I saw the preview screening as well as the final cut and both versions kind of ended flat for me. The reason was that two characters who you grew attached to throughout the film, Keaton-Bruce and Kara, are punted out of the movie and never spoken about again. There’s no catharsis when their universe is destroyed and…

I’m marginally more interested in a new Thor movie if someone else is directing. Comedic Thor is just not my thing.

Unfortunately there is a good chance Taika Waititi will return to direct but it is NOT a done deal. I’d like to see someone like Sam Hargrave doing it, he’ll make a badass Thor movie.

Agreed. What I love about the Super Mario Movie is that it doesn’t overthink the adaptation. It’s a fun romp that embraces the oddities of the source material without trying to overplot a movie based on a platform videogame. I can only imagine all the versions of this script that strained to justify every aspect of…

There’s a three hour docudrama about Oppenheimer building the A-bomb and fucking that’s about to hit $300 million domestic. It MAY actually be possible for both escapist fare and high art to co-exist and succeed without the former signaling “THE DEATH OF CREATIVITY”, as a talking point beaten to death for decades.

Okay but I don’t think it was mindless garbage? Was it as complex as, I dunno, Turning Red or the Spiderverse films? Of course not, but those movies are for older audiences.

The Super Mario takes seem like “I’m really mad about Chris Pratt voicing him...” and then they just sorta flailed for something else to make it seem like there was more to it than that.

Yeah whenever I hear the “kids deserve better” bullshit I realize that person probably doesn’t actually have kids, know kids, or talk to kids.

Dude’s just regurgitating things he’s seen other people say when someone defends a children’s film for not being especially deep.

I don’t say this lightly, but this is a dreadful, dehumanizing take.

It’d be about satisfying “core” fans who watch everything and people who grew up with Clone Wars at the expense of everyone else.It’s like expecting people to be familiar with the goings on in Camp Cretaceous before seeing a new Jurassic Park movie.

Yup, I feel the exact same way. Everyone comments on any article about a new Marvel show talking about how much “homework” it takes to watch the new stuff and they just can’t bother with it. Sure it’s cool to be able to know every detail for all the characters, but it’s by no means required to enjoy each new piece of…

Movie Anakin is like the first draft, and Clone Wars was the finished script.

It’s a pretty shallow article about Asoka that does not realize that her appeal is that she DID change, from the naive padawan, to the enthusiastic army commander, until she was not believed by the Jedi council and left the Jedi. She was torn, she was hurt and she matured in a world where everyone she grew up with…

Far as I’m concerned, Clone Wars Anakin is Anakin. His movie appearances feel apocryphal at this point. If the producers of the franchise at this point said, “let’s just remake the prequel trilogy in animation, with the animated voice actors”, I’d be fine with that.

Especially when you consider than not only has she grown up during that time, but she had everything that she had ever known torn away from her. The way that the Jedi treat her, only for them to be killed without resolving the issues between them. Then spending her life being hunted. Plus the revelation of what…

Sorry but what a load of absolute nonsense. No, you absolutely do NOT need to have watched Clone Wars or Rebels or read the Ahsoka novel or bought the grey side colouring book to understand the character. Where on earth has this narrative come from all of a sudden about geek-related media? I mean, people started their…

That’s too bad - the later seasons of both are some of my favourite Star Wars stuff for sure... at least check out some key highlights on YouTube or some such... at bare minimum:

the Ahsoka order 66 arc from Clone Wars season 7... Rebels 2x21-22 Twilight of the Apprentice... and the end of Rebels 4x13-16 which sets up…

I know animation isn’t for everyone, but Rebels was truly some of the best Star Wars content that’s ever been released to TV/film. Ahsoka, in particular, is one of my all time favorite characters. As a 40 year old hard core fan of the original trilogy and 90s era EU who has decidedly not been a fan of much of Disney’s…