WTF was that at the end w/the kid w/the gory eye/face? Did the geriatric-sith violence happen or not?!!! This washed-up hipster is so confused....
Because otherwise they get sore, and soreness leads to crankiness, and crankiness leads to old men killing the shit out of everyone on the train with a lightsaber. Yes, it's awesome to watch, but it causes a delay on the line to clean up all the blood and guts and corpses. Really, Sith Seating is quite cost effective, when you think about it. (Via Obvious Winner)
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Maybe it's just the mood I'm in right now, but I'm trying to understand the appeal of this. A guy goes into a crowded area and commits mass murder (or fantasized about it)? It would be offensive if he used a gun or knife, but because it's a weapon from Star Wars, it's fun?
It's about little kid's confusion and curiosity while navigating explicit adult rules ("This seat reserved"), implicit social standards (no one gets up), individuation and parental authority (he tries to get up and his mother holds him down). The combination produces a horror fantasy of what will happen if no adult follows the adults rules: The "most adult" old man will kill everyone. When the boy wakes up from his daydream/nightmare, the fantasy has constructed his uncertainty into a specific fear projected onto the old man. Who smiles, menacingly, revitalized from his own despairing pit of ageist isolation by the emotional connection with the one person who pays him any attention.
I'm with you on this. I really don't get the point of ultra-violence for its own sake, it's pretty off putting.
It's not for it's own sake. It's because all the scofflaws took the seats reserved for the elderly, a problem that has become prevalent in every aspect of society, most especially in regards to those damn kids on my lawn. It proves a point, tells a story, has some nifty animation, and a decent score - What's offensive about it is that crap like Family Guy gets more love.
I'm sorry, but that's a pretty BS line of reasoning. If it's an animation depicting something offensive it's offensive. Yes, what is and isn't offensive varies from person to person but if someone finds this offensive it can't be handwaved because it's animated.
Same reason I don't like videos depicting gang rape. Unless, of course, it's committed by adorable animated animals; then it's kind of romantic.
Beavis and Butthead, Happy Tree Friends and so on. Some people like it, some people don't. But don't call BS reasoning if you don't like it. Because, being animated means is not real, no one got hurt and no one commited a crime or is a mass murderer. If you get offended by it, don't watch it. And don't watch hentai anime. I've heard they know how to depict some nasty things with girls and tentacles.
Its the same kind of appeal of zombie movies, grind house horror shows, or Billy the Homicidal Maniac; sometimes its fun to see utterly unrealistic blood and gore go flying everywhere.
I'm with you on that. It's 'cool' and all but at its heart, what is it about?
I got, a caucasian Chinese/Japanese/Communist Sith riding the subway in NYC... very strange.
I thought it was about not using or letting other people use the seats reserved for the elderly.pregnant or handicaped.
So this old man is a Sith master that has a lightsaber but depends of public transportation? Yeah, right.
He probably had to get his clothes from a Salvation Army that had a lot of clothes from 1999-2001, when Rage Against the Machine made superficial anti-capitalism popular among the kids.
As opposed to 2001-2012 when the failed tax and regulation policies of George W. Bush made real anti-capitalism popular among the kids.
Actually a lot of those kids are buying their clothes at thrift stores like Savers for pennies on the dollar, which is probably why most of them look like their wearing their older brother's old grunge clothes.
That just reminds me of the lengths, and money, spent by many hipster teens and twenty-somethings to purposely dress like they don't care. Which points to the irony that many anti-capitalists tend to be the sons and daughters of middle-class families that were treated pretty well by the economic order. That isn't surprising, as the intelligentsia and aspiring-members of the same group tend to be the ones who ferment leftist political activity.
It's probably more likely that we're all too broke to spend money on fashion statements.
True, but it seems that movement is filled with a few less obnoxious Communist fashion statements. I think everyone learned from Drew Barrymore wearing a commie purse in parts of Peru where people don't remember the Tupac Amaru very fondly.
Dear George Lucas,
See, other people like SW too...and make great films. For the love of god, let other people make SW movies.
GL admitted he doesn't understand Star Wars and that he's too much of a petty control freak to let anyone else contribute to it. Check out the Oprah interview.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...you can find snippets like this online
I disagree. I think he should torture us with his awful storytelling skills and very simple understanding of the world, which seems nicely crystallized in the bellowed line from Revenge of the Sith, "FOR DEMOCRACY!"
Why are there Akatsuki in the subway? Or is this the secret behind their teleportation technique?!
I thought this was gonna be about Subway restaurants and now I have that fucking horrible jingle in my head and so Rob, I fucking hate you.
Leave it to the Chinese to make cheap and defective lightsabers, that old man's couldn't cauterize the wounds as it caused them.
