Pictorial review of the Holiday Special

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RogueIce wrote:
Bellator wrote:I just downloaded the file from Kazaa...and it's every bit as bad as people tell you it is...not even ST's Nemesis or B5's Legend of the Rangers is that bad... :cry:
Share, damn you, share!
Are you in a masochistic mood or some shit? Can't you take them at their word that it's fucking shit?
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drphlox wrote:Bring it on!!!!!!

Just kidding :P
Too late. Even now, I'm writing a scenario which I'm gonna send to Lucasfilm with a petition to make the movie. Thanks for signing! :P


drphlox wrote: i knew it was a piece of crap movie even before i saw this thread

although how bad could it be? At least its not Palpy in Itchy's place!!!!!!!!!

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Hmmmm... interesting. Thanks for the idea. Probably we may put Palpatine as the major male character in Star Wars Adult Holiday Special. Don't have any idea who the female counterpart will be. Probably Aunt Beru? How about Jar-Jar's mother?
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Stofsk wrote:
RogueIce wrote:
Bellator wrote:I just downloaded the file from Kazaa...and it's every bit as bad as people tell you it is...not even ST's Nemesis or B5's Legend of the Rangers is that bad... :cry:
Share, damn you, share!
Are you in a masochistic mood or some shit? Can't you take them at their word that it's fucking shit?
It's one of those things where I've heard for so long that it's so, so horrible, that I have to see for myself to see if it's as bad as they say (since I am normally a very, very forgiving movie watcher).
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I can't believe you people are watching that garbage. I have early memories of Han going to Kasskyk (sp?) but the rest of that crap was thankfully burried deep in my mind to never be unlocked.
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But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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Stofsk wrote:
RogueIce wrote:
Bellator wrote:I just downloaded the file from Kazaa...and it's every bit as bad as people tell you it is...not even ST's Nemesis or B5's Legend of the Rangers is that bad... :cry:
Share, damn you, share!
Are you in a masochistic mood or some shit? Can't you take them at their word that it's fucking shit?
It's something akin to a Forbiddon Fruit complex, or whatever one calls it: we know that there exists out there the blight of all blights of the Wars-verse, something that society has tried to bury under layer upon layer of horror stories, bad reviews, and warnings of eternal woe to those who would dare to watch such, and all this serves to do is egg us on in our desire to seek out and view this hidious thing, regardless of whatever consequences may be incurred as a result.

We may as well face the beast face to face and get it over with, rather than let it be floating around in the dark to haunt us for the rest of our days.
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its like when someone says, "Fuck! that smells horrible!" and everyone goes, "It is? Here, lemme smell it!"
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Through suffering, illumination.

To pass through the fire is to rise to a higher level of geekdom. Those who falter, those who fail...

Have real jobs, get dates and suchlike.

But one who claims to be a true fanboy yet has not witnessed the Holiday Special is not worthy of his plastic lightsaber.
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Petrosjko wrote:Through suffering, illumination.

To pass through the fire is to rise to a higher level of geekdom. Those who falter, those who fail...

Have real jobs, get dates and suchlike.
And who needs that when you have Star Wars?
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RogueIce wrote:
Petrosjko wrote:Through suffering, illumination.

To pass through the fire is to rise to a higher level of geekdom. Those who falter, those who fail...

Have real jobs, get dates and suchlike.
And who needs that when you have Star Wars?
Star Wars is a poor substitue for money and ladies.

For one it takes your money and another...there are so very few women to men ratio in SW.
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I have only one question: is watching this shit worse than listening to the Star Wars Christmas Album? I was in actual physical pain when I heard that thing straight through, I'm not sure I can survive the special if it's worse... but I still have to see! :cry:
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Ghost Rider wrote:For one it takes your money and another...there are so very few women to men ratio in SW.
Yeah, but how many chicks do you know go around in golden metal bikinis and skin-tight half-torn white jumpsuits?
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The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
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RogueIce wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:For one it takes your money and another...there are so very few women to men ratio in SW.
Yeah, but how many chicks do you know go around in golden metal bikinis and skin-tight half-torn white jumpsuits?
A few in my days at college...course less as well at times too.
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I have Divx AVIs of the Holiday Special - total size about 231 MB.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone with dedicated hosting could take them so I didn't have to host them all by myself.
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Download at your own risk

There you go, you bunch of masochists, you. :twisted:
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I just watched it.

Gouge out my eyes - I' m covered in pain!!!!!!!!!!


Yet somehow, its more palletable than some episodes of Enterprise or Voyager....... :kill:
...and knowing is half the battle
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Wookiees talk without subtitles. It's amazing!

Fall, Lumpy, fall damn you!
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And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)

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The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
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::Starts the download: 45% finished::

I wonder if I should break out some of the snacks I've been saving for the Big-Ass AnimeFest (TM) I planned for Saturday for this special occasion...

...Hell, I wonder if I should transfer this to my notebook and feed the video directly to my TV (and VCR for proliferation).
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can't open the link on the first post, can anyone fix it?
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Reflecting now upon the last 100 minutes of my life, I have to admit that I feel quite dissipointed with things as they turned out: no in that I was expecting anything good to come from it - that review was proof enough that it was a piece of shite - but in that I was expecting something that would rip my still-beating heart from my chest and suck every last bit of grey matter out of my skull. Mind you, I still got plenty of kicks and giggles from it, but it just seems as though it really isn't that bad as people make it out to be (though, I admit, I'm terribly merciful when it comes to stuff like this - most of the time).

The Good:
The Cartoon: the short was actually pretty nifty in some aspects, and while it has many a flaw, it has one or two high-points. Boba Fett seemed to be done quite well, both visually and character-wise, though his departure was quite anti-climactic. Also of note is Leah's portreyal in the short: she might have looked fazed in her acting sequences, but her animated counterpart looks as though she's got pure coke running through her veins, and is simply priceless for that so-bad-it's-good quality. And, of course, no one can forget Han's face as he's coming out of that funk he and Luke were in: it's simply indescribable.
There was some other thing that got me to snort hard enough to cause some soreness in the back of my mouth, but I can't remember for the life of me what it was, and I'm too tired to look back and see what it was...

The Bad:
Lumpy: I swear, the desire to go deer-stalker on him is intense, and I don't think it'll ever be sated until I get something akin to his head mounted on my wall.
The whole Jefferson Starship bit: that microphone just made me uncomfortable something awful. The look on that one officer's face when the show ended didn't do much to help, either.

The Ugly:
Grandpa Itchy gettin' his jerk on: 'nuff said.
"Wookiee-ookies"?
Chewbacca's hut sort of looks like something I'd expect from a mid-western ranch house - it's got the wood paneling and everything. Hardly something I'd expect from a jungle-based society.
For some reason, those Stormtroopers were using their power packs as grips...
Bea Arthur's song during that one bit wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Then again, I was expecting the cantina band's song to be blasting at full tempo and with the original notes (which would have made for one Hell of an awful song).
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