Modern dance songs are slightly tweaked to include "Star Wars" characters or plot points.

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It appears that JJ Abrams and co. have decided to double-down on the action and villain heavy plot of the Star Trek reboot.

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The stars of the IFC comedy "Portlandia" satirized the social booby-traps in a sketch featuring two couples who ruin everything from "Dexter" to "Star Wars" for each other by blabbing crucial plot points.

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Know George Lucas's Star Wars (1977) and you can guess the plot of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958).

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At least all the people following the satellite war will not have to wait as long as Star Wars fans for the conclusion that resolves all the plot lines.

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The all-star cast includes a few Allen first-timers, and the plot, as you might expect, is a multiple quest for love.

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But the weakest part of Star Trek was the villain, Nero, and the unnecessarily action-heavy plot.

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Star Trek II has only a handful of action scenes, and they all moved the plot forward by revealing something about character.

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Valkyrie - named after Operation Valkyrie, the plot's codename - will be directed by Bryan Singer and co-star British actor Kenneth Branagh.

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Questions from TV critics about how long the series, about a bound-to-be-discovered conman, can last have been convincingly parried by the show's producers (see "Lone Star Could Be A Spectacular Failure"), who maintain they're more concerned with having too many plot points than too few.

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