This sounds like it could be a neat movie it if embraces the high concept sci-fi ishness of it all. Something in the Seconds/FaceOfAnother/SkinILiveIn vein.

Uh, if VH1 showed unblurred full frontal nudity, wouldn't they also have to worry about the FCC? Beyond that, yeah, this sounds pretty legitimate in terms of things to be angered by.

The equivalent for this in my experience of games (ie the death that matters, arising from players' actions) was Meryl in MGS. There, it makes a difference if you give into Ocelot's torture or keep fighting, as far as the story goes. However, it's arguable that it's more enjoyable to let Meryl die, as you get to see…

Agreed on the Han-being-justified thing. It's why the Greed-shooting-first thing never bothered me much. Han isn't more or less of a badass either way. The alteration only bothers me on an aesthetic level— it just looks better in the original sequence of shots. If Lucas added the blast without adding a master shot, I…

Uh, since when was there a scene where a Rebel Pilot talks to Luke about his father? I think the scene being described there was the uncut version of the Luke & Biggs scene that was only added into the Special Edition, meaning the only version that's ever been present to audience was the one without the father talk.

Selarom, I pretty much got all of the story beats and emotional points you mention here from the first viewing of the films. Anakin's dialogue and Hayden's performance aren't perfect, sure, but I think that at least they service the story just as well as Lucas and Hamil handled Luke's story in ANH and ESB. Even in…

Because it wasn't made by Miyamoto, I guess. But he liked the owl, obviously, because it showed up in his next game.

Depends on if you count "Link's Awakening", and considering that "Ocarina" has the Owl from that game in it, you can definitely make that argument.

I watched it a while ago, but mostly just came out feeling bored and bombarded with a lot of the same lazy nitpicking comments that so-called fans have been making for over a decade now. The only time I ever thought he made an interesting comment was when he noted in ROTS how many scenes play out against windows and…

Thank you, Cornelius. That is at least a polite response, and better yet, not a lazy one.

There are times when I feel Attack of the Clones genuinely is the best film in the series for how daring it is, on an aesthetic level. It's pretty much the most genuinely experimental thing Lucas was involved in since THX.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's underrated myself. But held up to stuff like "Videodrome", "Dead Ringers", "Crash" etc, it's natural to see it as lesser. Granted, it's still a hell of a lot better than "History of Violence" or "Eastern Promises", neither of which work for me at all.

Only if you don't already own the main-selling point supplement. And if you discount the fact that you can watch it streaming on Netflix and Hulu, I think. I dunno, I can't get motivated to get this. I'd rather get some other Criterion I've been putting off during the sale.

He's done commentaries for pretty much every DVD he's been involved in, I think, barring some really early stuff. At least for every Criterion release. I wish it wasn't such a big deal to me, but I mean… I got a Canadian DVD of "eXistenZ" with frankly shitty picture quality just for the commentary track, and it's…

Hopefully, but the lack of one here is frankly enough to make me encourage people not to buy this. It pains me to say it, but that fact alone makes this a waste of a purchase to me. It's a criminally huge oversight.

No commentary, though. So that's a big minus.

I thought Greenpeace's main tactic was trying to save whales by piloting ships into the path of whaling vessels. Or is that an outdated thing? I mean, the guilting tactic is what PETA does, no argument. And they're assholes.

Hm. Not a bad point to make, but this is basically living up to the stereotype of liberal douches trying to guilt people into doing the right thing, rather than using positive motivation. It's almost at self-parody levels, here.

Between this and "Bartkira", the Simpsons seems to be the go-to reference for massively ambitious creative wastes of time.

Also, haven't they used "Boyhood" as an alleged jumping point already? It feels like it, anyway.