucks" and other
> nostalgia filtering reasons rather than *actual* ones.

Everything can be summed up as follows: Jar Jar Binks.

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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/2011 10:57 AM, Warp wrote:

> >    At the time I liked them, and none of the arguments that were made back
> > then against them sounded very convincing. It just sounded a lot like people
> > were complaining because of "they changed it, now it sucks" and other
> > nostalgia filtering reasons rather than *actual* ones.

> Everything can be summed up as follows: Jar Jar Binks.

  I still disagree on that one.

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Warp escreveu:
>   How do you achieve this feat? By being an amazingly talented writer,
> that's how. It *is* possible to make a young girls' show about magical
> ponies enjoyable to everybody, mainly via strong characterization and
> innocent humor.

dunno about that, but The Powerpuff Girls is truly outstanding.  Of 

and old pop culture reference to make everyone happy in a tight package.

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On 26/09/2011 04:57 PM, Warp wrote:
> Kevin Wampler<wam### [at] uwashingtonedu>  wrote:
>> Were you the person here who really enjoyed the Star Wars prequels?
>
>    I watched them before the universal consensus was settled, so I didn't
> watch them just to see how "bad" they really are.
>
>    At the time I liked them, and none of the arguments that were made back
> then against them sounded very convincing. It just sounded a lot like people
> were complaining because of "they changed it, now it sucks" and other
> nostalgia filtering reasons rather than *actual* ones.

As I recall, while I was actually watching Episode I, it seemed really 
cool. I was just sort of swept along with it. And the credits started 
rolling and I was like "oh. Wait... that's IT? Oh, um, OK, I guess we 
*have* been sat here a long time... Hmm, I was expecting... more."

And by the time I'd got home, it just seemed that the film depicted a 
more or less random series of "happenings", with no real progress had 
been made. Oh well.

Watching it again since, it seems less entertaining each time I see it. 
The later films are much worse.

Episode I gave us Duel of the Fates, which makes everything else almost 
forgiveable. It also gave us Jar Jar Binks, which is simply unjustifiable.

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>> Everything can be summed up as follows: Jar Jar Binks.
>
>    I still disagree on that one.

This is exactly what I was saying about Metacritic.

Jar Jar Binks is obviously one of the most obnoxiously irritating, 
moronic characters in the history of film. And yet, there are people 
alive today who actually /liked/ him. WTF, people?!

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On 9/26/2011 2:36 PM, Warp wrote:

>
>    I still disagree on that one.
>

I will clarify that Jar Jar was only a symptom of deeper problems.

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On 9/27/2011 3:14 AM, Invisible wrote:

> Jar Jar Binks is obviously one of the most obnoxiously irritating,
> moronic characters in the history of film. And yet, there are people
> alive today who actually /liked/ him. WTF, people?!

It's amazing, isn't it? And yet, we can see in Ep. II He's now part of 
the galactic counsel (or whatever that governing body is...) He got 
tossed out of his own society for being obnoxiously clumsy and moronic, 
and gets on the galactic counsel!?? There are deep, deep problems in 
that galaxy far, far away.

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On 9/27/2011 3:13 AM, Invisible wrote:

> The later films are much worse.
>

I dunno, I sort of liked Ep. 3 ...


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>> Jar Jar Binks is obviously one of the most obnoxiously irritating,
>> moronic characters in the history of film. And yet, there are people
>> alive today who actually /liked/ him. WTF, people?!
>
> It's amazing, isn't it?

I would be more inclined to use words like "baffling", or maybe 
"frightening"...

> And yet, we can see in Ep. II He's now part of
> the galactic counsel (or whatever that governing body is...) He got
> tossed out of his own society for being obnoxiously clumsy and moronic,
> and gets on the galactic counsel!?? There are deep, deep problems in
> that galaxy far, far away.

Wasn't he also promoted to "bom-baad genaaral" by his own society too?

Basically, Quigon says "this gungan may be of use". Despite the 
self-evident fact that he has NO USE AT ALL. It's clearly and obviously 
a transparent ploy to keep him in the story, because he's supposed to be 
the comic relief character. (Trouble is, comics are supposed to be FUNNY...)

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