Posts by commodorejohn

I'll give A New Hope slack on the cliche front because A. it was, like Raiders of the Lost Ark, obviously intended as a celebration of genre tropes, and B. some of the things in it are only cliche because of everything that ripped off...

Quote:Originally Posted by Ambler otherwise you're just making a feature length music video.Unfortunately, that's what modern filmmaking seems to be increasingly becoming...

Quote:Originally Posted by Don S. Also, you probably just have cool parents.Admittedly, this is the case. Still, they're more the Smothers Brothers/classic Mel Brooks generation than anything later. Quote:My girlfriend is about ten...

Oh, no sir! By all means, rent! You'll just have to pay a small (*cough*full MSRP*cough*) fee on top of the rental fee. But no, rent away!

This is the best movie. The parody sequences are great, but some of the best jokes are actually in the main story. I also love the way the entire thing is basically a pastiche of every "band together and save the x!" family film ever...

Oh? Six words: "Special Story Consultants: Lindelof, Orci, Kurtzman."

Quote:Originally Posted by Shaun H It counts, fanboy.Keep telling yourself that. I'll just sit tight and await the announcement that Benedict Cumberbatch is definitely, absolutely, unquestionably, irrefutably not playing Jar Jar Binks.

Tired shit: instrument demos on Youtube that are recorded through someone's fucking webcam mic positioned eight feet away from the instrument in question with an assload of line noise and ambient noise and zero frequency response. Jesus...

Quote:Originally Posted by Shaun H Quote:Originally Posted by commodorejohn I knew I was right to prefer Trek.You sure? His version doesn't count. Also, it's not like Star Wars is safe from his reimagining. You kids just...

Has "Jor-El getting run over by that car whose headlights are visible behind him" replaced "Krypton blows the hell up" as the tragedy from which baby Supes is ejected into space at the last minute?