Those essays you linked to are really fucking stupid. Only a demented Marxist would complain about Star Wars and Indian Jones being too jingoistic and conservative.

I think the real reason people hate the new Star Wars stuff isn't because they're mad Lucas is messing with perfection or replacing the old material. I think it's because today's kids don't care that Greedo shot first or that there are Stormtroopers riding dinosaurs in the desert. I mean, children don't give a shit…

Someone should actually make that mashup and put it on YouTube.

Then you obviously never encountered me in my youth. I have never, ever understood the appeal of Peanuts. It's just not funny.

May you be edited into the cantina scene in A New Hope.

Criticism accepted Doc. I still say genre mixing was a bad idea in this case, but I shouldn't have generalized like that.

There was dispute concerning intellectual property rights that put everything on hold.

The next stage in human evolution, no doubt.

Awesome thread guys.

All his bastards are adopted.

I never liked Ziggy.

Liberals stopped protesting the war when Obama got elected. Just like Conservatives only began to protest government overspending when Obama got elected. C'mon, it's just bullshit political point-scoring.

I won't acknowledge that.

You could have scene where Van Cleef is trying carry several dozen slippery dildos in his arms while rollerskating through the streets of Paris and he'd still be cool.

You might be right fastandsloppy. Maybe it's the lack of a sense of location that huts TGTBaTU, not the genre mixing. I'll have to consider it some more.

No he didn't. Either make a Western or a War Movie. Don't do both.

"What happened to the heroes of the past?"

It was purely an artistic statement, I swear.

And a good BattleTech game remains nowhere in sight.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly would definitely be my favorite if it wasn't for all the Civil War scenes; I find them distracting, as if Leone also wanted to make a war movie and a western simultaneously. It doesn't help that the Civil War scenes take place in what appears to be a western desert.