Even though the croods apparently made money, it does seem bizarre to make a sequel, particularly one an eternity since the first one. I don’t think the original has held on in any way, aside from some very dim recollection of it existing at one point.

The prequels I’ll give you, those were just boring, but RotJ? The one with the most badass space battle in the franchise? The speeder chase through the forest? The scenes between Luke, Vader and the Emperor? You’re trying to say Rise was better than all of that? I know some people have an irrational over-hatred of the…

I can see where you’re coming from, and I admit I just choose to ignore that and think that the writers didn’t mean to give any of that impression (which I’m sure they didn’t).  Just like, something that bothers me for personal reasons, some could see a message in the show that childhood sexual abuse so destroys you…

There’s a lot of waffling people can do with a full ranking of the movies, it’s all a matter of opinion and whatever, but I just can’t see how RotJ doesn’t end up in at least the top five on any list. Yeah, ewoks, yeah, secret sister, but come on now.

My feelings about the new trilogy were mirrored by Ford’s reading of “How do we blow it up? There’s always a way to do that.” We were both thinking, “What? I thought we were past this crap.”

Nah, they slap. I’m not going to go nuts on you or say they’re high art or something, but considering they are lasers ‘n’ robots movies, a pretty dime-a-dozen genre full of forgotten flicks, their cultural impact isn’t a mistake. I think it says something that they stand out above the movies that influenced them and…

I gave up on the show after the Season 4 finale. Forgetting whatever behind the scenes is the real reason for the actor leaving, the answer they have showed a real misreading of the series to me.

I watch this show in a perpetual state of not quite sure what’s going on. It’s a big part of the appeal, really.

Anna Paquin IS a great actress, but she was awful in The Affair, and I can’t tell whether that was her fault or if the show itself (writing, directing, etc) was to blame. Whoever decided Joanie needed to be 100% darkness—bitter and nasty all of the time, rude and snapping to everyone she encounters—made a misfire. The…

I certainly won’t begrudge anyone hating this finale for being too saccharine or implausible*, but I thought it was worth it for the Solloway kids alone. The flash mob and wedding escape scenes had me holding back happy tears and the most embarrassing goofy grin. And “Whole of the Moon” is a perfect fucking song.

This show, man. It’s been one of the weirdest rides. I feel like I want to watch it all again, and at the same time never see another moment of it for the rest of my life. It’ll definitely be on my mind for a while.

The Secret Commonwealth is OUT? WHY DIDN’T I KNOW ABOUT THIS? That really was low-key.

It was infuriating how they filmed the ending of the movie and then showed us That Scene in the trailers, as if to torment us with what could have been.

The truth about these books lies, in fact, somewhere between it being as great as its fans says it is and these two mega-overcorrections in the other direction.

I had similar feelings about the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe that came out in the similar era. Trying to feel LOTR-ish. Didn’t have McKellan, but Neeson as Aslan seemed entirely too on-the-nose. I think it did a very good job nonetheless, though, and maintained a lot of the specific Narnian qualities. The giant CGI…

Has anyone read La Belle Sauvage or The Secret Commonwealth yet? I want to talk about those. For books thatw ere so feverishly antpicipated by the original books’ fans, their releases have seemed very low-key.

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the trilogy ends with the discovery that god is a crippled old man in a wheelchair who has been fully usurped by his right hand angel who was calling all the real shots. he is then unceremoniously shoved down a well to his death. i think anti-theistic is underselling it

The alethiometer is another place where Pullman is very smart about what he reveals, it lets the reader form a picture using his words (or lack thereof) and that’s good for a weird, intuitive process. But that’s something that works in a non-visual medium, so I can sort of understand how easily it can be botched in a…

I’m not sure if you’re joking or just unfamiliar with the source material but there’s a pretty strong atheistic and anti-theistic theme in the books.

Any adaptation of a book that begins with a text crawl is lazy as fuck.