Jesus. I am not justifying the writing. I am saying that a gajillion people previously not only gave similar poor writing a free pass, but celebrated it. Luke barely uses the force in the first movie? He doesn’t use it at all until he suddenly blews up the death star, the most devastating heavily armored weapon in the…

Dude, I don’t care about your impression of me. What you wrote is that people are pulling idiotic PC arguments to defend bad writing. My point is a) there’ve been quite high profile campaigns against the movie for quite clearly given sexist reasons b)there’s still a lingering double standard that suddenly is being…

I’m not saying Rey isn’t a Mary Sue. I’m saying that for at least some comments I’ve seen since the new series came out, there are absolutely people holding her character to a double standard that they didn’t give a shit about when it came to Luke’s story because we were children and these films were geared for…

You can put your basic reading insults back in your petty pocket, dude. Luke got exactly one more film than Rey did and the third film had him as a completely stoic, super chill Jedi master by the very beginning of it. So really, all his character growth happened during a missing film between Empire and Return of the…

Please explain the awesome backstory of super cool and not at all whiny or bland Luke Skywalker in the original films - other than he happened to be the brood of Darth Vader, so really the only thing cool about his having the force was genetic nepotism. Also, everyone acts like Luke was shown to have years of training…

Huh, I had never heard this at all, even having grown up in the Catholic church, and always just assumed rabbits became Easter bunnies, because like all major Catholic religions, they were appropriated when they stole Eostre’s pagan fertility festival from her...Also, everything I know about Rabbits I learned from…

I agree with other commentors that the ending of the Mist, though brutal, was a good use of a twist and effective as hell. The Village is what made me actively purchase a wear a button that says I hate M Night Shyamalan and yes, I totally wanted to stand up in the theater and demand my time and money back.

I haven’t read the book, but I did notice that the article says both premenstrual and a girl on her period, which is not the same thing. You’re either premenstrual or you’re menstruating. Not both. So with the addition of prepubescent, I’m really confused.

Saying Rose and Holdo are terrible doesn’t really tell me about their narrative flaws, only tells me you didn’t like them or see any value in them. A spry, young woman who’s been wielding a staff for her own protection since she was a small abandoned child easily targeted by the usual suspects of scum and villainy…

Yeah, I feel like we’re misinterpreting her use of code of conduct here - I think she means women need to come up with a code of men’s conduct that we find acceptable and unacceptable, not talking about our conduct at all really. It’s not very articulate and clearly a half-baked thought, certainly doesn’t address all…

yeah, I mean, was it goofy watching the late great Princess Leia fly through space like Mary Poppins? Sure! Did I need someone to break down how/why she was suddenly using the force for me to just be happy she was still alive? Come on folks. Even the space bombers - if you’ve been watching Star Wars for thirty years…

I keep seeing this rule of thumb tossed around here and while I generally agree with the notion when it comes to fiction, I’m coming to the conclusion that I must be some sort of super genius because I didn’t need any of the above explained to me.

So I’ve been revisiting them all on demand lately and what struck me as totally weird is that I was sure the episode Home came MUCH later in the show but it was actually only season 4. I guess with just the sheer number of episodes in each season, I must have thought that episode came later because there were an…

“the woman at the center of Star Wars isn’t a politically powerful princess or the mysterious scion of a lost family; she’s not an enigmatic mystery, waiting for future writers to untangle. She’s just a badass with a cause, a Force unto herself.”

Absolutely. I’m pretty sure it was on Jezebel where I read his interview of Anne Hathaway in which he immediately zeroed in on the incident where the paparazzi caught her exiting a car sans underwear and published the photo. She’s there to promote a film and acting and his first leering and repulsive question was…

I must lodge a complaint - the view from the master bedroom should always be mentioned when talking up this film! (Yes, I’m still on about that balcony/bay/whatever window of the seaside cottage that I found a way to mention in all the comments concerning Ms. Tierney’s films from the Dragonwyck article.) Also,…

But also look at that sky and ocean in the background! I mean, even for the fact that this film is from 1947 and black and white and all that, you can tell the view from that bedroom was probably the most magical shit ever.

Yes! The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is the best! I love the house in it so much.

Love this movie. Love Vincent Price and Love Gene Tierney too. Rebecca is my fave of the gothic romances, generally, but this is a great one. It’s funny though - of all the gorgeous houses in these movies, my dream house is actually the one from another Gene Tierney film - the Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It’s a cottage…

That makes me so incensed about the cops on your behalf. WTF.