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I do quote Episode 1 in everyday life an embarrassing amount though.

"It's working! IT'S WORKING!"

"How rude"

"He is very odd indeed"

"There's always a bigger fish"

"Big gooba fish!"
 

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I'm not sure why but I still find Episode 1 enjoyable.
Yeah look

It really isn't that bad.

It suffers by comparison more than anything.

Comparison aside, it still isn't very good at fundamentals in terms of direction, acting, and scriptwriting, and the story lacks, but at least, to some degree, it is original, creative, easy to look at, a great score, and fun, if you leave expectations behind.
 

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I find the kid playing anakin and pedo portman cracking on to a 9 yr old even worse than jar jar. So much wrong with the movie. Ewen mcgregor wasn't even trying.
Portman's character was supposedly 14, as if that makes it better.

Still, as a 9 year old when Episode 1 came out, she could've cracked on to me anytiiiime.

15 years later that offer still stands.
 

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Ewen mcgregor wasn't even trying.
He bagged the shit out of the prequels in every bar in Sydney! Must've been the worst experience for an actor shooting those movies at Fox. Just standing in front of a green screen all day. For months.

Even though I wanna feed Ja-Jar to the Sarlacc and make him suffer as he's slowly digested over one-thousand years, he's not even the biggest crime in this serial offender.

That would be wasting Darth Maul...
 

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Said it before, will say it again, and saying it now.

Darth Maul must be the most criminally underused character in movie history.
Nah it was perfect.

If you overdo it even slightly you end up with the Boba Fett effect where a cool but part character gets outrageously overexposed and becomes boring.
 

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Nah it was perfect.

If you overdo it even slightly you end up with the Boba Fett effect where a cool but part character gets outrageously overexposed and becomes boring.
The movies didn't overexpose Boba Fett at all though, that was the fan base. The movies he plays a small role and gets killed by a blind due with a stick who was facing the other way. The Benny Hill music would've been at home. The cult following came later.

Darth Maul whooped serious arse in the fight scenes, was touted as this saga's Vader, had everything going for him, was played by a beast of a martial artist, then got off'd by a green Obi-Wan (who himself was an underwhelming character in the prequels) when he lagged out for a few seconds allowing Obi several moments to execute a ridiculous maneuverer that should have been easily blocked. The Star Wars merchandise machine was in full swing, the hype was ready to lived up to, but it was like they didn't read the character bio where he didn't survive one movie.

The stage was set for Maul, but inexplicably he died like a chump. Bloody Lucas.
 

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FFS, Topher Grace, just leak your 85min cut of the prequels-as-one-movie already so we don't have to endure this shit anymore.

Also, I wanna see a stand-alone Star Wars movie where the Empire ethnic cleanses the shit out of the Gungans.

Okay, a scene blowing up Naboo will do...
 
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Great article in The Weekend Australian magazine about Paul Keating intervening in to save a piece of foreshore on Sydney Harbour at the Barangaroo site which was the old wharf area for container ships and passenger ships and turn the front part of the foreshore back a foreshore park. Even though he doesnt work for Lend Lease the developers or a state government agency or the Sydney City Council he somehow has used all his energies to intervene and shape the redevelopment. I just love the way Keating uses the language and these snippets from the 6 page article are a good example. There are more in the story.

The site is behind a paywall so you have to cut and paste a paragraph from below put into into a Google search in Chrome and then right click the story link and choose - Open link in incognito window.

It's Fun Being a Bastard - It took 15 years of rat cunning for Paul Keating to save a precious piece of Sydney. And he loved every minute of it.
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If it took a little bastardry, bullying and rat cunning to get his way, well Hallelujah, because I can’t think of another political warrior with such a sophisticated aesthetic eye who is prepared to act as self-appointed guardian for the city skyline, his sword drawn against the standard bearers of wanton indifference determined to muck it up.

So he shrugged off the “petty snobbery” of architects; he stared down developers — “the nasties” out to make a buck; he accused a former chair of the Harbour Foreshore Authority of lacking any sensibility in his grasp for Treasury dollars; he yelled; he cajoled; he arm-wrestled five premiers and six planning ministers; he sledged Lord Mayor Clover Moore for kowtowing to “sandal-wearing, muesli-chewing, bike-riding pedestrians without any idea of the metropolitan fabric of the city or what Sydney would lose if Barangaroo were to fail”; he banished cruise ships from parking here. When Carnival Australia’s CEO Ann Sherry told him: “Paul, the trouble with you is you don’t go on cruises”, he replied, “Well, Ann, I don’t own a wheelchair.”
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I’d want him watching my back any day. Battle-scarred but never weary — “It’s fun being a bastard,” he concedes, recounting the “big fight” over the cruise ships when Carnival’s Ann Sherry and chair, Katie Lahey, came for tea at his office to protest moving their berth from Barangaroo to Balmain. “I said, ‘Look, don’t come here with bloody Hyacinth Bucket giving me the bullshit line about the cruise ships because I’m going to arsehole the two of you to Balmain. You can get a taxi to Balmain to board a 10-day cruise to fill yourself full of grog … But no, you have to go from Barangaroo because otherwise it’s not a real cruise. Is that what you’re saying?’ ”

Sherry, who knew Keating from Canberra, where she ran the Office of the Status of Women, laughs now at this tickle-up and gives him one back. “Did he tell you that I said, ‘Why are you being so snobby? Most of our passengers come from the western suburbs. Isn’t that meant to be your heartland?’ And he replied, ‘Not any more,’ or words to that effect.”
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It's Fun Being a Bastard - It took 15 years of rat cunning for Paul Keating to save a precious piece of Sydney. And he loved every minute of it.

The ending 2 paragraphs put things in perspective

As a curtain-raiser, the headland has lulled even harsh critics with its startling promise. Thalis agrees the sandstone skirt is powerful and evocative. Keating could not be happier. “A lot of people are changing their minds now that they’ve seen the site.” When the stone colours through exposure and the stripling trees grow to frame harbour views, it’ll be stunning.

“How many cities get this opportunity?” Keating asks. “New York can’t do this. London has already been wiped out. But to get the chance to give the city its natural constellations where for thousands of years Aboriginals lived, to do something really significant about this last bit of land on the great spur of Sydney …” He leans back in his elegant chair, momentarily flush with contemplative satisfaction. Thank goodness for bastards like him.
 

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First bit of exercise after two weeks off with a bastard flu/hayfever combo and f@%k me if I don't feel like a Biggest Loser contestant...
I feel you brother. One of my housemates came back from Ecuador three days ago and brought back some heinous fever shit as a souvenir for me. I'm sweating more than Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
 

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I feel you brother. One of my housemates came back from Ecuador three days ago and brought back some heinous fever shit as a souvenir for me. I'm sweating more than Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
Haha! Hope you don't go all Kurtz on your roomies. But I can't complain too much. Nothing compared that really bad flu I got last year. Holy shit, that was a doozy. Put me out of action for months...
 
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