The OT was, of course, fantastic, but in retrospect they were hampered a bit by the kinds of movies they were and the absolute, 100% bulletproof plot armor our leads had. It’s unavoidable, but when a smuggler, a farmboy, a princess, and a Wookie can run around the freakin’ Death Star unscathed and ultimately escape, it…

“The prequels removed any tension by making it scores of nameless clones versus droids, and the sequels threw out any semblance of tense grounded warfare/galaxy world building bar potentially the opening of TLJ and focused all in on the soap drama to negative effect.”

This is the most succinct, spot-on analysis I’ve…

The Mandalorian did a great job of this with the AT-AT. They seemed way less theatening in RotJ when Ewoks were taking them out with logs, but it seemed (believably) like an unstoppable demon when faced from ground level.

According to Jada, the cause of her alopecia is unknown and she is not directly diagnosed with any medical condition. She has suggested that it may be traction alopecia from use of weaves. None of that matters except that there seems to be a concerted effort to paint her as frail and sick in order to score points.

Part of it was emotions were high with Will. Part of it is that Chris Rock has used her as a punchline a lot. A bit of it may be that they already made a crack about their open marriage earlier. And part of it is the fact that black woman have to deal with a lot of shit around their hair and what they do with it. …

Rationalising the joke doesn’t matter.

Punch Drunk Love is his best! it’s the only PTA movie where I don’t feel like the Art is getting in the way of the artistry, if you know what I mean - he just sat back a little and let the movie work its own magic, and it pays off tremendously

Yeah the message of “saving the dinosaurs” doesn’t really hold water you remember that these aren’t dinosaurs. They’re genetic abominations that approximate what we thought dinosaurs looked like in the 90's.

I remember The Lost World being terrible and Jurassic Park 3 being okay, so we can hope the pattern will hold. Maybe?

You never had that sentiment in your life!

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

I also.

I wish to repeat @TrappedinOhio’s sentiment.

Good.

It’s not that they think cinemas are bad per se, they just seem to think that people will be as afraid of Covid forever as they are. Eventually Covid will lose its potency, things will return to normal and theatres will fill back up.

I’ve lived in Los Angeles my whole life and have almost always had good experiences in theaters here, especially since the ArcLight chain (RIP) opened in 2002. When I see people bitching about how awful the theater experience is, I don’t know what to say to them except I’m glad I don’t live where they live.

Tom, you are the man. Six decades worth of cinema and you made each article such a captivating read. I can’t wait to see what series you come up with next for A.V. Club- will definitely be in it for the long run.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, on the other hand, takes for-freaking-ever to get to the sword fights.

It was somewhat jarring to see him have a romantic subplot in “Jungle Cruise”, but I gotta admit, there was some nice chemistry between him and Emily Blunt, which was definitely a surprise.

To take a page from another article on this site, your star can’t tear their ACL if the stunts are CGI.