Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Why Star Wars Began to Suck

Here's some history: I saw the first three Star Wars movies in their original first runs. I saw the first one twice the first week that it was released.

Star Wars was fun. The Empire Strikes Back was seriously dark, and Return of the Jedi sucked. It felt all wrong, it was forced cheery and the whole "the cute little Stone-Age teddy bears defeat the Evil Empire" finale just seriously blew.

Now it turns out that there was a reason for it: George Lucas fucked with the story of the third movie in order to protect the merchandising of toys and other crap to sell to the fans.

In short, Mel Brooks had it right in his satire "Spaceballs", probably righter than he knew at the time:



(H/T)

2 comments:

Cujo359 said...

Agree about the original three episodes - The Empire Strikes Back was far more promising than what we saw in the sequel. Not that this is an entirely unheard of in science fiction.

Comrade Misfit said...

I had a similar reaction to the end of BSG, but nowhere near as eloquent.