As someone who drinks for the mood lift, euphoric feelings, mental serenity, increased interest in socializing, and the way the flavors of beer/wine go with food, I’ve tried replacing alcohol with weed and realized that weed has exactly nothing to offer in these departments. Smoking weed resulted in self-doubt,…

They’re definitely using tripods and other shot-stabilizing rigs that work with smart phones. And a variety of lens attachments for the wide and telephoto shots. Tangerine used the Moondog Labs anamorphic lens add-on.

They could do that but wouldn’t be a good idea. It would undercut the developments in TLJ and veer a little too far into Simpsons “How to Cook for Forty Humans” territory. Kylo didn’t just tell her to take his word that her parents were nobodies, he urged her to look inwards, search her painful memories, and realize…

So he pleads the 5th or “can’t recall” in response to all of the questions. I don’t see how he’s screwed in that scenario. How would that galvanize the Complicit Congress into turning on Trump?

Elections are no longer decided based on who appeals to the moderate center and wins over the most swing voters. That’s a thing of the past and it’s never coming back. That “huge swath” you speak of may have mattered in the 90s and the early ‘00s but as of November 2016, undecided voters have officially ceased to be a…

I don’t think that lining is as silver as it looks. Young, pissed-off liberals will indeed sprout up, but most of them will be sprouting up in cities that are already deep blue. And a significant number of women across the nation still hold their nose and vote GOP, no matter how repulsive the candidate.

Yeah they’ll have to get the tone just right. If they go with a simple revenge plot and keep Duke the same Jack Burton/Ash-type macho man who’s entertainingly crass but not so awful that he loses the audience’s sympathy, there’s a remote chance it could actually be one of those solid re-watchable movies. John Cena…

What boggles the mind is the fact that they’ll break out the defib paddles for this dessicated corpse of an IP, yet nobody can manage to get a Metroid movie off the ground, which has much wider recognition/appeal and would resonate better with modern day movie audiences. Nah, let’s spend six figures on exploding pole…

If you watch TFA again, Rey’s conversation with Maz after the lightsaber vision fits pretty well with the “nobody” reveal.

I’m expecting a Lando walk-on, at least one surviving Hutt, Rey having a forest chat with Luke and/or Obi-Wan’s ghost, and possibly a giant hole in the ground where prisoners are sent to be devoured by a creature lurking at the bottom.

It would have required a lot of re-shoots and Johnson felt it would be a better send-off to keep all of Fisher’s scenes as they were originally intended (including the brief reunion with Luke) rather than throw most of them away. Lucasfilm has definitively ruled out CG Leia in episode IX, so let’s hope J.J. Abrams…

“I would argue that they do. In fact, I’d argue that they *should.* When you’re dealing with a situation in which being wrong means a bunch more innocent people die, and you have no reason to believe you are wrong, you’re going to act to preserve life — which in this case, yes, means being willing to take it.”

You and I know that police training and police culture in the US are in dire need of reform. It would be hard for a prosecutor to make that case in a court of law, though. “Your Honor, we’re charging the defendant with attempted murder because c’mon... we all know that in this day & age, police are so unreliable and…

The whole “swatting = attempted murder” stance should be examined a bit closer. It’s basically an implicit admission that American police are badly trained, and likely to gun down whoever they find at the scene.

Maybe he heard the Falcon’s engines approaching and was waiting for whoever the mystery pilot was to show up.

Yeah my Texas Board of Education-approved high school history book never mentioned any of this.

It meant more than “being a rebel” and it’s no coincidence that the flag had a resurgence in popularity at the very same time that civil rights movements were gaining momentum. It was a symbol of defiance against the meddling federal gubmint and those outsider agitators who wanted to repeal Jim Crow laws.

The First Order have no use for Rey unless she helps them exterminate the Resistance and dominate the galaxy. They’re not going to pass up a chance to deliver the killing blow so Rey can learn more about herself. Even if Rey somehow mind-tricked the entire FO into letting the Resistance get away, then she’d still be…

Why would Rey join forces with Kylo Ren? “Rey turning evil” makes zero sense from a character motivation standpoint. Why would Rey willingly go along with the First Order as they move closer and closer to wiping out Leia, Chewie, Finn, Luke, and everyone else in the Resistance? She just suddenly stops caring about…

That version of events sounds highly unlikely. You think Blizzard had a Valentine’s event on track for early-mid February, but due to some irate Mei fans griping in the forums, they scrapped them, went back to the drawing board, and in the span of less than a month, designed and created an entirely different event,…