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    This is true. Although, nothing has truly been done until Mantzoukas has done it. The Christmas Special would be good as would the Ewok films as mentioned below.

     

    That close to Christmas, they may as well do the holiday special! Phantom Menace is the deadest, most uninteresting horse there is.

     

    I agree with you, but that more or less undermines and negates Luke's journey in RotJ. A huge part of that movie is Luke's struggle between the Light and the Dark. He wants to be good, but now that he knows Vader is his father, how much of that Darkness is in him? A part of this struggle can be seen in Lucas' heavy-handed shirt symbolism. Throughout the movie, Luke is dressed in black, but once he definitively chooses the Light Side, his shirt is revealed to be white underneath--right across his heart (awwwwwww).

     

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    Yes, he was too old, but that just makes his journey all the more impressive. He faces his Temptation, and despite all the odds against him, he comes out clean on the other side. If Luke turns evil in FA, it would be like after all the training and growth Daniel LaRusso underwent during the Karate Kid, he used it to supplant Billy Zabka as the biggest bully in school.

     

    I really do recommend The Clones Wars (and Rebels) as supplemental entities. Yes, they can be kiddie and cheesy, but so can the movies. It just makes Anakin's heel-turn seem much less abrupt when you realize that a) unlike Luke, he's always been kind of a dick (but in a likable way), b ) his problem is he cares about EVERYONE too much, even the clones under his command, and c) the Jedi Order was pretty broken, and were kind of asshats to him--he earned a spot on that council dammit!.

     

     

     

    I love the poster, I agree with you about AotC, and I would love Matt Gourley to come on again, but I just feel that TPM has been done to death. Maybe they should do Caravan of Courage or The Battle for Endor...they are both horrible and terrifying.

     

     

     

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    Actually though, for having never seen them, you're right on point.

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    Would love for Paul, June and Jason with guest (and STAR WARS fan) Matt Gourley to do an episode on THE PHANTOM MENACE in tandem with the release of THE FORCE AWAKENS. ATTACK OF THE CLONES is the worst film but punishingly boring where there's fun to be had with TPM.

     

    Here's a poster I whipped up this aft. Things get pretty rough with Jason's Qui-Gon beard.

     

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    Simon West's masterpiece that rounds up a bunch of heavy hitters to ham it up on a plane. And as hard as they try, Cage still out chews them all. I used to LOVE this movie. It's so bad. (It and FACE/OFF would make a great double bill.)

     

     

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    I finally got around to watching this pile cause it's on HBO. Wow. I'm surprised it hasn't been done already. After the tedious introduction (which isn't terrible, just boring) it just gets dumber and dumber. Charlize Theron's performance is next level crazy. Her brother's haircut is worth its own episode (and he kind of reminded me of Pete Holmes). Great British/Aussie actors are playing Dwarfs (which is somehow forgiven, as long as its fantasy), the CG/creature work sometimes works and other moments fail miserably (the LOST ripoff, not smoke but, glass monster), the plot has giant holes mostly due to a nonsense love triangle with the pretty boy from Pirates 4. I thought Hemsworth and Stewart were fine (except one bonkers speech from the latter) and probably wish they could digitally replace themselves. And mostly I really, really want to hear June's thoughts on the 'feminist' revision of the classic fable. From what I could figure, the hottest woman's blood is magic.

     

    @jessecarp.

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    John McTiernan is a legend and in honour of him going to prison, I thought it would be fitting to look at his last directorial effort, TWISTS. Sorry, I mean, BASIC.

     

    Starring John Travolta and Sam Jackson (almost enough right there), the film starts as a pretty normal, even boring, military-legal thriller like A FEW GOOD MEN but the third act is absolutely bonkers. It's just a series of twists until it doesn't matter if anything makes sense or who gets away with what, you just want to stop the rug from being pulled again. And then they pull it a few more times. Lastly, just look at John Travolta's imdb pic. Got to love the internet.

     

    http://www.imdb.com/.../?ref_=tt_cl_t1

     

    EDIT: when I posted, his IMDB pic was him as a woman in HAIRSPRAY.

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