Right, a lot of the problem with the Phantom Menace in particular lies in the fact that the movie from a script perspective feels like a first draft. The outline for a solid adventure story is there but it desperately needed rewrites and at the very least polishing. I wouldn't necessarily want Lawrence Kasdan to…

His review reads like an explanation of "it is what it is" because "fan-servicey" and "unoriginal" are phrases/words attached to a lot of things Abrams has done in recent years.

There are going to be diminishing returns on that though. And a pleasing (if somewhat bland) visual/narrative rehash of an early movie might have people talking due to the failure of another movie 16 years earlier (although there's not as much discussion about Attack of the Clones or Revenge of the Sith) has a higher…

With the Kirk/Alien woman shot being more plausible.

Well…distracting film.

Those are just story ideas though and as much as everyone latched on to them, the reason Star Wars has stuck around culturally as much as it has and still carries a lot of weight (more so than a lot of its contemporaries) is because there's great filmmaking in the first two and a good chunk of Return of the Jedi…

I've always had this tug and pull with extending the series past Episode VI. The prequels were somewhat misguided in conception but at least from a certain narrative perspective they made sense. The stories from the original trilogy didn't necessarily need completing but at the same time, there's a solid argument…

The big difference is that Abrams is exiting. It'll be interesting to see how Rian Johnson handles the scale and budget of a blockbuster like Star Wars. I really like his three previous movies, but they're all pretty intimate affairs compared to what he's getting into now.

Ugh, I'd say wait until Thursday sometime after 11 pm EST and the opinion of a "B" might change dramatically.

Well, until said article gets more outside exposure. Then things have a tendency to go downhill, but that's to be expected.

He did a series of variant covers for Marvel a few months (to possibly over a year) back in the style of '60s era magazine covers featuring '60s era Marvel characters that you might really enjoy, just as pure art anyway. One thing that kind of always annoys me is there are a number of great artists under Marvel…

How was Black Widow? I've kind of wanted to get into due to Phil Noto on art for the entire series, but Black Widow is a hard sell of a character for me.

I could never bring myself to buy Trillium. I like Descender so far and initially the Nguyen's art is what solid, but the vibe is also very early 1900s children's fantasy (like Little Nemo, Peter Pan, Pinocchio) with a sci-fi twist and the response of I've heard from the issues after the first volume have me feeling…

"The giant Marvel mystery villain since Bendis' New Avengers #1 is…Dark Beast? Did anyone have Dark Beast? Anyone? No?"

Just let Jeff Bridges grow his hair out and no one's the wiser.

But are they in mint condition?

'splain how?

Reading the section on the screenplay is confusing. Orci's script was gutted after he left the film and Pegg said Paramount's main concerns was the script was too "Star Trek-y" and Pegg and Jung were hired to make it more inclusive and create a specific genre film (that I guess wasn't sci-fi…whatever) and then insert…

It's all the concussions.

Well, I mean, that's why he has Robin as a buffer.