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  1. Yes and no. He had been mulling what Palpatine told him, and his top priority was saving Padme. So when he saw Mace was about to kill Palpatine, he realized that he had a choice: continue with the Jedi way, which meant letting Padme die, or rescue Palpatine, which was already a surrender to the Dark Side. I think his real surrender was interfering with Mace Windu. The bowing was just a formality, but he had already surrendered to the Dark Side when he lopped off Mace's hands.
  2. When I said "die, thread, die" on another thread, I just knew someone would go looking for THE before the day was out. :)-->
  3. Why did I know someone was going to dig this up today?
  4. Raf

    Oh that's just PEACHY!

    Derail? What derail? The hurricane that spurred this thread no longer exists. Derail! Die, thread, die!
  5. I'll tell you something I did like: The last conversation between Anakin and Kenobi as friends. You realize the next time they meet, it's going to be ugly. You SO want them to stay friends, but you know it's not going to happen. And you just wish... Christensen's acting (that is, the direction, because Christensen's a good actor) almost ruins it.
  6. Explain the backwards talking, that does.
  7. Jason Mewes Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back George Carlin
  8. George St George is the clue-giver of record at the moment. His movie is the one that needs to be guessed to continue the game. If someone correctly guesses WordWolf's, they don't get the next turn.
  9. That's not true. It's only when people talk.
  10. And while we wait for Steve!... I have no idea, WordWolf
  11. James Garner The Distinguished Gentleman Lane Smith
  12. Raf

    Oh that's just PEACHY!

    Cool. I was moslty guessing. But it is true that they don't change the names of hurricanes if they cross from the Pacific to the Atlantic or vice versa. That's in the story in the opening post.
  13. Raf

    Oh that's just PEACHY!

    This is incorrect. It will retain the name Adrian if it regains strength in the Gulf or Atlantic. Arlene will be the first hurricane/tropical storm that actually forms in the Atlantic or the Gulf. It's no longer considered likely to affect South Florida in the slightest. I think they're called typhoons if they hit the Eastern Hemisphere. I'm pretty sure on our side we call them hurricanes, no matter what.
  14. Charlie Sheen Men at Work Emilio Estevez
  15. Come on, sharon. Give them a clue they can't refuse.
  16. Saw it tonight. It's not a bad flick. I'd hover between 2.5 and 3 stars, depending on my mood. Hayden Christensen is MUCH better than last time, but still not quite good enough. It's not that I think he was the wrong choice. It's that I think Lucas chose the wrong director. And writer. Natalie Portman is wasted (and not in the same way that Leia was wasted in Jedi. ;)-->) The chemistry with Christensen is better than Clones, but not much. Threepio is down to virtual cameos. Artoo, on the other hand, kicks butt. So does Yoda. His fight with the Emperor is terrific. The execution of the Jedi is handled well, and the murder of the children is just chilling. Not very well acted: the one kid with a line is stiff as a board. But they're kids. Did I mention Yoda kicks butt? He gets the one spontaneous burst of applause, and the one uncontrollable laugh in the whole movie. Samuel Jackson... well... I feel bad for the guy. He's kind of irritating through the whole movie, and when he finally meets his doom (and we all knew he would), you're actually kind of rooting for the bad guys. The Emperor's transformation from the dignified Palpatine to the deformed creep we all remember from Jedi is fairly credible. His seduction of Anakin is just downright creepy, and (AT LAST) he does sort of explain the laughable "immaculate conception" crap from Phantom Menace that would otherwise be unforgivably bad writing. Now it's just bad writing. Let's see: who else is there? Count Dooku. What'ws with Christopher Lee? He keeps getting into third parts of trilogies and never survives more than a few minutes into them. General Grievous is a waste of CGI. I was seriously disappointed. The cough was just too over-the-top. Chewbacca's pretty much just a cameo, but it was nice to see him. Look carefully after the end of the first battle, when the Chancellor, Obi Wan and Anakin are safely headed into some major building on Coruscant. As they land on one level, the Millenium Falcon can be seen coming in for a landing on a lower level. Blink and you'll miss it. I truly, truly enjoyed the chemistry between Obi Wan and Anakin at the beginning of the movie. Ewan McGregor is fantastic in this movie, and when he and Anakin finally have their volcanic duel, you really get the sense of betrayal that he must have felt. Finally seeing Vader in uniform is gratifying. Then he talks. And you remember that Lucas is still writing this crap. He juts out of his straps in a way that makes you think he's about to sing Putting on the Ritz with Gene Wilder. There are some really bad writing moments, and I'm not just talking inauthentic. Obi Wan calls Palpatine the Emperor long before he should know anything about the rise of the Empire. And suddenly they're calling the Galactic Senate "Congress." When did it become "Congress?" Seeing this movie, which was so good in so many ways, makes you wish that Lucas had taken that crappy script, given it to a real writer and said "I want this story, told this way. But make it so that real people are actually talking to each other." Oh, and whoever thought to make Obi Wan ride that lizard should have his hands chopped off so he never writes anything again. Oh, it was Lucas? Why am I not surprised? Sigh. So why the potential for three stars? Because the story is there, no matter how badly told. It's exciting, it's fun (remember fun? Star Wars movies used to be fun), and most of all, Ahmed Best gets no lines. And that should make everyone happy.
  17. That doesn't make sense. The current trilogy is I, II and III. The original trilogy was IV, V and VI. So if there really is a third trilogy in the works (and I'm among those who thinks he lied when he says he had all nine mapped out in his head from the beginning), then it has to be VII VIII and IX, meaning AFTER the events of Return of the Jedi. Not that he can't do anything he wants with the 20 years between III and IV. That's where the TV miniseries or series will come in, I guess.
  18. A Star is Born Kris Kristofferson Semi-Tough Which, I believe, was made before 1985. :)-->
  19. Now Florida has to worry about PACIFIC hurricanes! Note that Florida is just north of Cuba. In seriousness, it's not a big threat to us, and probably won't be a hurricane even if/when it DOES hit. But dang.
  20. Is that a new quote, Pawnbroker?
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