One— It isn't Rubicon, so who gives a fuck?
Two— I was tired of all of the "Greatest Generation" worship back when Band of Brothers came out, and I didn't like that either. The Pacific is more of the same of that.
Three— It isn't Rubicon, so WHO GIVES A FUCK.

God, I miss Rubicon. I mean, I kinda hate everything else James Badge Dale has been in (except for that one season of 24), but MAN I miss Rubicon.

Yes, exactly. Doctor Who without the Doctor, complete with Jupiter as the latest Clara style "everything revolves around her for some reason" companion. I was saying this and thinking it exactly as I watched it.

Don't be too hasty. Celuloid reaches back to the age of the great Hollywood epics of guys like De Mille. Maybe the rebirth of film is being proclaimed beyond the veil of time from ancient Babylon itself. All it requires is blood to feed the insatiable divine hunger of MOLOCH!

"Some of that is generational; those who saw the original trilogy on its first release are far more dubious about any merits the prequels have to offer. And preferences aside, there’s certainly a difference in style and tone between the original and prequel trilogies. The prequels are darker, somber, and everyone’s so…

I feel like pretty much all of the "Great Job, Internet" articles should be titled "Hey, Free Dummy", but without one word. Guess.

Yeah. That's kind of what I'm saying, I think. In today's world, Lucas and Spielberg would be lucky if they got to do one or two of the MCU hand-me-downs instead of their own stuff.

I find that opinion refreshing, at the very least for its consistency.

Well, he (and Spielberg) is responsible for the age of blockbusters, but I don't think anybody here is ever going to allow for that in and of itself to be called into question. People love their fucking blockbusters. What we're in right now is an age of blockbuster adaptations, and franchises built out of them to milk…

At least Star Wars wasn't based on anything, when it first came out. I mean, even a sequel, if continued by the same creator, is more original than an adaptation. So there's that. And at least each successive episode went to new places (at least enough to make up for always reverting back to Tatooine).

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Yeah, but… Is he wrong? I mean, can anybody other than a drowned-in-the-dye-in-the-wool Marvel fanboy honestly claim that any of the MCU movies have anything more than passing, secondhand substance?

Eh, if it had Prequel/Clone-Wars stuff too, I'd be excited. I love the battles in AOTC and ROTS.

I know this is just a one-off for a parody episode or whatever, but man I'm pissed that this gets a write-up and "The Clone Wars" more or less went ignored here.

Once was quite enough for me. I don't really agree that it works that much as a 30's serial throback— it's too vanilla, too generic when compared to other contemporary space operas. I might say the same thing about the Riddick movies, as a while, though.

Let's be fair, though— John Carter is a pretty terrible movie to begin with.

jeez, I agree with this so much, I almost thought I wrote this comment.

I think it's more likely that he'll "never have existed" after this. Because, hey, why make life easier for Fox?

I'm glad that you can't condense it, actually. I think that TCW benefits tremendously from having hours and hours and hours to play with. I also think that, frankly, the OT would benefit from having a series following the characters between films, and possibly even show how much of the storytelling of the original…

Yeah, good catch. I mean, I do think him being the shortie of the group is intentional, but there's always been something off about the way he looks. Besides all of the gesticulation, of course.