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Revenge of the Sith a "Blood Bath"
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is reporting that the Revenge of the Sith is a blood bath and is to recieve a PG-13. One notable point from the article is Lucas is quoted as saying "But I have to tell a story. I'm not making these, oddly enough, to be giant, successful blockbusters. I'm making them because I'm telling a story, and I have to tell the story I intended." As he lit a cigar with a large stack of burning 20's."
Yuh-hunh. Sin City and Kill Bill Volume 1 move over, this one's a blood bath. OOOOooooo....
That's the problem with them damn Brits, they don't realize it's boobies in movies that's the real corrupting influence, not a little innocent killing and maiming.
Freaking Jedi mind tricks...
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...Jar Jar meets a painful demise, I am happy.
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From TFS:
Yeah...we know all about the story you intended, George.
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Guys, give me twenty minutes.
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...would love to see Jar Jar Binks' death scene.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I love it when a good plan comes together.
Unfortunately it won't stop parents from bringing their five year screaming, whining kids to the theaters so they can throw popcorn around and kick our seat backs. Of course if the movie's as ultraviolent as everyone's making it out to be, they'll just add to the illusion of debris flying through the air and the solid punch of the subwoofer.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Spoiler Alert: Jar Jar drowns during the MonCal Water Spectacular gurgling "OH NOES! ITSA BEESA TRAP!", while a young Ensign Ackbar holds up a sign reading "9.8".
"Problem Child 2"? I'd say the theater did you a favor no matter what you age was.
"So why'd you leave Tatooine? Was it the desert?"
"No."
"The criminal element?"
"No."
"The poverty?"
"No."
"The slavery?"
"No."
"Well what was it?"
"Some jackass threw Jar Jar Binks into a pit of man-eating Sarlacc. He's been screaming 'Meesa needs help! Meesa ouchies! Help meesa!' for the last 300 years. Only 700 more to go."
I dunno, but I could have sworn I saw my ex in the scene. The staff with feathers on it and the bear-claw-laden necklace was throwing me off a little though.
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I guess statisics can be used to prove any point. :-)
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Still can't believe that there was a movie with Samuel L Jackson where he didn't say the words "fuck" or "shit".
Highly agreed, its amazing the crap 13 year olds will buy. And people try argue that they should have adult rights in some states. HAHAHA they shouldn't have the right to buy anything without parent permission for fear that they might encourage the next Britney Spears :)
I mean, like, satanic woodland creatures style?
...or maybe not.
Queen Amidala: Oh no! some invisible force has removed my clothing!! I must put on some clothing.
Degenerate Jedi: You don't need to put any clothes on (waves hand in front of face).
Queen Amidala: I don't need to put on any clothes...
Degenerate Jedi: Yeah know, they say once you go darkside you never go back.
(que cheesy sci-fi music with inappropriate back beat)
You get the idea.
"Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
Yes could see that! Your eyes may bleed after watching George Lucas' latest atrocity against the StarWars franchise leaving you soaked in your own blood.
-- Relax it's just a joke!
George Lucas does not use cash to light his cigars. And I really wish people would stop characterizing him as such.
He uses the $20 bills as toilet paper (due to their cottony softness). He uses orignial Shakespearean manuscripts to light his cigars.
In the future, please be more sensitive.
Oh wait for it. I'm sure this got the PG-13 rating because of this scene:
*tight closeup of lightsaber hilt*
*it tilts, revealing the engraved text: BAD MOTHER FUCKER*
*slow, cinematic pull out, revealing the lightsaber is held by Jedi Master Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson)*
*Windu fires a burning, seething gaze at a crowd of imperial troopers known as the Empire 88s*
*cue 15 minute long spree of death, with limbs flying everywhere, disembowelings, and (literally) fountains of blood*
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
But don't hold back, let us know how you REALLY feel.
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Many Bothan's died to bring us this script! :)
You young whippersnappers have no idea, you can't make a good film without someone paying the pianey in the pit at the front under the nickelodeon screen!
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Rolled up the script, and lit his cigar with it? I agree.
To think that this movie is somehow more violent than *this* planet is amusing. It is a restless day in which somebody is not blown to smithereens in Iraq yet I am supposed to feel outraged that the new Star Wars movie earned a pg-13 rating?
I'd say the Iraq war should be rated at least an R.
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In my day,
There was no PG-13 crap,
Drinking age was 18,
You could see Farrah Fawcett nekid in Saturn 3.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
You could see Farrah Fawcett nekid in Saturn 3.
Yeah... The only redeeming quality in that God awful movie anyway.
I did a quick search, and sadly can't find the part where Jar Jar get's decapitated. Can you help me find this? I know it's in there. It has to be in there.
If we go with our kids, it'll be because we can't find a babysitter and so decide to drag our kids along with us rather than the other way around.
When I went to see LOTR: Return Of The King during the day, a very young father brought his little girl with him so he could see the movie. Bad move. The kid was very interested in the cartoon advertisements just before the movie started, and when the first scene opened with Gollum biting into a fish, the poor kid went berserk and started balling at the top of her voice. I wondered if he ever tried to get a refund for his tickets since he didn't see the movie, and if anyone cited him for child abuse.
Don't know about anyone else, but my brother-in-law just spent 7 hours standing in line at the Star Wars convention to get a special Darth Vader action figure. He's 30, a married college grad in the Army and thus not exactly a kid.
Perhaps it has something to do with getting back from a tour of Afganistan. I think his wife hopes it was.
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Or, as we used to say when we were kids:
G = Good
PG = Pretty Good
R = Really Good
X = Xcellent
When the wife comes home early, and you've got a fifty-fifty shot at violence or threesome.
90% of all statisticians would disagree with that point.
My children (14/12/10/9) are taking me to the movie for my birthday. I've warned them it's dark, but they enjoy the Star Wars saga so much they don't care. They're just eager to see Annikin turn into Darth Vader.
Young anakin is actually DARTH VADER!!!
Meh.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
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I call BS. There are so many logical contradictions in your statements. DM and cool, DM and she, DM and boobies, She and and lets play, married and DM, married and lets play, it just does not compute. though only thing that makes sense is that you don't know how pregancy works. :-P
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Oh, and Qui-Gon needs to see a doctor to have his tummy fixed. These *really* aren't movies for little kids, they're actually quite dark and violent.
Upon reflection, I think Lucas knew what was coming and installed Jar-Jar in a feeble, stupid attempt to lighten things up a touch. Stupid, like I said... but I really think he's targeting the over-7 crowd. Toy manufacturers are aiming lower still, but Lucas is making some dark, messed up stuff not intended for the very young. Younger than 7 or so, seeing someone cut in half is really far from ideal. I somewhat regret agreeing to show the kid the movie, even though he seemed to deal with it quite well. I had naively thought I could show him *just* the pod race, but of course he was interested in the whole thing. I thought he'd get bored, but no such luck.
Eventually he'll ask about the funeral pyre scene and I'll have to explain that Qui-Gon didn't make it. I'm not looking forward to that, I think kids deserve to be shielded from that kind of thing for a while... of course, even Walt Disney disagrees with me on that one. Bambi was frickin' dark that way, too. Given stuff going on in the world, I may just have to accept that he's going to have to learn about human mortality earlier than I'd like.
I'm going to wait as long as possible before letting the kid watch Ep. 3, though, especially after hearing about the whole 'young jedi' thing from Kevin Smith. I'm not sure *I* want to see that myself ! Episodes 4-6 will come first, those are actually a little more kid-friendly. Just a little, though.
No offense, but those were evil contractors. The Empire doesn't hire any other kind.
So at the start of Episode 4, Yoda and Obi-wan are like the only Jedi still alive. This movie starts out with a bunch of Jedi living. BUT I NEVER EXPECTED A BLOOD BATH!!!!!!!!
I don't think the PG, PG-13, and R movie ratings are held to any degree of enforcement. They'll refuse a family and said family will go to a competitor's screens.
The point is that a 'family', or any group with an adult, can take any kids into any PG, PG-13 or R movie they want. You do bring up a good poing about people (children, whatever) yapping during a movie. It's ridiculous, every time I go to the movies lately (which isn't often) someone is talking through the whole movie. Most of the time I just don't go. Can watch the DVD at home cheaper, and it's quiet (if I can get the dogs to shut up).
One question though, what alternate universe do you live in where people tip 30-35%?????????
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I won't begrudge him the darkness or the money so long as he kills all the fucking Gungans!
You may have misspelled Ewoks there, but in both cases I agree.
Anything even remotly cutsie in any of the movies should be boiled to death in a pool of their own excrement. Slowly.
Most of you Star Wars Nerds WILL DIE ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!
But how are you going to get B.A. to ride on a spaceship, Hannibal?
Should be a Gungan kill-fest. Anakin and the clone warriors and the Sith go to Jar Jar's home planet and decimate the place. I'm talking light saber decapitations and gruesome disembowelments. I'm taking Gungans being gut shot and left to die in the hot sun by storm troopers, napalm being fired into Gungan villages from AT-AT walkers, Gungans being impaled on stakes, an imperial encampment surrounded by poles bearing Gungan heads. They finish things off by nuking the planet down to the bedrock, which explains why there are no Gungans in episodes 4, 5 and 6, the Sith the proto-Empire wiped them all out.
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They're saving that for the animated series on Cartoon Network
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I think that's an unfair comparison. People have been fighting bloody, dangerous, daring wars since the dawn of man. It's a natural part of our culture, our species, and our instinct. Sex, on the other hand, is dangerous, dirty, disgusting, and objectifies people. Sexual education should not be tought to our impressionable children before they turn 21, and Sexual intercourse should only be practiced to create a child, and even then nothing fancy. And if you recieve pleasure from such an act, you must immediately repent, or you, most likely, will go to Hell.
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I'll admit that I've not seen the movie so forgive me, but wouldn't the above certainly warrant at least an R?
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