I'm not going to say any prequel is good, but Phantom Menace is at least a movie. It has a beginning, middle, and end and it's usually clear what all the main characters' goals are and why things are happening. AOTC never clears that bar.

"Hayden Christensen: Pyscho or creepy right from the get-go."

There's a documentary on the DVD that shows his audition. It's…not good. He should never have been cast. There was another kid who tried out who was fantastic, even with the terrible dialogue. George had all the information he needed and made a terrible decision, but it's not Jake Lloyd's fault.

Right now we've got a lot of acting secretaries of various departments that probably aren't monsters, so this might be the best cannon moment we get for a while.

Make sure to put him in some kind of spacesuit that could survive the trip, I'd hate to go to the trouble of shooting someone into the sun only to have them die leaving earth's atmosphere.

I guess the fact that there's a reality where La La Land featured Miles Teller means we're only living in the second darkest possible timeline. Lucky us.

Yeah, while I'm a big fan of the film they did give up some plot logic to get to that ending. It also doesn't make a ton of sense that in the span of 5 years Stone would break up with Gosling, meet and marry the Wonders drummer, and have a three year old child.

I sort of enjoyed the movie's weird attitude about selling out. No one but an upper middle class white kid who had found wild success at his dream job before he was 30 would consider Ryan Gosling taking that job "selling out." It's hard to explain why that made me enjoy it more. I guess it added a layer of irony to…

I'm with Gwen and PenzeyMoog on this one. The ending got to me in a way I don't think a movie has gotten to me in years, and it was entirely for very specific, personal reasons. I used to live in LA with people that are likely to be the best friends I'll ever have, and now that that part of my life is over it was…

Y'see, the kids today, they like the rap music, which gives them the brain damage, with the hippin and the hoppin and the bippin and the boppin, so they don't know what the jazz is all about, y'see.

She does explain a bit about why she loves movies when they're touring the studio lot, and I think if you tell a jazz fan that you think jazz is elevator music, as Mia does, you should be prepared for a defense/explanation of jazz. It would be more "mansplainy" if he just assumed she was ignorant and started…

I'm honestly not 100% sure. Matilda and Henry II did set the precedent for it happening and that was certainly used by Edward III, but I was under the impression it didn't become the official settled law until the Hundred Years War. It was probably a series of events that fully cemented it, starting with Matilda…

Women can wear the crown in England because inheritance passing through the female as well as the male line was the basis for their claim to rule France. Their male leaders had to chose between female rule or admitting they weren't inherently superior to the French, so you can see the bind they were in.

If you're going to placate born-agains, Catholic isn't the best strategy since they're possibly worse than pagans. Just make up some creepy-sounding fake group like "Little Sisters of Jesus" and you're in.

"Her??" There you go Dishwalla, someone finally noticed and acted shocked. Be at peace.

It's great that this is apparently good and I hope people enjoy it, but I just can't justify giving this guy any more of my money. In an industry that's supposed to be ultra-competitive Shyamalan is somehow allowed to fail again and again and again and again with no consequences. It seems like now that he's finally…

I too was 27-34 during the Obama years and "in" an artistic field. Unfortunately things have gone from good to mediocre to fairly hopeless to only slightly less hopeless for me in that time, although some of the absolute best memories of my life so far are from 2009-2011.

Once again my occasional desire to give Lords of Shadow 2 a shot has been subdued.

I've never thought of CV III as underrated, but I suppose all of the NES titles are a bit overlooked these days. III is almost certainly the hardest game in the series, and there's a weird emulation quirk that makes the final boss even harder, so I wouldn't be surprised if newer players give up on it quickly.

I suspect it is Dracula spelled backwards, but to be sure we need Peter Cushing to write the names side by side and then slowly connect each letter.