Tempting.....................

I am very tempted to buy this sweatshirt, I think it is bad a@@. $100 bucks is a lot though. Hmm....................

Haven't I seen this before?

So last Friday I watched and live blogged the new Pirates. TNT has been playing the first 2 all week. I was watching one on Sunday and then 2 on Monday and realized that it was the same movie as Star Wars (episodes 4-6), just on water.

• The pirates are just like the Jedi, the British are the Empire.
• The empire is trying to kill off all the Jedi, the British are trying to kill all the pirates.
  
• The Jedi use light sabers, the pirates use swords
• Both Pirates and Star Wars reference things that happened before the movie. Star Wars eventually made a prequel, and I bet Pirates will do the same.
• Star Wars takes places on many different planets with wierd names, pirates on many different islands with weird names.
  
• Orlando Bloom's character is just like Han Solo. Han Solo was not a Jedi but fought along side them, Orlando Bloom is not a pirate but fights along side them.
• Kiera Knightley and Princess Leia are both princesses and the daughter of the ultimate bad guy.
• The second episode in both series ends with a main character (Han Solo and Johnny Depp) in serious trouble, either dead or about to die.
• In Star Wars they use space ships and brag about how fast they are, in Pirates its different boats. Han Solo has the fastest ship in Star Wars, and Johnny Depp has the fastest ship in Pirates.
• Both of the end with the bad guy turning good at the end and fighting another bad guy.
• Star Wars has Chewbacca as comic relief, yet an important character. In Pirates their is a monkey who is comic relief yet serves an important purpose.
  

Not that it is a bad thing that movies are copying the awesome formula that Star Wars began.

You nerd hater.....

Last night I watched an incredibly fascinating documentary about Star Wars that looked at Star Wars from a historical perspective. How Star Wars drew from historical literature and events and how Stars Wars influenced literature, movies, and events that came after it. After watching it I thought to myself, wow, I'm glad I'm a nerd. There are many people who would have thought that the program was stupid and went right over the heads. Too sad. After watching this documentary I am going to rewatch all 6 Star Wars this summer with a new eye. The program even showed the cultural signifigance of Jar Jar Binks. Interested go here.

Now to the angry part: Two weeks ago some friends and I had a lovely BBQ outside in some beautiful weather. Everything was going perfectly until towards the end of the evening a young lady started bashing Star Wars and everyone who liked or loved it.Complete idiot, you are! The greatest movie of all time, star wars is. Of your ass pull your head out. (Courtesy of Yoda Translator)

Star Wars is great on every level, I would think that everyone could find something about it that they like. Its got great action, humor, romance, character development, cliff-hanger endings, good vs evil, and sweet special effects. I don't see what there is not to like, hell love, about Star Wars. I hear all the time things like, "its too nerdy and sci-fi. I hate to break it to you but nerds are the people running this world, Id love to be more of a nerd. People hate on science fiction because they actually have to think about what they are watching and put things together. Its not like those lame "talking animal movies" that so many people like.