I like Emmerich movies in general, but that one was a turd. Didn't help that it twisted a beloved franchise out of recognition.

Something I liked about Day after Tomorrow and 2012 was that there just wasn't anything to stop the catastrophe, it was just survival. Superman would have found a way, I bet, making it a lot more boring.

There was an opening narration? Weird, I must have missed that version, even on TV. Was it maybe only in the US?

Alright, I guess I don't remember well enough. Still seems like the council should have made a bigger fuss about it. I guess it could have been intentional to show their inefficiency and die-hard adherence to the old ways, but the movies never seemed to prioritize that over all the other stuff going on (and blowing…

Good point. Looking back at how anemic and, in the end, inefficient the council was, maybe they were happy with a tiny elite.

I hate the whole "immaculate conception" thing with a passion, but I can accept that explanation. Let's just hope that we won't get an endless succesion of chosen ones from the Anakin bloodline: Vader - Luke - Rey - whoknows.

What I don't get about the heredity of the force is why the Jedi are so anti-Family then. Shouldn't they rather have a breeding program like the Bene Gesserit or so?

Things that make me sad: "Why a reboot already? The original isn't even that old… oh." ;_;

Licensing stuff. It was in cinemas all over the place and will probably pop up on TV pretty soon.

The movie goes pretty dark pretty quickly about halfway through as well. Well, you'll all be able to see for yourselves soon.

The kinda reboot for CC was pretty funny though. "Yeah so we just popped up at earth why not, then we crashed and everyone's sorta dead. Yay!"

Fun fact: When I was a stupid little kid and saw the episode with the "Groening" in the screenshot above, I believed for a long time that it really was supposed to be an accurate representation. Ah, to be young again.

I really dislike 3D, but I barely noticed it in TFA. Only really in the (pretty cool) shots of the star destroyer and in the credits. Guess I'm a sucker for starfields.

"14 parsecs" might have a shot, but yeah, no real meme-material.

I'm not even a Star Wars fan, and I've seen it three times so far. It's just such a fun romp, and I love all the characters. I read somewhere (probably here anyway) that JJ's true talent is casting. Everyone does a great job and it's wonderful.

I read the first novel just last year, since I remembered the PC game fondly. Unbelievably bland and derivative. Terrible prose. Weird amount of homo-eroticism, even more than LOTR. One thing I liked though, was that Allanon is a rather threatening presence. I might have liked it more as a teen. Hell, i read a lot of…

I mentioned this earlier, but if you make minced meat out of a daycare, no way in hell do you get redemption in ROTJ. And no, Christiansen, you don't get a ghost image either. Urrrgh!

I'd assume that cops anywhere are armed at all times when on duty. That's kind of the point. Cops on duty in cinemas, kinda weird.

It would be a good movie if we root for Anakin but we know he will eventually fuck up so so bad. Like "nooo, don't do this, don't go down this path!" But he's such a turd in the prequels that it doesn't work. That might be their core flaw actually.

Sounds reasonable. I don't get this whole obsession about doing everything in trilogies anyway. Is it because of LOTR, or what? Star Wars wasn't even a proper trilogy, as ANH was pretty standalone.