“The Last Jedi was the first genuinely good STAR WARS movie since the original trilogy, because it tried to take the series away from all that aristo, Good v. Evil and that all crap Lucas and Abrams are so obsessed with.”

Ugh, I rewrote that line then didn’t correct it.  I originally wrote ‘becoming a mom four times over’ then didn’t like that phrasing...BLAH.  :(

In the most Gen X thing possible, I have actually never seen the movie as I thought it was too mainstream and a Hollywood cash in

So he cast Pinto from Animal House.

Fey has a crippling sense of imposter syndrome and Poehler has no problem with being an objectionable person in the room.  Rudolph is very much the ‘pretty and fun woman at the party’ type.  She’s just naturally affable.  I don’t really get the point of trying to shove uncomfortable ‘bitch’ roles onto somebody who…

She’s an example of somebody who’s just genuinely that enjoyable off camera that she can just do what she wants on. She knows her lines, hits her mark, and is just generally charismatic. She doesn’t need to play unlikable or have obvious foibles.

Wait, we’re saying that the BSG ending was “good execution” now? What is this “freedom is slavery” doublespeak.

nobody hates star wars as much as star wars fans...

I still think he’d make a great live action Joker. He obviously has an unmatched voice and that car accident gave him a very wicked grin. Seeing an “old hat” version of the character squaring off against Pattinson’s beginner Batman is still miles ahead creatively of what they’ve been doing with the character…

As there’s been talk of his other roles in these comments - have to give a shout-out to him in Sam Fuller’s The Big Red One.

Especially the end of that movie when he finds the ovens and there’s just that moment when you watch something die in that kid’s eyes as he processes what he’s just stumbled across.

And Goddamn,…

I know there are nice, laid back ones here and there, but I find diehard Star Wars fans en masse to be pretty unbearable. The fact that he’s been in the middle of that maelstrom for forty years and still comes across as friendly and affable is impressive. Look what it did to Ford or Guinness.

I think Hamill has also aged into an interesting look. These days he gets to play some pretty gnarly characters that I think he was too pretty and innocent looking to pull off when he was young. (It helps that he can create voices that are every bit as gnarly.)

I’m not going to go on a huge rant about how SNL was “good back in my day” or any such nonsense. I’m just going to say that SNL works at its best when it serves as a vehicle to showcase the talent of its performers and it is at its worse when it puts those performers in skits that simply don’t click with their style…

remember when there were just a few cast members & they were in everything all the time? i wish lorne did.

He’s also just a generally humble, intelligent, interesting guy who’s happy and willing to play to Star Wars fans, all the while maintaining his fantastic voice-acting career. I know people like to complain about his Luke in ANH, but by ROTJ, he was amazing. And by TLJ, he was stellar.

There are few constants in the universe, and one of them is that fanboys will always take the opportunity to scream about how badly The Last Jedi performed by only making a billion dollars and therefore they are right to be mad about it.

We all, well most of us, grew up with his voice as Joker in the Batman animated series. I didn't even know that until a few years after the show.

Fancasting may actually be the most unhealthy portion of the Internet there is.

As a middle-aged consumer of pop culture I am pleased to see Mark Hamill getting respect and veneration. He went through some wilderness years casting-wise, for sure, after the original trilogy was over. I’m sure there’s some back story there, but it seems like this is a better time to be a performer in general. There…

Yeah, I had blissfully forgotten Victoria’s “here’s 101 variations on dumb blonde jokes” career, until just this minute...