Now this is a cool montage.
A. Square
a-square
Are there any vowels in this song?
"Fight the Power"?!
aka the Bobby Jindal administration
Funnily enough, perhaps the only other big country other than the US to be so isolationist and convinced of its all-importance in the modern era as to handwave the existence of the rest of the world, happens to be China.
Who knew this generation's Finnegans Wake was strung one pearl at a time in Amazon customer reviews?
That should be Locke & Key & Peele.
A textmergency needs only some backpedaling, excuse-making, and a bit of manipulation to douse. A textastrophy requires the commission of at least a misdemeanor, coordinated teamwork, and perhaps an act of G_d to weasel out of.
I fully expect the contents of Wookiepedia will be harvested in greater depth in the films to come.
You're right that that's the line I'm referring to, and also that it felt "not Star Wars". But that's actually what I think works about the jokes: in what was otherwise a really slavish continuation of the series, it's the secret new ingredient in what was, up to now, an increasingly humorless franchise (the animated…
Oddly, even more than the death scene, that's the one moment where my heart leapt.
I really haven't seen any of his performances over the last decade or so, but I was pretty impressed by how much he did here in such minimal fashion - just little bits of expression, turns of phrase or timing, even posture - more than anything else in the film, he suggested the real weight of the intervening decades…
Reading through opinions here and elsewhere, I pretty much agree with most sentiments, positive and negative - but one thing I don't see talked about much that was really distinctive from the other movies is the sense of humor. This was definitely the fullest of them all of overtly comedic moments, with a looseness…
Don't forget Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!
Stray Bullets should have been on your list four times. It's definitely the greatest comic no one ever talks about.
DAMN. Didn't know about that, and now I have another fascinating "what if" to nurse.
…As currently depicted, he's not a kid for kids to relate to - he's a neurotic, frightened manchild, trying to grow up in a crazy work environment, for people who refuse to let go of childhood to relate to.
To be fair, I suspect he's one of those fans who want more books so they can get more show.
That's some pretty solid D&D shit right there.