“Wook at those big eyes! Those floppy ears! His cute widdle paws! Awww, whosa good boy? Is it you? Yes it is!"

I can’t wait to see how they’ll wimp out of actually wanting to kill the dogs this time.

Why was this a story deemed worthy of coverage when Andrew Dominc’s fight for creative control with Netflix wasn’t reported here at all? His Marlyn Monroe biopic is was pulled from festivals by Netflix for being an NC-17 art film and not the Oscar friendly crowdpleaser they were hoping for. Netflix built it’s Originals…

Well, something's clearly afoot.

Yeeeah, we don’t talk about that. It was a live-action series about four annoying teenagers who found a way to digitize themselves into the computer world. None of the wit or drama from the original series was there; it was just trading off the name.

Look at how disruptive the covid pandemic has been to society, especially during the initial lockdowns, and that’s a problem with a fatality rate of %2 or so, heavily weighted towards older folks, spreading over a matter of months.

Well, shit.

I don’t recall the scene is Return of the Jedi where Luke decides that instead of confronting Vader and attempting to turn him he runs into the mountains and just says “fuck it” I don’t want to fight so I’ll instead just hide here while my friends and family most likely die.

Can’t we have one thread without you trying to fuck a Wookiee?

How much to fuck the wookie?

I had a friend who worked at Tower Records at this time. I still remember the day I was hanging out there talking to him when a guy came up to the register with a bunch of Macarena compilation CDs to ask which one was the most Macarena for the money. 

I heard he once attended a pageant of some description that was actually founded 70 years ago by a racist!

Not sure why they’re snarking about whether they can spoil the cameo when they already did six months ago.

I enjoyed Rogue One the first time, but watching it again recently I realized that there isn’t a whole lot connecting the fun CGI fighting. The story zips along well enough, but it doesn’t actually have much plot - the gang goes from one planet to another (to another... and another) while interacting with familiar…

Before seeing Rogue One, I thought the idea of a Star Wars film modeled after The Dirty Dozen sounded brilliant. And I still think it would be a cool idea if someone actually made it work. Rogue One didn’t make that concept work in the least.

No problem with someone liking a film that I don’t. To pretend that this was anything other than a branding exercise (“LOOK HOW DARK STAR WARS IS”) is just delusional. It’s a bad soldiers-on-a-mission film by any fair standard: clumsy plotting, poor characterisations, risible dialogue. Yet people claim it is fresh and…

With this post, I am reminded of James Gunn’s recent comments about superhero films needing to graft on other genres to stay relevant reminded me of this film, among others.

<rubbing temples>

“Liza is shadowed throughout the film by a corporeal manifestation of her inner child...”

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