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Leisher 
Top 3%, yo.

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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,11:45 |
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A look back.
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Malcolm 
I disagree.

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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,12:04 |
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Hell, no.
-------------- Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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thibodeaux 
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Posted on: Dec. 18 2015,14:38 |
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Tried to watch w my 11yo son. Made about 5 minutes in where the wookies start watching TV or whatever. OMG.
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TheCatt 
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Posted on: Dec. 19 2015,06:15 |
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(GORDON @ Dec. 19 2015,08:34)
QUOTE (TheCatt @ Dec. 18 2015,17:24)
QUOTE Clearly that person doesn't know what Darth Vader means. Hmm. Dark father? Â Dutch? Dutch/German it's very close to Dark Father.
Although, Lucas says it's just a coincidence, and he didn't know that DV was Luke's father at the time he named him.
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thibodeaux 
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Posted on: Dec. 19 2015,13:40 |
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My latest view on Star Wars is that Lucas got lucky. He combined the chocolate of WWII air combat movies with the peanut-butter of Kurosawa samurai films, and it turned out to be pretty tasty. Add into that the fact that visually it was parsecs ahead of any other sci-fi films of the time (*cough*Logan's Run*cough*), and top it off with great sound design, and bam.
The prequels are just godawful.
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Malcolm 
I disagree.

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Posted on: Dec. 19 2015,16:01 |
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I don't know about lucky. He convinced me he had talent after Star Wars, American Graffiti, and Indiana Jones. I'll grant you he needed loads of help to turn the bookends of that list into mega-franchises. His talents failed to progress beyond a certain sophomore level and his highly explosive, frenetic creative fuel ran out. Twice as bright, half as long and all that. He just went way, way above "twice."
-------------- Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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TheCatt 
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Posted on: Dec. 19 2015,19:43 |
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He was M. Night before M. Night
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