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mmmmm Slutty Hoshi <drool> <3

You've been warned, Kevin Smith's review of Episode III taken from viewaskew.com - "Revenge of the Sith" is, quite simply, fucking awesome. This is the "Star Wars" prequel the haters have been bitching for since "Menace" came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying. As dark as "Empire" was, this movie goes a thousand times darker - from the triggering of Order 66 (which has all the Shock Troopers turning on the Jedi Knights they've been fighting beside throughout the Clone Wars and gunning them down), to the jaw-dropping Anakin/Obi Wan fight on Mustafar (where - after cutting his legs and arm off, Ben leaves Skywalker burning alive on the shores of a lava river, with Anakin spitting venomous sentiments at his departing mentor), this flick is so satisfyingly tragic, you'll think you're watching "Othello" or "Hamlet". I saw a gorgeous digitally projected version of the flick, and lemme tell ya': this is a beautiful looking film. The opening space battle sequence is the best in any of the six "Star Wars" movies. Grievous and Kenobi's lightsaber duel is bad-ass, with Grievous rocking four sabers. The Clone Wars end rather early in the flick (about the halfway point), leaving the rest of the film to concentrate on Anakin's turn to the Dark Side, and the resulting slaughter of the Jedi. Perfect example of how dark shit gets: remember the Younglings - the kid Jedis in training from "Clones"? As a result of Order 66, when Anakin invades the Jedi Temple with an army of Clone Troopers, he enters the Council room to find a gaggle of said younglings hiding behind the seats. They see Anakin and emerge, asking "What should we do, Master Anakin?" The query's met with a stone-cold Anakin firing up his lightsaber. The next time you see the kids, Yoda's sifting through their corpses on the floor. Yes, it's just that dark - and rightfully so. This is the birth of Darth Vader we're talking about. The only comic moments in the flick are given to R2D2, and while good, they're all pretty few and far between; the order of the day is dark, dark, dark. Ian McDiarmid and Ewan McGregor steal the show, but Hayden Christensen silences any naysayers who wrote him off as too whiney in "Clones". This is the flick that feels closest to Episodes 4, 5, and 6, because - for the first time since "Return of the Jedi" - there is a clear villain. And for all the shadow-play Palpatine has been upto in the last two flicks, his treachery is about as subtle as John Williams' score in "Sith." Whether he's slowly drawing Anakin toward the Dark Side during an opera/performance art piece with his promise of the Sith's power of life over death, or he's engaged in a balls-to-the-wall lightsaber duel in the Senate with Yoda, his "Little, green friend" (his words, not mine - which I kinda dug, because, interestingly, I think it's the first time anyone's acknowledged that Yoda is green in any of the "Star Wars" flicks), this is the Emperor's movie. The last fifteen minutes dovetail nicely into Episode 4 (or just plain "Star Wars" for you non-geeks), and the movie is full of link-up moments as well. - At flick's end, Threepio and Artoo are given to Captain Antilles (with the caveat that the Protocol's memory be wiped). - The twins, natch, are split up. Leia heads to Alderann with Bail Organa, and Obi Wan hands Luke over to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (indeed, the closing shot is Owen holding Luke while looking out over the setting suns of Tatooine - mimicking the shot of the adult Luke doing the same in "Star Wars", complete with callback cue from Williams). - After he succumbs to the Dark Side, Anakin tries to convine Padme that he can overthrow Palpatine, and together, he and Padme can rule the galaxy as husband and wife. - Vader and the Emperor stand beside a younger Grand Moff Tarkin on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, overlooking the earliest construction stage of the Death Star. - Yoda telling Obi Wan that, as he heads to Tatooine to hand over Luke and go into exile, that he should spend his time learning to commune with those who've crossed over to the next stage of life, as Yoda maintains he's been doing with Qui Gon (and Ben will later do with both Luke and Yoda, in "Empire" and "Jedi"). - And, hands-down, the best link-up to "Star Wars" moment that I enjoyed the most: Bail Organa and Yoda stepping into the hallway of the Rebel Blockade Runner that opened "Star Wars". Unlike all the high-tech CGI wizardry of the rest of the prequel Trilogy, this is a low-tech looking set, right out of circa '77, and for some reason, it really captured my imagination. I mean, this is the same exact hallway in which we got our first look at Vader, oh so many years ago, and I appreciated the hell out of Mr. Lucas including it - because it really felt like a nod to the hardcores. Look, this is a movie I was genetically predisposed to love. I remember being eight years old, and reading in "Starlog" that Darth Vader became the half-man/half-machine he was following a duel with Ben Kenobi that climaxed with Vader falling into molten lava. Now, twenty six years later, I finally got to see that long-promised battled - and it lived up to any expectation I still held. I was sad to see the flick end, but happy to know it's not the end of the "Star Wars" universe entirely (I've read stuff about a TV show...). "Sith" doesn't happen; "Sith" rules.

That was without a doubt my least favorite FG joke attempt ever Although it makes sense since it was probably my least favorite episode IMO, the Jewish episode was fucking hilarious. All you need to know is this... Optimus Prime, you're a Jew?

I thought this episode of AD was better than the pilot, still not great, but good enough to keep me from changing the channel after Family Guy ends.

The Amityville Horror - 8/10

damn double post, blech...

Part 3 is a guilty pleasure among many horror fans, including myself...most people don't like it because Myers isn't in it, but the Halloween series wasn't supposed to be based around him, the Halloween series was supposed to be a collection of different scary stories, but Myers became too famous and after part 3 they brought him back and just based the whole series around him.

Dog Day Afternoon - 9/10

The Serpent and the Rainbow - 8/10

One of my favorite shows of all time, got the first two seasons on dvd and season three on pre-order

"Zombies man, they creep me out." Hopper >* Can't wait for this.

Black Hawk Down - 8/10

Watching the recap episode now, didn't notice that the guy who played the pilot is from Alias, another crossover connection, heh

Black Hawk Down 3 Disc DE

Or, even better Corrine brings the kids to the station, Vic stands there waiting for them to run up to him and they run past and hug Dutch, heh

and Dutch is gold as always

That was great, along with... Wash:"This is going to get pretty interesting." Mal: "Define interesting.." Wash:"Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?"

I'm sure Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was also a factor Yeah, between HHGttG, Star Wars and War of the Worlds it's a pretty heavily packed few months for Sci-Fi, while Firefly fans would obviosuly go see it no matter when it's released it'd get lost in the shuffle for the others..but the trailer put in with Hitchhiker will be a good way to expose it to hardcore sci-fi and casual sci-fi fans who haven't heard of or seen Firefly.

Ohhh....helll....yes~! I can't friggin' wait.

damn, been watching some CSI eps from this current season and two episodes in a row with Shield people, first an episode with Danny and now I'm waching one with Army in it, heh

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - 8/10

Paparazzi - 5/10

Dana Carvey: Critic's Choice - 10/10