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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 02:41 [#02591726]
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i used to be a huge star wars fan. i saw "A New Hope" when i was like six; i liked it but didn't particularly get involved. in high school, i got the original, unfucked, non-special version on VHS and properly fell in love with it. part of the late 90s's star wars fan site brigade, i am.
the phantom menace came out, and i was genuinely stoked. i actually quite like the movie, despite jar-jar, and fan-fiction, email lists, usenet groups, IRC, were all going strong at the time. it was fun to be involved in. i bought and read around 30 of the Star Wars novels. tales of bounty hunters was the best, and the only one i kept when i ebay'd the lot.
ennui began to set in with the second and third prequels, which were fucking crap.
now there are like sixteen million star wars things, and i haven't seen most of them. how many big-budget mass-release movies have there been since the prequels, now? i honestly couldn't tell ya. they kind of lost me when they threw out all the novels, and i was never into the half-dozen animated TV spinoffs.
my love for star wars was really about episode IV-VI, and i feel like disney is sitting there expecting me to still give a shit. to reliably sheep it out and watch every theatre release. to give a shit about the crappy animated cartoons. to overlook fucking shit about greedo
who shot first
i really disliked lucas rewriting the original scene, and i disliked it even more when he refused to release the full original cut without his soccer-mom edits. now they're doing it again
anyways, used to be a huge star wars fan, but now if i claim to be people would assume i've been following all this horseshit, and i have not been. i'm out. but i still love the original three movies (before lucas revisionism) to death
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 03:26 [#02591728]
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4k scans of original trilogy without special edition crap are on here, really recommended
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 03:31 [#02591730]
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original trilogy theatrical versions, the games X-wing and tie fighter are all I really need,
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 03:31 [#02591731]
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i don't see a forum for it. just "prequels" and "disney era"
do i have to sign up?
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 03:43 [#02591732]
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yeah I just use my email that I have for extraneous things like this, then there is a forum post detailing this encrypted torrent program you use to download it, files are very big but there was always seeders
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 03:44 [#02591733]
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also there is this like to a mega share folder that has 3 terrabytes of star wars stuff in it, like the fantastic making of books
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 03:53 [#02591734]
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You need to register before you can see these forums
probably the droids i'm looking for
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 03:54 [#02591735]
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my first domain name was star wars themed, in 1998. it, along with like twenty others, i can just make new addresses for whatever i want then set up email rules to autosort it all based on what it was sent to
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 03:55 [#02591736]
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i have a domain name old enough to vote, strange times
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 03:57 [#02591737]
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it was a celebratory moment because at the time there was just one, single domain registrar. no namecheap, no godaddy. just the domain guys. they dropped the price from $100 a year to $50 and this hit just as i was starting to understand enough about web pages and servers to find someone willing to host it for me
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 03:58 [#02591738]
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literally some weird quasi-autistic guy who gave anyone a free account if they asked nicely and behaved and it was all hosted off of a pair of 56k modems in his apartment or something. me and thirty other sites
needless to say, you could make a pot of coffee while it loaded... but, still, it worked
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 04:06 [#02591739]
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one of my first major projects in PHP was to take over a "star wars link database" some guy had been manually maintaining and write a little web administration UI to process new submissions, clear dead ones, etc.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 04:08 [#02591740]
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i started looking some of these old pages up just now, and it's actually really weird -- many of them are still there, but haven't been updated in years. like a time capsule
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-19 04:09 [#02591741]
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 04:15 [#02591743]
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shaven wookie, sounds like something you don't want to google in mixed company
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2019-12-19 12:52 [#02591756]
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It makes me giggle that they're saying this is the last bit Star Wars movie for a while. Horseshit, they'll announce that an all-CGI Princess Leia origin story is in production within a year. Somehow they'll work C-3PO into it. Then there'll be a slapstick comedy called Wookiez, with Jim Carrey or some shit. Actually that's more of a Dreamworks thing, they'll license it. Disney bought this shit to milk it.
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2019-12-19 13:25 [#02591758]
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Just kidding, they're doing to do:
Episode IV: A New New Hope
Timothée Chalamet as Luke Zendaya as Leia Tom Hanks as Obi Wan Kenobi Chris Pratt as Han Solo Vin Diesel as Chewbacca Dave Bautista as Darth Vader Tom Hiddleston as Grand Moff Tarkin John C. Reilly as Clumsy Stormtrooper James Corden as Porkins
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2019-12-19 13:27 [#02591759]
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Andy Serkis as Emperor Palpatine (cameo)
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2019-12-19 13:35 [#02591760]
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I've been informed that Tom Hanks is shooting a Forrest Gump sequel, is Sir Ian McKellen still alive?
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mermaidman
on 2019-12-19 14:03 [#02591761]
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i want an all cgi princess "lay"a movie... like uh, princess leia getting laid in the movie... get it?
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 16:35 [#02591762]
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I heard the new one got bad reviews, has anyone seen it yet?
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 17:13 [#02591763]
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Holy moly, the new star wars film is very good. Wont spoil it for anyone, but it's much better than the last one.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 17:14 [#02591764]
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nice one
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 17:44 [#02591766]
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It does have a lesbian kiss though. And Finn has a new friend who is badly written black girl. Apart from that they kept the woke stuff to a minimum.
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2019-12-19 17:45 [#02591767]
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Critics are sneering that this one is all about pleasing the fans. Fine, it's a Star Wars movie, not Bergman or Kubrick.
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2019-12-19 17:46 [#02591768]
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uh oh someone sounds triggered
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 17:58 [#02591769]
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Yeah star wars is like a comic book. I think they 90% nailed it with this one. Go see it quick before I spoil the whole thing
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 18:06 [#02591770]
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I really expected a shit show but they redeemed it for the most part.
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Tony Danza
from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2019-12-19 18:37 [#02591776]
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only one lesbian kiss, no trans kiss, no race mixing, no Uyghur representation = 1/5 stars for me, sorry, I only care about the important things. will not watch
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 18:49 [#02591777]
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Charlie from Lost the TV show is in it, annoyingly reminding the viewer that this is JJ Abrams baby.
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 18:50 [#02591778]
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There's a scene with these aliens having a festival in the desert. It's kind of racist against Indian people.
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Indeksical
from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 20:42 [#02591791]
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Wait EMT are you like 40 years old?
Also lol at the episode 9 reviews
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 20:44 [#02591792]
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yeah how old is everyone here?
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 20:52 [#02591793]
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 20:53 [#02591794]
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turned 37 in october
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Indeksical
from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 21:21 [#02591796]
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 21:46 [#02591799]
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ah your the lad from flight of the navigator
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 21:57 [#02591802]
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im d.a.r.y.l
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2019-12-19 22:01 [#02591803]
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johnny 5 here
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-12-19 22:02 [#02591804]
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im one in time bandits
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 22:06 [#02591805]
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input input
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RussellDust
on 2019-12-19 22:23 [#02591810]
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Aw short circuit. I’m not sure wether it’s the first or second I remember.
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 22:32 [#02591812]
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the first had steve guttenberg and ally sheedy the second just has mr the plague
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 22:33 [#02591813]
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fisher stevens, just had to look up his name, he's great in everything he's in. speaking of LOST, he was good in that.
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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2019-12-19 22:39 [#02591814]
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i was really expecting it to suck, the opening titles were embarrassing in a way, but once the film started i liked it straight away. they got straight to the point. and i was wondering to myself what russelldust would think of it? i enjoyed it for the most part. it's a modernised star wars story that offers lots of fan service. it does have some stupid things that aren't necessary like cgi characters and cgi faces. the space battles aren't that great, i think the original space battles were based on wwii missions like the dambusters movie. the battles in this film are just for the sake of it (badly written).i was bored by the space battle stuff, this film is mostly about Rey(totally matured now, very sexy girl) and the best writing in the movie is Rey related. then they did get little details right like seeing characters argue with each other and stuff like in the original. if you remember star wars a new hope the main characters practically hate each other until the very end. they only have a couple of arguments but it was a nice nod and showed that the writers of this one "got" star wars and tried to modernise it. the cgi isn't intrusive like the prequels. i do wonder what the nerd crew will say, i think they'll like it too. could be wrong, but i think everyone will be pleasntly surprised.
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RussellDust
on 2019-12-19 22:46 [#02591817]
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Glad you had a good time ! That’s the aim!
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Zephyr Twin
from ΔΔΔ on 2019-12-19 23:48 [#02591839]
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Liar. You're not a pale ball-hair over 12.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-21 00:20 [#02591890]
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-21 00:21 [#02591891]
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im d.a.r.y.l
ha, that was a weird movie. best part is the car chase
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2019-12-21 00:47 [#02591896]
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i'm still not quite so human
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