I think the appeal here is really the do-over aspect. We get to find out what these actors can do and what these characters can be like working with a competent director. I’m very curious. Christensen got pretty much screwed over with the prequels, I think it’s cool he gets a second chance.

RIP. So sad, but 91 is a good run. Thank goodness we will never lose her brother as he is immortal.

I’m probably not adding to the world’s knowledge substantially by pointing out that Zoe Kravitz is an extremely attractive woman, am I? It’s just, you know, what comes to mind.

Not convinced about the conspiratorial aspect of Disney doing something ethically shitty and releasing Star Wars product at the same time. Both those things are just kind of, you know, what they do.

Right? Or just something that gives Obi-Wan an identifiable motivation to lie. And, nitpick or not, explain why he doesn’t recognize R2.

So what’s nice about this is that it’s not a new story in danger of folding into the old to bring in those nostalgia-motivated viewers. This is a well-established character, we know where we are, and the gap between RotS and ANH, at least in what is now official canon, is an unexplored area that could use some…

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Anyone up for an online campaign to cast Timothee Chalamet as Madonna?  

I!  Have heard of eight of these acts. Booyah. 

Sociopathy has become a more or less colloquial term identifying lack of empathy or lack of ability to connect with other people on an emotional level. That’s one thread of anti-social personality disorder, the diagnostic re-jiggering of sociopathy, which is usually characterized by chronic violation of social norms…

I think it took decades for us to fully process that the Apollo program and walking on the moon was the apex because we’d all believed it was just a great beginning.

That picture is some boffo photorealism.  Respect.  

The only part of any of that casting that makes any sense whatsoever is Eddie Murphy as Batman.  And for Robin...how about we go with a little Ralph Macchio?  

I feel like we’re buying the lede here that James Hong is still alive. What is this guy, cursed with incorporeality by Emperor Qin Shi Huang or some shit?  

Sometimes there’s a PR kerfuffle.  Sometimes there’s a PR kerfuffle.  

Maybe not either/or given the Nosferatu references elsewhere in the movie but, yes, Dr. Caligari is a clear influence on DeVito’s look. Edward Scissorhands also feels like a visual reference to the somnambulist.

I think the intent was to do sort of a three-way character study of people (if the Penguin is a person) who have been dispossessed or otherwise rejected by society, and their resulting loneliness, all in the form of a dark cartoon. Yeah, we can certainly replace the word “references” with “stereotypes,” but I do think …

Fun list. I always liked that DeVito’s Penguin was a total reinvention of the character, a weird mutant instead of a gentleman villain. He’s also amalgam of Jewish references, physically resembling the caricature Nosferatu even if Max Schreck got the name, being sent down the river by his parents as a baby like Moses,…

“They think I’m hiding in the shadows,” he whispers. “But I am the shadows.”

(Reads article, looks at picture, makes seventeenth note to self to not fuck with Charlize Theron).