CaptainStarwind

I'll definitely be putting some money aside to order that. I've been waiting to buy the show for 4 years now, so it's about damn time.

Hopefully the Megazone 23 thing turns out good.

Mobile Suit Gundam Episode 2

I realized that once I finished but I'm lazy and didn't really feel like going back and fixing it. Especially since I had spent over an hour typing that thing out. Besides, I think the name Rei suits her better. Though if she turns out to be a clone of Finn's mother I'm walking out of the movie. EDIT: Also fuck it if she turns out to really be the granddaughter of Obi-Wan or whatever. That's so contrived that the only thing worse than that would having her be Luke's daughter.

I've not yet seen Rouge One, but my order is pretty much identical to yours otherwise: 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. The Force Awakens 3. A New Hope 4. Return of the Jedi 5. Revenge of the Sith 6. Attack of the Clones 7. The Phantom Menace I have a lot of nostalgic love for Return of the Jedi that I don't have for any of the prequels, so that pushes it above all of them. Admittedly it's more fun watching the prequels under the "Darth Jar-Jar" camp.

I like how you responded to this first, then later responded my earlier post like you hadn't read this one. Not an insult or anything, just interesting is all. Oh GOD no. I'll take Miller Lite (or espeically Yuengling, if I can afford it) over PBR any day of the week. In all seriousness, though: There is a difference between disliking something BECAUSE it is popular and disliking it ALTHOUGH it is popular. This is something that can be confusing, and a distinction has to be made. There's nothing wrong at all with liking something popular; it wouldn't be popular in the first place if there wasn't something of merit to it. Take the Marvel Universe, for example. Fifteen years ago, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would believe that any superhero movie not starring Superman, Batman, or the X-Men could be made successfully. And now? Marvel has a juggernaut of a franchise with the Marvel Universe, has made consistently good movies that, while perhaps being a bit formulaic, are still both entertaining and fun to watch, has brought characters that only the most diehard of comic book fans would know of to the mainstream, and has pleased both comic book fans and the mainstream audiences with it's movies. It effectively brought new life to a dead genre, and has set the next trend for everybody to follow. DC has already done so with their DC Universe movies, and even Universal is getting in on the action, trying to relaunch their horror movie icons as a new ensemble piece. I think it's safe to say that Marvel superhero movies are pretty popular. And does this mean that I hate the movies? No, not at all! While I definitely don't see every movie released when it comes out (being a broke college kid making $40 a week will do that to ya), I do watch the movies when I get a chance, and I've never been truly disappointed when it came to a Marvel movie. Sure, there are some moments I don't particularly like, or some things that I felt were contrived, but you can identify that in really any movie, not just Marvel ones. Despite their popularity, I enjoy Marvel movies, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Now let's talk about Star Wars. Star Wars is also a juggernaut of a franchise. Star Wars has also been popular for far longer than Marvel films have, and it's influence on popular culture can't be understated. The first two movies (Episode IV and Episode V, I mean) are in the National Film Registry, and for good reason. Episode IV is the movie that cemented summer as the time for blockbuster films, and, in a way, signified the beginning of the end for the New Hollywood era of film-making. The movie has achieved full pop culture status; even if you've never seen the movie, you know what it's about. You know the characters, you know the dilemma, and you know the story. You can show Darth Vader's mask to anybody, and they can tell you who he is and that he's from Star Wars. Episode V is widely considered not only the best Star Wars movie in the entire series, but also one of the greatest movies ever made. Much like Episode IV, Episode V has achieved a pop culture status of it's own, though not to the extent of the first movie. Still, though, anyone can tell you who Yoda is, and, probably most telling, everybody in the world knows that Darth Vader is the father of Luke Skywalker. Even with the addition of the more polarizing Episode VI, the original Star Wars trilogy is a classic, and set the stage for Star Wars to become a massive media franchise. The prequel films, while definitely far more polarizing than the original trilogy, still have their merits. I agree with Masquerade's assessment that Episode III is the best of the prequel trilogy, and a pretty good movie overall: Personally I still find Anakin's motivation for joining the Dark Side to be stupid as all hell, but that's neither here nor there. The movies have all the elements there to be successful films, and in the hands of a more competent director than Lucas, perhaps they would have been better received. And then we come to the sequel trilogy. I've already admitted that when I first mentioned the movie I was pretty pissed at the world, which is generally a bad sign when I comment on anything. So, what does calm, collected and happy CaptainStarwind think of Episode VII, barring all other opinions: I think it's a good movie. Definitely better than Episode I, and maybe even better than Episode IV. Not better than Episode V, though. I won't give it that. The movie definitely captures the feeling that I get when I watch the Star Wars original trilogy. I like the main cast of three characters we have in the movie (Finn, Rei, and Poe): they're are all similar to the trio in the original trilogy (Luke, Leia, and Han), yet sufficiently different that they're their own characters, rather than expys of the original three. The First Order serves well as a replacement for the Empire: not much was needed here to fill the role of the big bad, and the First Order does it well. I like the newfound diversity in the movie: females, aliens, and non-whites find roles in the movie, and it makes the world seem larger. Of course there were some things I didn't like about the movie: I absolutely hate Kylo Ren as a villain for all the wrong reasons, and I think the story is too similar to Episode IV. They don't really ruin my enjoyment of the movie, though, and if I had the money to afford a Blu-ray copy, I'd probably buy it. My main reason for backlash against the movie comes from fans of it. I don't mean people who watch the movie and like it, or people who like to debate theories about the movie; I'm one of those people, so I can't really hate people for doing it. My backlash comes from the crazy fucks who proclaim the movie is without flaws and refuse to accept criticism of it, or the people who take one single aspect of the movie and blow it far out of proportions. I guess this is something I should expect from the internet in the modern world, but I still continue to be naive. I think the worst of it comes when people take something about the movie, such as Rei being the Jedi, for example, and go on to post about how the The Force Awakens is "breaking boundaries" and "being progressive" for having a female main character. Now I don't have a problem with Rei being the main character: she's well written and well acted. I don't see her in terms of being a woman, I see her in terms of being a strong and well acted main character to a movie. My problem lies in that these people focus on one aspect of her character: that of her being a female. They see nothing else, or at least care nothing else, of her character, other than that she is a woman. And they go on about it. And on. And on. And on. And on some more. It doesn't help that most of my Facebook friends were the ones who posted this stuff. It annoyed me to the extent that I've practically deleted my Facebook now. So is it right for me to have backlash against the film for things that it's stupid fans post? I suppose not. It isn't the film that's the problem, anyway. But it's still something that happens from time to time, and it usually takes a nice long vent for me to be able come back down and actually like the film and ignore the stupidity of parts of the fanbase. A nice long vent. Much like this was.

Well at first she was stunned by what I was saying, then argued about the legitimacy of it because she never learned about it in Japan. My professor stopped it before it got too far but we were on bad terms for a while. We're cool now, though.

Guess they don't consider the streams to be as important as the actual block. And given the problems I hear about the stream, I don't blame them.

Admittedly, I was in a pretty shitty mood when I was on here before. I don't necessarily hate Episode VII, but my enjoyment for it has been really tainted by everybody going fucking nuts over it when it first came out, calling it the best out of all the Star Wars movies, making such a big deal out it like it meant something special to Hollywood, etc. People like that can really ruin things for me, especially when I can't get away from hearing it.

I'm not excited. The big trailer I saw for it seemed to have vibes of the Major getting revenge on some big conspiracy for making her a cyborg in the first place, which at this point is cliche and not what a live action GITS adaptation deserves.

If by "stuff that hasn't been explored" you mean the different orifices in Kirito's harem, then I'm fairly certain he's explored them all by now. Multiple times. It was inevitable and it's inevitably coming to Toonami. I'll watch it. I'll hate it. I'll wish for the glory days of Oberon. But I will get no such mercy. [Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise]

TL;DR Lot's of pointless arguments Ben spamming post count Mondo trolling Lots of different factions There, I described the entire thread prior to this point for any newbies coming in.

That would be an improvement over what we got for Episode VII.

True story: I included this in a report on Japanese chemical weapon atrocities in WWII for a chemical spectroscopy class, and effectively got into an argument with the Japanese exchange student over it.

Decided to rewatch Dragon Ball, too. Dragon Ball Episode 1

Cory, you a busta.

Believe it or not I saw that advertised somewhere online earlier today. I wasn't actively looking for it at the time, though, so I don't remember where I saw it... Regardless, the regular DVD release will work just as well for me. Also I'm watching through the original Mobile Suit Gundam now. Episode 1 done.

I discovered this the other day and I loved it.

Shuffle is now finished. I might look into buying this one since it's pretty cheap.

Oh hell, that might be a problem. Thank God I grabbed the old sets of Amazon a couple years ago.

I might pick up DW if the price isn't too high. I won't buy the limited edition pack, though, the last thing I need in my house is art cards of Mira on the toilet. OPM is an assured buy, though probably DVD. I'll be happy if The Big O finally gets a release.

AAAAAAAAAAAnd so is Shuffle 22

Shuffle 20 and 21 are finished.

Why am I not surprised we were able to make three pages of this thread a back and forth about 4 Piece? If this would have gone on any longer I would have assumed you guys to be Ben and Gman.

I'd say those designs are... well definitely different. I kinda wanna watch the old HxH now.