Yup, a big part of the job is that decision-making: you’re simultaneously sniffing out projects you can submit them for, as well as fielding calls for meetings or flat-out offers and deciding which ones to bring to their attention. Especially with it being rooted in connections and deal-making, it feels very…

It wath the betht of headlineth. It was the blurtht of headlineth.

Exactly. And it pigeonholes what Star Wars can be (which, considering its myriad influences and the myriad ways people connect with it, as well as the fact that it is innately an exercise in pastiche, is absolutely silly to categorize as a single definable aesthetic/story) while, as murry’s comments illustrate,…

The flip side is people are really impatient and have short attention spans; making the movie available to rent and buy from home profits off the momentum and draws in the people who just weren’t going to see it in cinemas over the previous 45 days.

Late summer’s always been a dumping ground for (bad) horror movies; in October there’ll be a slew of higher-quality movies that’d eat Demeter’s lunch even worse than Barbie did.

I have a projector at home with a decent sound system and a 120-inch screen. I still like going to see movies on a bigger screen, with better sound, with an excited audience.

I think you’re conflating “lists things they like” and “lists things.”

C’mon, I don’t think people should tell Bullock what to do but you know you’re blurring the lines deliberately; unlike your examples the whole thing is in response to new developments.

Yup, this is what I mean; it seemed really unconcerned with the rest of the franchise or fan service. Then they’re introducing the darksaber, and here’s Bo Katan, and what are we going to do about the fate of Mandalore, and by the time we’ve got an entire episode trying to bolster a plot explanation for “somehow…

See, my entire thrust is Filoni invites this whole “Star Wars is clearly one thing” dogmatic thinking, and the conversation inevitably drifts to what “is” or “isn’t.” It’s not fun to me.

I’m like 90% certain she doesn’t even know about this.

Heh heh, we’re probably of a similar generation of fan that remembers what it was like to grab at anything new in Star Wars; I was also all in on the EU books until the New Jedi Order. And I’d say the NJO was a really good example of the sort of deliberate franchise work that turns me off. Maybe I was younger and more…

Thing is, considering how much campaigning and gladhanding that goes into an Oscar win, by the time you’re up there with the statue in hand you’re probably not concerned about whether it’s a career award or not.

I guess I’d voice it like this: with The Mandalorian I got this sense of “this isn’t typical Star Wars storytelling;” it felt like Star Wars could be several things (I got a similar feeling from Rogue One and Last Jedi, and it’s been part of why Andor works so well for me: I feel more a sense of playing in the sand…

They need him to gradually push it from one side of the shelf to the other, in conjunction with the phases of the moon.

Bullshit; I think she totally should if she wants to. If she personally doesn’t feel good about the story emerging, it would be a totally valid and respectable statement to make. If she wants to say nothing, that’s totally fine. If she wants to specifically come out in favor of the Tuhoys and say exploitation is a…

If not for the rating I’d have zero idea what the reviewer thought of this movie.

Big ol’ yep. A lot of this Filoni stuff just feels like franchise maintenance, trying to make the OT, prequels, and cartoons into a single, cohesive blob of content. It’s unexciting if you’re more interested in SW as entertainment than as a brand.

oh I see; we got one of them hard-shelled tacos