01-17-2012, 04:39 AM
Hate: Have to drop another person from our World of Darkness campaign because he's just so inconsistent on showing up. We are now down to two people, myself and my wife, who both really enjoy it. This is really annoying because the guy DMing (used to very briefly play Oahun on here) put a lot of work into this and really likes this story, but I can't find anyone else that would be good to fill slots with. If Tryg had not been moving again, I'd have asked him (though I don't think tabletop is his thing).
Like: All of the Star Wars movies. Yeah, I get the bitching, but I actually side with Pinky a bit here. The acting is bad, I know, but watching those movies as a kid after growing up on the originals (which, regardless of age, you still watched through the eyes of a kid because you were fucking amazed at what they were doing), I was floored. The nearly seamless mergers of CGI and reality (to my younger eyes) was jaw dropping and I was experiencing a new development in a world that we'd grown to embrace as nearly Biblical in terms of a phenomenon (at least for me, as my uncle, before he died, was a major Star Wars fan from his kid years to the point of collecting things and the rest of the family was into it as well).
I really enjoyed it. I still think the Phantom Menace is mostly fine, and that Attack of the Clones is where it starts to fall apart with Revenge of the Sith being both completely amazing and completely underwhelming - in that it has so much happen within the movie, which is a double edged sword as the pacing turned into shit (since they had to squeeze tons of stuff into a single movie that should have been its own series of movies, to be honest, or as we now know, a mini-series).
I can critique that shit hardcore and agree with all of the problems for them, but at the end of the day I still enjoy them, still watch them today with my wife, and still feel that they play a major role in developing the world. And I'll always remember how floored I was being in theaters with my uncle watching Episode 1 on the the big screen, something I never thought would happen while growing up, especially when I was never able to make it to the Special Edition re-releases on limited big screen showings. Before I hit the age where finding a dozen reasons for everything to be a failure became the thing, I experienced something that, while it was riddled with faults (like the other Matrix movies), I could forgive them because it was worth it just to go where we were going.
Like: All of the Star Wars movies. Yeah, I get the bitching, but I actually side with Pinky a bit here. The acting is bad, I know, but watching those movies as a kid after growing up on the originals (which, regardless of age, you still watched through the eyes of a kid because you were fucking amazed at what they were doing), I was floored. The nearly seamless mergers of CGI and reality (to my younger eyes) was jaw dropping and I was experiencing a new development in a world that we'd grown to embrace as nearly Biblical in terms of a phenomenon (at least for me, as my uncle, before he died, was a major Star Wars fan from his kid years to the point of collecting things and the rest of the family was into it as well).
I really enjoyed it. I still think the Phantom Menace is mostly fine, and that Attack of the Clones is where it starts to fall apart with Revenge of the Sith being both completely amazing and completely underwhelming - in that it has so much happen within the movie, which is a double edged sword as the pacing turned into shit (since they had to squeeze tons of stuff into a single movie that should have been its own series of movies, to be honest, or as we now know, a mini-series).
I can critique that shit hardcore and agree with all of the problems for them, but at the end of the day I still enjoy them, still watch them today with my wife, and still feel that they play a major role in developing the world. And I'll always remember how floored I was being in theaters with my uncle watching Episode 1 on the the big screen, something I never thought would happen while growing up, especially when I was never able to make it to the Special Edition re-releases on limited big screen showings. Before I hit the age where finding a dozen reasons for everything to be a failure became the thing, I experienced something that, while it was riddled with faults (like the other Matrix movies), I could forgive them because it was worth it just to go where we were going.
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