To be fair, Kramer vs Kramer was a rather important film at the time for how it dealt with the growing phenomenon of divorce in the US and helped contextualize it for a whole lot of people who were struggling with the disruption in their own lives and the general social structure that resulted from it. It told a lot…

All of Woody Allen’s work is like that for me. Boring, unfunny, plotless tripe that seems to make its overblown reputation on making the Jewish transplants in Hollywood homesick with his “slice of life in the New York Jew Experience” home movies. Most others who proclaim his greatness do so because they’ve been told…

According to the quasi-canonical Mr Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise, she’s not merely a refit she’s a complete keel-up rebuild. She was basically stripped to the frame and virtually -everything- was replaced and is all-new. For all practical intents, she’s a new ship.

Remember Jethro Tull over Metallica for Best Metal category?

You wanna know the worst, most absolutely stupid and short-sighted Oscar snub of all time?

They refused to give any recognition to TRON for it’s groundbreaking visual effects because they felt that using computer animation was somehow “cheating”. Seriously! The film that pretty much paved the way for CGI effects in…

Nobody rides the Bing Bus, and the Bang Bus rides you.

You’re quite mistaken. The trend you speak of is reversing, as countries develop and urbanization increases as it has now for decades, population growth drops. The places with the most population growth are the places with the most poverty and the least infrastructure and those areas are shrinking. China and the rest…

Very wise words. The enemy isn’t a skin color, it’s people with power and privilege abusing and exploiting those without it. That can happen within or across lines of color, gender, nationality, whatever. Heroes are those who have power and use it to benefit the powerless.

I agree entirely. The old explanation was simple and made perfect sense. The Jedi had monopolized the supply of naturally-grown crystals, forcing the Sith to resort to synthetic, artificially created crystals that became infamous for their red color. Simple and logical, like the real life naturally grown diamonds vs…

I don’t care what anyone says, that movie was absolutely incredible to me.

They actually don’t. The only times they miss a lot is when they’re trying to take down main characters and even then they mostly don’t get the opportunity.

* In ANH, it’s very clear that they’re under orders to allow the heroes to escape. The Falcon has been bugged with a tracking device, and they were intended to…

Yes. That was exactly the plan, they didn’t just want to get Han they wanted to eliminate Jabba. Of course, he might not have intended to kill everyone there one by one, maybe he intended to focus their attention onto him. That would allow the others to slip out in the chaos, he could then shoot his way out, and once…

It’s even a core Jedi principle, “Trust the Force”. Much like in Zen, the idea is to not think, empty the mind and act with the idea that the universe will guide you by informing your deeper level of instinct. With Jedi, this is literally and demonstrably true, allowing them to do things like make impossible shots at…

Know your enemy. Jabba isn’t some hard and hungry up and comer getting every detail right and working twice as hard as the competition because he knows the odds are against him. He’s literally a lazy, sloppy slug, totally decadent and drunk on his own power and petty pleasures, and most of all he’s arrogant to a…

“but TLJ’s approach just seems like it’s trying too hard to be clever.”

There, I fixed it for you.

There seems to be an error on the page, I cannot star this comment the 1000 times it deserves.

Yep, but if you call out the movies race-swapping an actual deity that real people actually worship, you get called a racist piece of shit. Even though the Norse never had an empire and were themselves forced to convert to Christianity by Roman invaders, the broad classification “white European” means they’re villains…

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn...

I remember seeing that. and laughing my ass off as the crew was having the same problems we all had as kids with those damned things, and that’s their utter refusal to stay standing up for more than two seconds at a time.

Also, Ni and San are numbers in Japanese, two and three specifically. So, Ni San could be translated as 23.