I remember the first two Star Wars movies (by release date, not episode number) having some good lines.
That's because your brain has blocked out the first 45 minutes of New Hope where nothing happens.
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 7:39:53 am PDT #16384 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dana - Jul 13, 2009 7:40:29 am PDT #16385 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
(no one likes my geek cred)
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 7:41:54 am PDT #16386 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I remember the first star wars. When the airlock blew and Darth Vader came through, I screamed and hid under my seat in the theatre. I didn't come out until about halfway through the movie.
How old were you?
That reminds me of a story that amuses me (and apparently no one else) about the kid who saw Return of the Jedi for the first time on acid. When he first saw Jabba, he started screaming and screaming as he hid behind a chair... I think they kicked him out of the theater.
Tom Scola - Jul 13, 2009 7:44:05 am PDT #16387 of 30000
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That's because your brain has blocked out the first 45 minutes of New Hope where nothing happens.
That's because it's from the 1970s! In Superman, Richard Donner tried to outdo Lucas by having nothing happen for the first 90 minutes!
-t - Jul 13, 2009 7:47:43 am PDT #16388 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can remember waiting in line to see Close Enocunters with my dad and the guy in front of us going on at some length regarding the travesty of Chewbacca not getting the recognition for valor or whatever that Han and Luke did at the end of Star Wars and being absolutely sure that, no, of course he did. And so, I don't trust my memory of Star Wars at all.
(Dana has too much geek cred in geeral for me to comment on this particular aspect, really, but I imagine that if her Italian pronunciation is good from singing, her Elvish must be as well)
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 7:48:18 am PDT #16389 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I sang in a Lord of the Rings Symphony concert. Two years in a row.
NO! TOTALLY NOT TRUE - I just got body-checked into the SW headspace away from Tolkien.
I am *waaaay* jealous of you. Totally. What I would give to sing in a choir that is singing about Tolkien.
No, I'm totally NOT exaggerating. I firmly believe the reason I'm single is my Tolkienism (which isn't fetishistic, just obsessive) is even geekier than playing D&D - which I still do, of course.
Can I high-five you or is there some more ceremonial (or possibly more space-operatically pulpy) gesture you'd prefer?
(high-fives you)
Well, we could always do the Romulan right-fist-over-heart chest-slam, like in "Balance of Terror" TOS.
(Geekism turned to 11) - you do know that Mark Lenard, Spock's dad, was the only actor to play all 3 "main alien" races, right? Sarek of Vulcan, the Romulan captain from "Balance of Terror", and the Klingon captain from the beginning of "Star Trek - The Motion Picture".
See? Singleness totally explained.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 7:51:43 am PDT #16390 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
(Geekism turned to 11) - you do know that Mark Lenard, Spock's dad, was the only actor to play all 3 "main alien" races, right? Sarek of Vulcan, the Romulan captain from "Balance of Terror", and the Klingon captain from the beginning of "Star Trek - The Motion Picture".
I didn't know that last one - pro'lly because I've blocked "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" from my memory.
P.M. Marc - Jul 13, 2009 7:52:03 am PDT #16391 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
No, I'm totally NOT exaggerating. I firmly believe the reason I'm single is my Tolkienism (which isn't fetishistic, just obsessive) is even geekier than playing D&D - which I still do, of course.
I was telling Paul last night that if he weren't straight and my husband, I'd totally be setting the two of you up. So, clearly, we just have to find my spouse's gay twin somewhere.
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2009 7:57:16 am PDT #16392 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yesterday, I invented Improv Mad Libs Apples to Apples. I believe it to be a very Buffista game.
Vortex - Jul 13, 2009 8:00:32 am PDT #16393 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
How old were you?
I couldn't have been older than 5.