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"Goatboy lays into the Star Wars prequel"

Warning: contains frothy-mouthed hatred and Lucas-rage.
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And besides - Goatboy, did you not write some big ranting and raving post about how you'd never give your money to big bad Lucas and how you'd never go and see it?

If you don't watch it with a view to pick it apart then it's enjoyable enough

Then why wasn't I entertained?

small_brown_todger53 wrote:
> isn't it just, like, you know
>
> a film?
> Made for, like, simple entertainment purposes?

Entertainment being the optimum word, yeah.

Maybe I'm missing something, I don't know.

But like

isn't it just, like, you know

a film?
Made for, like, simple entertainment purposes?

*shrugs*

Or maybe the fact that he gets pwned by Dooku in Ep II then defeats him rather easily in Ep III is supposed to be an indicator of how much more powerful he had become.

Goatboy wrote:
> Anakin & Saruman go at it, he loses a hand but nobody dies and
> there's no point.

I thought the point of that was clear enough - Luke also loses a hand in the second movie of the original trilogy - they're like, the same!

monkey_man wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Hmmmm good fights?
>
> I saw BulletProof Monk and Welcome to the Jungle today, both had
> some
> of the best fights I've seen for quite a while.
>
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahhhahhahahahahah ahahahhahaha hahahah ah aha
> haha hahah hah ahahahh ah ah a aha hah mwahsh hsh h sh shsh shhs
> etc.
>
> Oh my.

They were good fights.

Probably depends at what tme of day you watch them at too, as an evening's entertainment they probably would have seemed rubbish. As early afternoon movies they were great.

Goatboy, I just scared people in my office by actually laughing out loud at your excellent message - stunt flea and Saruman were the bits that really made me laugh, many thanks for that. However, a couple of quick comments on your last paragraph:

Goatboy wrote:
> And at what point could R2 fly? I remember in Jedi, he had to be
> rescued from the sand with 3PO by Calrissian before they flew off.

True, but he did have his head stuck in the sand. However, why he didn't fly before falling off I don't know (perhaps it was just to stay and make sure he was with Threepio, but unlikely).

> R2 had to fire Luke's saber at him when, apparently, it could've just
> flown over.

R2 flying seems to be quite a lot slower than a projectile saber - perhaps the element of surprise would be taken away by a large astromech gliding towards the captives.

> Or in Empire when R2 falls into the Dagobah swamps and uses his
> periscope. Why not just fly out?

I think this one is the easiest to answer as I can't imagine the kind of jet engines R2 seemed to have working all that well under water/in mud.

I'm biased as I'm a bit of a fan of the Star Wars movies, but on the R2 flying point, I think they did a little homework before they let it happen. I can't imagine that many people not spotting something so obvious. There may be some room for argument, but there don't seem to be any situations where R2 *had* to fly.

Hedfix wrote:
> Hmmmm good fights?
>
> I saw BulletProof Monk and Welcome to the Jungle today, both had some
> of the best fights I've seen for quite a while.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahhhahhahahahahah ahahahhahaha hahahah ah aha haha hahah hah ahahahh ah ah a aha hah mwahsh hsh h sh shsh shhs etc.

Oh my.