Sir, I shall see you on the field of battle two weeks hence.

No worries. Easy mistake to make. Kind of annoying to have a guy like that running around with the same username, but what are you gonna do?

While this is likely true, I think there’s a chance you’re confusing me with the other, stridently anti-Rian Johnson poster named Andrew. 

Fair warning: I am going to be absolutely insufferable in a couple weeks when Breihan does Infinity War. I can rave about that movie for hours if I’m not careful. 

The Last Jedi has kind of reached a point where it’s not so much a movie as it is a culture war object, which makes any discussion of it as a movie really difficult.

I like The Last Jedi. I’m a defender of The Last Jedi — it’s a darn good movie.

Man, Ryan Murphy’s got it good. Must be nice to be able to lose Betty Gilpin and immediately come back with Cobie Smulders. 

The simplified take on the last few seasons is “not bad, not nearly as good as the show at its peak.”

Hey, it’s Mary McCormack!

I feel like there’s a parallel universe where Marvel gets its shit together much, much earlier and a Mummy-area Brendan Fraser is cast as Captain America. He was always so good at selling quintessential decency. 

I thought one of the better moments in the sequel (which I like more than most people do) was at the very end, where O’Connell and the mummy are hanging on to a ledge for dear life, and Evie comes sprinting in to save O’Connell, while the mummy’s resurrected girlfriend thinks for a moment and then runs away. The mummy…

There’s this scene near the end of The Mummy where the they’re in the middle of the final confrontation with the bad guy, and he has Evie chained to a slab in preparation for the big sacrifice so he can bring his dead girlfriend back to life (that old chestnut), and O’Connell has to fight through a bunch of zombies to…

I remember being surprised when I binged the show a year or two back at just how much of the show Pimento took over. I thought he was going to be a short-term jolt of anarchic comic energy, and his plots really dominated an entire season. I like Mantzoukas as much as anyone, but that was a lot of Pimento to deal with.

The thing that struck me in the trailers was how smart it was to bring the John Cena character into the group — having a guy who’s over-the-top earnest and straight edge feels like a really fun contrast, as opposed to the first movie’s “We are all dark and sad and grim” vibe. 

Honestly, I wonder if race plays a role in this. Namely the Rock, as a person of color, has to be much more sensitive and aware of how on-screen romances could be perceived, especially with white actresses. 

I was a big advocate of Guardians, because those statues are awesome and it’s cool when teams are named after some distinct local feature.

Rogue One is a great third act without much else to support it, but man, it is one hell of a great third act.

Ah, the Intergalactic Shaggy Defense.

Even without knowing this, Driver has the look of a man who has won a lot of ugly fights in dirty back alleys. 

It just sounds so...complicated. Like, there’s a convoluted backstory involving the protagonist’s dead father and a family legacy and elaborate callbacks to the original movie? Is all of that necessary?