Well, that was a disappointing google search.
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True also of Episode I & II, Matrix 2 and 3, and all of the LotR films. 
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People getting their soapboxes to lecture me about a tangent to something I said would derail this topic into discussion of a separate and larger issue.
FWIW, I disagree. The short explanation (which I do not intend to expand upon here) is that it defies reason that other animals donāt consent to sex simply because they cannot speak. If so, how do they reproduce? Itās absurd to consider that the entire animal kingdom is perpetual rape based upon the premise that they donāt have human language. Are non-human animals even subject, as citizens, to laws of human sexuality?
Legislative debates are filled with poorly-thought out arguments like this, which they expect normal people will never read nor debate. Why is it even a legal concern whether a sheep can consent to sex, when it doesnāt consent to being kept in a 2āx2ā wire pen, killed and eaten? Itās a ruse that such laws exist to protect the agency of non-human animals or human children, because those groups are routinely regarded by the law as having no agency in the first place. They are given as a pretense of duty of care which exists to exert self-serving standards of behavior on other, unrelated parties. The motivation is dishonest, and functions as hegemony and control rather than the protection it presents itself as.
Helping the weak is great! But being a minority who forces their brand of help on those who donāt want it is a much thornier ethical quandary.
ā¦ um, Iām not on a soapboxā¦
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Roger that.
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Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookay.
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I take my like back.
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Okay, I wonāt include the Bakshi one. Happy now?
Well, yeah, the whole prequel pile was a titanic missed opportunity. By the end of AotC (about which @daneel is absolutely correct, though his taste fails miserably when it comes to LOTR) I was puzzled how Lucas intended to fit in the whole of the Clone Wars and the fall of the Old Republic in one movie when heād been spinning his wheels for five useless hours making up midichlorians, turning the utterly bone-stock off-the-rack protocol droid weād known and loved for decades into some bright slave kidās spare-parts junkbot project, and alternately shoehorning our protagonists into a queen/slave relationship and then an elected senator/protector knight relationship, neither of which could fit any believable reality within the societal structures heād created for the Old Republic.
I was completely checked out for Episode III, and only showed up to see how he thought heād tie anything together. It was hamfisted and clumsy and unbelievableā¦ but there were just enough entertaining moments to make it the least-awful of the prequels. It almost felt like a half-assed apology for the previous two.
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The Clone Wars series (Tartakovsky) is really good, oddly.
I was wondering the other day what Droids was like. I didnāt like it much as a kid, but itās been a loooong time since I saw it.
LorT? I jest a bit, but if I were a filmmaker trying to troll me, Iād have realized Middle Earth perfectly, then made little changes like making Isildur a jerk and Treebeard a moron, just to piss me off. Just like Jackson did.
And then Iād have ruined Helmās Deep by sending fucking elves there, to put the cherry on the top.
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Iāve heard Clone Wars is quite good, but your recommendation will actually get me to watch it. I didnāt see Droids for the same reason I didnāt watch Clone Wars when it first came out: absolutely hated the animation style.
One of the reasons why I enjoyed LOTR so much is that I allowed a decent interval between the last time Iād read the books (late 2000, at the time) and when I watched the movies, so I wouldnāt be hung up on inconsistencies. By the time I saw TTT, I had no memory of there being no elves at Helmās Deep, so I enjoyed that battle immensely.
I cared not at all for the absence of Tom Bombadil (he seemed like a small chapbook inserted into the larger narrative like a minor comic book accidentally left between the pages of a fantasy epic novel, so I didnāt and donāt miss him in the movies), but I do remember being slightly bent outta shape by the loss of the Scouring of the Shire. Honestly, though, by the end of ROTK, we were all suffering from extreme fanny fatigue.
(Thatās a tired butt to you naughty Brits.)
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The only person who sounded good in that movie was Christopher Lee who had been delivering B movie dreck for so long he could pull it off.
If I ever see another film titled Attack Of The Clones it better have Tura Satana in it.
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Itās no surprise to me that both he and Peter Cushing really classed up their respective SW movies, just by doing what they always did.
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Yeah, the thing I remember most about ROTK is thinking āFucking hell, I need a piss! When will it eeeeeennnnnnnd!!!ā
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Please place this in the <a href=āhttps://bbs.boingboing.net/t/gif-bank-for-the-bbs/66050/609"target=ā_blank">GIF bank. 
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I donāt think you understand the trolling here, they want sensible people to get mad and post about how this is wrong. Acknowledging this shit is feeding the trolls. Itās best to just ignore, like itās said in Wargames, the only way to win is to not play.
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Well, ms. Wynne is trying to change that.
Yeah no, please stop, thats not true at all and is a headline even the The Sun wouldnāt run.
Guess you donāt have kids huh?
Dafuq?
Youāre implying that teaching children sex ed is encouraging them to consent to sex?
Youāre not fucking serious?
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