DRC— In this case it's not about them actually rejecting it as canon, and more about the idea that they might just openly disrespect it as a dog whistle to the OT fanboys. Something like the lame "you were expecting an exploding pen?" line in "Skyfall".

Okay, I'm gonna say it again— these sets look absolutely NOTHING like the OT. They look like designs from the discarded draft piles on the Prequels. Nothing wrong with that— hell, my name is a dead giveaway that such a thing is a good thing in my book. But whenever I hear fans compare this to the OT, I have to scratch…

Actually, the Ikari in the name is Shinji. So in that case it's a combo of screwed up emo would-be heroes.

This is all of Mara Jade in a nutshell.

The thing that bothers me about that is that Obi-Wan Kenobi shouldn't have any offspring. He was a Jedi. Jedi are supposed to be celibate, or something. Therefore, if he were to have kids and grandkids down the line, that would just make him a giant hypocrite for how he and the Jedi Council effectively shamed Anakin…

This looks interesting, perhaps enough to give AMC a chance again after they torpedoed "Rubicon". At least you can get in on the ground floor of something before they prematurely cancel it again.

Yeah, there's that. It's hard to get into a show that's so praised for its dialogue, only to find it's kinda hard to understand. Especially when the show is shot with such a lackluster, static lack of style. Fontana and Levinson really help liven up both the voice of the characters, and add some real visual energy…

The Wire. I can't even summon up enough interest in it to explain why. It just sucks.

Oh, if he spent 4-5 years on it, then rest free from your burdens. I do agree that ANH is the best one to do this kind of cinematic mash-up game with, although there's plenty of stuff you could find in the Prequels that would be worth bringing up. ESB and ROTJ don't have quite as much references for the most part.

It's cool. Like I said, there's some solid direction in the Marvel movies, too. I honestly don't understand why Favreau wasn't handed Avengers.

I genuinely hope this guy does the same thing to the other five films, if only because it'll make the conversation about the "Searchers" crib from AOTC that much more interesting and perverse.

Oh, don't get me wrong. There are too many directors in action movies who confuse hectic unmotivated movement for style and thus render their scenes completely incomprehensible. I personally find the best directors are the ones who can come up with inventive, fun set-pieces and cover them with dynamic and balanced…

No mention of David Cronenberg as one of the directors he's worked with? I'd like to think his name counts for more than Corbijn or Gray…

I actually really do want to see this musical Sting's doing. Or at the very least see that concert of the material at Carnegie. Sting's awesome. I don't care what anyone else says.

Supersatanic— that is exactly what I mean by dull. Sure, he's good with characterization, but if that's the only skill he brings to the table he should stick to writing scripts, getting other people to direct and just give his 2 cents to the actors as a producer. Cinema is a visual medium, above all. It's not just…

Not to mention, Wright has more feature directorial experience than Whedon, which ought to earn him a bit more faith from the studio. But then, Whedon is kinda exactly the kind of dull director Marvel/Disney probably likes best.

In all seriousness, Leslie Nielsen might've had it in him to kill it as a 24 villain. He was a heavy all those years before he turned to comedy, after all.

I suppose, but the Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon side of things is really less dominated by desperado anti-heroes and more by the prim and proper civilized types, the ones we mostly saw back in the Prequels. Hell, even TPM is by comparison a lot rougher around the edges than the origins of space opera, when you get down to…

I honestly think that the dirty aesthetic and space western stuff has been done to death even more than the Jedi/Sith thing, honestly. Why? Because every space-set sci fi has basically been a variation of that for the past fifteen or twenty years. We don't need another Firefly with simply the addition of the Star Wars…

Boba Fett and Solo films do absolutely nothing for me, and frankly sound like just the sort of franchise-milking stuff that you'd expect from Disney. I could see the potential of "Red Five", maybe, if only because that could cover almost anything. I'd really rather see something as unconnected to the existing saga as…