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On other fronts, a new voting incentive is up on TWC: our Playboy Bunny Spectacular!!! It almost lives up to your hopes and dreams. Honest!
Though this particular incentive pic isn’t available through voting on TWC anymore, you can purchase the pic from the STORE! It’s only a buck for a set of five voting incentives! That’s what I call a deal!
War is just so messy. Municipal Politics is where it’s at.
Also, I’m pretty sure the war was suspended because of the aforementioned boredom. Why go back to something already declared boring?
War has the potential to be ridiculously boring. See the third Hobbit movie for proof.
War… War never changes.
I’ll have to take your word for it on the Hobbit movie though. I decided to give the whole trilogy a pass when I heard it was being made into a trilogy in the first place.
I saw part of the first movie. It was enough to let me know that I didn’t need to see any more.
While I didn’t dislike the Hobbit movies, I do so look forward to the day, just after the third is released on DVD, when some fan releases their “Just what was in the actual book” edit, which should be just about one movie’s worth of content.
I would watch that – the edited version. The cluttered version, though… Too cluttered. And crazy.
The Hobbit movies; also known as “the ones where I enjoyed the bonus features more than the movies themselves.”
In said bonus features, Jackson does explain the reasoning for making it a trilogy – it was only going to be two movies, but while writing the second, they realized they had too much material for one movie, but not enough for two. Not wanting to cut down the material to make one movie, they opted to pad it out to make it into two.
Clearly they made the wrong decision. And yet, they still managed to make “extended editions”…
Ugh. I couldn’t even get through the first one.
I found the Battle Scenes in the Trilogy to be absolutely riveting.
But not so in The Hobbit, not so.
Everyone hates the prequels for some weird reason. Star Wars, Hobbit, etc. Then Everyone likes the stuff that’s actually s#%+. Dark Knight, the Force Awakens, etc. From a writing perspective the stories of the prequels are good. Amazingly so. And the SW prequels were more original than the force awakens. The dark knight was just terrible in my opinion and I especially hate Raspman.
Other than that, great comic series.
@Chaotic
The Star Wars prequels certainly have their moments. They are amazing ACTION MOVIES.
Are they inspired ? With compelling characters ? No.
People simply expected too much from them.
On the other hand, I was very pleased with ROGUE ONE. And was actually sad to lose people I had only known for 90 minutes.
As time goes on I find many children’s movies the most entertaining.
“Kubo and the Two Strings”, “Smurfs II”, etc.
Though certainly NOT any Chipmunk drek. 🙁
Once you get past the fantasy barrier, many are far more believable than the “SuperHero” movies, that are particularly annoying to me because they pretend to be real.
I will agree with you on that, the character’s could have been more flushed out. However I did enjoy the stories behind the prequels, and think that was one thing that was done well. Sure the pacing on one of the movies was horrendous, but if that were fixed, it would be a really amazing story.
I can’t really say much about Rogue One, as I haven’t seen it, however one thing I don’t like is how it legitimizes the canonness? Canoncy? How it makes the Clone Wars series(the newer, not the older) Canon.
(I am of a belief that once a character is dead, they should stay dead. Unless the character is faking their own death, and the audience doesn’t know it, or something like that, bringing a character back to life should never be done. Not even if that character has a large following.)
“bringing a character back to life should never be done. Not even if that character has a large following.”
Sherlock Holmes Fans may disagree.
But if you mean ROGUE ONE. there are no re-animations. At all.
And everything in it fits into Episode IV, THE NEW HOPE, seamlessly..
I enjoy all types of movies, even some superhero ones. Even those that exist outside the bounds of realism(Though when it comes to my own writing I always set laws of realism that depend on the world and the characters)
But I will agree with you that the chipmunk movies are certainly not worth watching.
There are some GREAT kids’ movies and shows out there. Really top notch. WAY, way better than the discount-production crap they shoveled at us when we were kids. No, this stuff is made with love and care, and it’s obvious that the creators cared about it. (I generally get the feeling like most kids’ entertainment producers in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s were deeply embarrassed that they had anything to do with the material, and subscribed to the ‘I dunno, just put some crap on the screen and kids will like it’ philosophy.)
On kids movies I have three words.
Rock
And
Rule!
@CH
Glad to see you back !
You seemed unusually quiet for a couple of days, and I was concerned the Railroad Bull had collared you.
@CH
Have you seen EMPEROR OF THE NORTH ?
I highly recommend it (and not just to hoboes).
@EG
There are some GREAT kids’ movies and shows out there. Really top notch.
Oh, so you DID watch SMURFS II !
Smurfs 2 is not one of those.
I have high hopes for the new Duck Tales. Please do not let them be quackersnatched away from me.
I’ve heard good things about it. Though apparently the free episode on Youtube is blocked in Canada (just like all good things in life) so I may never know.
I’m not a big ‘Dark Knight’ fan. And I liked ‘The Force Awakens’, though I’ll readily admit that it was derivative and that the prequels were way more original. Still, nothing you can say will ever make me like the prequels much. I just … can’t.
Glad you like the comic, though.