would you recomend this movie to someone who didnt like the first one due to the super cheesy writing? 

I can only hope that these will be clips from the movies with narration by Michael Peña as Luis.

I was thrown by that entry as well. It’s a TV movie. Those have been a thing for forever. I don’t recall TV movies being eligible in the past, but maybe I’m wrong.

I understand putting Small Axe here. But Bad Education? Really? Just because it got bought by HBO? Come on. That’s the sort of thing I know is complete trolling, but it still gets me.

The supposed “film vs tv show” debate does not really interest me, but pretending Bad Education was a TV show is just being deliberately obtuse.

I would love to read a real indepth book about the decision making involved in the entire Disney Star Wars trilogy. 

Bingo.

I would love to hear some true tales from the production of that train wreck, and the somewhat-salvaged Solo. I hate that Disney keeps such a tight lid on their Star Wars troubles instead if owning them.

That’s a totally contemporary way to look at it. This character exists in 1870, not 2020. Someone five years out from the war would not be lashing themselves for upholding white supremacy because he wouldn’t see that as a bad thing. I’m not even sure a Confederate soldier would see themselves as a “traitor” either. 

“when I see him all I can see is a poor rich white boy”

Buying his stuntwoman friend that horse was awfully neeiighborly of Viggo.

Something tells me you really needn’t have seen any previously installments to fully appreciate Godzilla & King Kong bashing each others brains in

Well done for pointing this out, was also mystified (and not in a good way) at the marvelisation of the witches as uber-superheroes. They should just take over the entire world already. Characters with seemingly no limits to their powers never make for a good narrative. See also, Rise of Skywalker.

Interesting point.  It probably didn’t hurt that Peter Jackson was so very geographically distant from those funding the project--that would tend to reinforce a sense of autonomy on both sides.

I want a story which spends the first ten minutes laying out the prophecy, showing the handsome prince at the center of said prophecy getting all the best training etc... and then dying in the first contact with the enemy. Then we meet the *real* protagonist of the story.

As you may have seen, I have given it much too much thought, and this is an occupational hazard I want to be very clear you should not adopt for no reason.

All fair. Let’s define “strategies” here as a broad concept, rather than a specific one, insofar as New Line followed handled the “1. Buy rights to fantasy novels” in the hopes of getting to “3. Profit” but didn’t quite remember how the “2.” went.

Right, but they did it with bow and arrows, and weren’t able to just evaporate into smoke and warp around willy-nilly to kill everyone in sight.

To be clear: I understand why Boreal can’t just roam freely in the city, due to the Specters, but I was a bit perplexed by the show’s suggestion he regularly enters the city, especially since we’ve seen him use the windows before and never covered the idea that the city is a portal between them.

Maybe the real twist was the friends we made along the way.