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Post by Ingram on May 11, 2022 22:09:41 GMT
Cryogenic - Did you just call me a beatnik...?!
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Post by Cryogenic on May 11, 2022 22:11:29 GMT
I always have been and am still a sexless, no-girlfriend Star Wars nerd. Hahahaha. Beat that, Cryo! I did put TFA in the list (same thing), but took it out because it looked like, ah... beating a dead asexual bantha. Ah! Well, like I've mentioned, I did know a girl, not too long ago, who idolised Audrey and even bore something of a resemblance to her. We were getting on well, and then... Cryo had to go and Cryo it. |
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Post by Cryogenic on May 11, 2022 22:15:14 GMT
Cryogenic - Did you just call me a beatnik...?! Yeah, kinda. An outdoors-y one. Tough, grizzled. Lungs full of manly mountain air. A gruff yet purposeful walk... Okay, yeah, I called you a beatnik. |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 11, 2022 22:41:48 GMT
Revenge of the Sith- a girlfriend-with-benefits at the time Hmm, triggered. Cryo during TPM:- sexless, no-girlfriend Star Wars nerd Cryo during AOTC:- sexless, no-girlfriend Star Wars nerd Cryo during ROTS:- sexless, no-girlfriend Star Wars nerd Go prequels? You've led a colourful life, Ingram -- no wonder you're the beat poet of the Star Wars message board world! My brain primarily took from that: Sex, salmon, clouds, trees, dial-up, dirt.
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Post by Ingram on May 11, 2022 22:53:46 GMT
A seriously underappreciated maneuver that flies below the radar of all the Hayden/Anakin/PT haters. I mean, his apartment balcony is swank. Obi-Wan may have had the high ground, but Anakin had the high-rise!
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Post by Cryogenic on May 11, 2022 22:58:09 GMT
A seriously underappreciated maneuver that flies below the radar of all the Hayden/Anakin/PT haters. I mean, his apartment balcony is swank. Obi-Wan may have had the high ground, but Anakin had the high-rise! And he starts as a slave! |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 11, 2022 23:05:19 GMT
A seriously underappreciated maneuver that flies below the radar of all the Hayden/Anakin/PT haters. I mean, his apartment balcony is swank. Obi-Wan may have had the high ground, but Anakin had the high-rise!
Much to learn you still have from Chadakin, Cryo. You'll get there some day  |
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Post by Cryogenic on May 11, 2022 23:14:50 GMT
A seriously underappreciated maneuver that flies below the radar of all the Hayden/Anakin/PT haters. I mean, his apartment balcony is swank. Obi-Wan may have had the high ground, but Anakin had the high-rise!
Much to learn you still have from Chadakin, Cryo. You'll get there some day  Chadakin brings hope to us all! |
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Post by Alexrd on May 11, 2022 23:23:39 GMT
I'm still curious about your Sean Connery mention. Was he in that game? I can't remember. Granted, I haven't played it since last millennia. They plastered his face on one of Theed's citizens. It's more of an Easter egg. |
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Post by Cryogenic on May 11, 2022 23:26:50 GMT
I'm still curious about your Sean Connery mention. Was he in that game? I can't remember. Granted, I haven't played it since last millennia. They plastered his face on one of Theed's citizens. It's more of an Easter egg. Sean Connery (sorta) in Episode I (sorta). On Theed (sorta). Whoa. |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 13, 2022 5:52:52 GMT
I mean, his apartment balcony is swank. Obi-Wan may have had the high ground, but Anakin had the high-rise!
I love how in the cannon, by the time of the OT - 20 years on from the dramatic events of ROTS - the apartment is still there, locked away and preserved by Padmé's close associates. The Empire don't bother with it whatsoever.
Vader pops into it sometime between V and VI, on a quest to figure out how Luke was concealed from him. There's a lot of reminiscing that goes on, its a melancholic atmosphere for sure. He's respectful of the place, then leaves.
It's like a museum.I love that.
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Post by Alexrd on May 13, 2022 15:55:15 GMT
They plastered his face on one of Theed's citizens. It's more of an Easter egg. Sean Connery (sorta) in Episode I (sorta). On Theed (sorta). Whoa.  "The quest for the Grail is not archaeology. it's a race against evil!" |
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 16, 2022 11:03:40 GMT
Neurons that fire together wire together.
For sure, I've also been wanting to mention the month of May and the ensuing summer months being strongly associated with Star Wars in my mind as well. That warm, sunny weather, the vibrant green everywhere with the accompanying fragrance of the blossoming trees and flowers, the pollen, the singing birds, going out without a jacket for the fist time in months, girls in their shorts & tank-tops, the sunlight shimmering among the ripples on the lake, the smell of sunscreen, the long warm nights and epic sunsets, all while enjoying the process of processing and integrating the new Star Wars films in my mind - and in some cases anticipating the next one to be released in just a matter of days.
Yes, every time May comes around I suddenly hear John Williams' Star Wars theme and my brain kicks into ultra-SW mode. Almost like a force of habit, if you will.
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Post by Cryogenic on May 16, 2022 14:04:47 GMT
Neurons that fire together wire together. For sure, I've also been wanting to mention the month of May and the ensuing summer months being strongly associated with Star Wars in my mind as well. That warm, sunny weather, the vibrant green everywhere with the accompanying fragrance of the blossoming trees and flowers, the pollen, the singing birds, going out without a jacket for the fist time in months, girls in their shorts & tank-topsThat was all you needed to say.  Although, yes, the whole thing you just wrote was very poetic. But dayyyyum. |
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Post by smittysgelato on May 16, 2022 20:50:35 GMT
The bolded part is def the best part of warmer weather.
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 16, 2022 21:05:16 GMT
Nothing reminds me more of the prequel era... than seeing those damn Roman numerals so proudly in the film titles.
It gives the PT a great timeless quality.
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Post by Cryogenic on May 16, 2022 22:21:33 GMT
The bolded part is def the best part of warmer weather. Outrageous!!! Let's all flagellate and cancel ourselves immediately!!!  |
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Post by Cryogenic on May 16, 2022 22:28:57 GMT
Nothing reminds me more of the prequel era... than seeing those damn Roman numerals so proudly in the film titles.
It gives the PT a great timeless quality.
Oh, totally!!! I was incredibly pissed when Disney/LFL dropped the numerals from the sequel movies. Felt like a major diss to George Lucas and the notion of an integrated Saga. In retrospect, it was a sign of their intentions -- and, given the reputation and overall comportment of the sequels, probably for the best. Nothing better (well, girls in shorts and tank-tops aside) than seeing the numerals I, II, III, in perfect sequence, next to our favourite movies. They immediately confer the idea of a great chronicle unfolding (something carefully segmented and with great thought put into it), as well as indicating where in the story you are. Timeless, indeed. |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 16, 2022 22:40:05 GMT
Oh, totally!!! I was incredibly pissed when Disney/LFL dropped the numerals from the sequel movies. Felt like a major diss to George Lucas and the notion of an integrated Saga. In retrospect, it was a sign of their intentions -- and, given the reputation and overall comportment of the sequels, probably for the best. Nothing better (well, girls in shorts and tank-tops aside) than seeing the numerals I, II, III, in perfect sequence, next to our favourite movies. They immediately confer the idea of a great chronicle unfolding (something carefully segmented and with great thought put into it), as well as indicating where in the story you are. Timeless, indeed.
If only we could have sent this to Abrams in time...
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 17, 2022 9:18:21 GMT
Yesterday a long-time friend emailed me saying he noticed it was the 20-year anniversary for AotC and how he remembers seeing it with me for our first two times on opening day and the following day. And how he associates AotC with Eugene (Oregon).
Because he's from Portland and he made a rare trip to Eugene to visit me (I was a Eugenian) that week for AotC and a camping trip with some other friends of ours.
Truly wonderful how the mind works.
I also associate AotC with that week.
And an interesting aside: a girl I liked worked at that particular theater in the big, window ticket booth out front, but she had moved to Louisiana a couple months prior. But lo and behold, as my friend and I eventually made our way through the long line up to the ticket window on opening day she was there and sold us our tickets! I talked to her for a minute or two and turns out she'd moved back. She said she wanted to hang out but I ended up moving to Portland only a few weeks later, because my landlord lost her house and I needed a place quick - which happened to be a room in the house this friend of mine was living in at the time.
He had Playstation2 so I spent a lot of that summer playing the Episode II video game and Bounty Hunter, which I loved. Although I think Bounty Hunter came out in the Fall that year.
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