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If only Darth Maul had had Indiana Jone's 38 the galaxy would have been a different place.

Darth Maul vs. Count Dookie. discuss.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Maul would slaughter Dooku In a strait up light saber duel. But he would have to end Dooku quickly, because the man is seriously skilled in the powers of the force.
   
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KingCracker wrote:Maul would slaughter Dooku In a strait up light saber duel. But he would have to end Dooku quickly, because the man is seriously skilled in the powers of the force.


And epic cool. Plot armor follows the rule of cool baby.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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I think the end of Children of Men could have been handled differently. Granted, the movie is still awesome.

Spoiler:

I would have had the movie end at the point where Clive Owen died, and we never see if anyone picks up the mother, if the resistance is real, or fi she simply floats around until she dies. That leaves the viewer to decide whether it is bleak or hopeful at the end.

Since Clive was the POV character, it makes sense to end the movie with his death.


Edit: Dooku has the coolest Lightsaber of them all.

Plus the scene where Dooku is trying to corrupt Obi-Wan is pretty neat. It highlights how the Sith can use truth as a strong weapon.

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Dune (film): why was it cut to the point of being an incomprehensible mess, instead of just having a longer film that doesn't confuse people? Why was most of the plot left on the cutting room floor? And why pick Sting to play the part of Feyd Rautha?

   
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Because he was a muscled sex god that looked like a fat gay guy's fantasy?


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Frazzled wrote:
Darth Maul vs. Count Dookie. discuss.


Maul, all Dookie did was talk and talk and talk then zap things with the force. Imagine him trying to talk down Maul.

 
   
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Johnny-Crass wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Darth Maul vs. Count Dookie. discuss.


Maul, all Dookie did was talk and talk and talk then zap things with the force. Imagine him trying to talk down Maul.

Drop a planet on Maul.
"I've got your super sword right here!"

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Come to think of it does Maul EVER use the force in the film. I mean I think he opens a door with it and thats about it.

 
   
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Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:
She didn't love Edward after all, that was lust. All the friends and family she disregarded were right to tell her to think again.
Now she's a monster, cursed to a half-life with a man she has no real feelings for.
At least then when people say things like "It's the modern Romeo and Juliet!" they wouldn't be completely wrong.


The problem with that, I think, can be summed up by this comic:



Particularly the part about kicking people into the stratosphere.

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RossDas wrote:Dune (film): why was it cut to the point of being an incomprehensible mess, instead of just having a longer film that doesn't confuse people? Why was most of the plot left on the cutting room floor? And why pick Sting to play the part of Feyd Rautha?



I have seen a longer cut, and it is indeed much better. However, I can;t ever seem to find this version on DVD. Since I saw it when I was younger, I'm starting to think it was all a wonderful dream.


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Didn't like all of the pirates of the carribean after the second one.

They should have introduced Samuel Jackson as an escaped slave Pirate Captain from the Americas, and had him shooting some british sailors. that would've made the movies for me.


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Surprised no one has mentioned Artificial Intelligence yet.

The last half hour or so of the movie is unnecessary.

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In the latest Star Trek film, the whole mess with Spock Prime being dropped off on some other planet where he was supposed to have actually seen Vulcan implode with his own eyes. No way! If he would have been that close, at the very least, the planet where he was standing would have been ruined by seismic activity, and it's extremely unlikely that any other planet in the same system would have been close enough to see another as anything more than a tiny dot.

A better way to have done it would be for Nero to have disabled the warp drive on Spock Prime's ship so that he could watch Vulcan implode, and get away just in time on impulse power, then see Kirk get jettisoned from the Enterprise on long-range sensors, go to that planet, meet him and guide him to Scotty so he can fix Spock Prime's ship and catch up with the Enterprise. And don't get me started on that whole "My younger self cannot know of my existence" nonsense. AND, and... they could have used Scotty's "Beaming onto another ship that is traveling at warp speed" shenanigans to get onto Nero's ship. It would have made more sense, and in my opinion would have even made for a better, more interesting movie.

PS: That whole thing with having to jettison the warp cores to escape the singularity was totally senseless and seemed like it was stuck in to draw out the climax.

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warpcrafter wrote:they could have used Scotty's "Beaming onto another ship that is traveling at warp speed" shenanigans

Plus, this apparently created an information paradox.

Star Trek pretty much just glossed over any of those issues.

warpcrafter wrote:That whole thing with having to jettison the warp cores to escape the singularity was totally senseless and seemed like it was stuck in to draw out the climax.

They're always jettisoning the warp drive. Or recalibrating the deflector shield. Sometimes they change polarities. It's a Star Trek classic.

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biccat wrote:
warpcrafter wrote:they could have used Scotty's "Beaming onto another ship that is traveling at warp speed" shenanigans

Plus, this apparently created an information paradox.

Star Trek pretty much just glossed over any of those issues.

warpcrafter wrote:That whole thing with having to jettison the warp cores to escape the singularity was totally senseless and seemed like it was stuck in to draw out the climax.

They're always jettisoning the warp drive. Or recalibrating the deflector shield. Sometimes they change polarities. It's a Star Trek classic.


Yeah, the whole movie seems to be directed at people who learned everything they know about physics from watching "Jackass".

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biccat wrote:Surprised no one has mentioned Artificial Intelligence yet.

The last half hour or so of the movie is unnecessary.


Yes agree completely, to this day I can't understand why Kubrick gave the movie to Spielberg to finish, because as Directors their styles are so much different. You ended up with an incredibly dark, unsettling film, with the trademark Spielberg sickly sweet ending that was completely at odds with the rest of the film.


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Easy E wrote:
RossDas wrote:Dune (film): why was it cut to the point of being an incomprehensible mess, instead of just having a longer film that doesn't confuse people? Why was most of the plot left on the cutting room floor? And why pick Sting to play the part of Feyd Rautha?



I have seen a longer cut, and it is indeed much better. However, I can;t ever seem to find this version on DVD. Since I saw it when I was younger, I'm starting to think it was all a wonderful dream.



There are many claims circulating about the existence of longer versions. I think the truth is that there was a version of the film made for TV, but it was edited so hastily and badly that David Lynch took his name off it and walked. To the best of my knowledge it isn't available to buy on DVD/VHS, and there's no plans to release it, but there is a fan edit called The Novel Cut (or The Book Cut, can't remember) which can be seen on YouTube; it does appear to be made from the the longer version and yes - it is better and more sensible than the theatrical release.
   
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There is an extended version of Dune, and it does make a lot more sense than the theatrical release.

It's also over 4 hours long, as I recall. There's no way the typical theater audience is going to make it through that much movie. The LOTR movies were only around 3 hours and were pushing the upper limits of audience endurance.

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Four hours is definitely unrealistic, but Dune needed more than the 140 mins they gave it in the end. I'd really love for a directors cut to be made as Lynch intended to be made; if claims are accurate he wont go anywhere near it, sadly.
   
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The long version of Dune I saw was on TV. Points for your theory.

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