OR IS IT

He gets trapped on a catapult which is activated by the gold coins falling from his cleavage and gets shot into a troll's mouth, thus saving Gandalf, who was about to be killed by that same troll when the staff Radagast lent him didn't work. I'm not joking about any of this.

You seem to think the chase sequence isn't part of the story, like the story "stops" when the action scenes happen. It's all part of the same thing.

Funny that's apparently one of the main things they are going to explore in Episode VII.

Plinkett.

Totally off-topic, but your description of the reader's reaction reminded me of that part in Talking Funny where they recount how Jerry Seinfeld got pissed at Louie CK for announcing him as "the funniest comedian in the world", because that made the audience immediately cross its arms and go "Oh, really?"

It really grinds my gears when people say Fury Road is good because of the action scenes but the story is bad. No. We only care about what's happening in the action scenes because the story works so well. Simple, yes. Bad? No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

At least they're not sitting on a couch.

That's my single most hated anything about the Special Editions. That movie was perfectly edited before Lucas shoved that scene in there.

A million times this.

Also, the climatic sequence, bloated as it is, still feels like Star Wars.

I've been saying Attack of the Clones is the worst since it came out. And I had co-workers at the time saying the complete opposite: that it was the best Star Wars ever. It drove me nuts.

What an exciting and mysterious plot!

Jesus, that movie is SO bad.

I don't think that's true. I can only speak for myself, but I didn't know what to expect at all when the trailer came out. Never really thought about what the pre-OT Universe was like and just wanted to see some jedi kicking ass (which they did, but mostly against lame, useless droids).

Kids do like TPM (friend of mine had to take his when it came out in 3D), and I guess if it came out today I'd be too old to care. But I was an insufferable 19-year-old movie buff in 1999, so there was no way I wasn't going to take it personally.

It's conceptually daft, but if the movies were cool, most people would wave it away as a weird detail. More like a mosquito bite than a shiv to the ribs.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah, the bombs are cool.

It will never go away…