Honestly one of the things that makes me excited for this movie is that snyder seems determined to make it a giant middle finger to people who worship batman.

So that’s Batman’s voice now?

I actually went to a talk by Sphero, the company that makes the BB-8 toy, where they explained how they were approached by Disney after seeing their rolling ball robot toy. Quite brazenly, BB-8 was created as a merchandising ploy. The character didn’t even exist until Disney saw the rolling ball toy, and hired Sphero…

I can’t be the only one who saw him in the first teaser and cringed, thinking to ones self “This shit is just here to sell toys, isn’t it?”. I want to go back and smack early 2015 Bus Driver. We need a subtitled movie of BB-8 and R2-D2's wacky space adventures.

I was in college and married, and one of my close friends, Mark (a fellow CS undergrad), said, “There’s this cool-looking science fiction movie opening next week; wanna go?” So we did (myself, my (ex)wife, Mark, his (ex)wife). I was expecting another cheesy spaceships-and-bad-costumes film, the kind that I had grown…

For those of us old enough to have seen ANH in theaters, I think it is because it was a classic good vs. evil story AND looked amazingly real AND is was in space! For me, I attribute it in large part to how at the time, nothing could compare to it. I think of my kids perception of the new SW movie vs. my perception of…

To clarify your “kind of” for others - while the Packers’ stadium is in Green Bay, their flagship radio station is in Milwaukee, their primary beat reporters are from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and until 20 years ago, they still played 2-3 regular season games in Milwaukee. The entire I-43 corridor, from…

those places have been economically miserable for a long time, and they still support NFL teams.

Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and, kind of, Milwaukee.

huh? he specifically tells Anakin to wait at the temple.

No shit. “I need to take down Palpatine. Oh, I know who can help, the only Jedi who 100% trusts Palpatine!”

Sit down, Mace Windu. You did not bring enough Jedi to deal with Palpatine. That was your mistake.

the only forensic evidence left out was sweat found on the hood latch of the rav4 and that the bullet with her blood on it matched his gun.

If this were anyone else, most of the evidence would convince me that they were guilty. The forensics in her car, the bullet, the phone calls, etc. Oh yeah, they’re probably guilty. But because it’s Steven Avery, it’s so hard to believe. He had finally gained his freedom, was suing for $36M, had just testified in the…

My understanding is that the prosecution did present the evidence but the documentary didn’t cover it. Avery’s trail was six weeks long and the viewers saw (maybe) 3 total hours of the trial footage. We missed a lot of information and testimony.

I completely agree. The only thing I found odd was the choice of media used to write this letter, but as I sit here my 8yo daughter is writing another story about a super heroine she invented on her tablet, and I’ve definitely heard her express sentiments like these on a regular basis. She’s taken it upon herself to…

That’s because in your day the figures were not being marketed by Disney which has a firm separation of it’s material into Boy and Girl isles. Cinderella and Snow White are in the Girls isle, while Star Wars and Marvel have been designated as “Boy” products, so they market strictly for boys in those venues.

Random TIE pilot really held the plot together.

“Santa” brought my kids the Millennium Falcon for Christmas and while it comes with three figures, none of them actually piloted the damn thing. (OK, Chewy did for about 5 minutes as he picked up Finn and Rey at the end). Thankfully we have a couple Rey figures.

There is a little bit of an ageist thing going on too as…

Random TIE pilot, the TRUE main character of the film.