“The movie should have focused on THEM and used HIM as the antagonist to show how truly good they are.” That would require some degree of psychological depth, which TFA and TLJ utterly lacked (except for a wee bit with Luke, I guess). Crap on TRoS for being superficial if you like, but don’t pretend the first…

So, to all those Sequel Trilogy apologists who’ve argued for years that these movies don’t totally disrespect Luke, Leia, and Han, Adam Driver himself apparently disagrees with you. Will you now admit to being wrong? ;)

Ha, that’s awesome.

No obit for Dame Vera Lynn, 103? She was kind of a big deal... :(

If the premise of the extra-textual criticism were valid, I’d be a lot more forgiving of it taking over the review. For example, any review of Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy will almost inevitably have to reckon with its fraught background. But I do object to hijacking (no pun intended) a review over a criticism…

“You’ll find the 25-minute film at the bottom of this post” - You will not, because that would require a smidgen of double-checking one’s work. Here’s the actual link:

A reviewer’s job is to review the movie on its merits, not to review the completely different work the reviewer might prefer to be watching. Briefly discussing a work’s place in the larger cultural context is fine, but a piece that centers the reviewer’s personal distaste for the premise should be a For Our…

Fair point, but how many right-wing white supremacist militias have hijacked passenger flights? This isn’t a movie about, say, murders in the rural Pacific Northwest.

Terrorism tends to be a one-group-per-act phenomenon, so it would be ludicrous for such a thriller to feature a diverse hodgepodge of antagonists instead of an “all of them” situation. (Though that does sound like a promising basis for a dark satire on terrorism.) And while the States hasn’t seen much Islamist…

Maybe, but that hardly justifies a review built around crapping on the movie just because the reviewer doesn’t appreciate the ethnicity of the antagonists.

“Why not challenge the status quo instead of falling back on fear-mongering tradition?” - From literally every Mission: Impossible flick and Craig 007 entry, to countless action schlockfests in the Fast & Furious and Expendables vein, white/Anglo Euro-American villains, nearly all of them apolitical corporatists or…

Superficially, yes, their styles are different. But, as you wrote, at least viewed through Apatow’s filter, their substance feels more similar than different.

Apatow’s movies cover “a great variety of personalities”? There’s, uh, the gently snarky white guy, the gently even-keeled white dude, the snarky yet gentle white family, the snarky white woman who becomes entirely gentle, and the harmless snarker from SNL... who is white. And all are middle-class, and smoke…

Heaven forbid this parroting of a Deadline news story include, y’know, any context about how the UK is doing controlling the virus or anything. Cite a tweet, make the first snark that comes to mind, easy day. (And, in a later Newswire referring to this one, claim that “reporting” was done.)

The fact that one of the world’s greatest actors spent a significant part of the past few years making this tosh is... not helping my coronavirus mood, let’s just say. :P

This makes five (and counting) Star Wars stories in just three days. For Pete’s sake, either have the dignity to rename the site “The Unofficial io9 Star Wars Fan Club” or give us a damn rest, already.

Hey, you take that back! We have a first-world Navy, too!

There are no spoilers in this remark.

Three (and counting) Star Wars stories in two days? I know you’re not on the take from Disney, io9, but... are you on the take from Disney?!

If linking to a hilariously wrong Forbes article was a sly burn on this piece for getting their link wrong, I approve. :P