My take on Ad Astra is that it’s just about the shallowest “Deep” movie I have ever seen. Every performance was great, and the director obviously knew what he was going for, but every moment felt like he was saying “Look, look at how MEANINGFUL this is!”. Movies like Ad Astra are why I’m thankful my theater runs…

Imperial Officer: “Can you get a Wookie drunk?”

OMG, I can actually hear this convo in my head! I can see Pablo wanting to throw his coffee mug against a wall in frustration...

I absolutely get what you’re saying, and don’t even necessarily disagree with your point. It is fan-wank, and it is a “See what I did there?” moment from Abrams. It still made me happy to see it on-screen...

Chewie got his medal. That earns a lot of forgiveness from me. And while there is quite a bit to forgive in some places, I was still entertained, and I will still need to see it multiple times before I can really form a complete opinion of it.

You’re right about the casting. It was 1978 and no sign of Paul Lynde or KISS? Total fail.

Mrs. Copperpot and I indulged our daughter shamelessly in this arena. Her first doll was Elizabeth (Felicity’s English friend from just before the Revolution), and received Felicity a year later. In the long-ago days when my children consented to let me read to them, my daughter and I went through a ton of those…

That’s because she is a graceful, charming and delightful person. And I am not ;)

I really wish the Birds of Prey movie wasn’t about Harley Quinn. I respect all the points being made here about using Harley’s POV as a license to go way out with everything, and it certainly seems like a labor of love for the writers and director. Other than Harley though, it doesn’t seem like they’ve honored the…

The fuselage itself was the wrong shape for a 95 too (flatter and wider); could this be the Z-96?

I can’t even get my head around how arrogant and repugnant you must be to sue the parents of the young man you murdered. For, like, anything. But then I took another look at the name of his lawyer, and realized I’d seen it somewhere before:

The Razor Crest actually kinda looks like a VW Microbus even.

Uuuuhhhhh....whoa, if true.

Well.....damn

I’m not going to ‘actually’ you, but I will point out that this is a society that isn’t able to invent hand-rails. Using hyperdrive for anything other than ordinary transportation or escape wasn’t really in their conception...

Thank you. That makes perfect sense, and I’m glad they listened to him, then.

I feel like I need more context here. Were Favreau and Filoni trying to hide the puppet from Vanity Fair and other press/photographers to keep it a secret? I mean, ‘Coward’ is a really strong word to me, but maybe Herr Herzog just tosses that off whenever?

The latest entry in the millennia-old line of snake oils... 

I hate to be reductive and “un-woke” about this, but even fierce, Kelly Marie Tran is just seven kinds of adorable.

Too much mud for Tatooine, I think. Based on the landscape, I thought it might be Ryloth, but it sure would be nice to get planet names as he’s travelling around.