I don’t rate Baby Driver or The Matrix Reloaded’s chases. There are some cool ideas in each of them, but I found both of them to be oddly uninvolving and lacking in visceral thrills.

Unless the first movie was conceived from the start as that first act of a three-part story, it would be pretty hard to rework it to add in a whole other act.

Didn’t Grindhouse as a double bill do a weird thing where they cut a big chunk out of each film as if a reel had gone missing? Possibly that worked better (or at least was less damaging) for Planet Terror than it did for Death Proof.

I realise the site’s remit goes beyond sci-fi to include fantasy and horror, but you can’t call the list “Sci-Fi Movies, Ranked” and then include stuff that simply isn’t sci-fi.

I’ve not read the books. It’s still not a great show. It’s not completely without merit, but the boring and bad stuff far outweighs the good.

Seems a risk, if so. How do you animate characters to line up with a potential live-action show that hasn’t yet been greenlit, let alone moved to casting and character designs?

As far as I could tell, the story it wanted to tell was Bo-Katan reuniting and restoring Mandalore, so I found it odd that it seemed so compromised by reducing her to a supporting character in that story.

Hmm... I’ll watch it, because Babylon 5 is brilliant and Straczynski has very few misses to his name, but I don’t really see the appeal of a one-off 90 minute tour of B5’s multiverse. Presumably there’s more to it though, and he’s already mentioned that if it’s successful it might lead to more animated stories —…

Isn’t The Mandalorian’s problem arguably the opposite? It stuck to a status quo that had reached its natural conclusion at the end of season 2, presumably because it thought that was what the audience wanted. Only, as it turned out, the audience were broadly open to it expanding its horizons a little without…

Correct. But if he ever comes back, it’ll be with something new. He’s not just waiting for the right point to pick up with act 2 of his original plan for Krakoa — that story is now spinning off on its own path without him.

He doesn’t meet Mon Mothma in the whole of season 1, but she still featured heavily. Which is not to say that Jyn should appear, just that “Cassian hasn’t met her yet” doesn’t preclude her featuring in a supporting role.

Having a good working relationship with Spielberg (which covers the bulk of her pre-Star Wars filmography as producer) is obviously a very different sort of role than being responsible for the creative output of a modern cinematic universe. And we’re all well aware that when people question her competence, they’re…

I don’t think you have that quite right.

He’s going to stare at himself in a mirror and... the mirror spits in his face.

His problem is that he can’t help treating everyone else like shit too, which is what makes him the asshole.

And who or what is the Lord of the Rings?

I’d rather watch Solo than 7, 8, or 9.

Right, but if it was possible for Kennedy (all the way back in 2019) to get them to agree to a 3 year pause followed by producing just one film every other year, and she’s still in position now despite coming nowhere close to meeting the new much reduced schedule (even taking the pandemic into account), then where’s…

Personally, I think one a year is not an unreasonable schedule. Especially given it was two years between each core entry in the series.

But bringing up that supposed pressure for annual releases some 3.5 years into what’s now likely to be at least a 6 year break is a weird choice. If it was ever the problem she’s making it out to be, they’ve obviously long since gotten past it or she would’ve been out of a job some time ago.