Wow this and the Jezebel review couldn’t be more different

Have you seen it? I was pretty lukewarm but now probably will just because I’m curious if it lives up to the hype. I know this isn’t the Dowd review, but an A is pretty intriguing relative to what I expected.

Cameron peaked with the original Terminator.

Earlier this week I watched Dances with Wolves and Avatar. The former was WAY better than the idiotic latter. So I’m not slighting Costner’s movie (even if it’s not as good as Goodfellas) when I deride everything but the CGI in Avatar.

People really want to hone in on the directors of these movies when it comes to blame, but studio interference/interaction was clearly a larger contributing factor.

Not delaying tRoS after the death of Fisher was just... What was the hurry?

Presumably the idea is to have made a slew of successful movies by the time Disney hires him back.

Yes ROS took a giant shit on the other 2, it was just soo bad.  And a complete cop out with the Palpatine being back and everything else.  It’s like Abrahms had NO idea where to go after TLJ.

I think it only showed you that you were out of step with the really loud Star Wars fans.  Not the majority.

At the time TFA came out, there hadn’t been a real Star Wars film since 2005. By the time The Last Jedi came out, both TFA and Rogue One had come out, with Solo hot on its heels.

Viewed on its own merits, TLJ was a huge financial success, making over $1.3 billion worldwide. The problem is, it still looks like a significant disappointment compared to TFA, which raked in more than $2 billion globally. It’s entirely understandable that Disney’s powers that be would see a sequel that dropped a…

I totally get that! I enjoyed Force Awakens too honestly, even if I recognize the complete retread of A New Hope. Still, having that reignite the passion and take us back to the spirit of the OT, followed by how incredible Last Jedi was, really could have led to an incredible conclusion. Rise of Skywalker truly blew…

I grew up watching the original trilogy, and I thought The Last Jedi was fantastic. The concept of the hero’s moral compass swinging so far away from evil that he was making a different kind of wrong choice was such a great choice. I also really appreciated the negation of the “chosen one” as a trope. I did wish…

I recognize that it’s hard to think otherwise due to the vitriol of the haters, but I think a lot more people liked Lost Jedi than is advertised. The problem is that the discourse became a poisoned well almost instantly.

“Because she makes films infrequently, she doesn’t have health insurance through the DGA. So, she has a theater named after her at the Sorbonne, but she has to teach to get health insurance.”

We called it!

Nope, tooth filing. It was a thing back in the ye olde Viking times. People would file their teeth and inlay them, or paint them.

It is possible for an attempt a satire to fail. Some people even like the mess that creates. but let’s be real - the last season of Search Party fucking sucked. That’s coming from someone who LOVES the show as a whole. 

In an interview Robert Eggers said during his research he found that the Valkyries (or actual women warriors or something like that) wore inlays in their teeth.

Series finales, not season. We’re getting more Stranger Things. 

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How could they snub Jurassic World: Dominion?” people will ask