To my perception, TLJ takes the main story threads of TFA and follows them up in the most dramatically satisfying ways possible. Rey’s arc as established in TFA would only work if she got over her fixation on her parents, while Kylo Ren’s would only work if he overcame his subservience to Snoke.

Heck, not only is Star Wars not camp, but the claim that it was unintentionally campy is a contradiction in terms, since camp is inherently intentional.

Jeepers Creepers is certainly a good horror movie. But in the genre that gave us movies like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Bride of Frankenstein, Cat People, Night of the Living Dead, Alien, and The Fly, I would never put it anywhere near the category of greatness.

Wait, you post on AV Club and you haven’t seen Videodrome or Once Upon a Time in America? That’s surprising.

Great article; I’m not a Sailor Moon fan, but I was totally drawn into the hunt.

Yeah, I mean, the majority of tips are left on a table when the server isn’t even present. And when you slide an extra buck onto the bar, isn’t it the norm to do it when the bartender has stepped away from you? In my experience, tipping for food service is almost never something that the people involved openly…

The whole appeal of a tip jar, to me, is that it eliminates the awkward moment where the person you’re tipping has to thank you for the tip.

When I saw Split, I knew going in that it had some connection to an earlier Shyamalan movie, but didn’t know which one. I figured the safest bets were The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable, and the evidence cited here was definitely stuff I noticed that made me think we were maybe in the Sense-verse.

“Covered in high school” is not quite the same as “memorized in junior high” though.

Yeah, that is not consistent with my experience.

According to the court, it is illegal for him to have them blocked. The fact that they didn’t issue a specific court order to him doesn’t change that, any more than the court not issuing a specific “don’t commit armed robbery” order to an individual doesn’t change the fact that, by law, they’re not supposed to commit…

But Corvus6's statement wasn’t “I strongly disagree with the claim that they hate it.” You seem to be willfully misinterpreting the post.

By holding a different opinion.

No, but there’s great pleasure to be had in discussing it.

I’ve known a few people (including my wife) who were really thrown by it on first viewing, but then came to appreciate it on second viewing.

But a lot of other people look at it and come to the equally rational conclusion that it is completely in character for Luke. That comes down to having different readings of Luke’s character in the original trilogy. Neither side is wrong about what Luke would or would not do, because multiple readings of his actions…

I just can’t figure how Luke went from believing that his father, one of the most notorious and monstrous murderers in the history of the galaxy, was capable of redemption to where we saw him when he decided to kill Kylo.

One of my enduring pet peeves is movies and TV shows that take their titles from songs, but don’t actually relate in any way to what those songs are about.

Roseanne and Dan have passed out on the couch with the TV on. When they wake, Roseanne comments that they’ve missed the shows about black and Asian families, and Dan summarizes what they missed as, “They’re just like us.”

I’d say horror movie audiences need to have some information about what they’re supposed to be scared of, in order to really grasp the stakes