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Comment It is very, very bad... (Score 5, Informative) 467

Not trying to sound like Jay Sherman, but if we keep going to bad movies, they will keep making them... I read all the reviews first, and went confident I was going to see an entertaining movie. I do not go to see a movie called 'Star Wars' hoping to it to be a philosophical experience, but man, it sucked big time... My main complaints: 1.) It is almost identical to the first movie. Desert planet? Check. Young, force-sensitive user that's unware of it? Check. Stranded, cute robot with a secret message to deliver? Check. Escape from said planet trying to deliver message? Check. Han Solo and Chewbacca conning the wrong guys? Check. 2.) The bad guys suck. In the first movie, Darth Vader intimidates. He is strong, powerful, and no one messes with him. Kylo Ren? A weak crybaby that is hit SEVERAL TIMES by a stormtrooper that never held a lightsaber before!!! And he is prone to tantrums. Even worse, when he removes his helmet, he looks like an idiot. I have the perfect Sith name for him: Darth Dumbo. You're welcome, Disney! 3.) The Emperor is replaced by Gollum. Enough said. 4.) Can someone explain to me why the zero-calories version of the Empire bother building a planet-sized weapon, and have thousands of armed soldiers, if they are going to leave the most vulnerable part of their humongous weapon completely unattended? Not a single guard? Han Solo & Co. just waltz in, plant bombs and there it goes! These guys are the galactic equivalent of the Dodo. I was 8 when I watched the first movie. I should have know better than to go to this kind of movie at my current age.

Comment Re:Any police killed in the crossfire? (Score 1) 143

This is not the USA, the police doesn't use nor carry guns to protests... But now that you mention it, let me tell you how it goes here: the center-left protestors march and chant, carry flags and banners, and go about their business without anything more violent than shouts. The extreme-left activists, of which there are always plenty, then proceed to attack the police with Molotov cocktails, rocks, iron bars, destroy and burn everything around their path, there are always tens of policemen hurt every time. Then, the police charge with water cannons, sticks and firing rubber balls. Even tear gas is prohibited by law. So no, the police are not killed by their own fire as there isn't any, the violence always come from the same people, and the response is actually quite meek. Of course, the Agitprop machine then tells it exactly as it wasn't...

Comment The truth is, as always, more complicated... (Score 4, Informative) 143

The Law is restrictive, for sure, but so are the reasons for its existence. Spain is afflicted by both an old-fashioned right and a just-right-of-Stalin left. We have nothing like the social-democrats of Nordic countries. When the left rules, there is absolute peace and nobody protests, no matter how badly the government is mangling the economy and destroying jobs. When the right wins, there are protests within the protests whether they're doing OK or not. And not peaceful, civil protests, no, violent and extremist ones. It's pure 'Agitprop'. The right, then, issued this law to take a powerful tool from the hands of its political enemies, and the left is enraged. Spain remains, sadly, as divided as ever...

Comment Not again... (Score 1) 206

Stupid remarks. We're all simians. Stop calling black people monkeys. Mr. Obama is a democratically-elected president. You're part of a communist hereditary monarchy. There are no human races. There is but one human race. Topic over, now lets turn and face infinity and eternity, as they are lying in front of us, waiting.

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