Let’s be honest, no matter what story they told, there would be a BoostedBrick2 or similar bitching about it.

That would’ve drawn a ton of comparisons to the Hand of Thrawn duology.

That criticism seems utterly meaningless. The movie was a bunch of stitched together concept art and set pieces? Really? You could just as easily level this criticism at basically any scifi or fantasy movie ever made. The Lord of the Rings was a bunch of stitched together concept art and set pieces. The Empire Strikes…

You’re right. As a storyteller myself I know all too well how bad original ideas can be...and how great they can end up. You do need a degree of creative freedom to basically throw noodles at the wall and see which ones stick. So I don’t mind that they toyed with ideas that would’ve been really dumb and I don’t think…

I will preface my comment with a statement that the prequels suck. This is one reason why. It missed this and honestly I can’t say I can reconcile that. So fuck the prequels, I’m going by how I always interpreted the OT.

It will never happen because both parties rely on it. They’ll bitch and moan when their opposite party does it, but they’ll never try to stop it because it’s useful to them too.

Yep. This map seems like not much more than a heat map of general violent crime in the US, which is firmly caused (not correlated to, caused) by higher levels of poverty.

There are such things as non-alcoholic mixed drinks.

If I’m going to advertise for Avast, then they can pay me.

Yes, but only if Fox News becomes a federal agency that my tax dollars have to pay for.

Their message is kind of colored, but so is their river, so it evens out.

There are tons, and tons, and tons of companies that do way worse than “pissing off some taxi cartels.” (Ooh, taxi cartels, that’s a good example right there.)

Even the book version of Revenge of the Sith did better because it was much more clear that months pass during the span of the story. In the movie, it appears like Anakin goes from “I must save my wife!” to “Murder children!” in the span of, like, a bad afternoon, which is unintentionally hilarious.

Are you insulting Last Crusade? You and I, I think we have a problem.

Which is information we already know. We learned that in the original trilogy. We didn’t need all the rest, about how he was a slave, about how he murdered sand people, about how he hates sand and had an awkward boner for Natalie Portman...that’s what we didn’t need to see.

As a kid, I always was just given a budget for Christmas. Thankfully I don’t have kids myself, but if I ever change my mind on that regard, I’d probably do the same thing once they’re old enough to be an active participant in such a discussion.

I assume an actual musician would be able to judge and appreciate a guitar’s quality and worth. The kind of person who would scoff at spending $100 on a guitar probably doesn’t need a good guitar.

A car breaking down absolutely can be a serious problem. Car repairs get expensive fast - often an expense people simply can’t afford - and most people in the US rely on their cars to get them to work. No car, no work, no job, no money, no fix to car.

I always thought “first-world problem” was just a self-deprecating joke, or an acknowledgement that you must have it pretty easy if the problem at hand is the kind of thing you worry about.

This is also why every James Bond movie before Licence to Kill was rated PG.