Pretty rich for this site to snark on pivots to video.

Kinja didn’t happen in 2017.

(Dis)Honourable mention goes to Kinja.

Please take note of J.J. Abrams’s past history of playing stupid games with his audience.

What? JJ Abrams set up some interesting mysteries without coming up with a satisfying way of resolving them? THIS IS AN UTTERLY UNPRECEDENTED DEVELOPMENT!!!!

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As long as you have high levels of Midi Chlorians you can be a Jedi. Its all about the Midi Chlorians

I definitely saw all the emphasis on “Who am I?” “You’re nobody” as a set-up for a big “Surprise!” moment at the final movie’s climax. Looking at all nine movies at a whole, it would also fuck up the flow of the whole series to have these movies not be about family, when that’s what the first six were all about. So I…

I agree completely.

I love how Johnson subverted JJ’s bullshit technique. His mysteries never pay off. LOST was one fucking mystery after another that every fan engaged in and obsessed over with the typically shared understanding that it would lead to something and pay off. All it was in the end was some geeky soap opera. The ride was a…

Like how it DEFINITELY wasn’t going to be Khan in the second Star Trek movie? Yup, sure.

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You really believe Kylo Ren? I think the guy who sticks lightsabres through his parents isn’t the best source of truthful information.

This is just about word-for-word what I came down here to write myself. There are tons of old movies out there with a decent premise that could actually benefit from remakes with new tech, better scripts/casts/directors/etc, so just leave the ones that were done right the first time alone.

So AV Club like Transformers: Last Knight; and The Mummy?

Hold on a goddamn second! Jack Reacher: Never Go Back didn’t make last year’s list of the worst movies, either!

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“Its failure led some to speculate whether director Colin Trevorrow would get bounced from his Star Wars gig (he did) and others to insist that the movie’s nuttier qualities render it a perverse kind of must-see (they don’t).”

In regard to Flatliners, arguably, redoing a mediocre movie is exactly what a remake is *for*. There’s a chance that they might actually get it right. Not that I saw the redone Flatliners, but I greatly prefer the idea of that than pointless remakes of classics that can only be worse.

In my years of movie going, I’ve gotten better at detecting bad movies (and generally following advice from respected movie critics). I only emded up seeing two bad movies this year.