Counterpoint: the original trilogy is a classic. While the story is simple and the effects now seem quaint, it still mostly holds up, a testament to the ingenuity the filmmakers used and how well they told the story.

Reviews like this make it obvious in retrospect why Disney has been doing media blitzes for The Mandalorian and Disney+ despite this major blockbuster on the docket.

Yeah, the storytelling has gotten really lazy.

The good ol' "I can see the show is telling me he'll be important but these scenes feel like part of a checklist for plot" section of book adaptions. 

Are we going to ignore that Lyra can fall from the skies with no parachute onto densely compact snow only to suffer from momentary pain?

Memory is unreliable.

is that a sentence

It’s always amusing when many many Jep trivia nerds don’t know things like very-contemporary pop culture or sports.

Though... the AV Club didn’t list any female-directed 2019 films among their best (going from “best movies of the 2010s”).

She wasn’t a progressive prosecutor. Shrug. Biden wasn’t particularly progressive either in his long Senate career (well documented) either, yet he had captured the black Democratic electorate thus far.

Potential Counterpoint: She failed a presidential candidacy where she was a pretty big early favorite where she probably had potential to capture every part of the Democratic electorate (in a huge field) and will still very possibly be nominated as the VP.

That’s okay. Opinions are subjective.

“The black Democratic electorate who is overwhelmingly for Biden right now is very online and want a white man to run against Trump.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden may be the designer imposter fragrance version of Donald Trump

They love nothing more than braying about how put-upon they are, how the fake media always attacks them

I think it’s costing them a lot of money.

And yet, that movie took nearly $1.7 billion, so Disney doesn’t seem to need a whole lot of clamor to a) make a movie that no one wanted and b) literally print money with it.

Yes.

Not a single hint of fascist propaganda in the game trailer. Hard pass.

“B” - Jesse Hassenger, on Ghostbusters II I guess.