its twitter. what do you think?

The self-righteousness here, the constant air of “our shit hypothetically wouldn’t stink if we were in his shoes, which we never were and never will be,” is just gross.

“I can’t believe Sorkin didn’t know about his behaviour! There was an article in the WSJ from 2005!” - website that has also been giving Rudin a free pass since 2005.

Hopefully they won’t have a comics podcast with Scott and Zooks, ugh

This isn’t journalism. It’s linking to Polygon who are linking to the Hollywood Reporter who are the ones actually doing the journalism. 

RIAN JOHNSON, AN INDIE DIRECTOR WHO BUILT HIS CAREER FROM THE GROUND UP: anyone can do great things, no matter where they come from :)

JJ ABRAMS, SON OF TWO SUCCESSFUL HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS: absolutely the fuck not

It’s weird that Ford doesn’t seem to have a problem with Indiana Jones not dying (as far as I know) — you’d think he’d want a closure on that story as well.

I can’t be objective about The Last Jedi. I think it’s a Black Panther-level achievement of an individualistic filmmaker managing to make something deeply personal on the canvas of a giant Hollywood blockbuster.

“My issue is that Rey, seemingly out of nowhere, Jedi Mind Tricks a Stormtrooper. To me, that far surpasses anything we saw Anakin or Luke do before they received any kind of training. We only saw Jedi Masters do it. Luke didn’t do it until Return of the Jedi. If Rey had seen someone else do it and then tried it…

And the thing that’s most important is that Star Wars was never a wholly original work. It was always riffing on themes from older stuff. Wuxia stories, WWII fighter pilot movies, westerns, etc. It works best when people understand those themes it is riffing on and work within that framework.

This right here! There aren’t too many self made female heroes in modern pop culture. They’re either the “chosen one” or the daughter of a chosen one. Having her be abandoned daughter to a pair of scumbags, who through her own fruition became a genuinely honorable hero, was one of the best moves made by Star Wars. Too…

I liked in the TLJ that Rey was a nobody. Not connected to the Skywalkers or the Kenobi’s or the Palpatines or the Yodas, just someone who had the Force.

I’m with you. I mean, huge props to Marcia Lucas, but what did she think should have happened to Han and Luke--they die in their sleep? 

I don’t know, everybody responds differently and all that, but I was pretty skeptical about The Force Awakens going in, and Han’s death still hit hard. I think it was well-utilized in setting up Kylo Ren’s character, too, and differentiating him from Vader. Kylo’s not someone who was “seduced by the dark side,” he’s…

Luke instinctively used the force without knowing it also, that’s why he thought it was no big deal to make that shot, becuase he had been using the force all along on Tatooine. Anakin used the force without training more than either of them when he was pod racing. So Rey’s force sensitivity is not without precedent. 

The idea that Johnson’s overt politics are out of step with Star Wars as a whole is...interesting, to put it charitably. From its inception, and most obviously when it comes to the Ewoks, the original trilogy was commentary on Vietnam. The Empire’s designs were based in Nazi iconography. In my opinion, Johnson was…

Harrison Ford was about as open and public about his desire to see Han Solo dead as Daniel Craig has been about wanting to see someone else take on the Bond role.

when I heard that Han Solo would be in Star Wars 7 I assumed it would be “one and done”; I was more genuinely surprised when he showed up in 9. Ford has made no secret of his extreme dislike for the character. In fact I assume when they approached him to be Han Solo he demanded (1) an absolute shit-ton of money, (2)…

Luke had four point three minutes of Jedi training after living a comparatively comfortable life. Rey had been using the Force to survive on her own for years, and fights with a lightsaber the same way she fought with her staff earlier in the film. This was set up very obviously in TFA. The seven year old sitting next…

Also, I will add that the idea that anyone can be force sensitive is deeply threatening to people that think of themselves as being genetically or racially or culturally superior, and therefore it was really, really cool. It provoked way too much rage to be just about story. I absolutely hated that they walked back on…