A depressingly large number of people. YouTube “star” is a real career now, gross as that sounds, because of the amount of viewers and attention they get.

Baby saber!

I totally get that there are individual design inspirations for some of the tech in the prequels. The reason I think they’re random, though, is in the way they don’t connect to one another. Movies are pretty short, and don’t have much time to laser-etch a given design into your head. So as neat as some of that stuff…

Yeah, the Visit actually got me back on board.

And however bad his track record is with twist endings, as a director he’s completely excellent. No one does tension better.

And it looks like a web-series that someone accidentally approved for broadcast.

For the record, I couldn’t disagree more. It’s low on my list of issues with those abominations, but the lack of truly iconic tech in the prequels is, I think, really indicative of their overall failure. You don’t see kids sketching those droid fighters the way us olds doodled X-Wings, TIE Fighters, even B-Wings.…

I’m in agreement with you. But I’m also a cranky old fart who assumes that those who claim they like the prequels as much as the originals are millennials (or younger) who are the cinematic equivalent of illiterate.

Only insofar as it was slapdash CGI doo-doo that also wrecked the only great score in the prequels, because of the way it wound up being intercut with the just-as-dumb Annakin/Obi Wan fight.

Awesome.

I wish the damn things were actually anthropomorphic. Might partially explain that idiotic, inexplicable universe.

Because when the head of Pixar suggests another installment in his cherished vanity project franchise, there’s really no one at Pixar to say no.

That smile plus those rather gooey webs is...repulsive.

Mine is a tired point, but one that needs to be made as many times as necessary:

If you’ve watched Bosch, you know this is not a good sign. That show is plodding, aimless, and turns some great, great actors into pure ham.

So you’re annoyed that they aren’t attempting the most boring of all possible adaptation strategies: Tell the exact same story in the exact same way except now with pictures and less total narrative.

Yeah, and if I remember it right, there’s no reason the regular T-Rex leaves, much less leaves the humans alone. It should have either turned on them without missing a beat, or sat there feasting on super predator innards. Apparently they spliced in some real classy noble savage genes.

Seems pretty legit to compare a shared cinematic superhero universe that’s basically all financial home runs with a decent amount of critical acclaim, to one that’s largely reviled by critics and whose box office is middling (compared to many blockbusters). Even moreso when those universes have distinct, and very…

Clearly you haven’t heard that John Carter is bad, because people had alot of fun predicting it would be bad before it came out, and then no one saw it, which means it must have been bad all along.

You should probably reread Jason and the Argonauts. Like most Greek myths its morally challenging and not corny at all. The reason for Jason’s quest is revenge/ambition. Most of the story is closer to a road movie than a dumb cape comic plot, with adventures and encounters aplenty, but no existential threat to defeat.…