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Dressed like that (or rather not dressed) I'm surprised he didn't find you.
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See, I didn't think the action scenes were all that good in 1, 2, and 3. Couldn't say why, really, as I haven't watched them in a long frickin' time.Them not following the books doesn't bother me because A) I never read the books, and B) they said they weren't going to. Yes, there are plot holes, but so what? Every series has them. And if they had taken the time to explain how Palpatine raised the Sith fleet, then people would still complain. Whether about how "unrealistic" it was, or that it took too much time and made the movies boring. Sure, I would have preferred if they had left Palpatine dead and found some other threat, but in the end it really doesn't matter. Were 7, 8, and 9 great movies? No. But really, neither were 4, 5, and 6. Try watching them again and you'll find plenty of nonsense. But, in my opinion, 7, 8, and 9 were better than 1, 2, and 3, and at least gave an ending to the Skywalker arc. Now, if they chose to, they can go forward and make new stuff, and I am mildly interested in seeing what they do with it.I mean if we just rated them by action scenes. 1,2,3, puts all the rest to shame. The war battles, the starship fighting, let alone the Jedi fights which were all incredible. Even pod racing was ground breaking for it's time.
Come on now the Darth Maul fight was probably the best action sequence in the entire franchise. with the episode 3 obiwan v anakin fight being a close second. Plus anything with yoda in it was a treat.
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** spoiler omitted **...
I can't go into the problems with ours for soo many reasons the least of which is flaming bicycles.
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It always seemed to work for the scotts well until it didn't but still.
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They staggered start times we're the first team out the door.
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Dressed like that (or rather not dressed) I'm surprised he didn't find you.Distracting someone before punching them in the nuts is a valid stratagy.
Always worked for Red Sonja and I.
Meanwhile I get jelly-legged, aching-backed exhausted after 45 minutes of yardwork and have to call it a day. =/
What are you, some sort of inevitable colossus?!
Ugh! You braggadocious types always going on and on about your inhumanly fantastic stamina~
(I'm saying y... you'd likely last longer than I.)
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I walk a mile home with at least 60 pounds of groceries once a week.
45 minutes worth of yard work is a light workout for me (and would probably take anyone else twice as long).
I won't tell you how many bags of concrete I moved from one shed to the other yesterday.
Also, every snow run I had to load a dozen bags of salt in my truck.
No wonder you're "Shreddie Vedder"-!!
*does Hulk sad walk song, but cap drives by in truck blaring You've Got the Touch and gets blasted away with a cloud of dust*
For everyone who loves mimics and some low level papercraft: papercraft mimic
This is adorable.
I'm never going to do this, because, like certain spoony bard in FF4, if I got a paper cut I may need immediate life-saving medical attention*, and looking at that I'd likely receive three in the span of looking at it**...
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Just back from grocery shopping.
Dear Lord...
People, the grocery stores are open because they have to be. People will starve to death without food. Going into a store and browsing, blocking up the aisles because your contemplating whether or not to put an item you are holding in your grubby hands into your cart, keeping people from moving because they're not supposed to get close to you is beyond not cool.
It's outright dangerous.
They only let so many people in the store at a time and put arrows on the floor so that everyone follows a route and keeps a distance. Makes sense and makes it easy to maintain social distancing while shopping for necessities. So turning around and going back the way you came for whatever reason heads you right into a person you are supposed to be keeping your distance from. If you are not intelligent enough to follow simple instructions, maybe you should let someone who is shop for you.
The stores that are still operating are not open as places for you to "get out of the house for a while" and "socialize safely." They are only open because of necessity. The health of the employees is being put at risk so you can eat, get fuel, etc. The girl at the checkout was looking frazzled, and it was only 9 AM. She had been working for just over two hours. And she was being treated by some of these people as rude because she was trying to stay carefully behind her sneeze guard and maintain social distance.
Grow the hell up.
And that last statement is exceptionally ironic, as the majority of these fools are older people, baby boomers and up. The people most vulnerable to this virus. The stupid is overwhelming. I would face palm, but we're not supposed to touch our faces if we can help it!
[/end rant]
Sorry, but I seriously needed to vent...
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And I bet if they're anything like my parents, they're complaining about "these young people behaving disrespectfully" the whole time.
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And I bet if they're anything like my parents, they're complaining about "these young people behaving disrespectfully" the whole time.
On the nose.
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And I bet if they're anything like my parents, they're complaining about "these young people behaving disrespectfully" the whole time.
I can be extremely respectful of that group. Respectful of poetic conventions, that is. I think I shall compose them a sonnet. "Dirge on a Bloated Leech" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
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Not surprised.
TECHNICALLY my parents aren't Boomers, not by age. Born In 60 and 61, they're right on the high edge of Gen X, as NH has repeatedly reminded us all.
But in mentality, behavior, worldview/politics, and morality/ethics? 100% Boomers. Every Boomer stereotype I've heard has applied to them in some way, and only becomes more so with the fact that they're both stuck at home as a nonessential worker on Dad's case and recovering from surgery on Mom's (minor hand surgery so nothing to be worried about, but as a physical therapist she's basically off work completely until fully healed).
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And I bet if they're anything like my parents, they're complaining about "these young people behaving disrespectfully" the whole time.I can be extremely respectful of that group. Respectful of poetic conventions, that is. I think I shall compose them a sonnet. "Dirge on a Bloated Leech" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
Sure, if you're a Vogon.
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Principal: "Let's hear from [math teacher]! How are you?"
Math teacher: "...Doing good."
Ah, faculty meetings.
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Them not following the books doesn't bother me because A) I never read the books, and B) they said they weren't going to. Yes, there are plot holes, but so what? Every series has them. And if they had taken the time to explain how Palpatine raised the Sith fleet, then people would still complain. Whether about how "unrealistic" it was, or that it took too much time and made the movies boring. Sure, I would have preferred if they had left Palpatine dead and found some other threat, but in the end it really doesn't matter. Were 7, 8, and 9 great movies? No. But really, neither were 4, 5, and 6. Try watching them again and you'll find plenty of nonsense. But, in my opinion, 7, 8, and 9 were better than 1, 2, and 3, and at least gave an ending to the Skywalker arc. Now, if they chose to, they can go forward and make new stuff, and I am mildly interested in seeing what they do with it.I mean if we just rated them by action scenes. 1,2,3, puts all the rest to shame. The war battles, the starship fighting, let alone the Jedi fights which were all incredible. Even pod racing was ground breaking for it's time.
Oh, no, my very bearded, bearded friend, *he says, stroking his own overgrown weeds on his face*, no, no.
Here's how it goes:
- the first Trilogy as a set of films functions very well as a coherent set of reasonable stories that have a decent premise, and really good execution
- the second Trilogy as a set of films functions moderately well as a mostly-coherent set of moderately reasonable stories with an okay-to-decent premise, and extraordinarily uneven execution
(ranging from solid, if sometimes empty or stilted, action scenes; to long empty ranting dialogue; to moderate-to-bad on-screen chemistry or direction or both ; to baffling character decisions)
- the third Trilogy as a set of films functions decently well as a fairly-coherent set of unreasonable poorly-connected stories with oft-baffling premise, and incredible-to-middling execution (exceptional cast chemistry, ridiculously well-done choreography for many instances, and occasionally really, really baffling story beats that nonetheless generally work out well for story-telling purposes even if they suffer from fridge logic)
I found that Rouge One was a really good. It had a few issues, and was a bit dark for the series, but it worked well.
I actually liked Solo as a film - it wasn't perfect, but it was decent - but oh, boy was that, uh, hm, "creature" a... thing. I mean. Hrmmm. I... though they did away with that when they deemed The Crystal Star non-canon Rubes uh, er, "Legends" (yeah). Also, of course, some of the other well-known issues with the film are... odd, for SW canon, to say the least.
Like, by canon, yes, Thrawn was canon, but so were the old Marvel SW comics (including one where Yoda and Windu were sipping coffee and bemusedly talking about local events, such as implying "things" they "might know" about Palpatine, wink-wink)... as was the Glove of Vader (which, if you don't know this, bless you; but I do... I... do).
Of course, even more "mainline" stuff was considered broadly problematic - like the Vong (in general with lots of stuff in specific), or Darth Caedus (the new one; avoiding spoilers just in case), and (of course) my beloved Crystal Star, and more.
This isn't getting into the Prequel trilogy not only ignored literally everything written in canon, it outright contradicted canon in numerous instances, breaking lore, and breaking dreams generally causing problems. We (collectively) forgave it, of course (at first) because we were just hype for "the dream" - the idea that SW was back on the big screen! It slowly became apparent it wasn't... wasn't good and slowly stripped away our hopes for it all, but at first there was hype: backlash was almost exclusively at Jar-Jar. Of course, there were problems right from the off, not the least of which includes the running roughshod over canon lore, changing what Sith were arbitrarily, and even ignoring the things that had been established about beings like Obi-Wan, Palpatine, and a certain Mr. Vader.
Many now don't see that (at least not as obviously) because of the ludicrous work done by authors to patch over the inconsistencies and find possible ways to connect lore from one place to the other, even if they had to create entirely new concepts to do it.
And, of course, the amazing, fantastic, exquisite show: Clone Wars. DAD-GUM, that thing.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love - love! - this show afterTheFirstSeason,don't"at"me, and it manages a feat I honestly thought was impossible - making the Prequel Trilogy based on boring tax and trade politics a genuinely interesting space opera with people making reasonable-seeming decisions all slowly falling into Palpatine's play, and of course, introducing the incredibly awesome Ahsoka, among other fantastic feats - but we absolutely have to admit a few things, else we're not being honest.
1) It entirely ran roughshod over canon, entirely negating swaths of it, for the purpose of making an episode
2) It introduced the incredibly awesome Ahsoka. If you don't understand the problem this creates with continuity, may I re-direct your attention to watching the original Trilogy, again. Thanks. Ahsoka is not the only issue, here, but she is symptomatic of a larger issue: the way in which we interact with the SW expanded universe and the holes built into the original plot-lines are now much, much larger. Brilliant writers have been working feverishly to fill those gaps and seal over the holes, and they're sometimes successful, but at other times... not-so-much.
And, I'm going to be honest: I would have, in many ways preferred picking up somewhere after the Thrawn series. But, continuing in that honesty, there was never a point at which we could have had films and maintained EU canon.
Maybe that would have been preferable? I don't know. But there really wasn't much of a place for films that were really significant that would be compelling SW-style watch, and the original actors were aging, rapidly (as evidenced by the extremely unfortunate passing of Carrie Fisher during the film set to follow her character arc in particular - that's heartbreaking, not just because of her loss, which is the biggest sadness, of course, but also because it compelled large rewrites and changes to the plot last-minute).
NOW: none of this really excuses the simple fact that they didn't know how they were going to end the sequel Trilogy. There are flaws, and deeper flaws because of all sorts of issues.
But it also is unnecessarily rejected for the mildest of reasons, and the Prequel Trilogy is given an aaaawwwful lot of slack for a set of films that literally wrecked twenty years of development and publishing. It reminds me of fond memories of edition warring, only the once-hated edition suddenly becomes "better" because "new things suck worse, even if they don't."
Kind of like how a bunch of former deep-seated 4e-haters now fondly reminisce about 4e now that 5e came out some fans feel about game editions.
But, uh... I'll stop now. Partially 'cause I got stuff to do, partially 'cause I got distracted and forgot what I was writing multiple times in making this.
Short version: I like all the Star Wars films for some pieces, find flaws in them for others, and part of what makes some of them actively better usually invalidates elements that make other things so good. It's kind of like a zero-sum-game, but few seem to notice, and generally only recognize how much X makes their favorite part not as good anymore.
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And I bet if they're anything like my parents, they're complaining about "these young people behaving disrespectfully" the whole time.On the nose.
But we're not supposed to touch our faaaaaaaces
I'm only sharing this because I think it's quaint and the pictures are awesome. It's an article about a woman living in Berkeley during the 1918 pandemic, and the pictures and posters are just too eerily familiar.
Wow.
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Ha! That was me during a meeting yesterday. Poor baba.Principal: "Let's hear from [math teacher]! How are you?"
Math teacher: "...Doing good."Ah, faculty meetings.
Yeah. Yeah. Yyyyyyyeah.
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Principal: "Let's hear from [math teacher]! How are you?"
Math teacher: "...Doing good."Ah, faculty meetings.
I see I'm not the only one getting no sleep because their child will only eat about a spoonful of milk, refuse to eat more, pass out for 5 minutes milk drunk, and then wake up screaming from hunge immediately as we start to sleep, only to repeat ad infinitum for the entire time we try to sleep.
You little s~++. I know you can eat more. I have personally fed you like 10x as much in a sitting. I love you, but you little s*#&....
Principal: "Let's hear from [math teacher]! How are you?"
Math teacher: "...Doing good."Ah, faculty meetings.
I see I'm not the only one getting no sleep because their child will only eat about a spoonful of milk, refuse to eat more, pass out for 5 minutes milk drunk, and then wake up screaming from hunge immediately as we start to sleep, only to repeat ad infinitum for the entire time we try to sleep.
You little s&!~. I know you can eat more. I have personally fed you like 10x as much in a sitting. I love you, but you little s%&@....
But it's so haaaaaarrrrrrrd.
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Principal: "Let's hear from [math teacher]! How are you?"
Math teacher: "...Doing good."Ah, faculty meetings.
I see I'm not the only one getting no sleep because their child will only eat about a spoonful of milk, refuse to eat more, pass out for 5 minutes milk drunk, and then wake up screaming from hunge immediately as we start to sleep, only to repeat ad infinitum for the entire time we try to sleep.
You little s$*@. I know you can eat more. I have personally fed you like 10x as much in a sitting. I love you, but you little s@!*....
Maybe she needs to burp after eating the first serving too fast?
I feed friends kid this year and he stopped eating. Once she picked him up and patted him, he devoured the rest of the bottle voraciously.
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EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I. AM. IN. A. [REDACTED]. LIVE. VIDEO. LESSON. ONE. OF. MY. KIDS. STARTS. SHOUTING. AND. I. AM. GOING. TO. PUT. THEM. IN. A. STEW.
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Gods, I weep for support people.
"Yeah, the customer felt that using IDs for records was too complicated, so they started assigning everything by the user's first and last name, and now they're reporting conflicts and wondering what's wrong."
*SIGH*
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The fun thing about English is that a grammar worksheet can be about anything if you make enough intentional errors. So I'm typing up a passage about the Siege of Leningrad while listening to West Side Story as loud as my computer can manage it.
Maybe it is for the best that I live alone.
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EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I. AM. IN. A. [REDACTED]. LIVE. VIDEO. LESSON. ONE. OF. MY. KIDS. STARTS. SHOUTING. AND. I. AM. GOING. TO. PUT. THEM. IN. A. STEW.
Get them a puppy. Every time they start shouting tell them if they aren't quiet you'll take away their puppy.
This should give you 6 months of relative peace before they call your bluff.
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Just back from grocery shopping.
Dear Lord...
People, the grocery stores are open because they have to be. People will starve to death without food. Going into a store and browsing, blocking up the aisles because your contemplating whether or not to put an item you are holding in your grubby hands into your cart, keeping people from moving because they're not supposed to get close to you is beyond not cool.
It's outright dangerous.
They only let so many people in the store at a time and put arrows on the floor so that everyone follows a route and keeps a distance. Makes sense and makes it easy to maintain social distancing while shopping for necessities. So turning around and going back the way you came for whatever reason heads you right into a person you are supposed to be keeping your distance from. If you are not intelligent enough to follow simple instructions, maybe you should let someone who is shop for you.
The stores that are still operating are not open as places for you to "get out of the house for a while" and "socialize safely." They are only open because of necessity. The health of the employees is being put at risk so you can eat, get fuel, etc. The girl at the checkout was looking frazzled, and it was only 9 AM. She had been working for just over two hours. And she was being treated by some of these people as rude because she was trying to stay carefully behind her sneeze guard and maintain social distance.
Grow the hell up.
And that last statement is exceptionally ironic, as the majority of these fools are older people, baby boomers and up. The people most vulnerable to this virus. The stupid is overwhelming. I would face palm, but we're not supposed to touch our faces if we can help it!
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Sorry, but I seriously needed to vent...
Feros:
And that's with a retailer that's exercising good sense and restricting people in the store.
Now imagine, in an 'affluent' community with a bunch of entitled folks from across the class spectrum who think that none of the rules apply to them and...
...Corporate (and the stategov) are allowing as many of these non-essential chucklef#~*s to enter our store as want to....
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Anime night went off without a hitch. Kosmi has a weird issue with the audio stream seeming to lag, but instead of pausing just sort of drags sounds out. But at least we're back to being able to share streams remotely. (Kast has not filled the void left by Rabb.it)
My Hero Academia had a dang good finale for season 4. Bofuri ended with an exhausting amount of adorable ridiculousness. (We were all yelling about it but still enjoying the absurdity.) And the after credits stinger of Re Zero's final episode had my dude rightfully upset. I can't wait for the new season, whenever we get it.
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Meanwhile, in a country with a functional government and populace...
Before clicking... New Zeland?
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Not seeing the content anyway. Not agreeing to sharing of my data and third party setting cookies.
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Vietnam may escape with no deaths. Officially.
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Before clicking... New Zeland?Meanwhile, in a country with a functional government and populace...
Yep.
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Them not following the books doesn't bother me because A) I never read the books, and B) they said they weren't going to. Yes, there are plot holes, but so what? Every series has them. And if they had taken the time to explain how Palpatine raised the Sith fleet, then people would still complain. Whether about how "unrealistic" it was, or that it took too much time and made the movies boring. Sure, I would have preferred if they had left Palpatine dead and found some other threat, but in the end it really doesn't matter. Were 7, 8, and 9 great movies? No. But really, neither were 4, 5, and 6. Try watching them again and you'll find plenty of nonsense. But, in my opinion, 7, 8, and 9 were better than 1, 2, and 3, and at least gave an ending to the Skywalker arc. Now, if they chose to, they can go forward and make new stuff, and I am mildly interested in seeing what they do with it.I mean if we just rated them by action scenes. 1,2,3, puts all the rest to shame. The war battles, the starship fighting, let alone the Jedi fights which were all incredible. Even pod racing was ground breaking for it's time.Oh, no, my very bearded, bearded friend, *he says, stroking his own overgrown weeds on his face*, no, no.
Here's how it goes:
- the first Trilogy as a set of films functions very well as a coherent set of reasonable stories that have a decent premise, and really good execution
- the second Trilogy as a set of films functions moderately well as a mostly-coherent set of moderately reasonable stories with an okay-to-decent premise, and extraordinarily uneven execution
(ranging from solid, if sometimes empty or stilted, action scenes; to long emptyrantingdialogue; to moderate-to-bad on-screen chemistry or direction or both ; to baffling character decisions)- the third Trilogy as a set of films functions decently well as a fairly-coherent set of unreasonable...
ROGUE ONE FOREVER
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EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I. AM. IN. A. [REDACTED]. LIVE. VIDEO. LESSON. ONE. OF. MY. KIDS. STARTS. SHOUTING. AND. I. AM. GOING. TO. PUT. THEM. IN. A. STEW.
Eat one as an example to the others!
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Not seeing the content anyway. Not agreeing to sharing of my data and third party setting cookies.
It's amazing what running Firefox with NoScript does to your browsing experience. I never notice any of that "stuff" because it all gets blocked.
I don't need JavaScript nor cookies to browse the web, thanks.
Once a site looks interesting I'll unlock only the top-level scripts, and that's usually enough to read the articles, though I don't get any of the pictures.
Kind of like the Amish version of Playboy.
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Amish have Playboy.
You just won't see one in Playboy.
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The Humbling:
(1) Trying to do once-a-week groceries for a family of 4, including two teenage boys, resulted in a grocery bill just north of $300 and five packed-full reusable bags.
(2) GothBard had to rush back to work, so I had to carry said bags, weighing a total of around 85 pounds, the two blocks back home.
(3) Feeling pretty good about being in decent shape for a 52-year-old.
(4) Going out back and seeing the SIXTEEN 60-pound bags of concrete the one guy had carried into our back yard in the afternoon, plus quite literally a ton of lumber.
(5) Suddenly not feeling quite so in shape.
we gotta get back in shape. My plans require it.
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Never found the fireworks guy.
you ARE a firework!
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Them not following the books doesn't bother me because A) I never read the books, and B) they said they weren't going to. Yes, there are plot holes, but so what? Every series has them. And if they had taken the time to explain how Palpatine raised the Sith fleet, then people would still complain. Whether about how "unrealistic" it was, or that it took too much time and made the movies boring. Sure, I would have preferred if they had left Palpatine dead and found some other threat, but in the end it really doesn't matter. Were 7, 8, and 9 great movies? No. But really, neither were 4, 5, and 6. Try watching them again and you'll find plenty of nonsense. But, in my opinion, 7, 8, and 9 were better than 1, 2, and 3, and at least gave an ending to the Skywalker arc. Now, if they chose to, they can go forward and make new stuff, and I am mildly interested in seeing what they do with it.I mean if we just rated them by action scenes. 1,2,3, puts all the rest to shame. The war battles, the starship fighting, let alone the Jedi fights which were all incredible. Even pod racing was ground breaking for it's time.Oh, no, my very bearded, bearded friend, *he says, stroking his own overgrown weeds on his face*, no, no.
Here's how it goes:
- the first Trilogy as a set of films functions very well as a coherent set of reasonable stories that have a decent premise, and really good execution
- the second Trilogy as a set of films functions moderately well as a mostly-coherent set of moderately reasonable stories with an okay-to-decent premise, and extraordinarily uneven execution
(ranging from solid, if sometimes empty or stilted, action scenes; to long emptyrantingdialogue; to moderate-to-bad on-screen chemistry or direction or both ; to baffling character decisions)- the third Trilogy as a set of films functions decently well as a
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ROGUE ONE FOREVER
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Donnie Yen...I can't say enough good about him as a martial artist.
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Donnie Yen...I can't say enough good about him as a martial artist.
what I wouldnt give for ONE class with him.
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Donnie Yen...I can't say enough good about him as a martial artist.what I wouldnt give for ONE class with him.
My instructor had two lessons in escrima with Donnie Yen.