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News Briefs 07-11-2013

Finally had the chance to see Gravity last week.

It was such a powerful experience, I completely forgot to feel some foolish nationalistic pride over the fact it had been directed by a compatriot.

But I’m sure the pride will return if the Academy doesn’t give Cuarón the Oscar. You have been warned, Hollywood!

Thanks, Rick.

Quote of the Day:

“The wish not to believe can influence as strongly as the wish to believe.”

~Ian Stevenson

  1. If all the ice melted….
    … the good news for me, according to the Nat Geo map, is that my new home on top of the Mendips hills in Somerset will be above water. Result! (though I will be long departed before this ever happens)

  2. Jar Jar
    Oddly, none of these make for a good scene. The actual death of Jar Jar seems unoriginal and kind of anticlimactic, because even though he was annoying, it’s just too easy to kill him off simply because he didn’t move fast enough. The swimming to survive doesn’t work either considering the current would have been too strong. I feel like the cut out scene was just the director saying “I can’t figure out how to get rid of him.” And that makes me sad, even though I found Jar Jar just as annoying and slapstick as the next guy, you have to respect every character you put in the story. You don’t have to make him a hero, but dammit don’t make him completely helpless to the point of DIDS (Damsel In Distress Syndrome).

    Poor Jar Jar, and you can hear him splat on the rocks below…yuck 😛

    1. My take on Jar Jar’s demise
      I’ve always fantasized with a extended edition of Jar Jar taking his own life by the end of Revenge of the Sith, consumed by the grief & shame of knowing that he was indirectly responsible for the rise of the Empire, and the death of Padmé.

      Yeah, killing him in the 1st movie doesn’t make any sense. I understood perfectly the need for his existence in the SW universe in Attack of the Clones. The character was full of flaws in its design though, part of Lucas’s ill-conceived decision of having a more ‘kid-friendly’ approach to the prequels –Bah! in My days kid movies were full of mutilated arms, charred corpses & soft incest scenes!

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