Huh, it’s almost like TV and comics are two totally different kinds of media that affect people’s emotional, intellectual, and psychological registers in contrasting ways.

They didn’t need to add an airplane to showcase a mistake in Gladiator. I have a friend who used to teach Classics at UBC. She made her classes watch Gladiator on day one for the expressed purpose of having students see how many historical inaccuracies they could pick out. The list is in the hundreds. 

I clicked it to find out. It’s just in the thumbnail. They point out a more mundane, but real mistake in Gladiator in the movie.

Web3 is the easiest scam going right now, with the added benefit that you know your customers are either desperate third world serfs or gullible dumbasses.

Yeah, like I enjoy these scenes as fun filler and what got left behind as part of the final cut process, but scenes that go nowhere or too long can bog down an experience. Glad I saw this version once but going forward, I’ll be sticking with the leaner theatrical version, as I do with just about every movie save for a…

It would have been nice if these had been included on the Bluray as deleted scenes.

Watched the first two episodes and it’s fine. It’s definitely more “Tolkienesque” than Tolkien. The device of following isolated characters from all over the land whose fates will ultimately converge is more of a conceit from modern fantasy and not something you’d find in Tolkien’s work. But as an epic fantasy…

He and Marion got married, and he learned he was a father.

I maintain that the third book in the series, The Celery Stalks at Midnight, is one of the greatest book titles ever created.

It’s definitely the Targ bloodline, but everything is so dark and they zoom past each marker so quickly that I don’t know how anyone who isn’t a dyed in the wool nerd could distinguish anything.

I thought the only things that worked about TLJ were old man Luke, and Broom Boy. Everything else was an absolute dumpster fire, but Luke’s character ark made a pretty decent amount of sense, and the kid at the gave IX everything it needed to forget about everything in XIII. But they ignored it...

If it makes you feel any better, there’s plenty of us that agree with you. The blog chose to render an opinion that differs from yours so you’re dealing with survivorship bias.

This would be my interpretation as well. Really, it was one of the only things in the movie I liked and was disappointed that it was promptly dropped in the next film. The idea that “bring balance to the force” actually meant the elimination of both Jedi and Sith, so the Force could be reawakened in all living things.…

Yeah, I definitely would have been interested to see where Johnson would have gone (though there were never any plans for him to actually make it). That said, if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth looking up what was planned for Colin Trevorrow’s version of Episode IX (working title “Duel of the Fates”) before he left…

One thing to remember is that even Anakin, at 9 years old in The Phantom Menace, is considered too old to start training as a Jedi. Broom Boy was, I think, intended to have been around the same age. So while most of the Jedi, statistically, are just random children from random families living on some random planet,…

A lot of the early complaints, apart from the bigoted ones, tend to be that the familiar characters aren’t exactly as Tolkien wrote them, but I’d be willing to bet that the show will feature them slowly developing into those familiar shapes over these five seasons.

So, by himself, “Broom Boy” is nothing. But after six movies that were about how one Skywalker or another learns the Force, we got a seventh where this new Force-sensitive character, Rey, came about. Like Anakin and Luke, she seemed to come out of nowhere but had an immediate understanding of the Force. Some fans were…

Well, I can think of one other, but the “wrong people” are the ones who get aggressive when others say they didn’t like it. That’s what I mean by it being a purity test. Say you didn’t like The Last Jedi in a comment section for an article about The Last Jedi, and you’re a bigoted asshole. Say you’re not looking…

Re-using the GoT theme song is fine in theory, but halfway through the opening credits I found it pretty cynical and bumped against it.

this is such a rude comment lol wow