Yay in that cover Indy has a wedding band. We're getting Marion!

I’ll be happy if it’s actually “full of real emotion”.  Because of all the problems of Crystal Skull, that was the biggest. There really felt like no stakes whatsoever through the whole thing. 

Plus we already saw Indy elderly with grandkids (possible great grandkids) on TV with those opening segments of Indiana Jones Chronicles.

It always makes me wonder why nobody has tried to resurrect the Prydain books. While they don’t have the name recognition, they seem like the kind of thing a smart marketing team could sell to an audience, and they don’t have any of that baggage.

Re: Michael Arndt’s Episode VII

dude we are a super small team that works extremely hard, a little kindness would cost you nothing.

The other is that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is really the only book in the series that anyone’s invested in. The others are going to fall flat almost no matter what you do.

I don’t think it is that big a deal. Lovecraft is as much a genre as an author nowadays, and thus what this kind of festival celebrate is a lot more the former than the latter.

Comic sans.

This pearl-clutching works better if you wait for any of those comments to be actually made, rather than jumping out preemptively.

Agreed, and even more so now that the film is as complete as Robert Wise would have wanted and all the effects have been so beautifully restored!

+1 for your second paragraph. I actually thought Obi-Wan wouldn’t have been too bad as a standalone piece, but the Kenobi/Vader confrontations were a file being dragged across my teeth because it makes a lot of their dialogue in ANH kind of bizarre.

With Obi-Wan Kenobi especially, and the other shows to a lesser extent, you’re using characters and a time frame that’s very well-explored, and telling stories that might be up against years of preconceptions or previous works.

There are a lot of ways to interpret that Russo quote, but it seems to me he is saying that people have short attention spans these days and they need to respect that and try to turn it into a strength of the movie instead of a weakness.

But he also is LITERALLY saying they need to make more content for adults.  which he is correct, expecially after the merger with Fox.

Meanwhile Oliver Queen (DCU version) was totally a Berniebro right to the bitter end. And was highly obnoxious about it. 

I think there’s been zero-to-no interest in making movies around Hal Jordan because all anyone can do with him is make him Topper from Top Gun or make him a walking brick who wags his finger at you for playing your music too loud. Doesn’t help that he definitely voted for Trump.

Picard has a twisted relationship with the subject “multiple light sources”

Can’t believe you skipped Eartha Kitt’s Catwoman. She was purrrrrfect.