If you actually look at those movies there's always some dapper scientist with a pipe coordinating the government's defenses and sounding smart. Indy could absolutely have been said dapper scientist with a pipe.

That's a fair assessment of a lot of his post-2000 output but not Crystal Skull. He was engaged and enthusiastic.

Counterpoint: No he wasn't.

Ford was not a problem in Crystal Skull.

I also saw Princess Bride at Evanston Theatre, probably multiple times, I was 9

Evanston IL=greatest city on Earth

I feel like Luthor's been a pseudo good guy for a good many years.

Yeah "unremarkable" is absolutely fair

"Cause I'm pretty sure 80 to 90 percent of the stuff written about Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne is pure garbage" Comics fans are a cranky lot but that strikes me as…hyperbolic.

Man, press summaries of what's going on in superhero comics are so broad and devoid of context it makes me wonder how much to trust the media summaries of things I don't know nearly as much about, like science or international diplomacy.

Serious nerds said "A New Hope" back in the 80s

This is a legitimate and much discussed nitpick but it has *nothing to do with the prequels*. It's baked into the cake of the original. We know that Luke is about 20 years old (later retconned to 18 I think) we know that his father was a Jedi who was seduced to the Dark Side just before he was "murdered". Therefore we…

Yeah I'm a bit confused by the "Twee" descriptor. Stardust is certainly quite Twee, but I don't see how much else of his canon fits that description.

The SecDef is supposed to be a civilian NOT a retired high ranking military dude

Oswald acted alone.

Kushner not Sorkin

A huge chunk of film comedy dialogue is improvised now, so really most funny people in movies aren't just reading other people's jokes, for better or for worse.

At least one Congresswoman, Helen Chenoweth was pretty openly supportive of aspects of the militia movement.

Is that Internet speak? I think my friends and I said that a lot in real life conversations in the primitive Internet 90s. Before we watched Buffy even. Btw, it's weird to think of Buffy as a "90s show" in the sense of say, Friends or the X-Files (even tho technically they all ended around the same time) The others…

Or at least the Sideshow Bob one is, I guess you could make a case for the other two.