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This holiday watched or will watch for the kids:

Last Starfighter
Flash Gordon
Indy Jones 3 - completing the "Real" Indiana Jones Trilogy. Just like there is no Star Wars after ROTJ.

Promethean was boring AF too. Older Sci-Fi/Action Directors seem to forget film is a visual medium with age, not an verbal exposition medium. Show me don't tell me.

rocketjoe79 says

I liked Aliens, the sequel, even better. This time, it's war. Ripley comes into her own. Bill Paxton's one-liners are hilarious, and less straight-up Jack-in-the-box horror.

Aliens is even better than Alien which is awesome, Aliens 3 is okay. The rest is whatshisface's ego slowly strangulating his innate ability

And I know what I'm talking about, 'cos I'm the Pipe Five by Five and it's Game Over, Man.

PeopleUnited says

Stormtroopers/Empire are cartoon Nazis.
Leia = girl boss

Good point. Girlbossery even back then. I still like the movie in spite of that, but there it is and I didn't even notice. Shows how much we swim in feminist wokeness and can't even see it all.

The stormtroopers were just comicbook evil, not comicbook Nazis from WWII, which is what I'm talking about.

But note how she's still below Luke in the poster. Would have been an utter disaster to swap them.

Patrick says

Shows how much we swim in feminist wokeness and can't even see it all.

There are so many evil things around us that go unnoticed and let to fester, and so many lies that people believe and even perpetuate, that one needs a filter, a guide to help sort it out. That is what the Holy Spirit does for those who accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

I understand that your definition of cartoon Nazis is not large enough to include fictional parallels but certainly you know that stormtroopers are based on the German stormtroopers of the Nazi era and the empire is just a space equivalent of the third reich.

But I still think Luke is the weakest hero. Even Leia makes fun of him “aren’t you kind of small for a storm trooper”. Furthermore it makes God out to be some mystical force balancing light and dark which is just more woke BS. The saving grace of the movie is that the portrayal of evil Empire personified by Vader is a bad guy worthy of defeat, and the music of John Williams is essential to controlling the emotions of the viewers.

After watching one, the past week or so I'm getting a feed for a lot of independent Star Wars Fan Films on youtube. A lot of them are great. Some suck, most are not woke. Beats the shit out of the 'real' movies that have come out in the past decade.

None are correlated with each other and people are making them on their own using.... Unreal engine I think and probably other stuff.

The storm troopers can actually shoot straight in these. I just watched an ewok get a hole blown through it's fur about an hour ago. Was nice to see.

Patrick says

But note how she's still below Luke in the poster. Would have been an utter disaster to swap them.

I never thought Leia was hot when I was a kid. Other chicks definitely like Farrah Fawcett. I was maybe 5 years old. But Leia to me at the time had weird hair and she was just loud and argumentative. Didn't like her character.

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

Patrick says

But note how she's still below Luke in the poster. Would have been an utter disaster to swap them.

I never thought Leia was hot when I was a kid. Other chicks definitely like Farrah Fawcett. I was maybe 5 years old. But Leia to me at the time had weird hair and she was just loud and argumentative. Didn't like her character.

I don't think she's hot at all, maybe a 5 or 5 1/2. Also SW is just a kids movie I outgrew during my teen years, never understood people's fascination with it. I'd fall asleep to such movies, Harry Potter etc. Lord of the rings I could at least stay awake during, but nothing super exciting. Harrison Ford is the only good actor involved IMO.

I saw Carrie Fisher in that SW one just before she died of a poorly timed drug ingestion on an airplane. It was also the ridiculous one with the empowered (presumably lesbo) female general with purple hair (Laura Dern). It was the precursor to our present Neflix type media DEI curses. The movie was absurd and sucked.

Carrie could barely move in the role, probably because of her chronic addictions. She was supposed to be blown into space, but survived due some kind of Jedi magic. She looked like they were wheeling her around on a skate board or something.

Independence Day

Last night I fired up the projector and treated my friend to a double feature: Tropic Thunder followed by Team America: World Police

The latter was the unrated version with the water sports and the Cleveland Steamer.



We had forgotten just how woke and gay everything has become. We laughed our asses off with the joy of rediscovery.

One thing we missed before in Team America - they kept referring to any type of transformation or disguise as "valmortification."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=valmorification