I wasn’t even able to finish it. I deeply respect it, and highly recommend it as a powerful piece of masterful filmmaking, but it was just too heartbreaking for me to handle. I doubt I’ll ever make a second attempt, just reading the synopsis brings me to tears.

At least it wasn’t plans for a new stealth spyplane hidden in an Atari 2600 cartridge. A poor game shop owner got killed over one of those in the early 1980s....

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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…

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…

To be fair, Senator Sanders conceded his primary loss and endorsed Hillary Clinton. He is on record urging his followers to vote for her. It’s pretty clear that he was concerned just as many others were about repeating the Ralph Nader effect, but many of his most extreme base were determined to hate the Democrats and…

It can do those things, just not very well. Then again, I don’t think many people who buy those shitboxes are that interested in braking and sure as hell not cornering. They probably accellerate well, and cruise in a straight line well, but that’s about it.

As to the Mahindra, it tops out at 40mph and is designed as a…

There is some merit in the thought that different people experience different levels of impairment at differing levels of blood alcohol content. Some people really can drink a lot and not experience a reduction in capability. There is an argument to be made that a reflex and coordination test is more appropriate than…

The major offender is that hideous nose, which I didn’t like even as a kid when I worshipped that movie and this car. It’s also a right-hand drive which is just weird as hell and has no practical purpose I can imagine. Still, swap out the nose and trim down that bizarre hoor scoop whatever the hell it is and you end…

My first impression was that this thing is a hideous abomination that utterly ruins a perfectly good classic Corvette. But then I started thinking about it.

This isn’t a car that’s meant to be driven as a car. It’s meant to be a parade vehicle, with some mayor or prom queen or Krewe royalty sitting on the C-pillar with…

I wish there were at least story notes or something so the artist could give one last montage episode that tells us how it was meant to end and give the characters and the audience some closure.

I like to think the group made it to the school (they were almost there) and once there they had a nice reunion with Rei’s…

Oh come on. You don’t think police could have been sloppy and failed to count properly or even care enough to make sure they returned every videocasette? I’d be more surprised if they DID carefully account for them all and made sure they were safely returned. I find it far more likely that they gathered what they saw,…

I still wish someone had taken Lucas up on his offer to direct the prequels for him. He was a great idea man with excellent concepts and story ideas, and brilliant technical innovations to move filmmaking forward, but little ability for dialogue or getting good performances out of his actors. He also has problems…

He killed the younglings because he was convinced the Jedi were power-hungry tyrants who had manipulated the government and caused galactic war either through their machinations or their incompetence or both. Vader was doing what he said he wanted to do with Luke in ESB, “end this destructive conflict and restore…

Yes, it is. It’s absolute fact that Vader was not Luke’s father until the second or third draft of the Empire Strikes Back script. It’s not in the early ESB draft or drafts, and nor is it in any of the original drafts or notes for Star Wars. In fact, the original plan for a low budget sequel was novelized as Splinter…

I don’t know what your idea of performance is, but I had an ‘81 Celica with a 22R and a 5-speed and it was amazing. Smooth torque all day long, and it was the kind of car you had to pay attention to the speed because it’d do 90 when you were trying to do 70 and you’d never know it until you glanced down at the…

I had a Corolla in that color, we called it baby shit orange. I got it painted red as soon as I could, I hated that color.