I believe in hope. I don’t go to see Star Wars movies to get bummed out. < absolutely.

I also think the mistake that a lot of people, especially those who rush to defend the choices that TLJ made-particularly the saber toss, are making is the mistake of viewing this all as one contiguous device when it is absolutely not. The embattled choices for Luke were the choices of TLJ not the sequel trilogy.…

Hey, I wrote that!!! OMFG I am like dancing right now! So glad to know I wasn’t jut like shouting into an empty room! :-D

Destroying hope is something I will never understand as a narrative choice.  I do agree with the assessment.   I think with just a few minor modifications they could have earned Luke’s state though, and made it mean more than what it did. 

The issues I take is of redefining the heroes journey to lead Luke to where he was. But I blame that on Rian Johnson’s hero deconstruction bent. The Luke at the end of Return of the Jedi was not the kind of Luke that could toss one of his father’s lightsabers over his shoulder like a piece of junk. They didn’t *earn*…

Okay, but that isn’t what the film presented or tried to be. Its an odd tendency these days for critiquing a film or product for not being what the critic thought it should be rather than criticizing the actual product. Joker was a character study, heavily influenced by films of the 70s and 80s, that was very clear.…

I just don’t get the whole “controversy” around this. I haven’t seen it, I am going to wait for Blu Ray, but I just don’t get it. It doesn’t seem any more violent or anything that most any other movie. There is the mental illness angle I guess but that is part and parcel with the character itself anyway. It just seems…

By doing a different kind of movie with a relatively big budget for the type of film, 55-60 million, not having it feature Batman at all, sort of, and releasing it in October with a R rating. There was a lot riding on this film and it seemed to have paid off. The reason they were willing to take that risk was because…

Really glad to read the film did so well. Not just because I personally loved it, but also because it was a risky movie to do and hopefully this incentives the studios to try more different things with their superhero properties.

Saw it last night. Loved it. It’s unique, it’s unsettling, it’s filled with tension and foreboding ( we know this can’t end well!), Phoenix’s performance is mesmerizing, and it’s also exhilarating in the way that its thrilling to watch a movie that takes risk after risk and somehow doesn't fall off the high wire. To…

Guys - did anyone else notice Bruce Wayne sliding down a pole?  

I felt this was an excellent movie. I’m eating a huge slice of humble pie, because when this project was first announced “The guy who made Hangover is doing a Joker-centric origin story set in the 70s” I thought it sounded like it would be a laughable flop.

I’ll get it out of the way. This film went straight into my top 5 favorite films of all time. 5/5 - GO WATCH IT!

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Hope sadly doesn’t sell, but I hear you. Where’s my utopian vision of 3022? Sure, humanity still has it’s problems, but maybe we’ve got some colonies out in the solar system, maybe we’re a bit better with our resources and our greed, maybe we’re making progress towards wonderful things, new discoveries, and not…

I remember liking most of Super 8, but as usual, the ending lacked any real punch because the characters weren’t developed well enough for me to really care about the outcome.

I hated his Star Trek movies. Super 8 was terrible. But I went into TFA setting my expectations low genuinely trying to give it a chance to like it. They had me very intrigued in the opening scene of his stopping a laser in midair. And then...the rest of the movie happened and I almost walked out.

Don’t get me wrong, the acting, dialogue, and cinematography in TFA is like night and day compared to the prequels.

Man, I do have to say, for as much as I’ve grown to really dislike these new movies and characters, that fight is still probably my favorite in the series. Because it’s not all “look at the fancy choreography,” it’s simply two people trying to kill the fuck out of each other. It’s visceral as hell, and yet it still…

Abrams’ emotional investment in Star Wars is purely one of nostalgia. He likes the franchise, but only because it reminds him of the movies he enjoyed as a kid. And he makes these movies because they allow him to recreate his favorite beats from the older films.