Naturally I want Star Wars for everyone! I find Feloni/Favreau’s approach too fan-pleasing heavy though, and I guess I find the (adult) Feloni fanbase a bit zealous in their adoration. Potentially I’m a snob, haha!

I enjoyed this show, much more so than any other Marvel TV show - some episodes genuinely felt like a breath of fresh air, others felt like they were caving under the pressures of the Marvel machine. Like the article says, it rings hollow for the show to point out the flaws of Marvel’s output and yet have a lot of the…

It makes me consider just how much of the success of Rogue One was indeed Tony Gilroy rather than Gareth Edwards.

I’m really curious to know what Sequel Trilogy Haters/Feloni stans are feeling about this show. To me this IS the mature ‘adult’ take on Star Wars they’ve been waiting for. Or perhaps they’re shocked that a proper intellectual take at the property doesn’t involve grimdark grittiness, requires character development and…

Fair enough, I stand corrected! Thanks for the lore explanation. I suppose what I meant by humble background is... that Hobbits in general, as opposed to the other races of Middle Earth, are lacking the most in terms of strength, knowledge (of the greater world), might and ‘power’ so to speak. That it was Frodo at the…

I mean... dude’s absolutely right.

This show is f-cking awesome.

A highly underrated part of the original Star Wars trilogy is the literal ‘Wars’ part of the title and its execution within the series. Regardless of all the derring-do and space wizards, the battles in the OT felt grounded, tense and cribbed well from history. The comms chatter and WW2…

I’m confused, hair loss (in its many forms) that is experienced by... 80% of men and half of women? Pretty much every bald/hair thinning person I know of gets dunked on round the clock (including myself). It sucks, but somehow everyone but Jada’s supposed to take it? Granted Jada’s condition is perhaps a magnitude…

Them doing Nardwuar dirty is what really soured me on them. It was in that instant I realized Sonic Youth were most likely those kids in schools who considered themselves ‘losers’ and ‘outsiders’ that ‘nobody understood’ but were obviously cool and would pick on the real outcasts without a hint of self-awareness.

I wouldn’t sleep on Punch Drunk Love. It’s ‘slight’ but I’d also say it’s pretty much scene-to-scene perfect. 

The Lost World is one of the most messily written blockbusters of all time, it’s a miracle it made it to screen as is. There’s some makings of a great film in the first act up until Richard Schiff’s character dies and then the structure and pacing go completely out the window from then on. Had they excised the San…

Honestly, I love the first Jurassic World.

I’d uh, also like to express my fondness for that particular sentiment.

Unpopular opinion: Halloween feels like the dad rock of horror films nowadays. I watched a double feature of Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the theatres last year, audience was full of excitable uni kids and others expecting a fun camp (date) time. This persisted all the way through Halloween - everyone…

Taiwan is a wonderful country full of beautiful people and it will be an insanely tragic day if China does indeed ever flex their muscles. Even more tragic because at least to my knowledge Taiwan has some of - if not the - most liberal policies in East Asia, and so the lack of support and silence from supposed fellow…

Is ‘Sully’ one of those exceptions? Because I found that to be refreshingly brisk and relatively unembellished.

The COVID factor I totally get, especially with studios/directors not reading the room. What’s confusing to me is a not-insignificant number of articles/comments going ‘who cares the theatre experience was crummy anyway!’ almost wishing for their death knell in favor of home theatre (which I like too don’t get me…

There’s a lot of anti-theatre sentiment on this site of all places these days, what’s the deal? Are American cinemas that bad? There’s a lot of great indie cinemas/art gallery theatres in the places I’ve lived that curate great and affordable/free programs which highlight movies I’d either never watch usually or be…