Re: WotC [was Re: 2e Drow Deathspider]

That and it downplayed two of my favorite things from the original:  The
fighter pilot dialogue (I can hold it!  I can hold it!  Ahhhhh-*boom*), and
the tech.  I miss the switchs and buttons and knobs, not it looks like Star
Trek.  Oh, and too much computer graphics when latex could have done just as
well if not better.

>From: "Downer, Chris" <Chris.Downer@?????????.com>
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>Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:29:56 -0500
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>That's what happens when you "kiddy up" a movie.
>And what was he thinking when he put JA JA Binks in it. That character
>ruined the movie. It maid all the other blaring mistakes minor. The only
>other mistake that comes close was the kid, he couldn't act his way out of
>a
>paper bag. It is a shame they couldn't get the kid from that Bruce Willis
>movie, the one where the kid saw dead people (can't remember the name)
>
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>At 16:51 -0500 5/1/02, Eric Anondson wrote:
> >IMO, a bigger blunder was Hasbro paying George Lucas $600,000,000 (yup,
> >that is the correct number of zeros) for the license to Star Wars toys,
> >and then watching what Lucas did to devalue the entire Star Wars
> >franchise with The Phantom Menace overkill.  This certianly hasn't been
> >a good time for management at Hasbro.
> >
>just an honest mistake.  could *anyone* have guessed, based on the
>first three movies, or even Lucas' record in general, that Phantom
>Menace would be such dreck?  i kinda figured it wouldn't live up to
>anybody's favorite of eps 4-6, but i expected it'd be better than the
>vast majority of non-Star Wars SF movies, rather than beneath even
>the median.
>--
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>feet...go quack..."   "Cats."   "Cats.  I'm being nibbled to death by
>cats." -- Londo and Vir
>
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