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I think I'm going to leave for a bit, since Bakustra doesn't appear to understand what constitutes a developed character and keeps misconstruing my arguements.

Vader is not a developed character in ANH. Not one bit. He's flat as a board. He looks menacing and he comes into direct conflict with the heroes near the middle and at the climax. Guess what? All of that applies to Maul. The significant differences are that Vader gets more lines than Maul does, th...

I was being sarcastic with the legit gripe bit, but the fact remains we have no idea what his origional game plan was or why the Trade Federation was doing everything he says. Given that Palpy had to alter his plan of the fly, it's safe to say we'll never know what it originally was. I think it's p...

If I ever need someone to fight strawmen I'll be sure to call you havok. :wink: The difference between maul and vader is vast. Vader actually does things and displays a range of emotions. he is what we call "a developed character". By the time that maul was introduced, vader had successful...

choke the captain with one hand and leave him hanging in the air WTF?!? He threw him to the floor! Get it right, FFS. You have seen ANH, right? ...after he held him up with one hand. I didn't mean to emlpy that he created a permanent force hold with him being stuck in a permanent state of null grav...

So Sidious having the Trade Fed leaders, blockade a planet, gas the heroes, attack the heroes, land an invasion army, capture the Queen isn't evil? How about then sending his minion to track, attack and kill the Jedi? Not evil? I mean, can you just listen to yourself? :sigh: When we don't know anyt...

So Sidious having the Trade Fed leaders, blockade a planet, gas the heroes, attack the heroes, land an invasion army, capture the Queen isn't evil? How about then sending his minion to track, attack and kill the Jedi? Not evil? I mean, can you just listen to yourself? :sigh: When we don't know anyt...

See, the problem I have with Qui-gon "kicking ass all across Naboo", is that the "asses" that he's kicking belong to the battle droids who are so completely inept that the "fights" become incredibly dull. Contrasted with any of the fights involving say... storm troopers...

Wait.

Are we actually discussing whether or not the plinkett reviews should be taken 100% seriously or not?

And really, that is what this is all about. The Phantom Menace wasn't Star Wars. 16 years of anticipation. 22 years of nostalgia. Kids with old memories of something they loved that had grown into adults, were let down. Why is it that everyone that rags on TPM is at least in their early 30s or olde...

Oh and 'REAL CRITICS' hahahahahaha who the fuck are they? People that get paid to give you a subjective opinion instead of people that do it for free? :lol: Oh yes. the "The Critics Aren't saying nice things about the thing I like so the critics are wrong" speech. I heard it first from mi...

Ok.

Answer My question first.

Batman, do you belive that when movies go to the big screen that they can and do contain errors? Or do you belive that they are completely perfect?

This is a serious question.

One assumes the viceroy know the limitations of human lung capacity is roughly 2 minutes before unconsciousness occurs and 6 minutes before death. You DO know ordinary humans can hold their breath considerably longer than that without access to Force powers, right? You DO Know that the people who h...

One assumes the viceroy know the limitations of human lung capacity is roughly 2 minutes before unconsciousness occurs and 6 minutes before death.

As a matter of fact no I'm not, so I'm conceding Ben and Qui-Gon having used them. As simply holding their breath at ordinary human levels would have sufficed to get them through the gas attack I'm not sure what difference that would make. I would assume the trade federation viceroy waited more the...

You don't seem to understand the way things work around here. When discussing things in the movies, the movies are treated as factual evidence. You have no logical argument for dismissing the super speed feat just because the Jedi didn't make use of it in other fights. Especially when they have man...

I say you are litigous because you spent an incredible amount of time studying a review you disagreed with and then proceded to attack virtually every point that was made by RLM conceding basicly nothing to the reviewer. After Stoklasa made a 70-minute video review nitpicking TPM to death... He's a...

Soooo, then super speed is just part of the advancement of Jedi training and abilities. Thanks. No, It's an editing mistake. Seriously, mistakes happen during film making and sometimes the editors don't catch it before it goes on to the big screen. It's not even that bad a mistake really. Err, excu...

Wow Jimmy. I've been on a few message boards in my day and you have got to be one of the most litigious posters I've ever seen. If you have something to actually contribute to this thread, then post it. No one needs your spammy little posts like this. And in case you forgot, I'm not the one using s...

How does the ridiculously fast jump move the story forward? Assuming it's not shoddy wire work, (and it didn't strike me as being "ridiculously' fast btw), I would attribute it to how lukes physical abilities have improved as a part of his training on dagobah. Soooo, then super speed is just p...

Bakustra wrote:How does the ridiculously fast jump move the story forward?

Assuming it's not shoddy wire work, (and it didn't strike me as being "ridiculously' fast btw), I would attribute it to how lukes physical abilities have improved as a part of his training on dagobah.

No, because it's tied to the Jedi's abilities to percieve the future and helped to move the story along. Jedi Super speed happens once and only once and from the way it happens it looks like the speed of the film was turned up by mistake during post production and nobody caught it. Luke jumped out ...

Do you do that with the Jedi dream sequences? I mean, you only see it in ROTS. No, because it's tied to the Jedi's abilities to percieve the future and helped to move the story along. Jedi Super speed happens once and only once and from the way it happens it looks like the speed of the film was tur...