While the blue screen points are valid....it’s REALLY important to point out that George doing what he chose to do was the FIRST MOVIE OF IT’S KIND to take that approach. The Matrix was not shot fully on blue or green. Neither was Terminator or Jurrasic Park, or any other precursors ILM was working on to get George to…

I could not agree with you more about 7 - it was so uncanny watching it as a life long super fan, the whole time my brain said “this looks like Star Wars, this feels like Star Wars, but somethings...off.” It felt like that magic was missing that is so present in the first 6 movies. Too modern, too much of the feeling…

why am i not surprised this is the first comment on this article.

Okay - my bad then? I wasn’t trying to be rude, I was using my perception of what I understood about the sphere of Brit Lit? Which, to your points, some of those are stereotypes, and sure when you lay it out all the way you just laid it out, it’s all valid? But there’s not that much nuance into what you’re accusing me…

Every ticket stub must include a javascript puzzle to solve and comes with a blue pill  molly anti anxiety pill stale blue raspberry sour patch kid found under the counter of a dormant AMC theater.

Apart from this also being tied up to you know, the whole pandemic and movie release fiasco Hollywood has found themselves in...

Wow wow wow Lex - take a chill my dude. I was literally agreeing with Louie after having a good dialogue, and he said “maybe it’s a UK thing?” and I thought he was referencing the general Brit-Lit attitude that’s prevalent in literal Brit-Lit - but he said UK and I said Brit and all the sudden I’m being culturally…

I am one of those “I just love SW” fans that also tries to think objectively...sometimes? Ha. That aside, the prequels came out for me at the right time, 10 for TPM and 16 by the time ROTS came. I have a soft spot for them I will never be able to shake.

This is line is kind of surprising from you:

yeah np!!! ready to bring more people into the OG high fantasy realm. Tolkein really did do it right, long before the words “world building” or “canon” were a real thing. He did this over a whole lifetime and it’s fascinating. It’s a very, very rich world, and I’m honestly so pumped that they’re doing the Second Age!

Seriously!!! I’m in the greys, so I’m gonna comment my earlier comment to Katie to you bc I think it’s worth the conversation:

Posing a general question after the umpteenth article denouncing any and every decision every studio is making right now:

Eh.....look into the Tolkien yore and history of Middle-Earth. Technically, the War of the One Ring is a BLIP compared to the history of ME.

Hard agree here with everything, esp. the stock stuff. I’ve loved the memes going around about $600 for someone who needs it vs. not - people who need it aren’t going to invest it in stocks, they’re going to pay their rent/buy groceries. The people who don’t need it can put it away in a savings account for whatever.

Are the Pirates of the Caribbean movies considered boat movies?? If so...those made a lot of $$$.

re: 80s/90s movies - your point is super valid, but also, even with cable, we didn’t have access to things INSTANT, a good “popcorn flick” is named thusly so bc that’s how people passed the time 30 years ago - particularly in the 80s. It was the only seemingly kind of content choice you had that wasn’t laugh tracked…

I mean yeah if you’re going to your local indie theater. In Chicago, I go to the Logan Theater (in the before times) and they show ONE classic for ONE showing a night every weekend. But it’s a 4 screen theater, so the fact they are doing even that is telling - and I wish they would do more!

2% of 300m is 6m not 19mm.

welp, looks like you won’t catch it, because it’s only on HBO Max, and will only ever be on HBO Max.