{"id":1225,"date":"2011-01-09T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2011-01-10T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:57:06","slug":"prequel-preapproval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2011\/01\/prequel-preapproval\/","title":{"rendered":"Prequel \/ Preapproval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, 05 January 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Owen and I watched Revenge of the Sith<\/em> this evening. So now he\u2019s seen all six movies. This was only my second time seeing Episode III. The other time was over five years ago, at the theater.<\/p>\n

After re-watching the prequels, I had to open up my list of films I\u2019ve seen and adjust my ratings. In short, I lowered my ratings on all three movies. I\u2019m sorry, but they are just terrible.<\/p>\n

Even Episode III<\/em>, which, from what I could tell, had no Jar-Jar dialogue, was just so poorly done. There\u2019s no question that the special effects are amazing, but there\u2019s not much else good to be said. The dialogue is so bad as to be embarrassing, the parts that are supposed to be \u2018epic\u2019 just come off as ridiculous, and worst, it doesn\u2019t even line up with Episode IV very well. How did that happen? It\u2019s got to be one of the most inexplicable conundrums in the history of cinema.<\/p>\n

Think about it: George Lucas could have put the word out to just about anyone and said: \u201cHey, I have the script here for the Star Wars<\/em> prequels. If you want to pay me $1,000, I\u2019ll let you read the scripts and you can give me suggestions.\u201d And, guess what, he would have made a million bucks off of fanboys flying in on their own buck to read the scripts in advance and see what they thought of them. You\u2019d think someone would have said: \u201cUm, maybe you should take out the part here where C-3PO lives with Owen and Beru for years. Because, you see, that would conflict with Episode IV, where Owen\u2019s so against Luke getting involved with the rebellion \u2013 it\u2019s hard to believe he would purposely bring that droid back into their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some dumb things Owen (the one that lives with me) noticed:<\/p>\n

-Why do Anakin and Obi-Wan not touch light sabers?<\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s true. There\u2019s a moment during their fight when they are standing about two feet apart, lightsabers a-blazin\u2019, and it\u2019s apparently just to look cool.<\/p>\n

-What\u2019s that thing Obi-Wan is riding<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s got to be the dumbest creature ever to appear in the Star Wars <\/em>universe.<\/p>\n

-Why did Padme die?<\/p>\n

Yeah, that\u2019s a mystery too. No one knows why a woman who has just given birth would suddenly feel they have no will to live, especially when her death directly contradicts Return of the Jedi.<\/p>\n

-How did the babies get milk if their mom died?<\/p>\n

They were probably just given midi-chlorinated forcemula.<\/p>\n

Thursday, 06 January 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re getting the ball rolling (to use a lame-ass clich\u00e9\u2019) regarding buying a home again. As you\u2019ll recall, we tried something like this about 11 months ago, but just as we were going to go look at house, our incompetent realtor discovered we needed to wait 3 years from the time of a short sale, not two.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it\u2019s now been 2 years and 10 months, so we\u2019re once again in the process of getting pre-approved for a loan (again) and finding a realtor (again). The good news \u2013 and, yes, this is good news as far as I\u2019m concerned \u2013 is that the economy still sucks; so home prices are even lower than they were last time, interest rates are down and, since it\u2019s a buyers\u2019 market, we don\u2019t have to pounce on any available house that happens to pop up and compete with other people to buy it.<\/p>\n

Similarly, realtors really need to prove themselves, since there\u2019s not as much work for them right now. My wife talked to a realtor today who didn\u2019t seem very excited about our home-buying. She said things like, \u201cDo you guys mind looking at old houses?\u201d Um, no, we don\u2019t mind. In fact, we like older houses (as long as they\u2019ve been maintained). If we didn\u2019t like older houses, we would be house-hunting in the suburbs. She also was concerned about our price range which, again, seems odd as we are seeing homes for over $100,000 lower than we will be approved for and $30-40,000 lower than we are willing to spend. So\u2026.yeah, that shouldn\u2019t be a problem. Over all, she didn\u2019t sound very enthusiastic. Maybe she knew she wouldn\u2019t make as much money off of us as, say, someone who is in the market for a $500,000 house. And you know what? That\u2019s great; if she can sustain her livelihood by showing houses to rich people, than I applaud her.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m also not gonna go with her. So I told Jennifer to email her and say, essentially, we\u2019ll look for another realtor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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