Star Wars was a love letter to cinema...JJ Abrahams used Star Wars films to make love letters to Star Wars films.

What make The Mandalorian work is that it recognizes that Star Wars was a love letter to cinema. From the pulp Flash Gordon serials, spaghetti westerns, war films, and even some Kurosawa for good measure. JJ Abrahams used Star Wars films to make love letters to Star Wars films.

I dunno. I don’t disagree with you, my issue is that no one out here is saying The Suicide Squad isn’t a comic book movie or a superhero movie. He’s trying to brand it as something different. It’s not. It’s a war movie in the same way that Ant-Man is a heist movie. Which is to say it is that, and it is also a comic…

The irony is F&WS is somewhat grounded and serious while Ragnarok, WandaVision and Loki are so bonkers and silly, they seem like the exact kind of dumb James Gunn would be talking about.

Yea, I think he’s speaking to the challenge/desire for directors and creators to make super hero movies about more than super hero movies; use the platform to tell different kinds of stories whether they’re metaphysical comedies or war movies or spy thrillers, all of which happen to take place with costumed characters…

Thanks but, having gone through a Connery phase a few years back, I know the film plenty. And the similarities - again - are about as much as Heat and The Dark Knight. Johnson’s been very open about doing a classic whodunnit that draws on the classics.

I’d say a lot of your examples (Captain Marvel, Ad Astra, Knives Out, PotA, Eternals - which no one has even seen yet) are either reaching (Captain Marvel /Robocop especially and the Loki / Doctor Who similarity lasted for about one episode before the show showed it wasn’t going down that route for its wider story) or…

How dare you taint a cult classic like ‘Robocop’ by comparing it to ‘Captain Marvel’.

“No problem with someone liking a film that I don’t.”

I remember in my one sentence post where I said “Rogue One” was groundbreaking. It was entertaining, this series is called “The Popcorn Champs,” not “Groundbreaking Films.” It was perfectly fine.

Hey looks it’s “nothing is original anymore!” guy. 

I don’t know what to tell you.

This is painfully wrong on so many levels. 

I’ve never had any difficulty understanding what Bruce is saying, like at all? I didn’t realise anyone did? He enunciates every word more than enough.

Flags wave in the breeze.

funny. I always interpreted the Star Spangled Banner as the flag waving over a fort or other location and not someone (a bannerman?) standing when the dust settles and still waving it.

You may be confused with Dylan.

“He also added that dresses “do not know how to ‘wave.””

Thank heaven that's finally wrapped up.  Like a douche.

I clicked on this article genuinely expecting to read that Bruce was rewriting “The door’s open but the ride ain’t free” to, I don’t know, “Your consent is a must for me” and that Sam considered this to be fixing the song.