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Dude wrote:

Darksi4190 wrote:Can you fuckheads just make a Walker thread already and stop spamming up other ones?

Haven't you heard? Chuck Norris has a cameo in the new movie, a bearded bounty hunter.

Expendables 2 did it better.

Never saw it.

Dude wrote:Never saw it.

The Expendables was an attempt to make the most 80s action movie ever created. So they cast Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis and Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren and like every single action movie star and they digitally inserted Arnold and had them run around shooting people and blowing things up.

And it did fairly well, but they realized there was one problem.

Chuck Norris was not in this movie.

So they made a sequel so they could include him.

Chuck Norris agreed, but insisted that it had to be rated PG-13 so that it would be pleasing to his Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

Expendables 2 was rated R.

Also I am about 98% certain that the sequel only exists so that statham could say "I now pronounce you man and knife."

joviwan wrote:Also I am about 98% certain that the sequel only exists so that statham could say "I now pronounce you man and knife."

i am actually pretty certain that cinema as an artform only existed so that someone, someday could experience that kind of joy

joviwan wrote:Expendables 2 was rated R.

yes. there was fan backlash when they announced they wussing out on the whole point of the expendables so they went back to being R.

iirc they toned down the language a lot because of norris but when full on gore to get the r rating

joviwan wrote:Expendables 2 was rated R.

No fucking way. I will give you all of my Star Wars figures if that's true.

Wait wait wait. Except Boba Fett.

I don't care how sure I am, I never risk the Fett man.

Ralin wrote:

joviwan wrote:Expendables 2 was rated R.

No fucking way. I will give you all of my Star Wars figures if that's true.

Wait wait wait. Except Boba Fett.

I don't care how sure I am, I never risk the Fett man.

IMDb costs you a Fett

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout

You do not have to give me your toys if you do not want to.

So looks like Wookieepedia has acknowledged this. There's some obvious whiney entitled brat syndrome going on ("Amen to that. We should be the ones consulted on EU knowledge. Winterz (talk) 19:07, April 26, 2014 (UTC)") but mostly reason seems to have prevailed. There is an interesting idea for a Tabbed system which has potential (ignore the snark/butthurt in the Canon section I guess).

Honestly it's the best thing that could have happened there. Like the whole Barriss Offee thing. As if she were somehow going back as a full member of the Jedi Order to get offed by Order 66. Uh huh, yeah right. And Assaj Ventress, who somehow went back to being Dooku's assassin despite the obviously different path TCW was setting her character upon?

Let's face it, this canon-cleaning was going to come sooner or later. Might as well be now, and involve a clean-sweep rather than a furor over post-RotJ EU being wiped, until such time as they make some PT-era movies/shows/whatever and decide that gets wiped and go through this all over again.

Also lol: Foreshadowing FTW

Fan Entitlement Complex!

expendables 2 was funny, chuck norris told a chuck norris joke

from memory

someone: "i heard you were bit by a king cobra"

chuck: "yeah, and after five days of agonizing pain.... the cobra died"

lol

Lol at Wookiepedia's quote of the day.

Butthurt much?

Darksi4190 wrote:Lol at Wookiepedia's quote of the day.

Butthurt much?

Lol, people do know that the old EU isn't gone right? They can still enjoy it without it fitting into the universe. They aren't burning the books.

Wookiepedia editors are people who have invested more time and emotion into the Star Wars Expanded universe than most fans, even those on SDN or SB. To have the universe they've worked so hard to catalog, categorize, and analyze tossed out the window has got to sting.

I bet. Yet it was Lucas's to do with as he wished (even if he utterly fucked it up) and it's not particularly surprising, he stepped on it all the time.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, I find the whole thing to be hilarious.

You're not the only one.

Fictional universes get rebooted. It happens. It's just as fictional as it was a week ago, but now a company cares a bit less about it.

But

It's not

CANONICAL

Darksi4190 wrote:Lol at Wookiepedia's quote of the day.

Butthurt much?

considering a quote of the day, you know probably changes a lot you don't think it'd be a good idea to say what you were actually talking about.

wookipedia wrote:People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians [...]."
―George Lucas in 1988

Ironic statement from Ol' Flanneled One himself

/originaltrilogypurist

you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain