I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but Dwayne Johnson as any leading superhero just feels a little too “Hollywood choice” to me. The MCU so far, I think, has done a great job perfectly casting their characters, yet not feeling like they’re pulling from the list of 20 or so stars that are in everything. 

Yeah, I think a lot of people are only now realizing that Starlord (the MCU version) is not Han Solo or Malcolm Reynolds. He’s Phillip J. Fry. Despite only being half-human, he’s one of the most human character on the cast: he’s full of insecurity, and no matter how old he gets, he’s just a kid who lost his mom, and…

I guess Disney got the last laugh there, now that they own Star Wars.

As someone who saw it twice opening weekend, I don’t agree with this. There are plenty of perfectly avid fans who just hate going to crowded theaters (and with good reason; people can be really, really fucking annoying in theaters), and instead just go the following Monday or Tuesday. I know I do this for plenty of…

I’m more expecting something in similar to what The Clone Wars did for General Grievous. Took what was a very scary villain in the other cartoon series, and made him really Saturday morning cartoon villainy

Yeah, for me, even the title of the series underscores just how unoriginal the sequel era is. At least the prequel era felt distinct, and that was highly felt in The Clone Wars series. But we go from a show called Rebels, to a show called Resistance. Still annoyed that the sequels decided to basically repeat the exact…

Yeah, kinda disappointing, IMO, that Luke, if he appears in this series, will be Sad Luke, with all the other Jedi dead. I was hoping for a series set closer to ROTJ, so we could see the New Republic at the height of its achievement, see Luke when he was still optimistic, meet some of the new canon Jedi recruits.

Yeah, Sanderson would be miles better than Kevin J. Anderson, but even so, he would still be a bad fit for ASOIAF. He was excellent for Wheel of Time, but his style is totally different than George RR Martin’s. There’s also the fact that Brandon Sanderson seems to be on the prudish side, and I’m not sure he’d even be…

To be fair, though Wheel of Time infamously slows down near the middle, it has a pretty fantastic rollercoaster of a conclusion. 

Do you think Turkish Luke becomes really wise, but also really sad, later in life, and has to deal with shit from his Turkish nephew?

That’s always been my biggest pet peeve of changing actor’s accents in movies. It feels so unnecessary. I’m still annoyed they cast Benedict Cumberbatch for Doctor Strange, and made him American for some reason. Just say he was from England, and he moved to America when he was very young. Done. 

Yeah it would have been way easier to have Benedict Cumberbatch be Khan’s trusted second in command/heir to his empire, perhaps even his friend. In the original timeline, Khan woke up. In the Abrams timeline, Khan stays asleep/dies, and the second in command wakes up... and now that he’s the one awake, he has…

Definitely agreed. I think The Hobbit films are very imperfect, but as a whole, they’re heads and shoulders above the average Hollywood blockbuster, and actually have some decent depth and development to them. Unfortunately, the comparison to the near perfect Lord of the Rings trilogy is what really sinks it for a lot…

The Walking Dead doesn’t explain, well, shit, but I’ve always believed one of the conceptions of the world is that a large percentage, a large majority even, were killed early on from the infection alone. It acted like the Black Plague, infecting every single living being with zombieism. The people that are still…

He’s like Zoidberg, with his ink escape defense. 

Statham was pretty great in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Snatch. Then he started doing the same action guy in every movie.

Somehow, I made it through my childhood and teen years without seeing Titanic. Finally watching it as a young adult... I was totally underwhelmed. I know that’s not fair, as you have to judge a work of art in the context of the time it was created, but still, I was shocked at just how bad the actual dialogue was.

As a fairly young whippersnapper, I’m not sure how anyone can not believe that illustrated posters generally turn out better than photoshopped posters. Illustrative, at the very least, tend to look better as their own singular pieces of art, something you might consider hanging on your wall.

Heard this in the voice of Krieger.

That’s just the thing, though. Even int he days of the originals, Lucas proved that he was a fantastic idea man, and terrible at actual execution. With the originals, he surrounded himself with talented people, who would tell him things like, no, Han Solo shouldn’t be a giant lizard man, or no, Luke Skywalker…