Hot take/dementia alert: The Quick and the Dead is Sam Raimi’s second best movie, after A Simple Plan. It’s pure kinetic pulp bliss.

How come? You don’t like the genre? Or you think he’s mined enough out of it?

I love the use of limited space and confined story telling. The Hateful Eight was a better showcase of his talents as a Director then any one of his other films.

Hopefully, QT decides not to show Manson at all. Just examine the swirling events surrounding him. This would avoid glamorizing him in any way, and I also fear the role might go to Jared Leto, which would be a deal breaker for me.

I wonder how this one will work out, personally I am excited as Leo and Tarantino make good films. Even if I am weird and I liked The Hateful Eight more then I did Django Unchained.

Not to mention just like in Empire and in Jedi Luke and apparrently Skywalker’s in general have unusually sensitive force premonitions mostly of doom which causes them to make rash and ill-advised decisions which endager their own sanity and the lives of others. When considering another Vader its no wonder Luke did…

I’m flabbergasted by the 2 comments above not only is it not a 360 TLJ Luke is based on the firmly established flaws of the Luke in OT. He is a flawed character, who manages to overcome his flaws but its definitely established that the Darkside has a lot of power over him and I could completely see Luke completely…

Yeah, one of my favorite parts of the new trilogy is the return to lightsaber battles that are just 2 dudes wailing on each other.

I don’t know why anyone on earth would want to see that. I genuinely don’t. Who wants to re-live the awfulness of the Yoda fight scene from ... whichever prequel that was in? No one.

Luke’s personality changes dramatically between Star Wars & ROTJ. Why is it such a big deal for it to continue to change in the 40+ years hence?

I also have to say, given the set-up, it’s hard to imagine that he could have been anything other than a disillusioned old fuddy-duddy.

“Luke held out the highest optimism that Vader could be redeemed and received the positive reinforcement that he was correct.”

Calling it a “laser sword” really makes it.

I think that some people just don’t like the Jedi.

Or at least the Jedi philosophy. They want to believe that the Jedi are the good guys who only use the Force for “knowledge and defense,” but they secretely want to see Jedi kicking the shit out of everybody and wailing on dudes like Vader did in Rogue One.

I’m very…

I like Bob Chipman’s take on this:

I get bothered by this, too. However, I think it’s a worthy concept to meditate on. There is some connotation with ‘victim’ that means I have no power here. I think, when people (lovingly vs. reactively) say, “Don’t be a victim...” they’re trying to remind someone that they have not lost all their power.

I totally agree, we should change the language and change the focus. Rather than telling people who come forward or complain “don’t be a victim” we should turn to the accused and say “Why are you such an asshole? Don’t be such an asshole.”

Nothing is wrong with being the victim, at all. Unfortunately we rely on our Pleistocene mammal brains often and atavistically equate being a victim with some weakness or defect. I’ve met women in PTSD support groups that I came to respect the absolute hell out of and couldn’t fucking imagine going through what they…

Seriously: what is so bad about being a victim? I hear people shaming others all the time, saying, “don’t be such a victim”... but what is so weak about that, really? Of course, no one wants to be one, if they can avoid it... but it’s the perpetrator who commits a crime or other wicked deed against someone, it’s the pe…

several French women who believe the #MeToo movement has gotten out of hand and depicts women as weak.