Is Benny Hinn An Agent Of The Dark Side?

Stolen from Doubleplusundead.

I knew he was somewhat of a faith healer but a Sith Lord as well? That explains a lot.

To Start The New Year Out Right

Why not spend New Year's Day recovering from that hangover with the last Star Wars review by Mr. Plinkett?

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith gets demolished.

He gets a little salty with the language at times but if you can get past that, there really are some good pointers about story telling with the visual medium. Maybe George Lucas can take some notes.

When Ewoks Attack!

It's nothing like how it happened in Return of the Jedi. Those Ewoks were able to get a jab or two in on an AT-ST or two but that's how movies work. Fiction where the hero who is on his quest wins in the end.

It's much more sad and pathetic when Ewoks attack in real life.



Ace has more of the back story on Emily's List and their Furry themed ad.

Maybe George Lucas Needed To Use Legos To Visualize The Prequels

If you haven't seen the original Star Wars trilogy (the good one) then you probably aren't a fan.

I Think George Lucas Might Sue Someone Over This

But it's a fanboy's ultimate dream. Make your own scene from Star Wars: A New Hope, send it in and hope it makes the final cut.

Star Wars: Uncut has the details.



I won't say how much but a significant portion may have been recreated by my brother and I on VHS someplace. I'll have to dig that up.

He's Back With His Review

This time it's his take down of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

He's actually doing a public service with these. Seriously.

The review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is here.



The language at times gets a little rough but if you've spent any amount of time at the HQ then it wouldn't be anything you have encountered before.

Part II.
How the plot is told to the audience and not shown like good movies do.

Part III.
The city sequence and how assassins work. Or how this was the worst assassination attempt ever.

Part IV.
Plot holes so big a Rancor monster can walk through them. And Lucas needs to get out and date more.

Part V.
Seriously. George Lucas needed to take a created writing class at the local community college to write the romantic dialog. At least read a paperback romance novel or two.

Part VI.
Defines Mace Windu's role with the 'Urban Market'. Very urbane, in fact.

Part VII.
He deconstructs Yoda and the Light Sabers. And why the movie really wasn't made for kids. Despite the marketing.

Part VIII.
Lists many of the contradictions in the film. How the many layers upon layers tht the movie has takes away from what's happening and leads to a disconnect with the viewers. Plus the literal video game ending. The best Quote of the Review is in this clip: "I'm referencing the The Phantom Menace as a positive example?"

Part IX.
Lucas steals from Ridley Scott and someone else's Sci-Fi classic, The Empire Strikes Back.

My Right To Art

People like to say that the arts are for everyone. And they are. Movies and plays and paintings are put out for enjoyment for the masses. Music is to entertain and pleasing to the ears and helps to express emotion that one is feeling at the time.

Part of the reason why the Star Wars prequels are so hated by the fans is that George Lucas took what they loved and pretty much crapped all over it. Also, Lucas could not write or direct a story line that made any sense whatsoever. The Star Wars franchise was for the fans and Lucas did whatever he could to disrespect them. Case in point: Jar Jar Binks.

Music shouldn’t be shackled by a buck a song or even to a fifty dollar concert ticket. And once the music is made, why should the original artist receive an monetary compensation if someone else should decide to perform their work? Isn’t that a form of extortion? The music should be free to perform and to enjoy for everyone. And weezer needs to come to Richmond, Virginia and do another concert. I missed them on their latest tour through here.

Painting and sculptures shouldn’t be kept behind doors of a museum. And I pity those suckers to pay for admission to get inside too. They say it’s for upkeep and to employ the janitors who keep the place clean. I know they are stealing my right to enjoy a good painting. Some high class work of art like ‘Nude Looking Out Window’ and ‘The Thinker’. And if it’s still on tour, that pop art stuff that was done several years ago by several athletes. Where a hockey player skated across some paint then some canvas then slapped some paint covered hockey puck against it and a basketball player bounce a basketball covered in red then yellow paint over some other canvas. Why is that being kept away from my viewing pleasure?

Avatar was just released in the theaters. By all accounts, it is beautifully made movie. The story line may suck but the alien world would make George Lucas envious. Why should I have to pay $14 to see it in IMAX when it’s my right to see a movie? And not just on the normal screen but the IMAX version with the really cool 3-D glasses. Who is James Cameron to say that only a limited number of people can see his everyone’s movie (because it’s not his anymore. Art is for everyone, right?) in 3D.

When art and entertainment should be free for the masses, it’s not right to charge for them. And it’s downright criminal that Will Ferrell makes $20 million per movie. That is a case for water-boarding if I ever heard of one.

Go out and sneak into a movie for free. Download music. It’s your right, after all. Take it.

UPDATE: Linked by Monique at HotMES.

It Is A 70 Minute Critique Of The Worst Star Wars Movie Ever: The Phantom Menace*

If you can't watch all of it, watch the first part.



If you have some time to spare, watch it at least up to part III. If you haven't seen the movie, watch all seven parts and save yourself the trouble of watching the actual movie.

*Truth be told, I thought that Episodes One, Two and Three where all equally abhorrent

Via Ace and Hot Air.

So the theme carried over from last night.

So I might be phoning it in tonight with this.

ummm, yeah.

Pretty much how my wife described it to me as well.


h/t Hot Air.