It felt like the end of the movie (the same way that the end of Star Wars did) and maybe the end of the trilogy, but it didn't feel at all like the end of the historical period or even of the war.

Right. I love that big grin he gets right before fighting Grievous, like, "Four arms wielding four lightsabers? I didn't realize it was my birthday."

Because they're filled with all the elements and tonality that you never, ever see in straight-up Disney branded stuff (that was so famously policed for decades, first by Disney himself and then by his successors, up to and including the Katzenberg era). For example, every single Disney movie was rated "G" up until a…

I'll give you Roland Emmerich, but there's nothing fake looking about the Bay stuff. (That's why he keeps getting work, even though everything else about his movies is so obviously, laughably bad: those action sequences are always beautifully done.) And the Enterprise crash was totally not "fake looking." It was…

The ending of ROTJ was abrupt and not all that conclusive. I mean, think about it: the immediate story was resolved, and all the character arcs were completed, but it was hardly clear what was going to happen next or what exactly the situation was now that the Emperor was dead and the Death Star gone. (I know they…

I prefer how Lucas just said "In my universe there's sound in space" (in one of the disc commentaries).

I thought the four arms with four lightsabers was so batshit insane that it actually kind of worked. (His battle with Obi-Wan is one of the better parts of that movie.)

The accident totally ruined his mouth and teeth (and, with them, any real chance at stardom beyond being Luke Skywalker or a killer voice talent). It's a shame because he's really charismatic in this perfect-California-boy way in the first movie, and it's all gone by Empire.

No, it's not "maybe they do, maybe they don't." They don't.

You're crazy if you didn't like the visual effects in Star Trek. That was some of the best "space and spaceships" footage ever made. And it was even better in the sequel (since ILM had switched over to the Arnold Renderer — the one used in Gravity — so sequences like the falling Enterprise were even more realistic and…

I've just read a whole bunch of your comments in a row (moving down the page) and I've come to the conclusion that you're an awful person, and I'm glad I don't know you personally.

You're not supposed to say what you personally like, you're supposed to say what's "iconic," which is a cultural observation.

What is the big deal about the damn spinning top? I know fans of that movie like to seize everyone by the lapels and proclaim how "brilliant" it is, but I don't agree.

I made the same mistake as you, not recognizing that quote. It's apparently from Spaceballs.

That's ridiculous. If there's one thing that does not exist in the Star Wars universe it's a technology budget.



More of this bullshit about how reverence for Star Wars (particularly in contrast to newer stuff) involves "not having been an adult at the time."

Maybe he's got something to do with Scoot McNairy.

I don't know why everyone gets this idea that Disney has a bunch of operatives that go through all the material created by the subsidiaries and work to "Disney it up." (Like, "don't design that droid — make this cute one instead.") There's absolutely no evidence of this and lots of evidence the other way.

Well you did catch how Cheney-like Palpatine was, right? With his "Authorization for the use of military force" Enabling Act? (In the movie it's "Emergency War Powers.")

And there could also be a toothpick and tweezers.