Tribalism is a strong motivator. Because that’s where we’re at now. Just avoid talking Star Wars at Christmas or posting anything on Facebook unless you want to hear your uncle complain about those damn Canto Bight scenes taking American childhoods.

“Leia’s” I assume you mean Luke’s? Either way, it was both a neat easter egg and also distractingly unexplained. Luke and Han got medals, 40 years ago. There’s plenty of plausible explanations as to why Leia might have had Luke or Han’s medals amongst her belongings (either one of them could have given it to her for…

To quote a great movie: Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.

You did a good job pointing out why those first two movies are largely failures and why Rise required such a rushed exposition dump. TFA started out ok introducing some things, but when the movie should have started to go into more detail, it used its time to just do a re-telling of ANH with the eye rolling Starkiller…

This is why people like the Mandalorian: It brings in some of the nostalgia by taking place in the same universe, but still crafts its own thing.

Here’s what I don’t get: if Abams brought back Palpatine because Snoke’s death threw a monkey wrench in his plans, why not just resurrect Snoke instead? You’d still have a Big Bad for both the rebels and Ren to contend with, it’d make Snoke look crafty (“Well, since damn near every Sith master gets murked by his…

It was really funny when they asked Rose to go with them, and she gave some lame excuse about having to study plans for old star destroyers. They might as well have just put a title card on screen that said she died on the way back to her home planet. 

*sigh*

This whole new trilogy was such a goddamn waste. I was actually depressed leaving Force Awakens, because it was so blatant that its creators had taken the path of least resistance. And they could’ve had something really wonderful.

Oh, and if the fanboys are upset about an Asian girl taking part in the action, you can just sideline her and take away her courage. 

Now that it’s done, we can look back at the sequel trilogy as a whole and see how ABSOLUTELY INSANE it was that they didn’t go into it with a fleshed-out, three-part story arc in mind—and how in fact each movie was un-subtly, even rudely in some cases, trying to undo everything that happened in its predecessor.

Back when the AVC did stuff and had comprehensive tv coverage, the TV Classic set actually went back and reviewed the early SNL seasons too. I assume that got a lot of writers caught up, and a lot if us are just old (and night owls), so it isn’t that hard to imagine....just painful.

The blurb up top makes it clear what happened. “The AV Club” is a collection of individuals. Some of them thought the film was pretty good, but enough of them really hated it that it made the list. And now the comment section is going to be dominated by 20-something white guys crying about it.

My feelings about Will Ferrell have varied over the years. I used to associate his time on SNL with a lot of shouting and annoying characters, but in more recent times when I’ve gone back I’ve seen that he did his share of layered work along with the more irritating catchphrase soaks. I’m glad (if it was his choice)…

I think I’d go A- for this one. It was the strongest and most consistent episode from start to finish of the season. The monologue was fun (bonus points for not using the tired musical number trope) and the show never really dipped all that much. The filmed pieces were great, most all the sketches worked, and Update…

Frozen wasn’t exactly a game-changer; superficially subversive, it appealingly bent without breaking family-film rules.

Also notable that he left the actual Sharon Tate in the movie instead of inserting Robbie like he did with Leo in The Great Escape 

To me I feel like what the film’s doing wrt Tate is two things.

Any conversation about Sharon Tate’s lack of dialogue should include Charlie Manson’s lack of dialogue. Dude is only in the movie for like five minutes and speaks a line or two, and then it’s just his presence or reputation guiding others.

I think the entire point was to show these now mythical figures and the presence…

I enjoyed it very much. I was surprised at the pacing of it, which was somehow kind of a relief. It’s like he decided to make a Dazed and Confused kind of hang out movie. It’s going to age well. Some things: