As much as I will forever love the Lord of the Rings movies, I will always hate them a tiny little bit for convincing the rest of the filmmaking world that watching hundreds/thousands of CGI creations run into each other at speed on an open field is something that needs to be done over and over again. By Age of…

1. “Is Back to the Future a sci-fi movie?” is one of the weirdest questions I’ve ever heard. No, the movie built entirely around time travel isn’t sci-fi? What other genre of film could it possibly be?

>As it turns out, people aren’t all that enamored of an Iron Man
>movie without much Iron Man

I mean, any normal human being would be fucked, but Donald Trump is apparently some kind of immortal god-king to be worshipped and exalted no matter what - it’s not like literally almost everything else he’s done while campaigning or in office would have ended any other person’s career. But, given the shit timeline in…

Steven Yeun needs to get all the work. He’s great.

I think the most punk rock thing Game of Thrones could do this season is to not kill anyone at all. We’re all on tenterhooks trying to figure out who’s going to bite it, so they should subvert all that and give us a good ol’, “The Doctor Dances” from Doctor Who, “Everyone lives!” moment. 

Came here to say exactly this. The fact that Strange wins with an old-fashioned logic trap rather than punching and, when that doesn’t work, punching harder, really rocketed this movie to Awesometown, in my book. 

The reason it’s hip to mock “thoughts and prayers” these days isn’t because of the way they’re employed by the rank and file - it’s because they’re so often, to the point of absurdity, on the lips of people who actually could have the ability to actively make change that would keep the kinds of events they’re thinking…

You’re right about #2, of course. I’m just really in favor of no further recycling, but it makes sense given where this movie falls in the pantheon, and we don’t even know what role he’s playing, at this point. I’d still have preferred letting the past die, so to speak, but score one Internet for you in reminding me…

Say what you will about the merits of Littlefinger’s end, but the scene between Sansa and Arya on the ramparts of Winterfell during the denouement is *perfect*, in my opinion. 

They’re really just doing the porn parody makers’ job for them on the titling front, now, aren’t they?

I love you.

I don’t think I’m doing much twisting...but, look, at the end of the day, I can’t spend any more of the precious little time we all have on this Earth arguing about a space wizard movie. I sometimes get caught up and forget that’s all this is. I took something from it that you didn’t. Cool. We’re both alright. Peace…

I’m so sorry to have burdened you.

No offense intended when I ask this, but...were you around in 1980? Because “The Empire Strikes Back” totally rolled off the tongue when I said it back then. 

I disagree. I’d put it only above Attack of the Clones, at first blush (and going solely by title, not the quality of the film).

I’d be OK with that. Your peers are wrong, though. :)

Really? The fact that Rey was “no one,” child of two drunk junkers, but ended up saving the day and standing up to the chosen son of the great Skywalker lineage, didn’t really sell that? Or the trajectory-altering heroism displayed by rank-and-filers like Rose and her sister? Or the image at the end of the film in…

1) “The Rise of Skywalker” is such a clumsy subtitle.

I like how we all kind of poke fun at someone who has no idea of social media culture as if not wading into the soul-sucking abyss that is social media culture isn’t the healthiest thing any of us could be doing for ourselves.