There are a lot of crazy statements made in The AV Club comments but, damn. That's something else.

That was one of the worst things about The Force Awakens. That opening chunk which bounced between the spaceship and Jakku set a precedent that made the Star Wars universe seem tiny. Explaining all the gaps in the fiction, like this and the other spin offs intend to, is going to shrink it even more.

There's already this: https://youtu.be/gx9eDoS76LM

You'll never get Americans, especially a capitalist like Trump, to care about money going to artists for their work.

"sounded […] like"

Besides noticing for how much better Amy Adams is in Nocturnal Animals to Arrival, seeing those two films only a week apart made me dislike Jóhan Jóhansson's score because it sounded too much like it was aping the spare strings of Abel Korzeniowski's scores for both A Single Man and Nocturnal Animals.

I also think it's great that the people who spend all year making Captain America: Civil War, The Girl On The Train and Jason Bourne suddenly have good taste and interesting opinions on film when it gets to award season.

Three hours later, we find out the real problem with war is that we forget love is the most important thing.

It's the all-American story of the year.

It's definitely wrong. You're basically saying JJ bluffed everyone into watching a remake even though his entire career has been based on referencing earlier material, nostalgia is the only thing that sells and the sheer fact that Star Wars has done gangbusters for Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, The Clone…

That's a very low bar.

Marvel gets a pass on all those things though.

Related to this, it's really made some people (not just in these comments) embarrassingly mad: http://theconcourse.deadspi…

So? Fans have been fine not knowing how they got those plans for 39 years.

And with roughly the same amount of good films too.

Richard Brody isn't particularly snooty: he liked Doctor Strange, bad Neighbours 2 and Masterminds.

My favourite part was the decision to take the premise of robot vs. monsters and then have every fight take place at midnight, waist deep in the sea and filmed like Batman vs. Ra's al-Ghul from Batman Begins.

You're posting in the wrong thread. The isn't the Rogue One review.

People have been doing that with comic book movies for years. Remember people legitimately saying The Winter Soldier was the defining political thriller of our time or that Chris Nolan's Batman movies were allegories for Bush's War on Terror?

I went to a posh school so went to a handful of the UK equivalent of McMansions to visit friends and, while my mum was always impressed, I always thought they seemed like the worst places to live. They're in the middle of nowhere, they cost a fortune to maintain and seem pointlessly large; the distance between rooms…