Politics is also generally cheaper to film than monster hunting. 

To me the only legitimate complaint is if there are spoilers in a headline. Outside of that, people should stop griping. 

It bugs me. I like the shoe regardless, bit I would prefer he took the helmet off several eps ago. Hopefully when he takes it off next week (cause of course he will) he mostly leaves it off.

Usually it's not. They have a second body actor.

It wasn’t ever really intended to be 9 films. Lucas may have said that, but they never existed at the same time and what has been produced is nothing like what Lucas envisioned, even before TLJ.

I’d rather watch RLM talk about most movies than I would watch the movies themselves. The Plinkett reviews are getting a bit stale, and I think at some level RLM knows it. 

To be fair, he is in fact not Ewan McGregor.

“I liked Oedipus Rex, but the sequel was hot garbage!”

They put it on their worst movies of 2019, but I’m sure that means they actually liked it fine. 

KOTOR is a very respectable choice for best SW game, but I would put X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing Alliance above it. I’ve never felt more like I was inhabiting the SW universe than when playing those games. The sim aspect of it grounded this fantastical made up world into a sense of reality that, for my money, has…

Don’t forget, a climactic battle with the exact same villain from ROTJ!

“Been born, wish I never had.”

People largely hated the prequels as well (ROTS was I’d say moderately well received), and were vocal about it, the internet as we know it just didn’t exist then to weaponize everything.

Reminds me of my experience after watching Prometheus. A movei that I was so hyped for based on the trailers. Then we watched it and I was like, “That was good?” Then in the span of 20 minutes talking with friends about it on the drive home I realized that no, it was not verygood. That was my own wishful thinking.

If what they mean is it doesn’t use crappy prequel level CGI and has characters that do things that make sense and are meaningful to the larger plot, then I’m happy to read that.

Kind of mixed considering the source are Disney picked early watch influencers.

That’s not true in most places. Even if you are salaried, the employer can determine when you come to work and what you do while you’re there.

There may be something to this. I flew internationally last year, and that experience is relatively good compared to the bare bones of domestic flights. Seemingly little things like movies, snacks, and meals, make the experience feel less dodgy. 

These are all interesting, but Gillihan’s analysis I found particularly enlightening.

The critic should be objective in their subjectivity, judging a piece of art on its merits rather than what they want the result to be. That’s what I’m getting at. My initial comment wasn’t rooting for SW to fail, I am genuinely interested in why culture critics treat SW in the 20 teens with such kid gloves.…