Yeah, I don't get this mentality that's developed that it's disrespectful to recast a role after the actor playing it dies. Should, say, Hamlet never have been performed again after the actors in the original production died?

So ironically the Star Wars movies kill off characters portrayed by actors who are still with us (Han Solo, the main characters in Rogue One), while basing significant portions of future installments around characters originally played by actors who have passed on (Moff Tarkin and now Princess Leia).

Actually, I can really picture Cumberbatch saying, "Come with me if you want to live" in the annoyed/dismissive/sarcastic style of his Sherlock. Maybe sighing slightly and rolling his eyes for extra effect.

My bad - in my haste I missed that distinction. But I stand by the basic points in my reply (as edited).

Interestingly enough, one area where the Holmes stories stand out is that he spends a lot of time investigating crimes other than murders - thefts, disappearances, and miscellaneous "peculiar circumstances and occurrences," for lack of a better way of describing them. Holmes investigates his share of deaths, but other…

He is very dismissive in Sherlock to a level that I don't really find an analogy to in the stories. In literature, Holmes certainly does not suffer fools easily, and his manner and methods may be off-putting or baffling to some. But he is rarely truly condescending or dismissive to those who seek his help.

It seems to me that Moffat and Gatiss just really, really want a chance to do a Bond film. I'm sorry EON Productions hasn't seen fit to give them a turn at doing one, but the concept of Sherlock Holmes as a superspy doesn't really appeal much to me.

I read an article a couple years back that said the talent and budgets that used to go there have basically migrated over to TV.

Clearly, this guy's cable description doesn't include MGM HD, a network designed to monetize all of the forgotten mediocre movies they've acquired from the last three or four decades (ironically, MGM HD shows relatively few actual MGM movies).

Or you could think of it as, "If 70* is Super, what could be better? Ultra (70 + anamorphic)."

"But Rogue One, shot digitally (albeit with vintage Super Panavision lenses)…" No, Ultra Panavision. There's a difference.

Eh, I really do think "The wind is at our backs!" thing does tend to be a little more liberal. Even when they're winning, Conservatives still kind of have that seige mentality thing going on.

Also, "Both major party candidates are basically the same." Don't forget that gem.

"[T]he ideal of Obama was likely temporary, and that Amerikkka might still
be hiding just around the corner, waiting to roar back into the
limelight."

Having spent the GDP of a developing nation to acquire it, Disney has probably concluded that the main "Star Wars" franchise is too valuable to permit anybody any opportunity to do anything even remotely creative with it ever again. Which makes the idea of having these "Anthology" films for that an interesting…

They sure do. In fact, somebody's already leaked a clip of the ending. (Warning - Spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/wat…

But if they are popular enough, they might get cameos in prequels to prequels, or maybe even their own pre-prequel.

"Perhaps something less carefully managed might have had a chance to go 'full Peckinpah'…" I just envisioned some Disney studio execs in Brioni suits in a meeting:

Also in 1990 "Goodfellas" came out, which wasn't an action movie, but was still pretty violent. I only mention because "Total Recall" was something my Dad felt was suitable for family viewing (though my Mom abstained, but not because of violence: she loved horror movies, she just always found Schwarzenegger…

You left out the best part: "They might like a story like that."