Yep. And despite plenty of people pointing out that it seems like there was no overall plan for the trilogy, I’ve yet to hear about Kennedy or anyone else involved suggesting otherwise. It really does seem like their plan was to just let Abrams/Johnson/Trevorrow each make their own movie and the three entries were…

Which is especially shitty given what a great cast they put together for the new characters. Along with Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac are all charming as fuck and they had great chemistry together. 

I didn’t know the reference (I *guessed* correctly that it was to a iteration of FF that came after my time), but your post was heartfelt and not shitty so I’m replying to try bring it out of the greys so that others will see it.

Agreed on all counts. I teach film and literature courses and I’ve been singing the book’s praises and encouraging students to check out the film. For me it’s the most anticipated film of the year in what has proven to be a bang-up year for cinema.

If it’s as bad as you anticipate I think I’ll just chalk it up to the unreliable narration. If they lean into it they could even do a little lampshading of how bad he is at accents. 

I despise the lazy use of the derogatory term “Oscar bait” for films that have artistic ambition.

I sold her on watching it by telling her that Nora Ephron wrote it (she’s a big fan of Ephron’s romantic comedies), then I had to double-check to make sure that I was right. I was, but I forgot the best part: Ephron was married to Nicholas Pileggi. Pileggi, of course, wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, based on his…

My s.o. hates gangster films and won’t sit through even five minutes of Goodfellas or The Godfather, but she loved My Blue Heaven when I got her to watch it earlier this year. You just have to be vaguely aware of the tropes to get the gangster-related jokes, and everything else plays well enough on its own. A great…

The book is indeed brilliant, and now that reviews are popping up that explain a little more fully the conceit—and feminist underpinnings—of Bella having an infant’s brain, maybe the half-assed focus on that one aspect of the narrative and subsequent “sounds like a movie for pedophiles” bullshit responses will stop.

For a second. I thought we were talking about the no wave/post-punk/industrial band Swans and I was like oh shit, Capote had a beef with Michael Gera and Jarboe?

And the thing is they do have a bit precedent from the comics: Stark uploaded his consciousness into an artificial intelligence along the lines of what that they already did in the MCU with the creation of Ultron and Vision.  That could even help them with the whole can’t-get-Downey-to-do-it-thing. They could explain…

Nobody gives a shit.

Nobody gives a shit, including your mom.

Different strokes, different folks. I didn’t a shit enough about that one plot point to discount all of “Felina”. I thought it was a wonderful final episode to top off an excellent final season. Then Gilligan topped himself with Better Caul Saul and “Saul Gone” (again, your mileage may vary).

I’ll cosign on franchise death. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the dude “massaged” the truth about his past (if their reporting is accurate, a lot of his key selling points are pretty dubious), and the producers vetting him were either incompetent or just didn’t give a shit:

Him?

In some good G/O Media-related news, Paste bought and is resurrecting Jezebel:

8/9ths of a perfect series. They couldn’t stick the landing (or, when I’m feeling uncharitable, they chickened out), but who can these days? Vince Gilligan and that’s about it. I might have to hint to my s.o. that I want this.

Bullocks. I really wanted Tasha to make it to the final. I'm gutted.

Yeah there are already people banging the drum here for their choice despite how they haven’t even seen all of the other performances (and how some of the performances in question are in films that haven’t even been released yet). Poor Things is still a few weeks away and several of the critics who have seen it say…