Hah, I looked it up on Google, i knew it was close so I was sure you were off, but had to use google to find the actual numbers.

It’s also a lot of luck. I’ m sure in losing to Brad 9 times, he tried to alter his game, but Brad was too good those games. This time Brad barely showed up.

Ken went into the final round with 65K to 35K lead. In the second game, James had 44k to Ken’s 23K. That means Ken only had a 9K lead going into that last question. James was very much in it. In fact, had they both wagered everything and been correct, James would win, $123 to $111.

It wasn’t about aggression on daily doubles though, Brad just rarely buzzed in on time. Sure he flubbed his daily doubles a lot, but even discounting those, he barely got a chance to answer questions.

Sue me, i prefer original stories to the umpteenth sequel, and hate that so many of the best young directors (who aren’t that young anymore), are wasting their primes making Marvel/Star Wars conveyer belt stuff. If given carte blanche like Nolan in Batman, sure. If tied to that, plus big budgets for his own stuff at…

I’d love it if Johnson decides to ditch Star Wars and keep making his original movies (and not just sequels to this either, as much as I enjoyed it). 

I also felt the season took some nonsensical turns. “Now Villanelle is part of the team...and they just allow her to disappear again right after!”

It wasn’t advanced tech though. “Loud speakers and guns” would have worked in 1940, let alone 1980/90!

Not to mention the end of the movie completely breaking the ability to suspend your disbelief. Like, the army didn’t try sound weapons against them? they use those on protesters for crying out loud! it took a deaf girl accidentally stumbling on it, and then a simple shotgun blast was enough to kill the monster.

I wish Cavill ignored the voice actors work instead of aping it. Do your own thing, you’re a great actor! I’m trying to imagine Kiefer Sutherland imitating the original Snake voice for MGS5...it would be hilarious! Glad he didn’t though.

Memento - told backwards in discreet chunks of time

Probably true, but having one person write them all and be involved in all 3 allowed him to generally have a coherent throughline in the movies. He wasn’t retconning things every movie. He didn’t have Vader tell Luke he was his father only to have him say “lol, just kidding” in “Return of the Jedi”.

Right, i mean, when the family used sound so effectively against the Aliens, real logic would say “duh, of course that would work and why didn’t the army use sound blasters on them too?”  It’s a movie that only works if you don’t think about anything other than what is on the screen at that exact moment.

That’s something that was really lacking from teh new trilogy. I’m not a SW fan really, I’ve seen them all but I don’t “care” about them, but at least the first and second trilogy had visible through lines that told a coherent if messy story, becasue Lucas was guiding them all. This new trilogy is just a mess because…

Uh...did you watch the movie? When Poe makes the decision at the end it’s hammered home how much of a change it is, with Leia giving him decision making authority and smirking at it all. The only people who would miss the character change are people who fell asleep during the movie.  The Last Jedi is a lot of things,…

Ah yes, only white characters in a movie are a real choice, hiring an asian is always pandering!

Probably, but if he commits to being the guy in charge of an entire trilogy, that probably takes a decade of his time up completely, and suddenly he’s pushing 60 before he gets back to his original ideas.  Taika Waititi seems to be doing it smarter, “one for you, one for me”. I just hope Johnson doesn’t get bogged…

He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars.”

Nolan goes on to describe the film as being his “biggest in terms of international reach,” saying that the “large-scale production” shot in seven countries with a number of set pieces. “There’s no question, it’s the most ambitious film we’ve made,” he declares.

Even Cameron, before he became obsessed with making only Avatar sequels, was doing these original big budget things. I kind of hope Riann Johnson watches the new Star Wars, sees it as a “Fuck you”, and leaves the franchise completely to focus on his own weird little things. Or weird big things. Just get out while you…