The Rise of Skywalker really does feel like a fanfic that got picked up and produced.  Like a Star Wars-flavored 50 Shades of Grey

Whatever my issues with the film are (I am a huge TLJ fan because of Johnson’s ambition and chutzpah, as well as it making pissy fanboys mad, but there are still parts of it that annoy me), I will never forget seeing the Holdo maneuver in the theater.

That's 100% how I read it the first time I saw the movie. But the red streaks emerging out of the white salt are absolutely gorgeous.

Are we so sure Crait isn’t a desert planet? I mean, deserts aren’t determined by temperature or sandiness; they’re determined by how much precipitation falls on them. Antarctica contains the largest desert in the world.

Super weird but I’m glad they stopped.  Rian Johnson kind of forced the next guy away from being able to use the lame dumb “Return of the Jedi” redux idea by killing the very lame Emperor ripoff Snoke, so I guess whoever was planning to make the next movie just didn’t have any good ideas of their own and they said…

I think after Phantom Menace, the Holiday Special and Resistance, it’s a bit late to pretend Star Wars has never been bad.

With Hoth and Faux-Hoth they were almost halfway to a Margarita. Hopefully one of the Disney+ spin-offs will give us the Lime, Triple Sec and Tequila planets.

I heard that they tried to get Abrams back for the third, but he said, “Look, let’s be honest about my track record: I’m known for setting up a bunch of mysteries that I’m never able to pay off. I’d hate to disappoint fans with some poorly plotted, fanservice-y nonsense, so perhaps try someone who’s shown they can…

Agreed.  They ended it on a high note for sure.  No need to take the risk of an unsatisfying follow-up.

That (the holdo maneuver) blew me away. Throw in the throne room fight and the salt/red clay contrast st the end, and you wind up with one of the more visually stunning sci-fi films of the last decade or so.

Whatever else the movie did wrong, the idea of ‘TLJ ruining Luke’ from ‘hardcore’ fans is the most hilarious misunderstanding of Star Wars characters, lore and philosophy they could muster.

The strange part is that it was the last Star Wars movie. Like, they said it was supposed to be a trilogy, but the third movie never materialized. Still, I’m pretty satisfied with the ending of TLJ.

This movie is fucking awesome and an excellent addition to the Star Wars saga.

There is one difference, Law & Order always puts a disclaimer at the beginning of every episode that says this is a fictional story and they never, to my knowledge say anything like, “this is inspired by (insert real life) case” which is what apparently Damon’s movie is doing.

If you click through her twitter thread, the media is using her image and her name on all features about the film, because the filmmaker explicitly named her as the inspiration for the film. So her name, likeness, etc. are all being used without her consent, to make other people (mostly already rich white men!) money,…

I’m actually of the philosophy that when a person dies, anything they created or amassed, including wealth, should go into the public domain.

Not to mention, there’s a difference between “I don’t want to release this now/in the near future” and “I never want the public to hear this.”

Sure, but the question is why? I am just glad it was finally released.

I think that, at least with THIS particular release, the explanation isn’t so simple. The 60 Minutes piece on Sunday was enlightening in that respect. His bandmate Morris Hayes produced this album with him and they had effectively finished it. It was done and ready to go. And then Prince set it aside. When Hayes asked…

Everyone knows that Prince recorded tons of music and only released some of it, the question is why he did that, and what separates the stuff he intended for release from the stuff he didn’t. It’s a question that has the potential to illuminate both the artist and the art, and it’s a common one for shelved works of…