If you were disappointed by Atomic Blonde, I don’t even know what to say to you other than “How?!”

Though it feels a little incongruous to have a white woman lead this “love letter” by wailing on Japanese people for the majority of the film

This just makes me hopeful that my proposed crossover starring Whoopi Goldberg and Bruce Willis reprising their most famous roles in Old Habits Die Hard might happen

AVC strikes me more as like that website Diane goes to work at in Bojack Horseman that doesn’t have normal furniture because they’re trying to be hip and quirky.

“‘Bridge on the River Kwai’ is a POW drama based on the real life horrors of the Thailand-Burma railway. War of the Planet of the Apes is an adventure story with armed monkeys.”

“We’ve been locked in this room deliberating for hours, and we’re no closer to reaching a verdict. On the plus side, we have managed to write “Hamlet.”

Heh, I did wince when I heard that poor guy call himself Red 5. Might as well have had ‘Dead Meat’ as his call sign.

It makes sense that the Death Star plans would be very big, because the Death Star was very big.

In case you’re not being sarcastic (it’s hard to tell online, especially in a Star Wars thread), I have to point out that:

A lot of us have a story, first or second-hand, of their workplace having someone drive somewhere with a harddisk to save hours of uploading/downloading.

I hated the CGI Cushing as much or more than the next person. But let’s not pretend that being ghoulishly resurrected doesn’t fit his career much more than Fisher’s. From what I’ve read about him, I think he would have been amused by the idea.

I enjoy the vagaries of digital technology in the Star Wars universe. The Death Star plans are a digital file, but they function in the universe like a big crate of schematics that can’t be reproduced or transferred over long distances. 

So you want wholly original stories that pay no homage to any stories that came before them? You...may be shit out of luck, buddy.

Genres are descriptive, not prescriptive. A film cannot “appropriate other genres”, only use elements that genre labels might describe.

The entire planet has been replaced by Putin clones. Have you looked in a mirror recently?

I feel like that makes Leia look like even more of a bad-ass (at a time when we all very much needed to have fond feelings about Carrie Fisher).

Captain Marvel is a hyper-violent satire of capitalism gone haywire in which a company sells an obviously immoral product as a solution for social ills that they themselves created?  Wild?

But...

Except Captain Marvel was neither dark nor emotional and Carol Danvers was the same character by the end of the movie as she was in the beginning.

I wasn’t bothered by Tarkin (in general bad or noticeable CGI doesn’t bother me at all), but I thought they should have just cast Charles Dance in the role rather than bothering with the CGI.