Social Get In Line, NSA Edition - A Social Countdown to The Mandalorian and Grogu

The limit here in California is 6 wrong answers... any number over 6, and you fail.

 

Similar rumors abound for DMV locations here in the Valley... trouble is that the "easier" ones are much further away than the DMV office I go to (ie: the one closest to my house), so I'd rather deal with that closer location than to take a longer bus trip.

 

I went to the least busy one in my area

 

You're so lucky to live in a place with palm trees. Palm trees......sigh

 

No kidding... palm trees are awesome.

 

All the snakes living in mine would agree.

 

beautiful day here in jersey!

 

The baseball playoffs begin tonight! w00t!




Sent from my iPhone 5... take that, Wocky!

 

*sigh* Yankees miss the playoffs this year, and the Giants are 0-4. I think I'll just go fall into a coma until spring training.

Good luck though, Tunick. I want it to either be Don Mattingly's Dodgers or the Pirates this year.

 

World of Warcraft was moved to December 18, 2015 which means they know Episode VII isn't coming out then (A lot of this information is known privately weeks if not months in advance before ever going public). So it's either May 2015 (where it will compete against Avengers 2) or pushed to 2016.

 

Well, just got out of the DMV... I didn't pass again. Meh. I'll go back sometime next week... got to study more it seems (and I have to pay again too).


Sent from my iPhone 5... take that, Wocky!

 

......wait, what??? Didn't they already say Episode 7 is coming out Summer 2015?

 

The release date could change at Lucasfilm/Disney's discretion I suppose. It would be kinda cool if it were released in May of 2015 since that would be exactly 10 years after ROTS was released.

 

If it's not in 2015, I'm going to be annoyed.

 

I doubt May 2015 is going to stick but that's just me. My thinking is mostly based on the information vacuum and Avengers 2 coming out that same month. While that month has 5 weekends, Avengers: Age of Ultron is going to be huge. It will still be grossing high numbers by that Memorial Day weekend. Not sure Disney wants to cannibalize itself. Combine that with JJ Abrams' public reticence over being rushed with respect to Star Wars......

 

Hm... looking at those pics... somehow I always found those one- or -two-story temporary-looking buildings in the US rather depressing. Some people tend to call US "open" but to me it seems more like "empty."
If it makes sense, what I'm trying to say. If not, no offense

 

What pics? Show us!

 

Hello, GIL!

Confession time...having never seen Star Trek (2009) all the way through, I broke down and watched it with my dad.

The good news is, it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. The cinematography was cleaner than expected, the effects were very nice, and I have to say I don't have any problems with JJ Abrams' directing style. Overall, watchable and mildly entertaining.

The bad news? Story, acting, and script were mediocre at best...and too many bright lights. If he'd just tone down those you-know-whats by about 50% I wouldn't have a problem with it.

 

No worries there, since he has said on quite a few occasions that it was an aesthetic choice for ST specificaly and that he knows he's overdone it and won't do so anymore.
I found the movie itself a quite pleasant surprise and to be perfectly honest the first time I saw it, roughly 45 minutes in, I said aloud "They should get this guy to make some Star Wars."

So I'm quite happy.

 

I loved the new Treks! Good pace, great cinematography and a refreshing take on a classic idea. I'm a big fan of expanding the story on an any interesting IP, which is probably why I love the EU so much. I'll be honest until lens flares were a 'thing' I wasn't distracted or bothered by them.

 

Exactly. I'm kinda surprised when people complain that such things or shaky cam makes it "hard to follow what's going on."
I dunno, I'm used to all kinds of different approaches to filmmaking, but I sometimes wonder what kind of concentration you have when such things disturb you