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(40,416 posts)He never completed his training and has slipped into the dark side.
It is so transparent.
When will we see Jar-Jar again?
Star Wars is a vacuous enterprise built on toy product placement.
And inane John Williams music scores, one is the same as every other.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I have a thought about putting Jar Jar Binkss bones in the desert there, said Abrams, adding: Im serious! Only three people will notice, but theyll love it.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/06/jj-abrams-considers-killing-off-jar-jar-binks-star-wars
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)On Tue Oct 20, 2015, 04:25 AM an alert was sent on the following post:
And of course Luke is the new Darth.
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1) Insulting star wars 2) Needs spoiler alert Thanx you just ruined Star Wars
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longship
(40,416 posts)Of course, I have no such knowledge. I probably will not even see the film, especially since it is JJ Abrams, who put the engineering department of the USS Enterprise into a brewery.
Best regards.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)"Insulting Star Wars" as grounds for an alert.
That said, it is, indeed, one of the most ridiculous alerts ever.
dirtydickcheney
(242 posts)talk about excess hype-for-nothing...
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)When President Ronald Reagan claimed in 1986 that the Force is with us he was actually perverting Star Wars self-dispossessing (or other-focused) ethos.[8] Obi Wan's blessing May the Force be with you is the expression of a hope for others, not a possessive assertion for ourselves. Reagans rhetoric here, like the way of the Sith, is out of kilter with the moral demands of the Force. It is an expression of the dark side of the Force that is, Lucas explains, like a huge cancer, alive, festering as a symptom and symbol of a very sick society.
Star Wars, then, identifies evil with disordered desire, with the seeking of that which cannot and should not be desired, while the demands of the Good are those that reorder our desire. Nonetheless, knowing and doing the Good are not easy tasks
Star Wars saga does raise significant ethical questions what are we to do with evil, and how do we identify it? Because it is the lack of consciousness that's behind every corporate crime, government conspiracy, political corruption, Big Pharma scheme and environmental crime that takes place on our planet. Those who lack consciousness engage in "you versus me" crimes of selfishness -- stealing, exploiting, destroying, deceiving -- yet such behaviors come from a place of ignorance about consciousness and the universe around us.
Suppose a selfish, low-consciousness corporate CEO says, "I'm going to dump this toxic waste into the river because that saves ME money, and it makes ME more profits." So he dumps the waste into the river.
Downstream, a billion living creatures start to become damaged by the toxic waste: The fish, frogs, turtles, trees, plants and perhaps even cities full of people who use the river as their water supply. This, in turn, creates "a disturbance in the Force," as Obiwan described it in Star Wars. The disturbance spreads sickness, disease and dysfunction. That dysfunction inevitably makes its way back to that same corporate CEO -- perhaps the mutated offspring of some woman who drank the polluted water grows up and becomes a violent criminal who car-jacks the CEOs granddaughter and murders her in the process. While the CEO will decry "how terribly violent our world has become," he will disavow the truth that he poisoned the world and made it more destructive.
I hope the new movie raises consciousness and look forward to it and it helps get rid of the psychopaths ruling us.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I can't do 3D. The glasses just don't work for me and I get a massive headache when I try. My wife has no depth perception and can't even see it and my daughter gets headaches too.
I imagine I will have to settle for the biggest plain ol' flat screen I can find - or the one at the theater with the draft beer and huge nachos.
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lame54
(35,321 posts)BootinUp
(47,187 posts)Duckfan
(1,268 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:06 AM - Edit history (1)
I don't know much about J.J.Abrams, but it appears to be good. By the time it opens I'll have the lines of this trailer down. Well not exactly a Light Saber.
BTW, here's a figure to chew on: 33,783,745 views on Youtube.