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  • #6452
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    b.gud wrote: »
    I was wondering how many posts before someone suggested ignoring the prequels all together. For the record it was one post later than I thought :)

    Ignore the whole lot, watched them as a kid and thought they were meh, watched them as an adult and thought the same, tried watching 3 again last week and lasted 15 mins before switching off ........ Now if you had said Star Trek! :)


  • #6453
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    Pink Fairy wrote: »
    Ignore the whole lot, watched them as a kid and thought they were meh, watched them as an adult and thought the same, tried watching 3 again last week and lasted 15 mins before switching off ........ Now if you had said Star Trek! :)
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  • #6454
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,707 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Pink Fairy wrote: »
    Ignore the whole lot, watched them as a kid and thought they were meh, watched them as an adult and thought the same, tried watching 3 again last week and lasted 15 mins before switching off ........ Now if you had said Star Trek! :)

    Actually kinda agree. Will go see the new Star Wars, but I really never got the appeal. Part of this may be because I never saw the originals until I was in my early 20s and I just don't think they hold up well. Would probably feel differently had I seen them as a kid.


  • #6455
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    RuggieBear wrote: »
    tumblr_inline_mrv6tzIVSO1qz4rgp.gif

    I'm only putting this here as it always makes me laugh !


  • #6456
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    I think also when they were released science fiction movies were almost classed as B movies so at the time they were revolutionary.

    The Star Trek and Alien film prob mightn't have been made if it weren't for Star Wars.


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  • #6457
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    I've never watched a star wars film. Or any of the godfather trilogy. Or any James Bond movie before Daniel Craig. Or apocalypse now. Or the shining.

    Wouldn't really be a film buff.


  • #6458
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    You've seen Weekend at Bernie's though, yeah?


  • #6459
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    mfceiling wrote: »
    I've never watched a star wars film. Or any of the godfather trilogy. Or any James Bond movie before Daniel Craig. Or apocalypse now. Or the shining.

    Wouldn't really be a film buff.

    Ffs. No electric where you come from or something?


  • #6460
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    awec wrote: »
    Ffs. No electric where you come from or something?

    Too busy out getting some

    *may or may not be true*














    *isn't true*


  • #6461
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    mfceiling wrote: »
    I've never watched a star wars film. Or any of the godfather trilogy. Or any James Bond movie before Daniel Craig. Or apocalypse now. Or the shining.

    Wouldn't really be a film buff.

    Same here


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  • #6462
    chupacabra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭chupacabra


    Does anyone remember when they used to show foreign films late at night on RTE 2? They used to show a lot of Anders Thomas Jensen movies like Flickering Lights and Open Hearts. I highly recommend his danish language films. Thanks RTE. :cool:


  • #6463
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    So, after months of humming and hawing, and trying this one and that one... I am now the proud owner of a Merida Ride 400 ...all I need now is an industrial sized tub of Vaseline and I'm laughing!


  • #6464
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Actually machete order skips 1. So if you can make a convincing argument why 1 should be watched.....

    I'm the sort of person who'd watch the whole lot for completeness sake. I don't mind watching crappy films from time to time. And the lightsaber fight at the end is decent enough. Ultimately there isn't any reason at all to watch the prequels. They aren't great and they don't really add much to the overall Star Wars story.


  • #6465
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Pink Fairy wrote: »
    So, after months of humming and hawing, and trying this one and that one... I am now the proud owner of a Merida Ride 400 ...all I need now is an industrial sized tub of Vaseline and I'm laughing!

    Chamois and padded shorts commando style.


  • #6466
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Instead of going to that Metropolis festival, I'm going to the happy pear. I've changed.


  • #6467
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Watched that Mad Max Fury Road tonight. Think it's both brilliant and weird at the same time.

    Would it have made a difference if I had seen any other mad max movies? Was this a sequel?


  • #6468
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    awec wrote: »
    Watched that Mad Max Fury Road tonight. Think it's both brilliant and weird at the same time.

    Would it have made a difference if I had seen any other mad max movies? Was this a sequel?

    I agree, one of my favourite films this year.

    It might have helped with the overall feel of the world if you'd seen the other movies, there's a few references but for the most part its a spiritual successor set in the same environment, don't think there was anything that you couldn't understand without seeing them.


  • #6469
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    I suffered through an hour of American Sniper and gave up.

    Most disjointed movie.


  • #6470
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    I agree, one of my favourite films this year.

    It might have helped with the overall feel of the world if you'd seen the other movies, there's a few references but for the most part its a spiritual successor set in the same environment, don't think there was anything that you couldn't understand without seeing them.

    I thought the actual storyline was rubbish, but the action made up for it.

    It seemed like they had decided on what action scenes they wanted and then came up with a story that would allow them to show those scenes rather than the other way around.

    Definitely a leave your brain at the door movie for me.


  • #6471
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Mad Max is just mad. I saw it in the cinema and thought it was completely stupid but I was loving it all the same. With the actual storyline the film moves so quick that it's about half or 2/3 of the way through before I even wondered what the film was about!

    American Sniper I thought was ok as a stand alone film but then when you read about what the guy was really like it becomes really bad. Seemingly he was nothing like the guy in the film and was fond of a bit of the auld exaggerating/making stuff up.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sniper_(book)#Post-publication_retraction


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  • #6472
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Oh yeah it's not particularly deep but it's great fun. I loved it. Much better than I was expecting.


  • #6473
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Haven't seen American Sniper, but I imagine it to be an american propaganda cheesefest that would frustrating to watch.


  • #6474
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    awec wrote: »
    Haven't seen American Sniper, but I imagine it to be an american propaganda cheesefest that would frustrating to watch.

    pretty much


  • #6475
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    pretty much

    Agreed, and I'd read too much about it/ the main character before watching it.


  • #6476
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    Stheno wrote: »
    Agreed, and I'd read too much about it/ the main character before watching it.

    Think I was the same with Silver Linings Playbook , had heard so much about it, and the brilliant performance of the leads capturing people with mental illness brilliantly..... I watched an hour of it and can honestly say I havent seen a worse film in the last 10 years. Unadulterated horsepoo... imo of course
    Can't bring myself to watch American Sniper :)


  • #6477
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    I need a name change again.....


  • #6478
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Pink Fairy wrote: »
    I need a name change again.....

    Does anyone still know who you are?


  • #6479
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Does anyone still know who you are?

    I don't even know who I am!


  • #6480
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,205 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    Pink Fairy wrote: »
    I need a name change again.....

    People have just been talking about MadMax and American Sniper. Combine them. Mad Sniper.


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  • #6481
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    RE:Broadband speeds - it's actually getting to the point where the major slowdown is the ****ty read/write speed of my laptop's hard drive


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