Storytelling is a prime example of one of them.

Some things need to be forced.

That was one hell of an essay. Thanks for the link.

Such a deranged movie. Yet somehow Alan Parker's direction convinces you it's not. And the Paul Williams songs are genuinely catchy.

This was a huge error in the movie. It would've taken thirty seconds - tops - to show Denethor skulking into a back room after his first meeting with Gandalf, pulling out a palantir and staring into it, and being shown the body of Boromir, while Sauron's voice whispers to him: "Despair... Despair..."

Well, considering his "Mithrandir" song is quite lovely, I'd certainly give it a listen.

If Nemo counts, then the Martians of "War of the Worlds" certainly count as well.

I'd suggest that superintelligence was a major theme of the Dune books from the very beginning. The Mentat computing, Bene Gesserit mind-and-body control, spice navigating, Kwizatz Haderach visions, and general post-Butlerian-Jihad training were all different brands of superintelligence.

Excellent strategy.
I've suspected for a while that a large chunk of the harasser demographic consists of 13 year old boys.

"I'm going on a cardboard diet."

Agreed. Very nice to see this.

A little or a lot, it doesn't match the existing "Star Wars" aesthetic. One can be perfectly fine with that or not, but it is different.

Likewise.

Meanwhile, you can take up this question with the other commenters here who noticed the same thing.

It's not the three-dimensional movements of the camera that I'm talking about, but the jitteriness.

I'm not talking about the movement, but rather the vibration of the camera.

Look again.

A lot of this looked neat, but I wasn't crazy about the "shakycam" approach to the flight of the Falcon. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that look, but it's not a look I associate with "Star Wars" and not part of what gives the space sequences of "Star Wars" their special pizzazz.

Don't quite see how the "Toshi Station" line is unintentionally funny. The whole point of the line was to be humorous.

I'm one of the minority of people who quite liked "Crystal Skull" — I prefer it to the other sequels, actually — but one flaw in the film is that the plot thread introduced near the opening of the film, about Jones coming under the suspicion of the Feds for his episode with the Russians, is simply dropped. I think it…