choreographed by Hamilton’s Andy Blankenbuehler

Y’all missed one. I give you No Life Shaq listening to “Free Bird” for the first time:

And yet, the original Star Wars trilogy films had three different directors. Hm...

It is. But it doesn’t mean that the person who did something else - something a tiny bit uncomfortable (I mean, let’s be real - it’s not like The Last Jedi is von Trier’s Antichrist) - is horrible, or even bad at their job. It just means they didn’t deliver the comforting experience you were looking for. 

He’s right.

it’s okay to have a fan divorce.

I saw this film, and did not enjoy it. If you see it and do, that’s great. Despite my personal feelings, I would never begrudge someone gleaning 140 minutes of enjoyment out of this hard, cruel existence.

The thing that bugged me most about it is that the explanation for how he’s back is practically nonexistent. There’s a line or two of hand-waving dialogue about “dark science,” but nobody seems much arsed to care about how a guy who exploded in an air shaft is alive, again. 

While I understand that sentiment and had a similar thought, the fixes are executed in such a ham-handed fashion that I suspect it might even rub some people who didn’t like the things they’re trying to fix the wrong way. It’s just really glaring and awkward.

Speaking from experience in the acting I’ve done...yes, it does sometimes help. But it’s absolutely excruciating. 

I’ve seen this movie, now.

I think you could apply this to any major franchise, these days, fandom being as toxic as it is. How much better an experience do you think Rian Johnson had making Knives Out than he did making a Star Wars movie?

It’s as if the Pierce Brosnan era never happened. 

Nobody should trust the bad guy? So, if the villain of a story, say, told the hero of the story that he, the villain, was, in fact, the hero’s father, we and the hero shouldn’t believe him? Noted.

You know, I just went back and watched Empire again, and it struck me how much it subverted A New Hope, and what we’d come to expect out of stories like the fantasy fairy tale that Episode IV was. The heroes fight to beat the bad guys? No, the heroes fight to stay alive long enough to escape. The hero gets the girl?…

he and Mark are right to be critical of the film and the experience, as is JJ.

Oh, fuck off. I loved TLJ. It’s my second-favorite Star Wars movie. And, hey, I didn’t break a sweat at all typing that.

Someone who disagrees with you about the quality of a movie is not factually incorrect. 

Take Snoke or Rey’s parentage. Neither are ‘answered’. We’re just suddenly told they’re not relevant questions.

Bingpot.