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anything's possible. for New Hope there were a handful of scenes cut that intro'd Luke earlier and showed him hanging out with his 'friends', and the earlier meet up with Biggs. They ended up adapting it for the radio show, they ended up cutting it because it didn't follow the droid narrative he was shooting for.

i know there's deleted scenes from Empire too. still, i can see why this was deleted.

also, ewoks rule. neener.

all of them.

don't confuse the movie with the book. the humans didn't use Harrier when they eventually fought the Psychlos, they used the psychlos own tech, that they were being taught how to use in order to mine the gold Terl wanted but couldnt get at himself because it was near a uranium deposit. the only reason the humans could use the tech reliably was because of the teaching machine Terl kept plugging Johnny into who passed on the basics to the other humans he'd brought along.

the movie Psychlos were idiots, but the ones in the book were greedy, manipulative corporate backstabbers. not stupid, just lazy.

i sit corrected, it's been a while since i read the story and the memory's been clouded by all the adaptations. so i claim pop culture made me stupid.

of course, given how long they did manage to survive before they started dying, perhaps they WERE inoculated against most of earth's diseases, just not all of them. it only takes one germ to **** everything up. also, i give the martians in War of the Worlds a pass since it was written in 1898.

Pfft, Jedi train in the force. Bounty Hunters multiclass.

Tim caught him and took him down, all by himself, as a rookie. *sniff* makes a bat-mentor proud.

In regards to the 'can Batman be blamed for the Joker's murders', no. He didn't break Joker out, he didn't give Joker the weapons, he didn't sit just sit and watch as Joker killed people. So, no.

it might, given that a lot of the folks who were boned or did the boning are either no longer alive, or no longer associated with DC/Time Warner. it wont be the focus of the documentary tho. still, this looks great and im looking forward to buying it.

i could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.

i dunno, i can think of some Russians who might disagree. or they would if you could find them. ha HA!

normally id be down for a reboot. but this time around, no. they can continue to tell stories all throughout the era, so long as i never have to read anything that uses those characters and takes place after NJO. Knowing they killed Mara and that Jacen turned into the 'new Darth' is what killed any interest i had in reading that particular series.

better off moving to another era. Dark Horse's Legacy series was a good idea. Id like to move past the 'classic era' and just tell stories there. as an aside, one of the cooler things about the series was seeing that there were two Jedi Orders. one devoted to the defense of the Empire and the Emperor, the other your traditional galactic guardian Jedi. i wish they'd delved more into that.

wow... i think Uwe Boll is actually making movies for the wrong audience. obviously we have found the proper medium for his ... 'talents.'

given that inevitably effects work will get somewhat cheaper and improve over the next few years i dont see superhero movies going away anymore than any other effects intensive movies would. they may go through a period where they won't get 100 million$ budgets (or more), but that doesn't mean they go away. at their core (and as Foamy pointed out already... damn you! *shakes fist pointlessly*) superhero tales are just a different way of telling tales that are still being told in pretty much every other style of film.

this sounds more like some tool director is whining because his movie didn't hit it off nearly as big as he was hoping. so the reason people didn't go see his movie in droves wasn't because it was a bad movie, but because the genre is dying.

oh come on, they cast sean bean, it's a dead giveaway.

actually this was a bone of contention with me about the film as well. the idea that the ship was simply left hovering above johannesburg, they kept the prawns right under it, that they couldn't figure any of the tech out after 20-30 years... yet some low-level government tool can obviously communicate quite well with them. that there wouldn't be others, or that they would ALL be kept in such close proximity for so long. if this were only a couple years, sure, but it had been long enough that all we figured out that to turn their stuff on, they needed a living bug.

also, the operations pod landing in the middle of D9. everyone knew it was there, buried. yet they piled the prawns right on top of it?

no, it's not a bad film. but it asks too much and gives too little.

And others will continue to like the movie. As much as i dislike the movie, it really isn't a poorly put together film. It's just done in a style that I (and obviously you) incredibly dislike. There's lots of things to dislike about the movie that have nothing to do with it being a BAD film.


okay, stop that. my turn to point the finger and go 'wrong!'. we get it, you don't like Batman because someone cranked his kick ***-o-meter to 12 and folks really seem to resonate with that, yet it REALLY pisses you off. but frankly the character's been around since the 1930s and had more well written tales than pieces of krunk. if it was really crap, he wouldn't have endured nearly as long as he has.

i have the BatAnti-Nerdrage spray, dont make me use it on you!



i agree. i think the scope of the movie was far too limited and it got lost in the 'message' it was trying to sell instead of making the story seem coherent. but then, look over at Robocop, no one doubts OCP is the big evil corporation bent on trying to take over the world. but i think the message would've gotten lost if they tried to explain EVERYTHING. what torqued me about the film was that i found not one single person redeemable in it and that there were far too many points where i was outright bored. also, i get aggravated when we get slammed by the "Gragh! Humans evil!" hammer over, and over, and over... and over again.

i don't like it, you don't like it. other folks do. don't assume defectiveness in their taste for disagreeing, especially in the case of this thread where they've spelled out the reasons why in an intelligent 9alright, mostly coherent for some of us) fashion.

not the first time Lucas was mucking around with the EU, despite apparently never reading any of it (i miss a rolling eyes icon). for a guy whose only real gripe with the EU was nothing about the prequel era, he was the one that came in and ended up throwing some of the NJO into chaos, because we stupid, stupid fans wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Anakin solo and Anakin Skywalker during the NJO. so the arc ended up being changed halfway through, and a lot of plots laid down by previous authors were either changed or abandoned.

that's what annoys me. if you don't consider the EU canon, then hands off. Also, don't mine it for ideas, names, and places if you don't think of them as worthwhile. there were more than a few characters, places, and names that were bought in from various sources in the EU, yet Lucas never read any of that stuff. blah.

hey! they may not be the greatest, but the YJK series was alright.

agree that Crystal Star was crap though.

witnesses claim all 3 men have subsequently been eaten by a grue.