WELL FROM MY POINT OF VIEW THE JEDI ARE EVIL!

“I’ve been waiting for you, Obi Wan. We meet again, at last...well, since a few years ago, and the time right before that. We meet pretty often, actually....”

AND Luke has to run out of power converters, so he has a reason to visit Toshi station!

Yes and no, the obsession with spoilers and all characters being killable is newish - but stakes have always mattered in good writing and if you’re just coloring in between the very narrow and well-established lines of “Obi Wan at the end of Revenge of the Sith” and “Obi Wan at the beginning of New Hope”, there’s not…

“Any time anyone complains that today’s blockbusters are soulless, samey, hollow effects movies, force them to sit through the unholy trinity of Twister, Mission: Impossible, and Independence Day.”

Please, he’s done that dozens of times this weekend, let the man take a break!

Sigh, no Disney did not “take a $250M hit” on this hotel - this is a basic accounting trick. You claim accelerated depreciation because you get to deduct that from the taxes on your other income, so you want to make the depreciation look as big as possible. You have a lot of creative freedom in claiming how much you…

Still holding out hope for a Return of the Obra Dinn movie...

“Pressured to eat bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas” - listen, snowflakes, who among us hasn’t done that at an average work retreat or company picnic? That’s just standard employee bonding stuff, lighten up!

2049 was a pretty good movie, but it had a few truly INCREDIBLE images/moments/characters that I still think about:

That and the prominently displayed Jordan Peterson book...

“It’s just a matter of time before every news article is just based around a list of words that people like to click on.”

“Fed into a database without their knowledge” Are these not widely-available published works?

It’s a concert documentary. Vampire Weekend opening for The Killers at an amphitheater on the Greek island of Lesbos. 

He does pretty much all of his sound design and mixing himself!

BWWWAAAAMMMMPPP

“The slaves actually liked having their teeth pulled! It was a great honor to them to have their teeth in the President’s mouth! This was one of the many wonderful things about slavery and why it should still exist.” - Florida high school history textbook, 2024

(spits out Washington’s wooden dentures)

The newest Indiana Jones of course doesn’t rise to the heights of Last Crusade, but it does get the one thing that Crystal Skull forgot: Indiana Jones movies should be a constant non-stop chase scene.