Despite the title, this was not a war movie. Great battles, soldiers with agency, generals making plans and predictions, strategy, tactics, ... NONE of that occurred. Only the execution of warfare occurred.

Not explaining “Which side” is to blame IS the point, which you pretty eloquently summed up: “the result of intractableness is violence.”

of course not, the Jedi on the Lucas movies are on the good side always, even to the point they act naive against the evil like Jabba the Hutt, The Federation or the Emperor. The only one always secretly breaking the rules was Anakin hence his fall to the dark side during the Order 66.

In the films, particularly the earlier ones, where the Jedi weighed outcomes and methods, they were on good moral footing. When they spouted ‘tenets’ and ‘rules’ and other absolutist judgmental dogma, it was not hard to see their moral footing slipping.

It is like WB put Joker in charge of making a Batman movie. How do you destroy Batman? You do it by destroying his character, by destroying the idea of him, by destroying the ideals he stood for.

I’d love to see someone perform the Stanford Marshmallow test with Shyamalan (or his daughter, who’s totally real) fans during a screening.

The twist will be there is no daughter and it’s M. Night under a pseudonym the whole time.

Great...privileged guy who lucked his way into being a successful filmmaker has privileged daughter who “lucked” her way into being a filmmaker.

Thanks for making the distinction between generative vs performative artistic aspects as well as production vs consumption. Two steps deeper into the weeds.

Regarding your definition of effablity(? lol). Of course the work of art was put into words, but the experience of consuming the art is what is ineffable. When reading a book every reader will have a different image in their mind, every reader will have a different emotional response or understanding of character…

Some might say the purpose of art is to say something or show something, but all art needs to do is create an ineffable experience. Philosopher John Dewey says that art is an aesthetic experience.

Wait, Madame Web Is a Period Piece?

My favorite two word review is ‘Stupider Rising.’
I’ll probably watch it eventually, if only to see if it’s as much of a vapid regurgitation of ‘all the sci-fi ZS ever saw’ as others are describing. But I intend to watch Battle Beyond the Stars afterward to see which ‘Seven Samurai in Space’ gives me more joy.

I’m likely very late to this realization (my apologies, haven’t been paying that much attention to the DCU) - so, these movies are just underwater Thor movies?

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Has Its Moments, But Mostly Fizzles

It would have been a much more realistic arc. Kylo Ren killed BILLIONS, if not TRILLIONS, of people in the first arc. So did Vader, but he was redeemed by the sacrifice of his son. Kylo Ren just . . . honestly I don’t remember at all how he was redeemed. Something something Leia? Whatever it was, it had no moral…

You know, I’d like a Jewish actor to play Magneto. The most high profile Jewish character in comics and he's only been played by Gentiles.

Came here to say the same about the Shield.

The Nvidia Shield is conspicuously absent from this list. It leaves all of these in the dust—I say this as someone firmly in the Apple camp—and unlike the Roku, doesn’t phone home with all of your data ALL THE TIME. Even the FireTVs pale in comparison with how much they phone home:

An ounce of prevention... 

However, when prevention fails and you have to deal with intruders, the first things to do are to learn their routes and preferences.
One way I’ve used to find the routes of rodents is to dust the floor. Flour is easiest, but may skew results as it’s edible. Baking powder or soda, borax, or…