I don’t get it. Your point is that we shouldn’t feel sorry for someone who takes legal steps to prevent others from make money off their name and/or image?

They complain about his laziness? Time to re-evaluate priorities, innit?

The last one is pretty damning actually.

If you don’t know if the filmmakers were conscious of the political commentary woven into the Wizard of Oz when they translated it from book to film, I don’t think you should be citing it as just ‘great entertainment (that’s) not trying to say something’. Just a bad example is all, and this is the internet, so I’m…

The movie is set in part of a ‘universe’. If we didn’t get all those origin of Batman scenes, I’d agree with your argument, but we do. It’s part of a larger story. I don’t think that’s a matter of opinion.

He does become a hero of the people, but you need to keep in mind the context that this is Gotham at the start of its downfall. By the time Bruce Wayne is of age, it’s a corrupt, violent crime riddled (pun intended), terrible place.

good point

He’s justified!? That’s news to me. And his innocent black neighbor’s skin color had nothing to do with it. 

The Wizard of Oz is filled with parables and symbolism, mostly political in nature. There are countless essays about this.

In cinema in general, you’re right - neither dangerous or groundbreaking.

Yay, I was hoping an article dedicated to ANH would turn into a critique of the the latest film.

So Luke’s aware there was a group of superhuman justice knights running around the galaxy, but he doesn’t know what the mystical force that gives them these powers is called ‘the Force’. That in itself is kind of odd.

Beyond your personal preferences, I fail to see how this matters.

You need to tell this to TV Moses (Super Nintendo Chalmers supports the GMG Union)

Which mountain did you find the tablet with this commandment?

I’m stuck on the part where you can’t like a general story arc that includes episodic arcs as well. I didn’t know story telling styles were like MacLeods.

You get a star, but I’m still going to hit you with some pedantry (sorry, can’t help it).

I have no problem with Mando, Cara, Kuill, et al not believing the Force is real. I have a problem with them never hearing about it at all. If you had heard a myth that there are certain beings who can move things with their minds and then you see your foster kid pick up an few thousand pound beast with his mind,…

Apologies if this was already answered (Kinja sucks), but Luke grew up on Tattooine, a backwoods world in the outer rim. It’s pretty clear he stuck around the moisture farm and wasn’t hanging out at Mos Eisley much.

Luke is ignorant of the Force/Jedi to a degree, but he’s still heard of it! Ben never needs to explain to him what a Jedi is, he just tells him his father was one and Luke. And he had never left Tattooine at that point.