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Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you?
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Some things are just sooo predictable.

Quote of the Day

And I distrust anyone who doesn't believe in passion. Which is all Jedi.

Michele Catalano.

More Star Wars Silliness

In tribute to Sith's PG-13 rating, I offer the following silliness:

Your Star Wars Pickup Line

"In time, you will call me.....Master."

What's Your Star Wars Pickup Line?

Your Amazing Yoda Sex Line

"When 900 years old you get, Viagra you need too, hmmmm?"

The Amazing Yoda Sex Line Generator

Of course, there's nothing sillier than the lengths to which George Lucas will go to make a buck.

Tale of the Tape

Nick Bakay, every body's favorite gambler, crunches the numbers in A tale of two empires.

The winner? It's clear.

Thaaa Yankees win! Thaaa Yankees win!

Listomania: The Personality Test Strikes Back!

In a humble homage, we find ourselves giving into the geekiness...

Star Wars Horoscope for Aries

Like many aries, you have demonstrated your penchant for inflicting pain. You feel you are at the center of the universe and that you must be in control. You enjoy being a leader... and you find that your aggression and quick temper serve you well. Star wars character you are most like: The Emperor

What is Your Star Wars Horoscope?

My top result for the SelectSmart.com

Of course, all this proves is that I'm pretty good at guessing where a quiz is going when I'm taking it...

Erroneousness

Bad habits in drawing conclusions. -- The commonest erroneous conclusions drawn by mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it had a right to. Here the conclusion is from the capacity to the fitness to live, from the fitness to live to the right to live. Then: an opinion makes happy, therefore it is a true opinion, its effect is good, therefore it is itself good and true. Here the effect is accorded the predicate beneficent, good, in the sense of useful, and the cause is furnished with the same predicate good, but here in the sense of logically valid. The reverse of this proposition is: a thing cannot prevail, preserve itself, therefore it is wrong; an opinion causes pain and agitation, therefore it is false. The free spirit, who is all too often acquainted with the erroneousness of this kind of reasoning and has to suffer from its consequences, often succumbs to the temptation to draw the opposite conclusions, which are of course in general equally erroneous: a thing cannot prevail, therefore it is good; an opinion causes pain and distress, therefore it is true.

Nietzsche

I mention this aphorism to help setup the savage, brutal, and much-deserved thrashing Christopher Hitchens gives to the porcine propagandist Michael Moore in Slate. Brilliant!

Okay, Yeah...But is it Art?

It's fair to say that any movie which begins with

“Revenge is a dish best served cold” – Ancient Klingon Proverb.

speaks in a vocubulary for the cinema fan. And how wonderfully articulate it is!

Kill Bill, vol. 1, has to have been one of the better products of American popular culture of the past, well, decade. Samurai swords, blondes, black and yellow Asics – what more could you ask for?

Oh, you wanted a work of art…

Fetishitic? No question. Vicious Parody? Yes. Brutal? Absolutely. Degrading? No doubt. Art? Well…

Others think not. For example:

Top 5 Movie is On

That's right. Rocky IV is on the Superstation right now.

In fact, Rocko is training in Siberia as I type. It's funny that not many share my enthusiasm for this chapter in the saga, but well, someone always has to spoil the fun. The reviewer, Almar Haflidason, give the film three stars out of five (The average viewers' rating is five stars). And not surprisingly, that someone happens to be from a state-owned media levaithan, namely, the BBC:

The first three "Rocky" films made perfect sense as a complete trilogy of the famous pugilist's life so it was going to take a remarkable new twist to drag the saga into a fourth instalment.

Ignoring the dramatic elements that had made the previous films so strong, Stallone chose to use the enemies that helped make "Rambo: First Blood Part II" such a success - the Soviet Union.

Ignoring dramatic elements? Apollo Creed dies! Have you no heart? The hat, the shorts, it's the bomb! If I were a boxer that would be my getup, fer sure. Have you watched the James Brown sequence lately, sir? Have you listened to the lyrics, fool? No? Well, here they are: