Because they’re idiots who have no clue how to market something?

Star Wars didn’t put any product placement in the actual movie itself. They certainly didn’t have product placement determine key plot points.

Exactly. Nobody from any of these cartoons is gonna matter in any of the movies and that’s the right thing for Disney to do. Given how huge the casual Star Wars fanbase is, it would be absurd to have large reveals in the movies only matter to a tiny slice of the audience that watch Clone Wars and Rebels. These shows…

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.

The narrative holds up just fine and I’d say 95% of the people who’ve seen the movie have no problem understanding what’s going on or who’s who. I have read none of the novels, dictionaries, or other supplements. I got this all from paying attention to the movie itself:

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.

I don’t think it’s necessarily a designated lightsaber blocker. It’s basically a riot control/combat weapon with a taser/electricutor built-in. It just happened to be of use against the saber Finn had.

Lucas actually got more like $6 billion. Half of the $4 billion was in Disney stock, which doubled in value after the acquisition. But there’s no way Lucas could’ve squeezed $4-6 billion more out of the franchise himself without producing a sequel trilogy. If a Lucas directed Episode VII ever got made, it wouldn’t…

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…

OMG, it so looks like Biggs! My inner SW geek hates me for not catching that the first time I saw it.

I’m guessing it’s different because this isn’t the actual origin story but takes place like 15 years after he met Jane and left the jungle. Pretty much every other version has started at the beginning.

No one’s saying that. The article stated that the movie was hated by critics and fans from the beginning and that’s just not true. It got largely good reviews and most people who saw it liked it. It sold well on DVD/BluRay/Digital Download and gets good numbers when it airs on TV (that’s why FX practically has it…

Bingo. This is exactly the dynamic in the movie.

Are you talking about the stupid EU that Disney de-canonized? Because there’s nothing in the actual movie that ruins anything about the SW universe, although it did break a little bit of this Han & Leia-shipper’s heart.

Who are you to say what the right and wrong reasons for liking something are? A lot of people liked it for a lot of different reasons. Some people didn’t like it for precisely those same reasons. Neither group is inherently right or wrong. One group just seems to be bigger than the other.

Seriously. Samuel L. Jackson is a Bad Motherfucker. When he throws shade, you know it. The whole world feels it. This is nothin’.

Overall, the show is just slightly ahead of where book 5 ended. I think a few things from book 5 that were left out of season 5 will find their way into season 6 though. Martin has said that the showrunners know exactly how he plans to end the book series and they say that they intend to keep the show’s ending as true…

What tears? We kicked their worthless asses!

OMG, TPM finally makes so much sense!

I get that but how does him regretting a choice he made make Disney evil? It was still his choice to sell, they didn’t force him to. He chose to for a huge sum of money. If he regrets doing so, he’d be far better off keeping it to himself because it’s too late now and nobody cares anyway.