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Friday Fun Link (Matinee Edition)

Jesse Walker | 1.23.2009 10:19 AM

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This is clearly better than any of the original movies.

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  1. Pac   16 years ago

    It kind of is........the cylons and The Stuff just sealed the deal

  2. Mike   16 years ago

    What are you trying to say, you IP commie?

  3. Andrew   16 years ago

    This is the funniest online video I've seen in years. I love how her goofy narration is done in the giant text like in the original movies.

  4. kevrob   16 years ago

    Patrick should marry that girl.

    Kevin

  5. PapayaSF   16 years ago

    My recent favorite: Vader Sessions, in which Darth Vader's scenes are redubbed with James Earl Jones lines from other movies. Brilliant.

  6. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Oh, posh. The first 2.667 movies (I mean the real first 2.667 movies) were quite entertaining. The last three are no longer canon. In fact, it turns out that Darth Vader wasn't Luke's dad. He was just lying. 'Cause he's evil!

  7. Naga Sadow   16 years ago

    *scratchs head in befuddlement*

    You sure about that, Pro Lib? Clicky.

  8. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Yes, I'm sure. Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were all kinds of good, and The Return of the Jedi was good except for the Ewoks. I'm a sucker for redemption stories, too, so I like ROTJ perhaps more than I should.

  9. Naga Sadow   16 years ago

    Pro Lib,

    The "most powerful" jedi knight and Padme? Makes sense. Padme and some senate clerk? Unlikely. I prefer stories where redemption is impossible. The characters must simply move on and adapt.

  10. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Anakin, most powerful? Despite the stilted dialogue otherwise, Yoda, Samuel L. Jackson, Kenobi, and probably others were obviously more powerful. Likely little Luke, too.

  11. Paul   16 years ago

    Ok that was pretty funny.

  12. Naga Sadow   16 years ago

    Pro Liberate,

    I find your lack of faith disturbing. LOL!

  13. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    This really shows how inept Lucas was in the prequels. The Emperor was also clearly inferior to Mace Windu and Yoda, and he admitted to being less powerful than Anakin, who was less powerful than those I set out above. Seems to me like the Jedi would've never lost to these losers.

  14. Naga Sadow   16 years ago

    If I recall correctly, my cognomen never needed any "DeathStar" contraption. He had such a command of the force he could cause suns to go nova. Clearly, the emperor was a joke and Vader was a badass till the prequeals shed light on his wimpiness.

  15. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Oh, yeah, your namesake was a badass of the highest order.

    As for Vader, I don't recognize the last three movies, so he's still a tough dude in my book. If it weren't for Shattered Glass, I wouldn't recognize his youthful portrayer's existence, either.

  16. Naga Sadow   16 years ago

    Indeed. Though I personally cannot acknowlegde Lucas's blunders. Whole thing is ruined for me now.

  17. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Can't be that ruined for you, else you would not be Naga Sadow.

  18. cuernimus   16 years ago

    The third movie is much better if you can visualize the Ewoks dying by the thousands. Though they would of been much better like this instead of like this. Nub nub motherfuckers.

  19. Jim Walsh   16 years ago

    I remember standing in line to see the original Star Wars for the first time (circa spring 1978) when the guy before me in line turned around.

    "This," he said, "is my seventeenth time seeing this move."

    "This," I said, "is my girlfriend."

    Have a good weekend...

  20. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    I was 10 when Star Wars came out, so girls weren't an issue. I saw it 10 times. I had a date for ROTJ, though, which I saw maybe twice at the theater. The second time without a distracting date ?

  21. The Bearded Hobbit   16 years ago

    God, she nailed it!

    .. Hobbit

  22. Robert   16 years ago

    Not a big fan, but I saw the 1st (episode 4) and got it -- like the old serials, but with more inside jokes -- and thought it would be artistically stupid albeit lucrative to actually fill in the serial with episodes.

  23. Joel Schlosberg   16 years ago

    Star Wars according to a 3 year old

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