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Re: Afterburners, or The Most Misleading Subject Ever
The thing about the Clone Wars movie is that it was never meant as a stand-alone film; it's essentially the first three or four episodes of the upcoming TV series smooshed together and slapped on the big screen.  I've heard mixed reviews about it, but those who like it seem to feel like it recaptures some of the more innocent fun factor that was so painfully absent in the new trilogy.  I figure it might be worth a look-see...at the very least, you get to hear Christopher Lee and Samuel L. some more.

     Samuel L Jackson is like the worse Jedi ever.

  

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Re: Afterburners, or The Most Misleading Subject Ever
You know he demanded a purple lightsaber in exchange for doing the movie right?
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     Samuel L Jackson is like the worse Jedi ever.
If by "the worst" you mean "just about the only thing salvaging the trilogy," then sure.

 

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No he wasn't. He sucked. The best ting was the pre Imperial, Clone army equipment.
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You know he demanded a purple lightsaber in exchange for doing the movie right?

      What, he wanted a purple lightsaber in the movie? That was part of the deal? Lame. Maybe he also demanded that he could wear hose under his cloak.




     Samuel L Jackson is like the worse Jedi ever.
If by "the worst" you mean "just about the only thing salvaging the trilogy," then sure.

       No, I mean, the worst as in "please, don't talk because you sound like a moron". I just remember him at the Council Chambers in the phantom menace and he say something about "we must unravel the secrets of the sith" or something like that, and tries to look wise and jedi-like but he just comes across as a dumbass quite honestly. One questions where he could ever act at all after watching him deliver some of his dialogue.

        And why weren't there any women on the council? Hell get Michelle Yeow, she knows how to use a sword, she looks old and wise and is a lot easier on the eyes than Jackson. Not sure if she has an accent though. But whatever.

        Jackson was better in the clone wars, but then again that wasn't jackson. Just a representation of his character. And he was a bit over the top as well (punching droids apart with his bare hands), but still cool.

 

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Samuel Frakkin' Jackson's actually doing the voice acting for this motherfrakker? Cool. :cool:

 
Re: Afterburners, or The Most Misleading Subject Ever
Ok, I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago and I can say this: Just about every (serious) review of the movie is correct.

Want a little more detail?
1. Lightsabers: good
2. Talking: bad
3. Blasters: good
4. Clone tactics: really bad
5. Droids: actually kinda' funny
6. Dooku: looks like butt. Not A butt, just like butt.
7. Bonus for you modelers: the textures were really cool, it looks like everything was a plaster model and painted with acyrlics; from the backgrounds to Dooku's beard, everything looks painted. I thought it was cool anyway.

Bottom line:If you can turn off the part of your brain that likes dialog and stuff that makes sense, you'll really enjoy this movie.

 

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Bottom line:If you can turn off the part of your brain that likes dialog and stuff that makes sense, you'll really enjoy this movie.

And if you can't, why are you watching Star Wars??

 

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Personally I liked Samuel L. Jackson cause without him the only badass was Yoda and kinda obi-wan.  I mean come on emo anakin?
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Why not have Michelle Yeow acting but replace the voice with Samuel Jackson's?

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Personally I liked Samuel L. Jackson cause without him the only badass was Yoda and kinda obi-wan.  I mean come on emo anakin?

       Samuel was only badass when he wasn't samuel and was drawn as a cartoon character in Tartakovsky's Clone Wars. Compare Morpheus from the Matrix to this, Jedi that Jackson played. They both spout the same kind of **** prophecy **** more or less, but one's convincing, the other one's making a fool of himself.

 

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The EU novel Shatterpoint made Windu my favorite character in Star Wars, with the possible exceptions of Mara Jade and Grand Admiral Thrawn.

 

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You know he demanded a purple lightsaber in exchange for doing the movie right?
What, he wanted a purple lightsaber in the movie? That was part of the deal? Lame. Maybe he also demanded that he could wear hose under his cloak.

Wrong. He wanted a red saber. George said: Only the bad guys get red. Sam was pissed. Then George said what about purple? Sam agreed.

And the poor guy was cheated, since purple would have been cool. Instead, he wields a pink lightsaber now  :blah:

Oh and regarding afterburners:
No (obvious) afterburners in the movies. No afterburners in the X-Wing Novels. No afterburners in the X-Wing Games.
Therefore...    :rolleyes:
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OMFG SOMEONE IS TRYING TO BRING THIS BACK ON TOPIC QUICK STOP HIM

Seriously though, that's been the internal consensus this whole time, no one's really going to convince us otherwise.
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OMFG SOMEONE IS TRYING TO BRING THIS BACK ON TOPIC QUICK STOP HIM
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Wrong. He wanted a red saber. George said: Only the bad guys get red. Sam was pissed. Then George said what about purple? Sam agreed.

And the poor guy was cheated, since purple would have been cool. Instead, he wields a pink lightsaber now  :blah:
The only place it looks pink, iirc, is in the games. It looked plently purplish to me in the movies.
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Re: Afterburners, or The Most Misleading Subject Ever
Wrong. He wanted a red saber. George said: Only the bad guys get red. Sam was pissed. Then George said what about purple? Sam agreed.

     Should've given him orange, that's close enough to red, and goes good with all the blue lightsabers flying around. Course it will woulda sucked.


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Oh and regarding afterburners:
No (obvious) afterburners in the movies. No afterburners in the X-Wing Novels. No afterburners in the X-Wing Games.
Therefore...    :rolleyes:

    Well, the gay missile boat essentially has afterburners or overdrive or whatever it's called.
    I'm sure the game can work without afterburners, it's just a matter of finding the right balance for the missiles.

 

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I still think a white lightsabre would be cool.

And as far as being 'in tune' with the Star Wars genre is concerned, I actually quite liked Darth Maul.

 

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KotOR's silver lightsabers are my favorite color. But their crystals are hard to find. I generally find blue/green/yellow/red.

And as far as being 'in tune' with the Star Wars genre is concerned, I actually quite liked Darth Maul.
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Would have been nice if he'd said more than five words throughout the entire movie. :p