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Post by Cali on Jan 13, 2011 21:20:28 GMT 1
I remember buying the Phantom Menace video game on the PC and liking it. It barely worked on my PC, but I enjoyed the adventure game aspects it had.
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Post by Knightfall on Jan 13, 2011 21:28:07 GMT 1
Oh god, that game was so fun. I kept falling into that big fan on that first level, in the ventilation ducts. Seeing Obi Wan just disintegrate was kinda crazy.
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Post by ommadawn on Jan 14, 2011 0:09:09 GMT 1
Starwars lives on in it's games. Some duds, of course, but many are gems that I will treasure (and replay) forever.
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Post by Mister Buch on Jan 14, 2011 4:03:12 GMT 1
Is that the game where you were Obi-Wan and everyone had big heads?
I think I played that on Xbox.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Jan 14, 2011 5:15:55 GMT 1
I don't think so. It was released on PS1 in 2000, and I don't think the xbox had been released yet. You got to play as Qui-Gon, and Padme and that black guy in the plastic armour for a few levels.
The best level had to be Mos Espa. You could just wander around the town as Qui-Gon, killing whoever you felt like (even Padme, or Anakin and his mother, though that caused you to get a game over.), stepping in Bantha poodoo and flirting with twileks.
I remember laughing my head off when Padme fearfully told Qui-Gon to stay away, due to him having murdered most of the town.
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Post by Mister Buch on Jan 17, 2011 3:49:30 GMT 1
I must be thinking of a different one...
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Post by Knightfall on Jan 23, 2011 23:42:09 GMT 1
Here's an intro that Matthew Stover wrote for a fan of his who was doing a report on his REVENGE OF THE SITH adaptation. It makes you wonder why Stover didn't have a hand in actually writing the movie:
Though Anakin Skywalker was born -- as most folk with access to a movie theater know -- a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, his story has always been grounded in Earth's 20th Century . . . in America's Century, as some people like to call it. Coming from a history of slavery to an idealistic youth, tested and finally broken in war against a shadowy enemy, his tragic fall is a cautionary tale that reminds us how we may well be remembered most for our failure to live up to our own ideals -- yet his eventual redemption reminds us, too, that compassion can overcome greed, and love may finally triumph over power, if only we remember in time who we wanted to be, when we were young . . .
Here is a short history of a man's life: a man who did too much, yet could never do enough; a man who lost everything, even himself, because he wanted more.
For your consideration, then, boy, man, and machine --
The Life of Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover author of STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH April 2006
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Post by Mister Buch on Jan 24, 2011 0:45:15 GMT 1
I love that thought about slavery. Very interesting. But... I find it very difficult to admire the story of Anakin Skywalker as it was told in the prequels. I don't think the combined efforts of Lucas' weekend and Hayden Christensen deserve that kind of high praise.
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Post by Battlechantress on Jan 24, 2011 3:10:48 GMT 1
The problem could have been easily avoided if Lucas had the foresight to hire semi-feral barn cats instead of Christensen.
/ducks
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Post by Clint Johnston on Jan 24, 2011 7:06:01 GMT 1
Whiny Bastard. (Christensen, not Chantress)
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Post by Battlechantress on Jan 24, 2011 17:58:46 GMT 1
The cats certainly would have whined less than he (Christensen) did. The only probable downside would have been hairballs on Portman's costumes. Then again, given her crappy acting ability, that might not be such a bad thing.
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Post by ommadawn on Jan 24, 2011 23:41:59 GMT 1
Zing! Someone's holding some pent-in (okay, not so pent-in) hostility toward a certain young actress. Go on chantress, let it all out! You'll feel better, trust me.
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Post by Battlechantress on Jan 25, 2011 1:13:40 GMT 1
I don't hate her. I just don't think the woman can act. Neither can Christensen.
Then again, compared to the idiots starring in the "Twilight" movies, those two seem like Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
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Post by Mister Buch on Jan 25, 2011 1:22:31 GMT 1
I'm starting to agree with you, Chantress. I always think of her as a good actress, but honestly, when I think about it, in what movie was she good? Leon, I guess.
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You know which actor I hate, don't you?
Yeah you do. And Ryan Reynolds as well.
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Post by ommadawn on Jan 27, 2011 0:02:23 GMT 1
Have you seen Black Swan yet? Watch that and then make judgement.
As for Ryan Reynolds... yech. Serve all the hate you like on the man.
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