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Nerd Test - How many of You Understand this?

Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 8 months ago to Entertainment
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Who get it?

"May the Fourth be With You"

For those that do, This old you are this funny you talk.

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 8 months ago
    "Hmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has! How embarrassing!" ...

    "It ought to be here," Master Obi-Wan says, pointing, "but it isn't. Gravity is pulling all the stars in the area towards this spot. There should be a star here, or at least a record of a destroyed star or something that would cause the gravitational anomaly, but there's just nothing."

    "Most interesting," says Yoda, speaking to both Obi-Wan and his class, "Gravity's silhouette remains, but the star and all the planets, disappeared they have. How can this be? Younglings, in your mind, what is the first thing you see? An answer? A thought? Anyone?"

    "Master?" says one student with a raised hand, and Yoda nods for him to speak. "Because someone erased it from the archive memory?"

    Obi-Wan looks surprised; Yoda chuckles.

    "Truly wonderful, the mind of a child!" he says. "The Padawan is right. Go to the center of gravity's pull, and find your planet you will."

    Happy Star Wars Day to an FIT grad!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago
    I have an entirely nerdish family.
    The 4th is always with us, even though it was long ago bringing us into a faraway galaxy for the first time.
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    • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 8 months ago
      Trekkie too?
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      • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago
        Of course. My love for SciFi goes all the way back starting with Jules Verne and Herbert G. Wells, then -- Heinlein, VanVogt, Poul Anderson etc. Then came really good movies like The Day The Earth Stood Still (not the new version) The Thing, Forbidden Planet. There was a long dry spell for a while and then Star Trek, Star Wars and my cup sloppeth over. But I must admit that CGI is so good that it's actually getting repetitively boring.
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        • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago
          A few months ago I saw a SciFi movie with minimal CGI that was miraculous. I was hoping to see it get more distribution but it did get an Acadamy Award nod for something or another. It's called "Ex Machina" and if you haven't seen it, I urge you to find it and see it. It is not only entertaining, but a lesson in how to make a great film without destroying a city. Also falling into that category, but not quite as good except for a performance by John Goodman is "10 Cloverlawn Place." Films like those prove that you don't need an hour of explosions, destructions and monsters to make a movie that piques the imagination.
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        • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 8 months ago
          Agree re CGI. Now too much action and too little plot.

          Forbidden Planet is a great movie! I have trouble taking the captain seriously nowadays though. Keep expecting him to say "Stop calling me Shirley" or something.
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          • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago
            Ah, poor old Leslie Nielsen. He was a hero, in some movies, a villain in others, but found a new career as a comic actor. He was so good at it because he was cast against type. "Airplane" still stands out as one of the silliest and yet funniest movies ever made. I only have to think about a few of its scenes in order to get a smile. As to "Forbidden Planet" it was in its day a jaw dropping experience. But "The Day The Earth Stood Still" was the one that grabbed me the most.
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            • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 8 months ago
              I'll have to say I think I saw Airplane before the earlier movies, so Leslie was cast as a comic actor for me first.

              It is a little like seeing George Peppard in the Blux Max after watching seasons of the A-Team in the 80s!

              Agree with you re "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 8 years, 8 months ago
    "Dee Cee Moocherport... You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy... we must be cautions."
    ...

    "How long have you had freedom?"

    "About 3 or 4 centuries"
    "It's not for sale"

    "Let me see your Identification"

    "You don't need to see his identification."
    "We don't need to see his identification"

    "These aren't the enterpreneuers you're looking for"
    "These aren't the enterpreneuers we're looking for"

    "He can go about his business doing business."
    "You can go about his business doing business."

    "Move along."

    "Move along... Move along..."
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