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I still think Seinfeld did it better

Can I just remind everybody whingeing about Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi that there’s no fucking way he could have told that story without the blessing of both Kathleen Kennedy and Disney? I’m really sure that if they didn’t like where he was going with his plot, they’d have either reined him in, brought in another…

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

Absolutely. I don’t dislike RJ as a filmmaker... and if I’m honest ... angry hermit Luke was the first time I found Luke compelling, and I thought snoke was lame and a lot of the narrative pathways abrams opened as mystery boxes were pretty blah vectors ... but coming into the middle of a story, you have authorial…

I think the actual mechanics of the plot and the ideas behind them (taxation of trade routes! notwithstanding) was pretty good. But woof, that dialogue and editing and such. As has been said many times, I agree with the notion that Lucas is a fantastic idea man, but he needs people around him to distill and help with t…

The only Star Wars trilogy that planning actually went into was the worst one, so that might not have been the issue. 

Saw it last night. A few thoughts:

In Bob Chapman’s review of Uncut Gems, he spends the first minute of the post-promo video just repeating the phrase “Academy Award Nominee Adam Sandler”, because there’s a reaaaaal good chance of that happening and we’ve all gotta get used to that...

Adam Sandler is a character Daniel Day-Lewis has been playing for nearly 30 years.

Also, I think the entire performance could have been saved had she spent some time on Shy being a ladies’ man. 

Can we give props to Wanda Sykes as Moms Mabley!

Cosigned. This trope is old and tired and damaging to women in the profession. But screenwriting is so dominated by men, and many of those men apparently lack the empathy necessary to write “the other”—be it women or other ethnicities or the LGBTQ community. As a result, we continue to get stories that reduce these…

Dear screenwriters: Stop writing stories about journalists who sleep with sources. You’d think our shared experience as nerdy, workaholic, under-appreciated writers would engender a little more understanding and empathy from their side of things.

I found Quantum of Solace borderline unwatchable. The editing was too choppy to appreciate the choreography or the cinematography, and the plot was kind of slapped together. Skyfall is a deeply silly movie, but it flows well and looks nice. Casino Royale is the best of the lot.

Look, it’s simple: which film is better, American Beauty or American Beauty? You have five seconds.

Ugh, the people who hate the last season of GOT need to get over it already.  It has been nine years since Martin’s last book, and time to be honest, he is never writing another one.  He probably stopped writing it because he had zero idea where to go with it, so the odds if he actually finished it it would be any…

Yeah, some how the Osteen thing is even grosser to me than him being buddy buddy with Trump. Cuz that means Kanye didn’t find Jesus, he found Je$u$. If you got any genuine belief inside then you should stay the hell away from the Prosperity Gospel scum.

...West’s decision to only play songs off of Jesus Is King...

Sea otters. I’m sure river otters are fine and I DON’T WANT TO HEAR DIFFERENT.