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Star Wars sucks. There, we said it.
Maclean's ^ | June 19, 2015 | Jaime Weinman

Posted on 06/20/2015 11:05:05 AM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: rickmichaels
It's all about the money.


61 posted on 06/20/2015 12:14:03 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Dr. Sivana
the bit in "Phantom Menace" about Anakin having no father borders on blasphemy.

Is blasphemy.

62 posted on 06/20/2015 12:14:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: USMCPOP

They should have done something cool with younger Yoda, like made him Godzilla sized, crushing droids with every step. Instead they made him a grossly incompetent dorkwad who got the Jedi massacred by their own brainwashed slave troops on his watch.

Freegards


63 posted on 06/20/2015 12:18:51 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: rickmichaels

To this day, there are wrestlers and BJJ rollers who refuse to wear earguards because they don’t want to be called ‘Princess Leia’.


64 posted on 06/20/2015 12:18:53 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Youtube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Mmogamer
Movie critics are almost always wrong. If they hate it, it is almost certainly a good film to see. If they like it, usually it is dreck.

You can't enjoy the view through a window if you are focused on looking for smudges on the glass.

65 posted on 06/20/2015 12:20:23 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: rickmichaels

This and vitamins-cause-cancer?

You’re 0-2 on your Maclean’s threads.


66 posted on 06/20/2015 12:26:42 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: rickmichaels
I enjoyed Star Wars when it first came out, and have enjoyed most of the new ones ever since. It's escapist fantasy, not hard-core science fiction, nor high art. Sort of a wide-screen comic book.

Star Wars may not be great cinema and it sure beats the pants off anything that's won an Academy Award for a while!

67 posted on 06/20/2015 12:32:51 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: rickmichaels; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna

If only they had cast Dustin Hoffman in it.


68 posted on 06/20/2015 12:46:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Flag_This

Troops by Kevin Rubio?
The one voice actor was the guy who did the voice for either Wakko or Yakko Warner from Animaniacs.


69 posted on 06/20/2015 12:50:21 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

The film critics from Salon and NYT went to see Broke Back Mountain together and just loved the film.


70 posted on 06/20/2015 1:10:37 PM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: PAR35
The plot line of the second movie is that a Black man will sell out his friend for a chance at a white woman.

Interesting you should say that. I was a graduate student when the first "Star Wars" movies were in the theatres, going for a degree in Special Education. One of my students to whom I was an aide was a young black teen with a rather severe case of Cerebral Palsy. He loved the first movie, and couldn't wait to see the second. His mom took him to the premiere. That next Monday, I asked him about it. He was very upset! When I asked him why, all he could say, in his CP-affected speech, was "Lando Calrissian! I hate him!" I think the fact that the character betrayed Han and the group deeply hurt him - particularly the fact that Calrissian was black.

71 posted on 06/20/2015 1:13:12 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Mr Rogers

“I’m not anti-Catholic...”

Yeah, actually you are.


72 posted on 06/20/2015 1:14:46 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: ansel12

“Yikes, the angriest, nastiest man on FR, is raging against Star Wars opinions now.”

In other words, I was right.


73 posted on 06/20/2015 1:15:26 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: rickmichaels

Art for arts sake is seldom profitable...


74 posted on 06/20/2015 1:25:21 PM PDT by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: BlueNgold

That is why leftists want to subsidize it


75 posted on 06/20/2015 1:26:20 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: vladimir998

Man, you aren’t making any sense at all, in your strange ragings.

How this post set you off on a continuing series of bizarre personal attacks, is a mystery.

To: rickmichaels
The first time around, I was looking for something more Sci-fi, and I walked out, but eventually I forced myself to just relax and try to see it as others did.

I got it the second time and thought that it was kind of a fun movie, but that first one was it for me.
3 posted on 6/20/2015, 11:11:14 AM by ansel12


76 posted on 06/20/2015 1:36:11 PM PDT by ansel12 (Trump- I identify as Democrat-- favorite president?-Clinton-- your veep? "Oprah my first choice".)
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To: vladimir998

“Yeah, actually you are.”

Why bring your religious bigotry to a thread about Star Wars movies? Is “The Force” making you do it? Has Pope Francis added liking Star Wars movies to Catholic theology? I’ll admit, they are at his intellectual level on economics and technology...


77 posted on 06/20/2015 1:36:14 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: rickmichaels

Saw it when it first came out. Thought it sucked, never went back for another. Did like Star Tours at WDW tho.


78 posted on 06/20/2015 1:39:21 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Mmogamer

I can’t believe I watched all 9 parts. That was quite entertaining. Thanks.


79 posted on 06/20/2015 1:49:27 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: ansel12

“Man, you aren’t making any sense at all, in your strange ragings.”

Man, you aren’t making any sense at all, in your strange comments. I posted one word to you. That’s not “raging”.

“How this post set you off on a continuing series of bizarre personal attacks, is a mystery.”

I posted one word. You responded. I responded to that. Nothing I posted was bizarre, or untrue, or even a personal attack. You seem to do this quite often: you just make stuff up out of thin air.


80 posted on 06/20/2015 1:51:55 PM PDT by vladimir998
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