I watched a Disney documentary of some sort last year, and it’s really interesting to learn how some of those older films were animated with a level of effort (and cost) that was later set aside, with Cinderella kind of saving the company by demonstrating that they could have big hits with…

I’d almost be more interested in a Rogue One-only game than this saga-spanning setup.

Just in terms of box office, the ‘young reboot’ part of the X-Men film series is going to look really weird. First Class made pretty modest money, then DOFP made like twice as much. Apocalypse lost about half of that gain, and Dark Phoenix might not even match First Class.

Days of Future Past would’ve been a pretty decent finale (with Logan as an added Coda) if the studio had been willing to end it right there.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has few memorable villains—recent DC films as well—but superhero films in general have given lots of actors good material to work with (and/or scenery to chew) in villainous roles.

I think that I absorbed the general consensus and went along with it, without really trying to understand how it works.

My take on Larson is that she’s hit and miss, or maybe just has a hard time finding her characters in big action films. She was charming as heck on Community, but seemed lost in Kong: Skull Island and I think chose the wrong acting strategy in Captain Marvel. I’ve found myself puzzled by both those performances,…

I think that my original comment has been (almost) completely misinterpreted.

I’m not usually this blunt because we’re trafficking in opinions here, but in this case: no. My phrasing is not as grandiose, and frankly in an unscientific environment such as this, I’m not sure that you can prove that my words were lame.

Sigh. Yeah, this is the sort of absurd grandiosity that makes everything worse for everyone who isn’t absurd. Fair enough for it to be mocked.

Yeah, in terms of taking cues, I feel as thought the first two movies are a perfect model for how to put a story together, and then how to evolve it without too much redundancy. If you do what those films did, in terms of process, it should yield a Star Wars experience that most fans will enjoy.

As was specifically pointed out in, if I recall correctly, the review of The Force Awakens on this very site, Star Wars used to be a pastiche of external influences like Flash Gordon, Lord of the Rings, etc; it has over the years switched to being primarily a pastiche of itself. That’s a clear difference, for my…

I’ve discussed the film online with plenty of people who weren’t trolls, but it’s in the context of ‘let’s talk about this film’ and not prompted by provocative taglines like this one.

A bit part of them dominating the conversation is writeups like this one continuing to credit them with the lion’s share of the anti-TLJ sentiment.

I’ll be one of those people: I would genuinely rather have seen whatever crazy Whill-driven biochemistry epic George Lucas might have dreamed up, than the what the current sequel films have turned out to be. I’d rather hear my longtime favorite band attempt to pull off an ambitious, perhaps ponderous concept album…

Well, I read your first sentence as a notification and was afraid I’d said the wrong thing.

I’m a huge fan of the increased presence of female characters in Star Wars. It’s a great thing. The writing of those characters has not greatly impressed me on the whole, which bothers me because they (in my opinion) deserve better.

People are definitely taking things too far, but I don’t feel horrible about the sentiment that Kennedy might not be doing the best job running Star Wars. Of course, I’ve unfortunately observed that ‘fans’ often dispense with even a modicum of diplomacy when talking about that.

It won’t pass the Bechdel test that way, but worth it.

I wasn’t impressed with the character, either, but the notion of connecting that to the actor just does not compute for me. It seems to be perhaps the worst part of Star Wars fandom that people like Tran or Jake Lloyd are treated so horribly, either as the undeserving scapegoats for fan disappointment or as…