No one’s talking about first cuts, they’re talking about the versions that got released after they’d been cut down. The problem is still not unique to Snyder, but he is particularly poor at tightening things up.

Half?

Ah, yes, the “you’re just too stupid to understand their brilliance argument”. My favourite.

In his defence, and as much as Zack Snyder’s Justice League wastes your time, it was arguably the right choice in the circumstances.

Correction: His films make no sense even before they have to be cut down. The extended versions might explain how we get from A to B, but both A and B are still poorly thought out.

The problem with providing definitions (even if they’re written entirely in good faith) is that they’ll inevitably be too specific and anyone who insists on making objectional stuff will quickly find workarounds that skate around the rules on technicalities, and yet those same rules will still catch a ton of…

any lawyer that came out and said what you’re proposing

The Cloverfield Paradox has (or more accurately, wastes) as incredible cast. But it was a dreadful film in all other respects.

The comics have been pretty smart about that so far, at least the ones I’ve read. Setting them largely within the original trilogy gives them a level of freedom because that era is unlikely to be directly revisited in live-action any time soon (I can’t see them getting much closer than Luke in The Mandalorian), but it …

It’s entirely true to say it’s controversial and contentious.

there’s so little going on there that the franchise can kind of ignore them, or route around them.

Is the universe less cohesive if they never bother to explain the details of how Palpatine returned? That it happened is canon — that’s all anyone needs to know. Precisely how it happened is only of note if someone has an interesting take on the story, which may happen at some point, but I don’t see the benefit in…

But, even if that might work, why would you saddle a successful show with trying to make some sense of the shitshow that was Rise of Skywalker? Especially given the creative team fell flat on their faces when they tried to branch out with Book of Boba Fett. I’m not normally one for sticking religiously to the status…

Presumably his character will be picking up some of the slack since Gina Carano voluntarily self-destructed her burgeoning acting career.

I think they do, it’s just...

I think Trek largely being episodic meant cliffhangers weren’t so egregious — it’s not like it was leaving months (or years) of story up in the air, just one episode’s worth. But even then, I would argue for them to have done two-part finales rather than having a months-long break between a cliffhanger and its…

I think the trick is that we’ve got to convince creators to tell stories one season at a time wherever its possible to do so. Season 1 should tell a complete story in and of itself — that doesn’t mean everything needs to be tied up in a bow, but no cliffhangers, no major plotlines that don’t wrap up, and no explicit…

FYI, The Last of Us should be safe to watch. The first season adapts the first game, and is expected to end in the same place. The first game tells a complete story, and its ending is not a cliffhanger (it is somewhat ambiguous, but not in a way that demanded a sequel).

If the helicopter flying under the bridge is the most dangerous part of that Terminator 2 sequence, it’s weird how the moment doesn’t draw any attention to itself, rendering it a completely unnecessary risk. The following bridge, where the helicopter pulls up and over it at the last second, is much more thrilling.

I don’t remember that in Avatar, but then I haven’t seen the 3D version since it first came out. I think the film achieves what you describe in 2D though — it’s shot in a somewhat claustrophobic manner, until he suddenly emerges into the bright sunlight and lush, wide open spaces.