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My heart goes to you and the Mrs, @pengbuzz. You and she have been through a lot, and I am so sorry you are still getting even more. But I believe in you both, and that you are both strong enough to get through this. Just try and be the best loving husband I am sure you have always been, as that is what she will need from you most of all. Thom
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Just name this one the Mummy 3 and ignore the other one.
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Even in the first one, the Predator was learning how to speak. Admittedly, a lot of mimicry, but that's how it starts, and by the end it was using it's copy/paste vocabulary appropriately.
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Such a good actor. Had a great roll in Addicted to Love with one the greatest one-liners I've ever heard. Awesome in the Patriot and the Core, the man just brought the gravitas!
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Okay, great song choice! Queen!! Looking forward to the end. But not really, cause, c'mon...
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Is that Starbuck?! JK, good looking little display. It feels fast.
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Eleven all I'm sayin'!!!
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Also of the mind that you shouldn't let a sequel destroy your love/fun of the original. To also use the Alien analogy, Alien/Aliens are still great movies with a hopeful ending, and everything after that, esp Alien 3, was either a dream or just bad fan fiction. For me, the franchise ended when Ripley told Newt that they could both dream and I still enjoy those movies so much. The same for Picard or Tron. Tron and Tron Legacy, awesome and fun. Haven't seen Tron 3 (yet) but if it craps on the first two I'm just going to ignore it and keep the first two on my DVD shelf. And if people did not like Picard, then ignore everything with those characters after All Good Things... I've heard enough commentary comparing it to just fan fiction level anyway. To me, writing off something you've loved for years just because a sequel went off the rails, as it were, is kinda sad. The originals haven't changed and I don't think people should let a bad sequel keep them from still enjoying what was, I'd assume, the very best of what it had been. Just my two pence.
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Nice!
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Just give me one to park in the driveway!
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I don't read the supplemental stuff, like comics that are supposed to 'continue the story.' I want to watch the movie and get all my needed info from it rather than spend and give them more money. If it's need to know, put it in the movie. A new story with Finn should be trying to find his family and maybe going on a revenge kick if something bad happened to them. Well, compared to Star Trek, it is the 'used' universe.
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Ha! This chickee.
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Actually don't think I'll be doing that one. That's going to be sooo cool!
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I think if they did delve into his history, it could work. As mentioned, he has the whole backstory of being a child soldier with a lost past. Make a story of him trying to find where he came from, have him encounter other troopers, mainly those who did not turn against the Imperial Remnant (First Order) and with the afro chick and Lando along for the ride. Make sure the scripts were more dramatic than funny and I think it could work.
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New on the bench!
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They already are. Look in the doorway between the suit's feet. I know. Gotta keep dreaming the big dreams!
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This is why I feel that Ep8 is a 'lost' movie, that when found it would fill the gap between TFA and TRoS with some meaty, connective story-telling that would make it all work, and not be some disjointed mess that has the line, 'Somehow, Palpatine returned...' to explain away something very, very big. This lost movie has that 'somehow' explained in a cohesive and exciting way that makes it all worthwhile. Sure wish someone would find it. I last heard it had been lost somewhere deep in the Disney Vault... And I was fine with Driver's look and performance. His look is that of a 'good guy,' which you would expect of the child from Han and Leia, and when he finally turns back to the good at the end, it works. But I agree, he came across as too wishy-washy, with a bad mix of conviction tempered with a fair dose of explosive doubt that kept him flipping back and forth from devoted Sith Ren (what the heck is that again?!) to whiny whiner. Which is one reason why I wish they had just kept him bad. Darth Cadeus was bad to the end and if they were even remotely modelling Ben on him, then they should have kept it that way and really dived into the fact that not everyone can be, or wants to be, saved.
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Need more ships!! I was the Stealth frigate and this one from Frontier! and this and so many more!!
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
Thom replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
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Nooooooooooooooooooo, you are twisting my words!! It's not too far off though! And what I mean is that the opening crawl has the seed of what Ep8 should have been. The Resistance still under assault, but with whispers of a powerful evil returning. getting rid of the stupid chase scene and the stupid bomber scene, have Kylo fire and try to kill Leia, have Finn and Co hunting down what turns out to be the rumors of Palpatine returning, with maybe them being the ones who find out and tell everyone, while having Luke maybe having been trapped by the darkness of the cave-thing for a few years in his hunt for ancient Jedi secrets and more than ready to train Rey, keep Kylo betraying Snoke and asking Rey to join him and ending with Palpatine appearing and Luke and Rey showing up just as the Resistance is about to be crushed and Kylo teaming up with Palpy (for the moment) to put the Resistance out of its misery, culminating and Luke and Leia teaming up to battle them with Luke giving Leia her saber, though both of them end up being injured as they buy time for the Resistance to escape. ROLL CREDITS!
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No, you work up to it. Done right, that opening crawl could fill two hours with total excitement!
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Finally saw that! LOL!!! 'Why did you bring the pink one?!"
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Well, you fill it out, obviously, though maybe not the casino part, or the lame chase part, and you make a better training scene without crapping all over Luke, or killing Luke, and you give Finn a meaningful story line rather than some throw away crap, or... or.........🤷♂️
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Yeah, not bad for little 'shake'n'bake' kits. Rey cool! Always a generous offer @SteveTheFish, just like in the old days! And that is looking good @Papa Rat! The gold and the accent colors really work well together.
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All they had to do was completely refilm the Last Jedi to include Palpatine's resurrection, having that be the real story of the entire film, basically turning the entire opening crawl of RoS into its own screenplay. In fact, I consider the Last Jedi as a lost film that, when finally found, would seamlessly and without rush, tell a beautiful tale of the battle between good and evil. In another dimension...