Calling it a “laser sword” really makes it.

Actually he calls it a “laser sword” which is way funnier.

He also calls it a “laser sword” because he’s being a gloriously sarcastic prick about it.

They think, as a “fan” that their notions of how the story should have gone in their vision should be made.

Nah ... it’s more that people attach so much meaning to the movie that it never ever ever stops being something . I really hate that so many people think they own the story and that it cannot depart in any way from their personal understanding. It’s so short-sighted, and screams of fan-boy mania. It’s not so much that…

I don’t get people’s hate for the way the movie wrapped up. Luke performed a double miracle at the end of the pic, like of epic Moses proportions, and haters think what? The movie deserves a Best Picture Nomination.

That’s a lot more interesting than Mark Hamill popping in to do some flips and slaughter a few storm troopers, eh?

“when voting for Best Director in year-end critics’ polls, which movies most impressed me from a purely visual standpoint...”

I wouldn’t blame CK unless he was secretly involved in those other shows as well. After all, Baskets & Better Things aren’t cancelled.

I mean, it’s not the only film that had a protagonist from an already established work that become a jaded old man only to be given renewed hope by a female student and sacrifice himself for the next generation that came out in 2017.

I’m not sure I’d even call this a “horror” movie as much as a scary monster movie. (I loved it, btw...and really loved terrifying myself with the book back in my younger days)

So I’m not a horror movie guy at all.  But I really enjoyed this movie and...didn’t find it all that scary?

You’d be surprised by how many people are. I’ve known some who would watch older shows on their newer TVs and use the fill option. They’d rather see everything stretched out instead of seeing black bars on the sides. It’s also the reason pan and scan in 4:3 lasted until they stopped making 4:3 TVs.

Ha. Let me introduce you to the wild world of “what the hell is going on?” when you try to figure out if you’re really getting the best picture, the original cut or even actual HD when it comes to kaiju films, especially Godzilla. You’d think going to the source and getting the Blu-rays from the parent company, Toho,…

Because people can look right and left easier than up and down. It is an evolutionary thing where most interesting things (being attacked, seeing something to attack) happen on the same plane as you are on. You can move your eyeballs to look right/left but generally have to move your neck to see up and down. So having…

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Because the director and cinematographer decide a film works better in a different aspect based on the shots they want to make and the story they want to tell. 2.35:1 is basically shorthand for epic, even today.

Because it looks better and most people aren’t freaked out by black bars.

Because 16:9 became the standard only very recently compared with the history of movies, because there actually isn’t a consistent standard across phones and computers and tablets and laptops, because different aspect ratios allow filmmakers to do different things, because watching a film in a theatre is a much better…

Because different projects call for different aspect ratios? Different film formats only come in different aspect ratios? Not everything has to be 16:9 just because that’s what size TVs are. And hell, most original content for streaming services isn’t 16:9, it’s 2:1.