Bloody idiots...

Yesterday, while I was out doing a service project for our church, my mum was out looking in estate sales and junk shops. She found a 1983 Return of the Jedi book case by American Toy & Furniture and bought it for me to display some of my collection. The old lady she bought it from told her, "That's a good book case, you can just paint over it." and my mum said to her, "I can't paint over it! It's Star Wars! My daughter is a total Star Wars geek."

I've been told by some girl I didn't even know that she hates Star Wars because "Star Wars is a ripoff of Halo"

Who else has heard stupid remarks about Star Wars or Star Wars merchandise?

Originally Posted by Sareth Dorn

I've been told by some girl I didn't even know that she hates Star Wars because "Star Wars is a ripoff of Halo"

HAHA!!!!!! Well put Saint Nasty!!!!!!!!! I hear the Lord Of The Rings rant all of the time, and it will be the same with alot of other franchises too. It gets really annoying!!!! I am a huge fan, and I think I speak for all of us here.

When I keep hearing about how bad the Episodes 1 thru 3 sucked, I just keep telling them that, "They had to tell the story didnt they?" I dont like every single thing Lucas did with those episodes, but somehow I always defend them.

I love replaying the Kevin smith rants from Chasing Amy(the comic book convention)and clerks 2(LOTR vs. Star Wars) over and over and over. good times!

what's a nubian? roflmao. best line EVAR!

I hope that doesnt offend anyone. but I love how Kevin Smith puts star wars refrences in every movie he makes.[/quote]


He is making a new movie about Star Wars nuts like us, isnt he? I thought I seen something about it.

Guys, every time you post and geta **** means the word is not family friendly. Please go back and edit your post.

mine were intentional asterisks

Originally Posted by saint_nasty

mine were intentional asterisks

Then please remove them.

From the CoC

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sorry I intentionally inserted my sensors too. but I removed them. It kinda lost alot in the translation now, but rules are rules... what if I put the actual word "bleep" or "blurp" instead? would that have been acceptable?

How about a word that is not as strong? We will get the point. I know it might seem silly but, there are very big reasons whey we do this. Trust me on this one.

I once used a "light" word and got a warning, so I was under the assumption that we should be "extremly child friendly".

See, the only person I've ever met that "didn't like SW" was on opening day of ROTS, and actualy made fun of Boba Fett being in SW, of corse I was Jodo Kast, but still, it made me feel sorta weird that this guy would be hating on SW, then Fett, then pay money to see ROTS.

On the contrary, all of my friends always said "Oh yes, that SW, I love that.", and then when I'd say "Which one was your favorite?" they'd say, "Oh you know, that one. I think it was 7th one." I always got a kick out of them telling me how much the liked it, they weren't being sarcastic either, because then we'd somehow get in a deep discussion about the "7th movie".

*in childish pre pubescent voice...* "But Sareth Dorn, what are Midiclorians?"

:p

ya know, i really think i need to start telling people to "back in the warmth of my fiery wrath" on a more regular basis.

I'm a pretty big fan and I don't hate Star Wars. Yeah there are inconsistancies and a lot of junk attached - like lame video games and way too many Darth Vader minis from WotC. But you have to consider the source. George was careless with continuity and with so many people having their hands in the cookie jar, its only natural that things will come out slightly skewed. Star Wars is awsome! I love the original trilogy, I thought Luke was awsome. I loved the prequals - in a different way. You need to watch Star Wars for what it is. There is no way everyone involed could get it all right. You can focus on all the inconsistancies and quirks or you can watch it and enjoy it with all the things that made you like it in the first place. Its an epic sci-fi adventure. It doesn't always have to make sense. Look around you in the real world. How much of that makes any logical sense? I watch SW for fun and enjoy it for fun and thats why I like SW. - Just my opinion.

How can Star Wars be a rip off of Halo? Halo didn't show up on the scene until 2001. SW has been around since 1977. That comment makes such little sense it doesn't even compute. If anything, Halo would have to be a rip off of SW. Not that I would know, as I've never seen/played Halo.

Originally Posted by Gypsyboy

How can Star Wars be a rip off of Halo?

Star Wars and Halo are nothing alike, so she doesn't know junk about either. I told her, "Star Wars started in '77, Halo came out 2001. There's over 20 years difference!" She didn't get it.

You should try the Halo games and books. The games are the most over rated games ever, but are quite fun.

Turns out that Halo originated on the Atari 2600, and George Lucas stole the original copy and transformed it into what we know today as Star Wars.

To be honest I'm not even a huge Starwars fan (my wife might tell you different though). But lets talk about Boba Fett and i'm there all night

Originally Posted by GCNgamer128

Turns out that Halo originated on the Atari 2600, and George Lucas stole the original copy and transformed it into what we know today as Star Wars.

Originally Posted by Ronin677

To be honest I'm not even a huge Starwars fan...

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Originally Posted by Ronin677

To be honest I'm not even a huge Starwars fan (my wife might tell you different though). But lets talk about Boba Fett and i'm there all night

I'm the same level as you are. I haven't even seen a Star Wars movie in about two years. The only reason I own the movies is because LucasFilm gives me a set every time they re-re-re-re-re-release them.

I'd agree with that, I don't think I'm a "typical SW fan", I like a few scenes in SW, and I like the idea of them, but MY Star Wars proboly varies alot from evryone else's, enspecialy some heckler trying to poke fun at it, who dosen't know a thing about cinema in general, but proboly in turn owns the movies in some way or another. Like for instance, I LOVE the Legacy comics, would an average joe heckler know about this awsomeness? Proboly not. Would they know of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's remarks about asking Vader what button he uses to call his mom, proboly so.

If you don't make fun of something when evryone else is, then you in turn are a dork/geek whatever. Even the writers for Jay Leno make fun of SW, ST,etc. If they can't break the public's mold of ideas about Sci-Fi, I would ask them to whatch a season or two of the new BSG. I think it speaks my thoughts exactly, that you can have a drama, with a Sci-Fi twist, and not evryone loves those Sci-Fi presents movies, and falls for anything of the type. I could case less if people make fun of SW, but they need to at least know something about it before they do. I frequnetly make fun of it I'm sure, even without knowing, but I also own a ton of "junk", and at least understand the shows.

most of the stuff i hear is how star wars is so unrealistic that it can't even be called
sci-fi and that's just my dad

I just look at people and say, "You mean it's not REAL?!?!?!"

Originally Posted by dha'kad junn

most of the stuff i hear is how star wars is so unrealistic that it can't even be called
sci-fi and that's just my dad

Usually I'm the one who has to say, "Shut up, it's just a movie." There are so many things in Star Wars that are unrealistic, like sound in space. I don't think Star Wars should be set as Science Fiction, it's more of the Fantasy genre.

I could care less about SW. For me It's all about the mandos, baby!!! The clones, Boba Fett, Jango, and all the othe Mandos that we love. I only watch SW now cause, well I've always "liked" it. I think the games are mediocre at best, but there are a few exceptions. I absolutly loath George Lucas. He really is an idiot. He could at least remember what the names of things he made up and made so much money off of. Jeez he's a dummy.

2 years ago I was watching the Darth Maul fight at school on a pc, a guy sitting next to me said
''Why are you watching Star Trek?''
I said ''this is Star Wars''
he said '' hell no! that is Star Trek!

I said (as a Fett fan) Well okay..its Star Trek, as you wish...

he didn't even know Star Trek I think...

Ruben

Mojo - ok you got me So i am making a wookiee costume and i want a stormie. but honestly i dont like Star Wars and i have not got a problem - honest

Originally Posted by dha'kad junn

most of the stuff i hear is how star wars is so unrealistic that it can't even be called
sci-fi and that's just my dad

It's not sci-fi. It's fantasy. One might get away with saying "science fantasy", but I think that's just an un-needed melding of terms. Sci-fi and fantasy occupy different "spaces" in the imagination. The fact that Star Wars takes place "in a galaxy far far away" is neither here nor there. So, when someone says it doesn't qualify as sci-fi all you have to do is smile and say, "I know".