Dancelot said:

No problemo!

TheSmyrk said:

You're a fan, I'm a friggin' geek! King of the dorks, I am!

JediMaster said:

Meanwhile, I'm at work fashioning a likeness of Wally West out of pipe cleaners. I get away with murder around here. Bwahahahahah....

TheSmyrk said:

Wow! Okay, if you're doing that, then you definitely belong in my Kingdom of Dorkelvanyia!

JediMaster said:

Just a little something extra, but the ET computer model had been created for Progressive Insurance commercials first aired during the 1999 Super Bowl. Since they already had the computer model, it was easy to just plop the ET species into the senate scene. Progressive Insurance had signed a deal with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment to use his ET character as its safety spokesman. In fact, one of their road signs still stands to the entrance of the town I live in.

TMPletz said:

Ah yes, I remember those ads. I never quite grasped what the hell ET had to do with car insurance, but oh well.

JediMaster said:

I believe that the answer is simple.
The events which Lucas' historical epics depict are from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Since that time, humans perfected intergalactic travel (the Yuuzhan Vong's living worldships did it...albeit at a snail's pace. I'm sure that the Mon Calamari were able to perfect it). So they were able to colonize other galaxies. The Milky Way being one of them.
Ancient settlers landed on our planet and set up a brisk business harvesting the enormous hides from our native dinosaurs. Obviously they over-hunted them and - alas - no more dinos.
Then some catastrophe on the sole port city (Atlantis) caused the city (and all of it's technology) to sink into the ocean, prompting anyone with a space-faring vehicle to flee. Those abandoned had to fend for themselves, and Earth degenerated into a primitive planet (no longer noted on any star charts).
Of course, some Jedi chose to stay behind, and became ingrained in our folklore (Odin, Thor, Zeus, Hercules, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Osiris, Vishnu, Cheng-Huang, etc., etc.).
Over the years we've had the occasional traveler who chances upon our planet, such as the unfortunate Rodians who crashed in Roswell, or (of course) the "E.T." gang who - even as we speak - are attempting to market Reese's Pieces in the intergalactic black market!

PurpleJedi said:

Actually, the Roswell aliens were Ferengi. (See Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode #480, "Little Green Men.")

TMPletz said:

PurpleJedi said:

EXCELLENT ANSWER!!! Bravo!

TMPletz said:

Ahhh yes! I'm fairly sure they left one of their own behind:

Okay...I know the next sentai for 2006/7 is gonna be Boukenger. Since Disney bought Toei out, it's gonna suck major dickage and I thought they'd do something better seeing as how it's the 30th anniversary. So any idea on what the one after Boukenger is gonna be? If you can answer this shit, you're a god.

JediMaster said:

Or the result of mixed breeding, perhaps?

One more Q 4 U;

Which ship would win in a space battle: Moya (from Farscape) or a Yuuzahn Vong coralskipper?

DynamicSavior said:

I gotta admit, I'm a mere mortal, as I have no idea what you're talking about.

PurpleJedi said:

Believe it or not, I've never seen Farscape . I've heard really good things about it though. Still, I don't feel qualified to answer this question, since I only know the capablities of a coralskipper.

HELLO AGAIN JEDIMASTER...

Tell me, is it true that Jabba the Hutt speaks Quechua, a native American language of South America?

papaa said:

Huttesse is based on Quechua.

JUST SAW MINORITY REPORT AGAIN AND...

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you were one of those who lambasted the film for a number of holes in the storyline. Can you please point them out because yet again I thought it was pretty good stuff. Speilberg at his very best.

Did he stick closely to the novel?

papaa said:

No, it didn't stick to the novel.

I'm too lazy to cite all of them, so I've dug up some other folks observations that match mine:














Spielberg has become a lazy storyteller in recent years. He establishes points, then contradicts them with no explanation (War of the Worlds had just as many plot holes and contradictions). He often will make a point of establishing a rule, then turn around and ignore it later in the film. This, combined with Cruise's characters in these films being extremely unlikeable, has really soured me on the more recent stuff. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that I so enjoyed Catch Me If You Can, I would probably written him off and quit going to see his stuff.

WHO'S THE MOST LOUSY STORYTELLER?

Spielberg, Zemeckis, or Lucas?

Also, apologies if you've answered this before but why is Vader such a pussy in RoJ? Such a malevolent force in ESB evolves into a pathetic shell in the final movie. And if he was so keen in joining forces with Luke why didn't he just mow down the Emperor? -- it's not as if Luke woulda stopped him.

Muchas gracias.

JediMaster said:

YES!! OWNED!!!

Oh wise-one, what is the latest info on 'Ghost Rider'?

papaa said:

None of those three are truly "lousy". They've just lost some of their edge over the years. Spielberg, to me, is the one who has fallen the farthest from greatness. He used to be the best of the three you mentioned, but now I feel he's the worst.

As we've seen from the prequels, Vader is a man in conflict with himself. He can be a major badass when he wants to be, but he winds up kissing Darth Sidious's ass much of the time. Sidious is an incredibly powerful Sith Lord, and Vader knows he needs an ace in his deck (like Luke) in order to take him on. He is potentially more powerful than Sidious, but ol' Palpatine has way more knowledge of the Dark Side. If Vader could turn Luke, then he'd have someone powerful enough on his side to risk overthrowing the Emperor.

Why didn't he let Luke kill him when he had the chance? Simple: he knew Luke couldn't do it at that point, and that Sidious would wind up killing him. He wanted to turn Luke, train him, and THEN depose the Emperor. He simply wasn't going to be able to take on Palpatine without losing his own life in the process (which is exactly what winds up happening when he decides to save his son's life).

Ultimately, Vader's conflict with his son on Bespin awakens the compassionate, good person that Anakin had been. The long-buried, benevolent side of Vader begins to re-emerge, thrusting him into an inner-conflict. In the months between ESB and ROTJ, Vader has found himself struggling with emotions he had long-since repressed, thus making him rather unsure of his actions.

DynamicSavior said:

Does this have something to do with Power Rangers?

BananaCologne said:

The latest word is that the director, Mark Steven Johnson, went to the studio and basically told them he was completely unhappy with the special effects work. He asked for more time to get the CGI right, and amazingly enough they agreed. Rather than force him to hurry up and release the film (as they did when he was working on Daredevil), they are actually going to give Johnson's team the time to make the special effects decent.

Principal photography has long since wrapped, and Johnson already did a rough cut. Now, it is just a matter of refining the effects. The studio has bumped the flick back to February 2007. Yes, it's a long-ass time to wait, but I'd rather them not rush and do it right. If the CGI isn't right, the whole movie would be a disaster.

JediMaster said:

Run out to Blockbuster ASAP and rent all of the seasons!!!

PurpleJedi said:

Actually, that's the problem. All the video stores near me either don't have it, or they're missing episodes.

Who would have been bitchslapped more at school?



Orko



or






Snarf?

JimmyNothing said:

Well, both certainly deserved it, but Orko deserves to have his ass-whipped a hundred times or so!