WTF the fuck?

"YA" is just shorthand for "recent, popular."

I imagined McShane being cast as the red god and saying "I totes bring you back to life".

That seems more likely than this whatever-it-is, huh?

I believe my ignorance makes my comment more racist.

I want it to a holographic duel between Burr and Hamilton, just like the dueling ghosts at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. I mean, we must have the technology by now, right?

Crotch! She has two butts.

I'm also concerned winners might now confuse it with a bottle of syrup, and yes, I am going to hell.

Well, I don't think it's necessarily well-developed. It's written down (that is, we're told this idea, by Yoda, and then kind of really obviously hit over the head with it by the Anakin/Palpatine interactions). It's not elegantly woven into the story in a joyful way, it's just sort of there.

It's a pretty common notion, in Eastern and Western philosophies and you are pretty much hit over the head with it again and again in the second two prequels.

The Internet basically created the virulent backlash against the movies, which as you say, are "fine" at worst and successfully entertain tremendous numbers of people (as do the best Bay films).

That's a very good pick.

The only indication we're given in Episode 1 that Anakin Skywalker has darkness in him is that Yoda tells us he does, in dialogue. There is no demonstration whatsoever of it.

Solo played a vital role in puncturing the self-seriousness around him: Obi-Wan's mysticism, Luke's idealism, the Empire's melodrama. With that missing, all of the "adult"-side storytelling of the prequels gets exposed. It is a major flaw in the prequels. I still don't really mind them as movies, and this article is…

Bong Joon-Ho's Freaks.

It kind of needs to be. I'm kind of a Lynch's Dune apologist, and I think almost all the problems with that film were of trying to adapt a world that needs some room to breathe. The adaptation tries really hard to be clear, and hacks off some of the wrong bits; and tonally suffers because you can't live in the world…

You know, Jackson may have already succumbed to his excesses. I think this might be the best del Toro use, not Forbidden Planet (shudder).

Spider-Man was created to be the original "Superhero with personal problems" so we really need whoever can put characters through the wringer.

I have to say that the idea of Forbidden Planet with a blockbuster budget where you "can see all the stuff" strikes me as just about the worst idea ever.

That's a pretty good choice, actually.