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Rimbo

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  1. 23 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:
    On 4/5/2018 at 1:14 PM, Rimbo said:
    Your opinions are bad and you should feel bad.

    You can't view the 8th movie of a franchise in a vacuum. It was terrible when you consider what came before it and how poorly it fit into the Star Wars universe.

    First off, where do you get the idea that I'm viewing it in a vacuum?

    You think it fit "poorly" into the Star Wars universe? My God, man, did you even watch The Last Jedi? I feel like people who make comments like this saw a completely different movie from the one I saw.

     

    It made the prequels better by addressing the issues raised with the Jedi in them (and in the Clone Wars series) -- not to mention Yoda and Obi-Wan's behavior in the original series. There've been some great articles showing how it is the first movie to actually explain the way space combat worked in all the prior movies (e.g., why the capital ships are firing at each other in pointblank range in Ep III, why Obi-Wan says "a fighter that size couldn't have gotten this deep into space on its own," etc). The concept of the Force that Luke explains to Rey in his "three lessons" is the natural extension of the story of The Ones, the Bendu. And what Kylo Ren did to Snoke fits perfectly what Palpatine was trying to get Luke to do all along: Strike me down, and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete.

    And what did Luke do to win? He stopped fighting. The Luke we saw in Episode 8 was a natural extension of that.

    More to the point, it cannot even be the movie I claim it is outside of the context of the rest of the story. So I don't know why you would make that claim.

    I ask again: Did you see a completely different movie than the one I saw? Because every time I meet someone who didn't like TLJ, that's what it sounds like when they start barfing out their harebrained objections.

  2. 7 hours ago, Eskimohorn said:

     


    Your conclusions are all wrong. Last Jedi had a crappy plot, introduced crappy characters and its commentary about the human condition were crap. And even if you liked what it had to say, because the story and characters were weak, it did not do so in an effective way.

    And I don’t know who you hung out with as a child, but we all loved Empire Strikes Back except that it made me cry.

     

    Your opinions are bad and you should feel bad.

  3. On 3/31/2018 at 12:59 PM, Newdoc said:

    The data is conflicting and some research shows that growth is delayed commonly but not ultimately stunted under genetic potential.  There's a lot of stuff we don't know.  The medical pendulum keeps swinging.

    These are medicines that can be extremely helpful if a person truly needs them. Proper diagnosis is the key. ADHD symptoms can cross over with many other mental health issues.  You don't necessarily want to put a kid with conduct disorder on ADHD medicine. Bad mojo.

    True. Way I heard it, ADHD is both tremendously over-diagnosed and under-diagnosed. We were very skeptical of the initial diagnosis, and I swear it took me 2 years before I really understood just what ADHD was. And we waited a good year before we began any meds, and even then minimal.

    Turns out, my son really does have ADHD, and really does need the meds... but not very much of it.

  4. 8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, I knew nothing about it when I went in, so that helped.  I was expecting one of the lame romcoms my wife usually picks.

    It just lured me in and surprised me in a great way.  I haven't enjoyed a film that much in a long time.

    I think what you did here is the best way to approach films. Let the film be what it is.

    I think the majority of those who are pissed at The Last Jedi are so because they wanted it to be a very different movie from what they got and, if they had walked into it just letting what was on the screen be the movie, they'd realize that this was not merely a good Star Wars film, it's the first one of the lot that actually had something non-trivial to say about the human condition, something interesting, something true, and did so in a very effective way.

    It's rare that a movie attempts to do so, and among those that do, it's rare that they do it so well. And among the Space Opera/Space Fantasy genre, it's basically unique. Hard SF of course has done so for decades, but Star Wars, and the films of its legacy and ancestry, have never had anything to do with such things. They were born in pulp and pretty much always stayed there.

    I'm also old enough to remember how divisive The Empire Strikes Back was. And we pretty much considered it the weakest of the original trilogy, until after a good half-decade or more had passed and we looked back, re-watched and realized, "Wow, that's the one that ties it all together."

  5. 6 hours ago, tjhooker said:

    LOL the village idiot is asking for Mod privileges.  I had a proper response to his thread. 

    Saw that idiot. "What we need here are some REAL Longhorn fans."

    Oh, go eat shit ya turd burglar. Good response, tj

  6. On 4/2/2018 at 7:10 AM, Mole said:

    I'm mostly commenting as a reminder to myself to say something more substantial about this, but it's beautiful. That wonderful Russian opening section; those terrifying harmonics; the very French Allegretto; the unusual counterpoint. I'll have to come back to this one. Sadly, Prokofiev is mostly ignored in the standard music history curriculum. 

    I got into Prokofiev because of his Fifth symphony -- I played it in All-State -- but the fucking violin glissandos in #3 movement 3 might be one of my all-time favorite musical things ever.

  7. 31 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    Pretty hard to testify under oath that those sites were worth $3.50, when jury has already heard that you've received $300,000+ in donations and ad revenue from Shaggy and LandThieves over the course of a few years.

    But that's not what you're testifying to in this particular instance. What you're testifying to is that you said the site was worth three dollars and fifty cents in that particular post. If Eskimo Hut Fucker's counsel is then dumb enough to follow-up, you then bring the server costs into evidence.

  8. On 3/27/2018 at 8:38 PM, Tired of Lurking said:

    I can't believe the Harvard douchebag seriously tried to use this as evidence.

    FHn0CoI.jpg

    Honestly -- and it's useless to what-if, here -- I wonder how it would've affected the outcome if instead of saying "that's a joke," blacklab would've stated on the record that "$3.50" was the value of Shaggy.

    "Did you say that it was worth $350,000?"

    "Where in that post do you see the word 'thousand?'"

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