Ron Silver showed up on the 'right' after 9/11.  Hawkish on terrorism is all I know of him being conservative.

Sure there are lots of conservative celebrities.  But ton's more liberal ones. It is almost the nature of celebrity.  My point was get off the idea that liberal hollywood = the actors are libs.  They are not the one's 'pushing a liberal agenda.'  These are the people funding and pulling the strings as to what movies and TV shows are created.  Actors read the lines given to them.  Yes, they can pick and choose which projects to do, but they are generally NOT the reason for the project.  Hollywood used to be a conservative institution, it is not anymore.

Anyway, my main point is most politically vocal celebrities are pulling for liberal causes; way more than half.  And it doesn't matter.  If an actor does something I don't like, politically or otherwise, I can choose not to give them my money.  Celebrity does not equal intelligent, and I'll not base my life on what a celeb decides to support.

As to the awards, they aren't of much value to me either.  Near all the movies that won are not ones I'd ever even consider watching.  I'd have to dredge up some feeling for the awards to be sad that ROTS got totally snubbed.

Agreed, the Episode I lightsaber duel was by far the best.

Thinking of all the other duels they are tended to have extreme close ups (where you couldn't see the action), the setting as dark, the camera moves around and the action is whipping around such that you can't discern the moves.

The Maul fight is perfect, I wish that the same method was used in the rest of the PT.

GL may have been doomed to failure, but that's just for living up to the hype.  He didn't have to help the failure along by slapping us around with horrid dialogue and characters that speak like Jar Jar. Just imagine Episode I just having the Gungans speaking normally.  It instantly raises that movie!

Sure there are a TON of plot points I'd love to see changed as well. Such as: making the jedi seem like something tough (they die so easily), cloning Darth Maul, keeping Windu around till the end and not making Yoda seem like such a whimp.

All-in-all I'm glad they were made, just sad at the quality.  They were capable of so much more.  I'm happy GL doesn't want to do anymore because of how poorly he did the PT.

I wouldn't mind GL allowing some of the better EU books to be made though.  As long as he has no say in the dialogue!

Hey, I love video games as much as the next guy.  I'm still saying the dull the development of an imagination.  Lack of imagination will come to haunt you in spades too.  Think whenever you see a movie that you've already read the book of.  Which was better?  The way you imagined it or the way you saw it?

Granted, most films of books change things so this is a weak point, 

"Nevermind the dozens of conservative actors that I could name off of the top of my head"  I want to see you name these dozens.

They REALLY had 48 stormtroopers in a single case?  REALLY?  It does feel like a dream!

NES is great!  But Sega Genesis, oh I love that system.  Genesis is also super durable, mine still works.  My NES died a decade ago, and I still have it.  I hope for a future where I can play my NES again. 

Morgbug, debt was a lot more serious back 25-30 years ago given the massive interest rates.  I don't believe many people even realize the vast difference from the last 70's to today.  I can't fathom interest rates like that!

Hot Wheels collectors are just as fanatic as Star Wars people.  So many times I've run into old men rummaging in the pegs of hot wheels while I dig among the Star Wars figures.  Or that poor WalMart employee that got sent into the back to find a particular car, with the YELLOW interior, heh.

Really, the 80's rocked for Boys toys.  I can't claim girls toys, as I wasn't one. =p  GI Joe, Star Wars, NES, MOTU, LEGOs, Cartoons, toy guns...it was just great!  Heading off to the toy store was a grand adventure.  You didn't have the silly PC trash trying to de-boy boys or social engineer them with pills and captian planet.  *rolls eyes*

It is sad, that after so long, GI Joe is next to dead.   

Wow, going the way of Topps.  Those cache cards resulted in my quitting trading cards.  Well, not exactly...it was the case cache cards.  Not JUST the box cache cards, but special ones that came in each case (4-10 boxes). Most evilly hard to get your hands on.