It’s part of the trademarking that makes it “monopoly”. The 4 corners need to remain the same. Vs the “opoly” knock off games out there. 

Did everyone else forget about the billionaire tourists the Russians have sent to the ISS and that NASA has been marketing it stateside as well? Did everyone else forget the clock is ticking on the ISS and NASA is scrambling to justify continued funding for it? Did everyone else forget what a soulless PR vampire Musk…

That’s a good point, when you think through it Marty only appropriated that culture for that one single performance. And it’s not like he claimed to have written it himself.

Jon Bois is a goddamn genius. I’m around 90 minutes deep into an examination of the frigging SEATTLE MARINERS and I’m like WHEN IS PART 4?!

Jon Bois also did a good deep dive into this on his YouTube channel here. What I recall was that St. Louis wasn’t their first choice- the games had been awarded to Chicago, but then St. Louis, which was hosting a world’s fair that year, threatened to have their own sporting event with blackjack and hookers unless they…

Virtue signalling of course.

Folks! What can I tell you about my next guest? This cat allowed himself to be adored, but not loved. And his success in show business was matched by failure in his personal relationship bag, now — that’s where he really bombed. And he came to believe that work, show business, love, his whole life, even himself…

All That Jazz anyone?

People keep saying that, but I don’t get that. Mr. PB picked him up. Todd still engaged with him. PC still invited him. Only Diane implied she was done with him but that doesn’t seem set in stone either. IMO, they went the easy/lazy way out and to the question of, “what is the ending?”, said “Life doesn’t really have…

I liked this movie for being about a devastating plague that isn’t civilization-destroying - like a modern version of the 1918 Flu epidemic. Showing what a massive medical disaster would look like without spilling over into apocalyptic cinema.

I mean, the “nonfiction” chapters are filled with bad science and glowing descriptions of whaling, which are not just boring but grating to read, and if they’re not twice as long as the action chapters (which are admittedly pretty good), they sure feel like it. I mean, I read Ulysses and liked it, but Moby Dick is…

Eh, I liked what I read of it, but it didn’t grab me.

The Scarlet letter is not puritanical! The puritanical people are the villains in The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne is the heroine and she emerges victorious and happy in the end. Sheesh people. Actually read the damn book. It’s not that long. You can knock it off in an afternoon.

Seriously. The main protagonist of these three movies is a badass woman, as is her primary mentor. If the reason people didn’t like Rose is because they’re so revolted by the idea of a strong female character, why were they even watching any of these movies to begin with?

They are the “roommates writing each other passive aggressive notes on the fridge” of the Star Wars franchise.

Without objecting to the rest of the article, saying that Kylo Ren (the story’s antagonist and a bloody Sith) was being untruthful about Rey’s parentage is hardly a “retcon”.

I really liked the Last Jedi. I thought Rian Johnson did some brave things with it. But he’s guilty of walking back some Force Awakens stuff. he literally says at one point, “Take that ridiculous thing off” about Kylo Ren’s helmet like he’s a five year old kid.

While the specific disappointments are different, how you’re feeling now about TRoS is approximately how I’ve felt about TLJ for the past two years.

JJ loves his mystery box bullshit SO much but never ever gives it any payoff, so when Rian comes along and outright tells the audiences “all that exciting stuff from the last movie? Nah!” there’s a natural distrust formed. Ok, so nothing from the last movie matters as much as it seemed to. Then, why should anything…

Now that it’s done, we can look back at the sequel trilogy as a whole and see how ABSOLUTELY INSANE it was that they didn’t go into it with a fleshed-out, three-part story arc in mind—and how in fact each movie was un-subtly, even rudely in some cases, trying to undo everything that happened in its predecessor.