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I’ll do it for $200,000!

The Razzies have always been garbage. They have no interest in actual terribleness and just want to dog-pile on celebrity embarrassments. When they aren’t going after the lowest of low-hanging fruit, they have a deplorable record of confusing ingenuity with incompetence. Remember, this is the organization that…

I used to love the concept of the Razzies. Then I realized that they just nominated the same five or six movies in all the categories, without actually giving any thought to which of them are actually badly acted or badly directed. I mean, just because a movie was terrible doesn’t mean that literally every aspect of…

I’d go to bat for Gremlins 2. It’s a very different sort of movie than Gremlins, but it definitely still holds up and unlike most comedy sequels isn’t just a blatant facsimile of the original. Dante was really trying something different with that movie.

On one hand I’m disgusted (Mother! is one of the best films of 2017). On the other hand, this is the body that nominated The Shining/Stanley Kubrick for ‘Worst Director’ in 1980 and Scarface/Brian De Palma for ‘Worst Director’ in 1983.

I read in Dreamer of Dune, Brian Herbert’s biography of his father, that Frank really did think Star Wars had ripped him off, and he and other sci-fi writers who thought Star Wars had ripped them off formed a group he called the We’re to Big to Sue George Lucas Society. As much as I love Dune, I don’t see how he had…

I have high hopes for this movie, but it annoys me when people make a big deal about works of entertainment being “for adults.” I just got done re-watching Babylon 5, and even though I still enjoyed it a lot I still don’t care for all JMS’s talk about how he was making a show FOR ADULTS! People who say things like…

“Dried up planet filled with ancient nomadic cultures and a messiah figure” is a pretty common trope in space opera. Edgar Rice Burroughs had Barsoom fifty years before Dune and even he was pulling from earlier stories. Star Wars is way closer to the Burroughs/Flash Gordon end of the sci fi spectrum than the Herbert…

Yeah, Lucas took from stuff that was much, much older than Dune.

I’ve read ‘Dune’, I’ve seen the Lynch ‘Dune’, and I gotta say...I have no idea what the fuck he’s talking about. I mean, they do both feature a desert or two here and there, but I can think of very little that connects one to the other. I mean, unless he’s trying to suggest an analogy between the Ewoks and the Fremen,…

“We all expected that Jedi Master Luke would be insanely powerful.”

Nah, wouldn’t work. Why? Because if Luke shows up in person, he has to fight...and that means he has to lose. Obi-Wan pulled that move because he was at best evenly matched. He couldn’t win the fight and accomplish his mission. And that was fine because we, as the audience, didn’t expect Obi-Wan to be this insanely…

Incorrect. He never would’ve survived the onslaught of a million laser blasts focused on him long enough for the rebels to escape.

I agree that legality is not the source of morality or ethics, but it is illegal to trip people, it is illegal to steal someone’s food, and, depending on how you do it, it can be illegal to berate others in certain situations.

Exactly.

The phony Luke was clearly NOT a doppleganger. His hair was shorter and darker than the real Luke’s, and the lightsaber was Anakin Skywalker’s old blue one. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of magic Luke Skywalker, or something? Boy, I really hope Rian Johnson gets fired for this blunder.

It really was. When the smoke and dust clear and he’s just kinda standing there, it seems impossible- how is this possible, after a bombardment like that? Even stormtroopers couldn’t miss ALL those shots...

To be completely fair, everybody involved in this whole thing is a giant obsessive nerd and nobody should care at all what any of them think about anything because they’ve lost any ability to rationally think about anything even remotely related to the object of their obsession. And also that scene was kinda rad so…

I’ve always loved The Quick and the Dead. I never understand how it didn’t connect with most people who usually love this type of film.