Izmir Stinger

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  1. The tale of 300 Spartans defending a mountain pass against 1 million Persians is apocryphal. So is the story of the Trojan Horse, and story of Pheidippides, who ran from Marathon to Athens to announce the miraculous Greek victory against the Persian hordes at the Battle of Marathon only to collapse dead from exhaustion after delivering the news. Any recreation of battles from this time period will be "historically inaccurate" because history did not sufficiently record them. The tales we remember, such as the Battle of Thermopylae, are all fabrications to one degree or another. The goal of the film was to be true to the comic book, and in that the director succeeded. The genre of the film is Fantasy/Adventure. I don't remember any advertisements that portrayed it as a historical re-enactment; I don't know how you got that impression.
  2. People with an inability to tell fantasy from reality are much more common than hungry squirrels.
  3. Superman's creators (Executive Producers for this film as well) were Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster. Both Jews. He was never intended to be a Christ Figure. He is a manifestation of the archetypal hero. To me he represents the indomitable human spirit. He has great power, and he struggles to use it responsibly. He doesn't always know what is right, but he does his best and has to live with the consequences. He is not invincible, but nonetheless he cannot be defeated, because he will NEVER give up.
  4. I know what the new Alliance race is going to be because I am a clever man!
  5. The link I used was /.ed. No mystery why it was removed from that server.
  6. Acording to Entertainment Weekly I disagree with Blues Brothers 2000 (though the title was dumb) making the list, but all the other ones on there that I have seen are horrible.
  7. You wife, because you will threaten to put snakes in her car if she doesn't. She'll never know where they are or if she has gotten them all out.
  8. I've got a 60 and a 31 on Llane, and recently started a char on Kul Trias because I discovered my sister, her fiance, my brother, an aunt and 2 uncles all play over there. It honestly doesn't surprise me anymore to find out that someone plays. Subscription is up to what, 4.5 million in the US?
  9. That is an important prerequisite to playing, yes.
  10. Rei and I cannot play on together, unfortunately, because we live on different continents. You play Blackthorn?
  11. I had the whole office rolling when I used one of Jayne's lines at work with one of my subordinates: "Do you know what the Chain of Command is? Its the chain I go get and beat you with until you realize who's in charge here!" Oh, and who's the Alliance scumbag?
  12. He climbs the Empire State Building with planes chasing him! What did you think happened? He climbed back down? No, they shoot him with machine guns until he dies. Man is the real monster. The movie is over 70 years old. There is a statute of limitations on this stuff, man. Have you seen "Passion" yet? By the way, Jesus dies.
  13. Aww crap, now I have to stop enjoying them. Thanks a lot, Bluecat!
  14. Peter is supposed to be the Pope. There is not a 1:1 correlation between everything in the Chronicles of Narnia and Christian dogma. Some of it is just a story, and some of it is supposed to symbolise some aspect of Christianity. First time I read the books, I completely missed the symbolic aspects altogether.
  15. This guy videotaped a road trip from LA to NYC, dramatically increased the speed and set it to music. LA to NYC in 4 minutes
  16. The first part, Yoda said it was Qui-Gon. Most of the rest: How Stuff Works Did you just call me God man? Wow, what a lame superhero name.
  17. You must have missed a line because some punk didn't turn off his cell phone. The Jedi Master Yoda refers to is Qui-Gon Jin, Obi-Wan's former master. He had learned to join with the force and could communicate with Yoda, but joining with the force and communicating with those who have is a learned skill. Obi-Wan learned it on Tatooine while watching over young Luke. Qui-Gon and later Anikan are self taught. Yoda learned to communicate with Qui-Gon by himself, and could have leaned to join with the force from Qui-Gon or on his own. In the expanded Star Wars universe Joining with the force is a secret known to the Sith for quite some time, a secret learned and lost many times in their cycle of betrayal and deception. Before the bulk of Luke's training Obi-Wan is only able to contact Luke in spurts. Voices Luke isn't sure he are actually there and a vision he half believes is a hallucination. After his more extensive training with Yoda, and self training we do not see between Episodes V and VI guided by Obi-Wan's personal journal, he is able to call and carry on conversations with spirits joined to the force in this manner.
  18. I Sci Fi classic that must not go unmentioned: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and the companion series consisting of: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind
  19. It would be remiss for nobody to recommend The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Don't just see the movies. Read the books.
  20. That is something I hadn't considered. Perhaps in the book an explanation was offered that somehow the genetically encoded order would not be detectable to powerful Jedi like Yoda when they meditate and view the future.
  21. Which planet? The Wookie homeworld of Kashyyyk is quite a lush planet. Also, one of the short Jedi betrayal scenes took place on an unnamed planet with some very interesting flora, giant colorful flowers and fungi. Corusant, the capital world of the Republic where more scenes take place than any other one planet, is devoid of naturally occurring plant life, but plants are used as decorations on several of the sets.