The movie is hilarious. It wasn’t meant to be, but there you are.

Damn! Nice pick.

I like Crystal Skull more than most, but the overuse of CGI and Spielberg’s reluctance to go anywhere but Connecticut and Hawaii to film it was definitely lazy, and it shows.

Yeah I thought the time and the 50's atmosphere wasn’t bad at all. It was just that Harrison Ford looked old, they had some bad ideas but mostly it was the TERRIBLE CGI. That Jungle Ant chase, which was supposed to be the big action scene was beyond awful and even them getting into the Alien tunnel, it all looked so…

The Player fucking rules

I thought RoS was... okay-ish. There’s stuff they got head-shakingly wrong, stuff that works pretty well to wrap up the Skywalker Saga, a few fun set pieces, and some “wait, why did they even bother?” moments. One of the weakest movies in the series, but I didn’t find it rage-inducingly awful.

Disney’s idea of putting a new spin on old IP’s is making all their classic villains sympathetic and tragic origin stories. Otherwise, they’re soulless, beat for beat, remakes like The Lion King.

I feel like it’s worth bringing up the old meme about Tom Cruise being older now than Wilford Brimley was in “Cocoon”, a movie about aliens in a nursing home. I’m not sure what it means to the present conversation though.

get Martin Freeman in there too and have a Bruiser reunion!

Well, she didn’t do that to herself.

Don’t forget Gosford Park from 2001, one of Robert Altman’s last films, and written by the creator of Downton Abbey (which, according to the wiki article, was originally intended to be a spinoff of that movie before becoming its own thing).

Maybe Star Wars is like the Lord of the Ring's Red Book of Westmarch, where what we're watching is an English translation of the actual language. So, 'I'll see you in hell" is actually a loose translation of whatever idiom Han used. 

I generally preferred the 20th century full stop. This one kind of sucks so far.

Han Dixie has a nice ring to it.

I’m sticking with the theory that George Lucas just hazily regurgitated a whole slew of things he saw and heard while on location in Tunisia.
“Admiral Ackbar” is just a slightly garbled “Allahu Akbar” from the call of the muezzin (see also Jellaba -> Jawa; Uthina -> Uthini; Tataouine -> Tatooine).

James Robinson’s C-3PO comic is so damn good.

I liked it because it actually brings up how creepy it is that people can own droids given that they are fully thinking, feeling beings.

It must be horrible being born without a sense of humor.