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"Get a life, will you people? You've turned an enjoyable little job that I did as a lark for a few years into a colossal waste of time! How old are you people? What have you done with yourselves? There's a whole world out there! When I was your age I didn't watch television, I lived! So, move out of your parents basements, and get your own apartments and grow the hell up!"
And how much would that cost the student/parent/taxpayer? How does analyzing these things benefit the student?
You do realise there are film classes in many colleges, right? (and high schools)
We had to watch all the Star Wars films (that were out at the time) in my high school film class. Good God that was torture. The prequels are like electric shock therapy to the brain.
The notion that one is inherently better than the other is idiotic.
Both franchises are entertainment above all else. They are, quite simply, artistic endeavors, as is all fiction. Both have their worthy themes. But both also have their ridiculousness as well. The Force is fantasy, and warp speed is unscientific. World War II-style space combat? Dilithium crystals? Planet-wide climate and geography uniformity. Time travel. Human-like aliens. Human-alien mating. The list goes on and on. This is all fine because it's fiction. But it's just fiction. Entertainment.
If you cannot simply accept that your subjective preference for one or the other is just your personal tastes in action - if you have to convince yourself that what you prefer as entertainment is somehow inherently superior and that someone with differing tastes is wrong - then you have issues.
You do realise there are film classes in many colleges, right? (and high schools)
We had to watch all the Star Wars films (that were out at the time) in my high school film class. Good God that was torture. The prequels are like electric shock therapy to the brain.
A waste of time and money. People should be watching movies and TV shows on their own time.
"Get a life, will you people? You've turned an enjoyable little job that I did as a lark for a few years into a colossal waste of time! How old are you people? What have you done with yourselves? There's a whole world out there! When I was your age I didn't watch television, I lived! So, move out of your parents basements, and get your own apartments and grow the hell up!"
I understand why you may be insulted by this quote, but it's not the point of this thread. You should start a new one if you like, and you can debate what you are quoting Shatner as saying, whenever he supposedly said it. I will then chime in with my opinion on this quote, as will others.
Well, if you are getting that obsessed with either show, you are already detached from reality. At that point, it doesn't take much to completely separate you from it completely. I mean, hey, the Expanse is better and richer than either series, but I'm not going to any conventions for it.
the difference in the two is that unlike William Shatner, Mark Hamill does not think his fans need to "get a life"
I don't know. People seemed pretty hooked on Princess Leia when Carrie Fisher died, like it was the only part she ever played.
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Originally Posted by BadgerFilms
You do realise there are film classes in many colleges, right? (and high schools)
We had to watch all the Star Wars films (that were out at the time) in my high school film class. Good God that was torture. The prequels are like electric shock therapy to the brain.
In my college class, it was Seifield. It was the only time I had ever seen a complete show, the only time I had seen more than 5 seconds of it.....and yes, it was torture.
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Originally Posted by Zen88
A waste of time and money. People should be watching movies and TV shows on their own time.
Not necessarily for I have used Geico Gecko commercials of examples of classical propaganda techniques at work.
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