People have a pretty skewed perception of how 10 year olds act though: badly behaved kids aren't wise-ass Bart Simpsons; smart, bookish kids aren't as articulate as Lisa Simpson; precocious, despicable brats aren't as worldly as the kid from Home Alone, etc.. A lot of bad acting in kids' films simply reflects kids'…

Counterpoint: Ewan McGregor was, in fact, good in the prequels.

The early 2000s was when I started getting into films properly - reading Empire every month, actively seeking out classics to watch, seeing what was on at the cinema rather than just looking forward to films I knew I'd like. etc.

Space is very very very big. If the Death Star were to fire off in a straight line, never mind being steered, chances are it would never come close to hitting anything.

'In GJI! you will find a new definition of masturbatory as you are slowly clickbaited for a (gulp) thousand years.'

"Also I think they just ripped from movies about WWII."

'Fall of the…' is a wee bit hacky for a title, UNLESS the noun is something we've not heard of before. It also feels a little off, scale-wise: a Republic or Empire or Kingdom falls, but a Resistance collapses, fails, or ends.

For all the shit (totally, totally unjustified considering how transparent and often unflattering official Star Wars behind the scenes documentaries and making off stuff often is) George Lucas gets for trying to push a narrative of how his Star Wars movies were produced, how the post-TFA Star Wars sausage is made will…

"We're gonna have a secure legacy. The country will retain its current healthcare coverage, an' soon it'll be expanded even more. An' we'll have clean air legislation, an' anti-fracking laws, an' maybe even a little bill to help support college students."

I was pretty irritated by the amount of 'Why I think it's sick for Disney to resurrect Leia' op-eds and thinkpieces that appeared hours after Fisher's death.

Highly predictable in hindsight - that is to say, not predictable.

His corpsing during SNL skits. This was transparently put on, and was done to:

This is the best way. Don't have her die if the character wasn't going to; I personally don't think there's anything distasteful in having a pasted-from-archive-footage or CGI-version of her plopped in an award ceremony for 30 seconds. Her absence from the action will be jarring, but audiences should be able to…

3PO too - I imagine Disney have him locked up somewhere recording random lines thrown up by a special Star Wars script algorithm, to be cut together as necessary.

She didn't have much dramatic stuff to do in the film, and was convincing in what she did. The character is in her mid 50s and been through some tragic stuff - she's going to be a bit mellower, a bit quieter.

Does anyone else totally despise the vast, vast majority of times this convention is used?

I still think the first one would fly - it suggests that, as President, *America* would the entity profiting at the expense of others, and his supporters would be/are totally happy with that.

A political science professor who correctly predicted Trump's win has a very convincing explanation about how circumstances were against the Democrats this time around:

"Nothing. That makes me smart."

"Mr Emperor, your apprentice is a… brilliant man with many… thought out… practical ideas."