There is nothing wrong with clear labelling laws. I don’t understand why the resistance to them. Make sure the product you are selling is clearly identifiable as the product you are selling. Fake meat products should not be labelled as a meat product.

I may be reading this wrong, but if the intent is to say something along the lines of “we’ve moved beyond Tolkien’s writing for adaptations and re-imaginings because the Hobbit movies, that were plagued with all kinds of production issues and a shift from Del Torro back to Jackson, were less then The Lord of the Rings…

That’s exactly why I think no fan edit of The Hobbit trilogy will ever work - because it can’t fix those films’ gloomy, portentous tone and make it the light-hearted adventure it should’ve been. Among its many sins of adaptation, the way it ruined the first meeting with Beorn is near the top.

Funny thing is, while Lord of Rings more or less invented modern fantasy genre, and A Game of Thrones was written as reaction to that genre’s tropes, making Lord of Rings TV show seem like pale imitation of Game of Thrones. HBO had big hit with Thrones because no one had ever seen anything like it. Me predict this Ring…

Blade Runner. Blade Runner. Blade Runner.

Blade Runner 2049 was such an unexpected delight. I don’t think I’ve seen a more visually or auditorially overwhelming movie.

Would you like to play a nice game of Chess?

The only winning move is not to play.

Beautifully written and captures my own thoughts pretty well. After seeing it, I was feeling pretty melancholy about Luke’s (and Han’s, and Leia’s) legacies, but the more that I think about it the more I appreciate what Johnson did. However, while I think Luke’s final sacrifice was brilliant, I do wish he could have…

I love how they turned everything from the very first movie on it’s ass- The jedi doesn’t want to help or train a student. The charming rogue who helps them break into the battle station sells them out. The rebels can’t just hyperspace their way to freedom. The emperor is vain and easily fooled instead of a…

It is absolutely smacking me in the fact right now how Luke’s dramatic confrontation with Kylo is such a perfect symbol for the entire movie: The savior figure is an illusion. God, that’s brilliant.

The success of the next film depends on that connection between Rey and Kylo. That they returned to their opposite corners in light and darkness was not a flaw, but a feature. Both of them struggle with the duality of the force, but fundamentally Rey is a decent person. In TFA she could have sold BB8 for rations, but…

It got halfway there with its reinforcement of the necessity to let the past die, and with the compelling psychic connection between Rey and Ren, but seemed to abandon the notion in the film’s climax, when Rey and Ren return to their respective “light” and “dark” corners of the battle. This was disappointing to me.

I couldn’t possibly agree more with your final thought here. When Disney first bought Lucasfilm, I was disappointed because a pretty big part of me would rather that another Star Wars movie never get made.

Yeah, the political situation in The Force Awakens makes no sense. The only logical explanation I can imagine would be that the Republic wants to avoid a full-fledged war with the First Order, so secretly funds the Resistance to keep the First Order in check. This still doesn’t entirely make sense, but it’s something.

Someone on Twitter made a good observation about this:

ESB also has Yoda essentially having a slap-fight with R2D2 while stealing Luke’s food.

I think the sunken x-wing was actually used well. In this case, it served narratively to do exactly what it was meant to, which was to make the audience assume it was a Chekhov’s gun that was going to be used. Having seen it, when Luke shows up at the end, there’s no reason to wonder “wait, how’d he get there?”, so…

Interesting you brought up Zelda. I started playing the DLC to Breath of the Wild yesterday and the game has a lot of parallels to the Last Jedi. A big one is the theme of failure.

100000000%. I feel like all the people complaining about the “circular subplots” are really stymied that we’re seeing a Star Wars movie in which the big, risk-taking hot shot plans don’t really pay off - they end up failing, or getting more of your allies killed in the process. Those subplots weren’t meant to move the…