Which trilogy do you prefer?
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Oops!
Wasn't spamming, it just went in twice!!!
BTW...
If this is the scene in ESB where Vader is "throwing" stuff at Luke, shouldn't the saber be BLUE? I do not remember a saber battle with flying objects in ROTJ.
Just being a bit picky...
BTW...
If this is the scene in ESB where Vader is "throwing" stuff at Luke, shouldn't the saber be BLUE? I do not remember a saber battle with flying objects in ROTJ.
Just being a bit picky...
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I haven't seen neither LOTR nor Star Wars. When I was 10, I tried to watch the first Star Wars movie, but I fell asleep halfway through. Same thing happened this year with LOTR #1. Might have had something to do with the fact that I had a field show and two choir concerts earlier that day (I was tired).
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Re: The age old question...
Something a lot of people don't realize is that The Lord of the Rings is basically just a fancy rewrite based on the story of Jesus Christ (with a sturdy WWI influence for the battle scenes). J.R.R. Tolkein was deeply religious man, and TLotR stories have some striking similarities to some of the events in the Bible:SithScorp wrote:In terms of "quality" of material, one must take a step back and look at the issue objectively.
Lucas himself has stated on many instances that much of the material and character archetypes were derived from the LOTR books. He just dressed it up in technology and put it in outer space.
If anyone would like me to draw the connections in characters, plots, and sub-plots, I would love to discuss that as well.
Jesus and the Disciples ... Frodo and the Fellowship
Jesus betrayed by Judas ... Frodo's run-in with Boromir
Jesus sacrifice so that others may live ... Frodo's sacrifice so that others may live
etc. etc.
Which is why I laugh when I see fools trying to act smart by criticizing Tolkein's skill. Yes, he wrote lots and lots of descriptive text... but he also, esentially, wrote a 1,500 page religious parable without mentioning religion at all! Religion, if you recall, doesn't factor into any of the books, and yet the story as a whole is strongly influenced by it.
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Yeah, Luke's lightsabre should be blue, oh well. It was from that scene in "Empire Strikes Back" on Bespin. To answer your question, my avatar is Slave I, and it is screwed up so I need to get a new one.SithScorp wrote:Wasn't spamming, it just went in twice!!!
BTW...
If this is the scene in ESB where Vader is "throwing" stuff at Luke, shouldn't the saber be BLUE? I do not remember a saber battle with flying objects in ROTJ.
Just being a bit picky...
I lost my sodeeeeeee waterrrr........
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BTW,
Did anyone else hear about the little slip George Lucas RECENTLY made about SW?
Something about making "9 Two and a half hour movies..."
OOOHHHHHH
Mark Hamill get ready, Carrie Fisher get into shape for that brass bikini, and Harrison, ah hell he is still in GREAT shape to kick ass!!!
Go INDY 4!!!
Why wasn't the Indy series included?
Did anyone else hear about the little slip George Lucas RECENTLY made about SW?
Something about making "9 Two and a half hour movies..."
OOOHHHHHH
Mark Hamill get ready, Carrie Fisher get into shape for that brass bikini, and Harrison, ah hell he is still in GREAT shape to kick ass!!!
Go INDY 4!!!
Why wasn't the Indy series included?
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daym that would be tite.SoCalSpinN wrote:of course, the controversy all boils down to one thing... a battle, braveheart style. not between the characters (b/c, of course, that would lead nowhere), but between the trilogies' respective cult followings.
the first matrix was a more interesting then lord of the rings or star wars.
Ok...
Matrix blah blah Matrix Blah. Blahblahbity blah blah Matrix "daym tite" Matrix blah...
Study up on your mythical archetypes, you will see that it all derives from pretty much the same material...
I enjoy "The Matrix". It is a damn good and interesting movie. The whole "question your perception of reality" dynamic and all.
Begin a Matrix topic if you love it so much.
Don't bash the established merchandises though. Each has their place in our cultural psyche and some could get very testy. You would have needed to grow up on it to fully understand it.
Matrix blah blah Matrix Blah. Blahblahbity blah blah Matrix "daym tite" Matrix blah...
Study up on your mythical archetypes, you will see that it all derives from pretty much the same material...
I enjoy "The Matrix". It is a damn good and interesting movie. The whole "question your perception of reality" dynamic and all.
Begin a Matrix topic if you love it so much.
Don't bash the established merchandises though. Each has their place in our cultural psyche and some could get very testy. You would have needed to grow up on it to fully understand it.
Back to my training...
SithScorp out...
SithScorp out...