We tried debating the Nazis. It didn’t work.

“We only have to look at other works, namely hundreds if not thousands of interpretations of Shakespeare to see examples of this.”

Aside from the agents of the principles involved in the reboot movies, is there anyone left who actually wants this? It took a few attempts, but with Strange New Worlds they finally did what the whole “Kelvin timeline” thing tried and failed to do: Make new Star Trek that “feels” like old Star Trek, yet is perfectly…

I’ve never been happier as a fan than when I heard that that wasn’t going to happen. You could lock Quinton Tarintino in a cell for a year and spend the entire time explaining what Star Trek is to him, and he’d still come out of it like “so babes and lasers, cool!”

And when it takes a whack at the movies, it’s not meant to be a $250-million budget things-go-boom (and-the-Enterprise-go-boom) action movie. It’s not Trek, foremost, but also, it’s super hard to make that money back -- NONE of the Kelvin-verse movies did well internationally.

This is a good thing. I’ve given the Kelvin timeline the benefit of doubt, even when other Trekkies reflexively hated it, but it was all downhill after the reboot. Into Darkness was the Wrath of Khan remake nobody asked for and Beyond was a waste of Idris Elba’s time and talent.

Sure it does, because the reasons it isn’t valid have already been discussed ad nauseum because it isn’t new or clever.

In Tolkien’s canon humans “awoke” fully formed without evolution. They haven’t had hundreds of thousands of years to resemble modern ethnicities by eons of migrations. Making any of them specifically white or black or brown is a choice.

You’re so close to getting it - good luck explaining why white people need “inclusion” when they’re already depicted at a much higher rate than they naturally occur in the general population.

Why do racists like you break out this argument as if it’s brand new, and you just thought of it? This has been the first…

Black people have existed in Europe for its entire existence. Pretending otherwise is ahistorical and nakedly racist.

The thing you’re completely missing is context. It’s twofold here. Point One, the example you chose, Power Man/Luke Cage, is indelibly tied to the “Blaxploitation” era of films, and thus his race is actually pretty crucial to the character. Almost every time a white character is reimagined as a different race, their…

If someone tells me they know what real elves are supposed to look like, I’m backing away. Slowly.

I mean, Black Aragorn actually makes a lot of sense, seeing as how Dúnedain also don’t crack

Gunn has made it pretty clear that he’s got a new DCU planned that is going to leave behind most or all DCEU lead actors. He even said that this movie helps set it up. I think Miller is done after this movie, almost certainly.

This is just PR. See what the director says after the movie comes out.

Just watched it for the 40th anniversary screening.
As an immigrant child, I didn’t have idols or heroes. I didn’t know anything about this country, how could I? But then I watched Luke ruling so hard in this film, and it gave me something sweet for me to keep in mind whenever I feel weak: What would Luke Skywalker do?
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the only thing that really bothered me about Jedi, from the first time I saw it, was the droid torture chamber in Jabba’s Palace. It just seems ridiculous. Otherwise, the movie is great. Some really powerful, and earned, character moments. Watching Vader turn on the emperor for the first time, chills. 

Mark Hamill definitely stepped it up in RotJ.

agree to all of this. that shot of the core crashing down on itself and the falcon speeding into camera is so DAMN cool.

Westworld was one of HBO’s most popular shows, had already been renewed for a 5th and final season. Zaslav cancelled it anyway (even though it violated his contract with the actors and required him to pay them millions) because the show had a high budget and he decided he’d rather use that money to make multiple…