Most of the post-1999 prestige dramas feel like the last episode was planned out years in advance. They usually have issues getting to the endgame, because that perfect last scene is set in stone before the writers have actually gone through the character journeys.

I think CGI-Tarkin was both distracting and necessary. The movie takes place the day before ANH. Cushing is too iconic in that movie to replace him with an extra from the prequels, or any other actor. With Mon Mothma at least you can argue she aged a few years between R1 and ROTJ. The technology just isn't there…

I actually worked on a screenplay about this very idea a few years ago. Everyone over 60 has to sleep with their head in a guillotine hooked up to an EKG, kids practice killing zombie dolls in kindergarten, and operating room tables empty right out into a crematorium.

There hasn't been a passable entry in the franchise in 25 years! Aside from the reality that Arnold is far too old for the part, there just doesn't seem to be anywhere new to take the franchise even if he were 40 years old forever. The machines are evil, they send robots back to unsuccessfully kill people, plucky…

Comedy Central wasn't able to replace Stephen Colbert with Larry Wilmore, even though they're pretty close from an ideological standpoint.

I'm sorry if I came across as too tribal. I've always really wanted to like the DCEU movies, because I remember being three years old and banging together Superman and Batman action figures. I was always more of a DC fan than a Marvel fan growing up. So it just really pains me to see what Zack Snyder has done to…

Why, because he doesn't have an immediately identifiable visual style involving speed-ramping, muted brown tones and constant Jesus posing? Whedon already directed a superhero movie much better than anything Snyder could hope to make. It looked kind of like a long TV episode, but it told a good story and it was fun…

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I think part of the joke with Desi's home improvement gambit was that it's especially stupid/crazy for a broke starving artist to spend money he doesn't have to make major renovations to a rental unit he doesn't own. I put up drywall in a rental once to add a roommate, but I got my landlord's permission in writing…

This is the kind of scene that could only show up at the end of a series run, when the writers suddenly realize they have to bring a character to the end of their arc after running them on a treadmill for years. They should have kept Desi mostly off-screen this season. There was nothing left to learn there, and it…

Also, Sorkin could have just written a show about a bad sketch comedy series staffed with self-righteous hacks. But because he based the Matthew Perry character on himself, and had everyone around him constantly saying what a genius Perry/Sorkin was and how good the fictional show was thanks to his Jesus-like…

Urban Dictionary says "Twitter slang or dialect that when read aloud sounds like "white people" which is its actual meaning."

An 8 year old playing with action figures brings joy to the enterprise. His movies are more like a 51 year old man playing with action figures.

Yeah I always wondered if that was the work of LexCorp's in-house graphic design team or if he contracted an external agency.

If they really want to get cheers, Superman will come out of the regeneration matrix as a CGI 1978 Christopher Reeve.

Maybe they can handle all the backstory with a 20 minute email exchange between Batman and Wonder Woman that stops the story dead in its tracks.

Yeah, before the prequels, it was pretty firmly established that lightsaber duels were slow and heavy, like medieval combat. Presumably both participants were trying to yank the other's lightsaber away using the Force, meaning they were both fighting an invisible mental battle alongside the physical one. This was…

lol the republic was such a stupid form of government who cares that it doesn't exist anymore!!!

Schwarzenegger had one of the most distinctive screen presences in the history of film. Gerard Butler induces face blindness. I bet if he did Wife Swap with Sam Worthington, nobody (including the wives) would be able to tell they'd switched houses.

They did, and it showed that WB could have a lot of fun poking at other non-Neo corners of the universe. I think it would be especially cool to see the original version of the Matrix that attempted to create a perfect human world.