Yup, March 9 2012.

Yeah, but Furiosa was badass so it was far more believable.

She won her last Oscar for a Woody Allen movie, that’s who he’s referring to.

I think the hyperbole exists because it contains elements that are pretty rare in action movies these days:

They don’t want the child to have a life, that’s the whole point. They want to make the mother and the child an example to point to and say “don’t be a dirty slut girls or this will happen to you and your children”.

It’s been happening slowly over the last forty years but went into overdrive in 2008. The election of a black president drove a terrifying number of people crazy.

Why do you think they’re so obsessed with micromanaging who sits on the Supreme Court?

And that’s the whole point. They want to punish women, of course, but what they really want is to make sure that the children of single mothers never vote. They can’t survive if they let minorities, women, and anyone inclined toward compassion vote.

And a year is on the quick side. It took my aunt like four years to get the same problem fixed properly.

Ultimately, that’s the whole point. Well, aside from punishing women, of course. The side effect is that when they get older, these kids won’t be able to vote because they won’t be able to get an ID without a birth certificate. Kids of single mothers might vote against measures like this and the loons can’t have that,…

Because everybody wants to be the guy who greenlights the next Gladiator or 300.

That’s what I thought too. It was cool to see it in IMAX 3D on opening day and some of the effects looked great that way but I much preferred the flat digital presentation when I saw it again on Saturday. The Tie-fighters looked a lot less like Kenner toys flying at me on a fishing line, for example.

Even worse is that McConaughey only won for Dallas Buyer’s Club because True Detective (which is his performance of a lifetime) was airing during Oscar voting season. Without True Detective, Leo would’ve won that year IMO.

Nobody but 6 year olds liked the prequels when they came out. Critics were lukewarm from the start and you could hear a pin drop when Phantom Menace ended in my opening day showing. The crowd was just stunned into a “WTF-was-that-shit?” stupor. In my opening day showing of TFA, people were laughing and engaged…

Bingo. This is exactly the dynamic in the movie.

What tears? We kicked their worthless asses!

To be fair to Lucas, he asked Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Robert Zemeckis to direct the prequels but they all insisted that SW was his baby and he should do them. Whether he wanted one of them to direct all three or all three to direct one each, I don’t know, but it’s interesting to wonder what might have been…

Goddamn, do I love Han Solo!

I don’t want Lando to be forgotten either and I will have the biggest squeegasm ever if he pops up in Episode VIII. I’d love it if we found out that Lando retrieved Luke’s lightsaber from Bespin and gave it to Maz for safekeeping after Luke vanished.

Nobody is pretending that TFA is Schindler’s List, okay. What it is is a fucking great Star Wars movie. One notch below ESB and ANH and that’s about it. The fact that it’s based on ANH is a feature, not a bug. If you went in expecting something wholly original, that’s on you. The three trilogies paralleling each other…