Red Mosquito

dimejinky99 wrote:

stip wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

stip wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:The weirdest part isn't that Jedis aren't allowed to love people, it's that Portman's character said that she couldn't love anyone because she was a senator.

I retract my earlier comment. That is an irredeemably stupid point

any more stupid than the Sith referring to themselves as 'the dark side'? surely that would be an unspoken and understood position they held....they sound like a pathetically small gang of teenage hoodlums referring to themselves as 'the dark side'..yet there it is in the films..

that doesn't bother me, in theory. To be clear, the prequels basically executed nothing well. They are just terrible---to the point that I like the original trilogy less because they made more cognizant of its flaws. But the dark side references would have been find in the hands of a more talented writer/director.

PJ expert you might be...grasping for meaning in a galaxy that has none??

the sith is an organization. Aren't the dark and light side philosophies?

good day sir

dimejinky99 wrote:“I saw a buddy of mine, a fellow filmmaker friend, who is making this movie that is so f***ing wonderful. And I saw a chunk of it. And it was… spellbinding. This is the only way I can describe it. It’s like, I love movies and sometimes I over praise them and s**t, but this is the only way I can describe this: it was like – not figuratively, literally – being transported to the fountain of youth. And having the fountain of youth take me back to 1977. First time I saw a picture called Star Wars. I can’t say much more.” - Kevin Smith

cutuphalfdead wrote:

stip wrote:I'm fine with that. Perhaps those sorts of attachments make it harder to use the force, but more likely you can have your galaxy's judges and peacekeepers in a position where personal and familial loyalties might make it harder to do the right thing

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Finding rhapsodic joy in feeling infantilized seems very dubious

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:“I saw a buddy of mine, a fellow filmmaker friend, who is making this movie that is so f***ing wonderful. And I saw a chunk of it. And it was… spellbinding. This is the only way I can describe it. It’s like, I love movies and sometimes I over praise them and s**t, but this is the only way I can describe this: it was like – not figuratively, literally – being transported to the fountain of youth. And having the fountain of youth take me back to 1977. First time I saw a picture called Star Wars. I can’t say much more.” - Kevin Smith

Jesus Christ he needs to calm the fuck down. Nerd culture is so sad

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Finding rhapsodic joy in feeling infantilized seems very dubious

durdencommatyler wrote:Outside of physically hurting another person maliciously, there are few things I understand as little as shitting on someone's joy. Especially for something as innocuous as a goddamn movie. Blech. It just feels so shitty to me.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Outside of physically hurting another person maliciously, there are few things I understand as little as shitting on someone's joy. Especially for something as innocuous as a goddamn movie. Blech. It just feels so shitty to me.

I think the source of one's joy can be a valid thing to question. Fucking kids brings pedophiles great joy, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be condemned.

tragabigzanda wrote:Team LV on this one, guys.

Kevin Smith is a once-promising, now very annoying, shithead. As he admitted in that quote, he often fawns over the stuff that he likes. Add that to the fact that he hasn't made a great movie since Chasing Amy (or possibly Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back), and is very "loud and proud" about his heavy potsmoking, and the very fact that he even gets a platform from which he can spout his opinion becomes completely grating.

There are way more talented people out there without the audience that Kevin Smith has, so yes: the fact that Kevin Smith A) finds deep joy in feeling like a kid again while watching a movie and B) has a broad audience of people who care about this, it pisses me off.

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Outside of physically hurting another person maliciously, there are few things I understand as little as shitting on someone's joy. Especially for something as innocuous as a goddamn movie. Blech. It just feels so shitty to me.

I think the source of one's joy can be a valid thing to question. Fucking kids brings pedophiles great joy, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be condemned.

Which is why I put in that caveat about maliciously hurting someone. I'm obviously not talking about pedophilia.

stip wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Finding rhapsodic joy in feeling infantilized seems very dubious

it's not infantilization. It's like the feeling of falling in love for the first time, again. its special in part because it should be impossible

tragabigzanda wrote:Team LV on this one, guys.

Kevin Smith is a once-promising, now very annoying, shithead. As he admitted in that quote, he often fawns over the stuff that he likes. Add that to the fact that he hasn't made a great movie since Chasing Amy (or possibly Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back), and is very "loud and proud" about his heavy potsmoking, and the very fact that he even gets a platform from which he can spout his opinion becomes completely grating.

There are way more talented people out there without the audience that Kevin Smith has, so yes: the fact that Kevin Smith A) finds deep joy in feeling like a kid again while watching a movie and B) has a broad audience of people who care about this, it pisses me off.