I hate this dumb Abrams quote, because TFA was the embodiment of what he thinks Star Wars fans want, a sort of theme park ride of the elements of the original trilogy.

Yeah, fan support and love never make anything better. I mean if your opinion happens to align people who didn’t love every decision made then your just like the fans...

However, he then added this. “On the other hand, it’s a bit of a meta approach to the story. I don’t think that people go to Star Wars to be told, ‘This doesn’t matter,’” Abrams said.

I’m disappointed to see Scorsese brushed off as a grumpy old fun-sucker when his case against franchise movies raises concerns about the industry that even ardent MCU fans should take seriously.

While I sympathise with his broader point about blockbusters crowding out more idiosyncratic works, he really undermined himself with his gatekeeping approach to what constitutes “cinema”.

I don’t think Scorsese is implying that only “prestige” movies are cinema. But that the studio system has changed so much that movies feel, for lack of a better word, over-processed now.

I’m starting to just want WB to go Alien3 on this and release an assembly cut

Part of me sympathizes with these fans. I would give my off-hand to see the original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons, but even the mutilated version is a good movie. Meanwhile, the nearest equivalent might be Exorcist II. It’s a perplexing and perverse film that was supposedly more bizarre and uncompromising before…

Greetings from your friendly neighborbood Frank Miller apologist. I won’t excuse the racism of Holy Terror or the sheer crankiness of ASBaR, but I will say that Miller was at one time a formidable artist, whose draftsmanship and sense of rhythm changed the industry.

Ugh... The adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s Kill Or Be Killed can’t hit theaters soon enough. It’s practically the Anti-Kick-Ass; we need more anti-fascist superhero fiction instead of Millars and Millers.

I know Wonder Woman was an important movie, but I felt it was at best decent. The villain was forgettable.

Idk, it just reminds me of when my AP Lit teacher told the class that we couldn’t do our research papers on Harry Potter because it wasn’t a book of literary merit? Like, cool, one just because it’s a children’s book doesn’t mean it doesn’t have merit? Also, I think I could infer on my own that the book I pick for an…

WOW. I’m shocked by all this in part because I am a huge fan of Sarah Dessen... so I know that statement is absolutely true.

Dude is quite possibly the best director working in horror today. I’m very excited to see this.

Um...ok. It’s fine if you didn’t like Endgame, but I don’t see how the events in that film are stilted in any way.

This casting gets more and more intriguing. (I had pictured Serkis as a social-climbing Cockney version of the Penguin, obsessed with stature but dwarfed by his goons, but I’m happy enough with Farrell as a sneering dapper Penguin who absolutely needs to have a monocle.)

Gotta say, I enjoyed this thing. It wasn’t as striking as recent thrillers like John Wick or Edge of Tomorrow or Fury Road or Crawl. But, at least to my taste, it had an appealing sense of efficiency, humility, and humanity. The moments of pathos are played without the stilted sentimentality of Endgame. The action…

The big question is how and why did it take 7 people to come up with that God Awful story?

They desperately needed a new voice in this franchise. Yates’s vision has grown incredibly stale.

I watched that second Fantastic Beasts movie, but for the life of me I can’t remember a damn thing that happened in it. Was there a part with a train, or am I thinking of something else?