I don’t think Kylo was on an obvious redemption arc at all though. Abrams had him on a redemption arc, but I don’t think that was Johnson’s goal. In my mind, the redemption arc should have been over with Kylo taking over for Snoke as the new big bad. Trying to make him another Darth Vader to be redeemed at the end was…

I never said the chase wasn’t relevant. I said it’s not the only thing that happens in the movie. In fact, it’s only a small part of the film despite being the framework on which its laid.

Well that is outright insulting to the art of filmmaking, as it is a profoundly lazy movie.

I don’t totally agree. I think there were plenty of good places that the third director could have taken the franchise afterwards while not totally negating everything that Johnson had done. While Colin Trevorrow may not be the best director, his Duel of the Fates script should serve as a clear example that The Last…

I thought The Last Jedi was the only one of the new trilogy that had any artistry tbh. And yes, this is exactly right: “Johnson opened all of JJ’s mystery boxes in unexpected ways and moviegoers who’d rather be spoon-fed nothing but comfortable nostalgia lost their shit.” The Force Awakens was too much like the…

I love how they randomly left in elements of the aborted Finn/Rey romantic relationship—the secret that Finn had to tell Rey that went absolutely nowhere—and then handwaved an explanation after the fact. Uh, he really wanted to tell her that he’s, uh...“force sensitive”! Yeah, that's the ticket!

Don’t worry. Cool and stylish or not, you can still be the pompous dipshit with a college freshman’s understanding of dramatic structure and tension.

The movie also sets Kylo Ren up to be the ultimate big bad of the sequel trilogy and Rise of Skywalker completely torpedoes that.

Yeah, Finn didn’t have a lot to do in TLJ. From an actor’s POV, sure, I can get while he might not have been thrilled with it.

I really miss the TCM Underground block they used to air late Friday nights/early Saturday mornings. I saw a lot of great movies I probably wouldn't have otherwise. Of course, I saw some I never want to see again, but the good far outweighed the bad.

Same.  I found that Crossguard was the best for most enemy encounters and regular bosses, and Dual was the best for the big boss fights because the meditation block works great against melee opponents for wearing down their block meter quickly.

I ended up with Crossguard + Dual, largely because I had already invested more in dual at the time, but staff worked great too. Dual was good enough at groups thanks to the speed, and had some decent single target.

Crossguard + Staff is the way to go in-game. Good high-damage single target and AOE, good defense, reasonably quick. 

No.

I wanted to like it, but in practice it just didn’t feel like it offered anything that was actually useful. Oh I can shoot people at range? Ok...I guess. Wasn’t having any issues with them. It didn’t really feel all that great at dealing with groups, or high health enemies. I’d have to jump through hoops to really…

It seriously should not be so difficult to construct leading, but not tell-all, article headlines. It’s a failure of the editorial staff (if there even is any here) most of all.

I really hope this episode didn’t ruin my ability to enjoy Rupert Murdoch’s death when it comes. 

“HOW THE CAST OF DON’T WORRY DARLING REACTED TO DEAD LOGAN ROY’S DEATH WHEN HE DIED IN EPISODE 3.”
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Continuously typing up poorly written dreck like this instead of reviewing and recapping the tons of movies and shows out there that they ignore.

“Gee, I wonder what happened on Succession last night?”