Rather than ask whether there was any cause to put her in some version of the classic look (harlequinned version of yoga pants and a hoodie?), let’s ask what plausible reason there is to put her in high heeled sneakers, fish nets, and a crop top?

I actually felt Bale did a pretty great job. Especially in nailing the idea that there is Bruce who is a real person beyond the Mr. Wayne and Batman personae. You saw it here and there when he interacted with Alfred, Rachel in the first two films, and Selina in Rises. Very serious but with a particular dark sense of…

If there are elements of the GOP who despise a Trump candidacy go ahead a run on a third party ticket. Sure it will assure a Clinton presidency but at some point they have to decide whether their stated ideals are really worth suffering for. They’ve been willing to go far indeed for other stated ideals, they’ve shut…

As you wish. Let me begin:

“typing, writing, driving, etc.”

For starters, none of those activities existed while human hand evolved. The mechanism by which we do these modern tasks was developed specifically to make them comfortable to the human hand. There’s an entire field devoted to making things that fit our hands…

“We’ve got to consider Superman’s approach to everything. He loveshumanity. He loves human beings. He doesn’t want to hurt them, and so Batman has an immediate advantage with that.”

So basically it is Cloverfield 2.

Good call on the piloting. You had a crew of only 3 people for the Apollo missions and only 2 for Gemini. Meaning that if something were to happen to one of the crew, even as non-spacey as a flu, you needed someone ready to take over the controls. Even with the space shuttle you saw at least 3 crew members who had a…

They made good money but not compared to what a Spider-Man film normally generates. The Raimi trilogy had been a massive success and ASM1 made more money. So comparatively it was under performing.

So long as these movies consistently make money, Warner will stick with it. So it really does not matter if grim dark Superman isn’t in the spirit of the big blue boy scout, or if Frank Miller Bat-fleck isn’t the Dark Knight you loved.

They’ve put out 4 Transformers movies.

It’s conceivable audiences will totally…

He ratchets up the skeevy to 11 from the moment he’s in the same room as her.

He really doesn’t demonstrate much of anything in terms of positive qualities. He’s not funny. He’s not chivalrous or idealistic. He’s not charming.

Compare that to Kylo Ren who manages to be funny in Force Awakens despite being the villain.…

I like where you headed with this. I agree on the breakdown of the blame. However I think the problem boils down to something much more basic than ideology:

Anakin is almost completely insufferable.

There’s never a reason for anyone to really fall for him. Han Solo had roguish charm and hinted at deeper convictions…

So sad that a digital version those characters managed more warmth than actual live humans. I think. No one’s ever given Hayden Christenson the Turing Test so who knows.

Except when he’s tasered by the big blue guard in the prison.

In fairness the movies do make it seem like the force randomly decided on Shimi. It would help things with the prequels as well if retroactively they managed to demonstrate on film that Anakin was no accident.

I heard something at some point that Plagueis created Anakin as a vessel to transport his consciousness.…

I like it. I also assumed experiment but my theory goes along with Snoke being Plagueis. Having taken years recovering from Palpatine’s actions, he tries to repeat the process that created Anakin and creates Rey. You can then tack on your suggestion of her discovery and training by Luke and subsequent dumping by Kylo…

Could actually make for a compelling story point. Snoke gifts Ben Solo the purported mask of Vader but in the end it turns out to be a fake as the Maltese Falcon.

Gillian Anderson is goddamned national treasure:

Just remake the bloody prequels already.

Hell, you could even keep the outline of the plot points. Or just do Clone Wars in live action. If you’re going to go so far as to do an Obi-Wan trilogy just go the extra step. Screw George.

So what you’re saying is that Resistance is operating in First Order space specifically. That makes sense, its a little confusing in the film though.

One thing that’s clear is that “Resistance” was 100% the wrong title for Leia’s organization. Maybe now, post-FA it works with the comparative size of the First Order. However in the FA it lends the idea that there is no Republic and that the First Order is in control. A better phrase might have been something along…