Wrong. There's much more of Empire Strikes Back in there than A New Hope.

In past eras where warfare was more constant it was not at unusual to have that sort of trajectory.

I thought the way they used the original material in here wasn't at all lazy, and quite musical, in fact. Themes repeated by different instruments and re-ordered to create a different effect, other than maybe there being a third Death Star. I hope there's a standalone that's just two hours of First Order brass…

there's a button next to the flag where you can just collapse comments. Every time I see that idiot's name I just do that.

Ren is basically two things—A. a reset on the terrible Anakin in the prequels and B. a teenage boy. He's like a teenage Kobe Bryant or LeBron James, who's capable of doing amazing stuff, even on veteran pros, but is incredibly undisciplined. What we could say is that he's doing amazing shit just for the hell of it,…

Sociologically it doesn't really work because even being left behind by her posh family she's still going to adjust to the local style with a few odd ticks, but mythologically it works because just by her voice it establishes that she's not really from there and that somewhere else she's royalty, like in a fairytale.

Sanders has already raised more money than Obama '08.

Trump's poll numbers are interesting because he has a pretty strong national lead but in the first three primary states his advantage disappears. So, IMO, a bunch of conservatives (and these are national polls so instead of several thousand polled in a concentrated area it's hundreds polled over a wide area) like the…

He led one TIME poll a few weeks ago. It's not unthinkable. Iowa is also one of the more liberal leaning primaries.

fuck that noise

yes, it is. It's called Rockefeller Republicanism.

but nothing ought to offend to the self-appointed ass of commenting!

It's not ancient history; it's current news. Realize the filmmaker is Taiwanese and things should make more sense.

Ok, here's the thing about The Assassin that's not being brought up by Western critics: over the last decade or so Chinese cinema has been on a massive patriotic binge. Some of the more subtle efforts that have also been praised by critics include movies like Hero, where the protagonist declines to kill the destined…

The discussion about the pee chair in Duke of Burgundy.

The story left out the best part. The contract allows the Wu Tang clan + Bill Murray to plan and execute a heist to steal the record back. If successfully executed the record is all theirs.

Nah, she was a dick to exactly two people and suspended from her job before being reinstated and can no longer handler marriage licences. The real dickery is coming from Huckabee who has been using her as a pawn in his "religious persecution is real narrative."

Except he has that experience in Washington. He's been the most productive legislator in Congress over the last half century.

9/11.

That is a quality Wiki wormhole material there. Through it I learned that they are in bed (phrasing!) with the Log Cabin Republicans, and through that I learned the LCR was inspired by Ronald Reagan after he wrote an op-ed opposing a bill that would've banned gay teachers. In the 90s they donated a $1000 to Bob Dole…