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It will probably be pretty good.
Lucas should be hung by his thumbs for what he has done to “improve” the original movies, let alone for what he did to the franchise with his hackery.
Done with the Jar Jar Binks clan.
“In the future, governments and economies across the globe have collapsed, food is scarce, NASA is no more, and the 20th Century is to blame. A mysterious rip in spacetime opens and it’s up to whatever is left of NASA to explore and offer up hope for mankind.”
Heh.
http://www.interstellar-movie.com
One only wonders whether the Force drooled on its pillow while it slept.
Will there be EconPop? (Let’s hope so, ish)
EconPop — Treasure of Sierra Madre
EconPop — Elysium
saw the new hunger games it needed way better art direction to work i think
it just kinda checked the boxes and we all got to watch jennifer lawrence have an epiphany in her head while watching a cat
but this is fun
though i don’t think they knew what they had
at the end you have to listen to some goth whore go burble burble burble, continuing the hunger games tradition of subpar soundtracks
I gotta take my kids to see the Penguins movie this weekend.
Looks like the death of the Emperor didn’t end the Empire after all. Somewhere, Josef Stalin smiles.
The Emperor didn’t die. He ‘sjust pining for the cascades of Naboo.
Only because he failed tryouts for the Choir Invisible. Turns out Force-choking only works on the corporeally privileged.
It looks like a bunch of random CGI starwars fan stuff edited into a meaningless sequence. The scary voice sucks. Kind of a turn off but then I’m too old to be the intended audience for these new movies..
http://i.imgur.com/Vq0LhXq.gif
ot interesting read
Common Sense: Deconstructing Dorian Johnson – And Why The FBI and State Officials Will Not Prosecute Him…
Though if not the State (no-one could possibly imagine the Feds doing so, that’s just ridiculous), still, there remain his (silent) neighbors, neighbors many of whom have lost much or may resent the losses of their neighboring acquaintances — some one of these may seek in their own small and perhaps even private way to prosecute the liar(s) among them who hideously began the torments of Ferguson. Just as the police won’t always arrive in a timely fashion to protect life and limb, so the wheels of institutional justice won’t grind against every actual wrongdoer, leaving in both cases individuals who must see to their own interests in preservation or justice, in whatever ways and by whatever means are available to them.
> in preservation or justice, in whatever ways and by whatever means are available to them.<
Armed Black Ferguson Residents Protect White-Owned Business During Riots
Lucas isn’t a bad story teller. However, Lucas should never be allowed near a set again and it should be a lifetime ban.
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Seattle demonstrators ruin kids’ Christmas for Mike Brown
>BETWEEN the aims of the post-totalitarian system and the aims of life there is a yawning abyss: while life, in its essence, moves toward plurality, diversity, independent self-constitution, and self organization, in short, toward the fulfillment of its own freedom, the post-totalitarian system demands conformity, uniformity, and discipline. While life ever strives to create new and improbable structures, the post-totalitarian system contrives to force life into its most probable states. The aims of the system reveal its most essential characteristic to be introversion, a movement toward being ever more completely and unreservedly itself, which means that the radius of its influence is continually widening as well. This system serves people only to the extent necessary to ensure that people will serve it. Anything beyond this, that is to say, anything which leads people to overstep their predetermined roles is regarded by the system as an attack upon itself. And in this respect it is correct: every instance of such transgression is a genuine denial of the system. It can be said, therefore, that the inner aim of the post-totalitarian system is not mere preservation of power in the hands of a ruling clique, as appears to be the case at first sight. Rather, the social phenomenon of self-preservation is subordinated to something higher, to a kind of blind automatism which drives the system. No matter what position individuals hold in the hierarchy of power, they are not considered by the system to be worth anything in themselves, but only as things intended to fuel and serve this automatism. For this reason, an individual’s desire for power is admissible only in so far as its direction coincides with the direction of the automatism of the system.
Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life. It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.
The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.<
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> It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.<
Obama WH to Promote #Ferguson Indoctrination – Including Classroom Memorials to Mike Brown
I would edit that to say he wasn’t a bad story teller in the past. I thought “American Graffiti” and “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” were pretty good. I forget what “THX1138” was like.
The other two movies in the original Star Wars series were directed by other people. That might be why they are pretty good.
I think he’s bad at it now. His writing for the prequels was bad. His directing was even worse. His meddling in already-released movies was borderline criminal to this fanboy (Han Solo shot first, dammit).
I refuse to cut him any slack.
>Because of this dictatorship of the ritual, however, power becomes clearly anonymous. Individuals are almost dissolved in the ritual. They allow themselves to be swept along by it and frequently it seems as though ritual alone carries people from obscurity into the light of power. Is it not characteristic of the post-totalitarian system that, on all levels of the power hierarchy, individuals are increasingly being pushed aside by faceless people, puppets, those uniformed flunkeys of the rituals and routines of power?<
Bop until you drop.
Meal Ticket Sharpton watched the Trayvon well turn out to be a dud, but he’s determined not to let Ferguson run dry until he’s had his fill of African-American blood and tears.
There’s some nascent upswell against these Fergubots…
An Organized Pushback, is what we need. Seems that only the radicals are getting their way; protesting and disrupting for no good reasons. The rest of us have to work and maintain responsible lives.
But for how much longer can we wait in the traffic and ignore the brazen stupidities, I wonder?
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As for “Star Wars” …
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Spengler, “May the Farce Be With You”:
Luckily we have the guy quoted above to set us straight on a timeless plot in storytelling.
I think he probably has a huge stick up his ass, but perhaps that’s just me.
Shaman Grunk of the Neanderthals’ Dark Cave #37,814 Clan is suing everybody, everywhere for theft of intellectual property. Stay tuned.
Am I the only supporter of the Empire here? [ie: a true, real, touchable (ladies only) conservative]…
The Case for the Empire.
Looks like the death of the Emperor didn’t end the Empire after all.
I watched that silent. Maybe the storm troopers are fighting on the good guy side now and they have a new enemy, that’s where I would go with it.
[…] I’ll let Friend In The Ether Serr8d have the last word: […]
Burning Alderan solidified my anti-imperial opinion. And frankly it was SHIT at keeping peace and order just like the Republic it climbed above and dismantled.
Maybe Lucas has a “Mule” in his pocket.