This Day in Movie History...

[Nathan]

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I thought you meant David Prowse at first.

[Ari]

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At least I wasn't talking about Hayden.

[Nathan]

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True. I smell all sorts of photoshop potential. If only there was someone on here who knew how to do things like that.

[Abraham Smashington]

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=S7tOWoDVQLU

[Ari]

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Camel punching...
Austria's pastime.

[Captain Russ]

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Spoiler:

Schwarzennegger's main squeeze gets killed the fuck off by an arrow-snake. How James Earl Jones got the snake so aroused as to make it as sharp as an arrow, we shall never know. That shit was weird.



Also, what the hell was in that big cauldron at the orgy? Did Linda Blair/Captain Howdy have catering duties that day?

[Ari]

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I missed Attack of the Clones release last friday, the 16th, but who cares?

Today we have:

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menance
and
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

Yup, that's all.

[nerdious dorkus]

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oh great... we get to celebrate some of the crappiest movies associated with lucas. /hurray.

[Abraham Smashington]

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I remember waiting in line for like 15 hours for tickets for Ep1 back when I was a senior in HS. In the rain...with only a hoodie on. Thank god for the stack of J's I brought with. Traveling back and forth to my sweet 4 banger Mustang never was so fun. The hype and energy in that line was incredible. Then the fateful day came. We all got to the theater like 2 hours early. Lightsabre fights, nerds in full dressup mode, tv crews. Awesome. Then the opening crawl came and the whoops and hollers filled the theater. Then the hush as we first see Obi-Wan. 2 hours later, we came out of the theater not sure what to think. I (in my full fanboy mode at that time) thought it was fucking awesome! My friends not so much. It took a year or so for it to sink in that while it was a decent film, it wasn't great.

So we skipped the midnight showing for Attack. And I ended up seeing with my pops instead.

But then came Sith, and the fanboy that was dying in me came out in full force again. I had no one to go with, so I called my brother. He'd never been to a midnight showing, of anything ever, so I dragged him along. He got to see the nerds all dressed up (but there was a sweet Han Solo, seriously, looked just like Ford.) and the excitement filled the air. Then the opening crawl with the space battle that was epic (until I saw Serenity) and after 2 hours, the saga was ended. With a pretty enjoyable movie actually. I don't hate the prequels like some do, but I understand they have flaws and could have been handled better.

[Abraham Smashington]

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Even George's worse films are more watchable than half the shit in the theater at any given time. Now bring Howard the Duck 2 with more hot Lea Thompson goodness.

[Ari]

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I don't hate the prequels like some do, but I understand they have flaws and could have been handled better.

QFT

[Nathan]

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I saw Howard the Duck in the thater, and rewatched it a ton on video. Oh my.

[Ari]

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I watched it on video on a daily basis. I would love to own it on Blu-ray.

[nerdious dorkus]

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i too, was excited for both movies and instead i was greeted with jar-jar, anakin whining like a bitch, and this: "anakin, you're breaking my heart!" lame.

[Abraham Smashington]

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Oh god, I don't know if I could handle Jeffrey Jones in HD.