I’m still disappointed that a film called Chinatown set in 1974 has an all-white cast while the Asian actors like James Hong are relegated to Butler, Maid, and Gardener roles. As a result, Chinatown always gets lumped in with 1970s Kung Fu titles in pirated video stores here in Asia.

She is spewing hate, that’s it, that is all she’s doing. Any redeeming qualities she might have are drowned out by the vile nature of her beliefs.

Just devil’s advocate here because I think I agree with you. Do you think anyone would have shared that information with the current US President, even if that was a standard thing to do?

Oh, it’s a well-acted scene, absolutely! That film has so, so many wonderful parts of it, but it’s all built on this massive turd of a script.

Ah, yes, thank you for reminding me of the decision to make the character played by a Guatemalan-American actor having a secret backstory of being a drug-runner...

As the old saying goes, “A helicopter is a machine that happens to fly while fighting to tear itself apart.” But, in the incident you linked, pilot error may well have caused the crash. There has been a suggestion that in the current incident there was only one crew member. The Sikorsky S-76's specs are for two crew…

“I suspect that if the ST has an enduring legacy, it’ll probably be Galaxy’s Edge” - ANH turns 50 a mere seven years from now. Seems to me an ideal time to revise it to an OT-era attraction and close the book on the thoroughly meh ST for good.

Ive been told to never willingly take a helicopter ride, unless absolutely necessary. This advice has been confirmed time and time again. KOBE!

The point is “RoS was the absolute worst SW movie ever and it’s possible that we could have got something half-way decent if, ironically, we stuck with our choice of hiring a director with a terrible track record.”

Between how well he kicked off the MCU and what great work he did in universe with The Mandalorian, I’d love to have seen Jon Favreau’s take on the final trilogy. Solo, too.

The greatest failure by Disney was that they committed to the sequel trilogy with no overarching plot written by one writer/writers from the outset and hired directors with completely different tastes, styles, and willingness to kneel before Zod Disney leaving what can only be described as a mess as they panicked and…

This seems to be the fundamental break between me, and I suppose other people like me, and the people who have expressed frustration with the timelines. I didn’t know from the figure it out in the first episode, and I was confused, but I think that being confused is ok, and part of the process. You were supposed to…

Are y’all ready for my hot take?

As if the heads of a million Star Wars fans sighed in frustrated resignment, and then shook their heads. 

Kennedy’s critics can be obnoxious but it is really hard to argue at this point that she has been anything close to a decent steward of this franchise. It may be more Disney execs’ fault but they especially need to stop greenlighting projects with no clear creative direction.

I’m so happy for Richard Stanley.  So much of what happened to him during the Moreau debacle was completely unfair, and a legitimate talent never got a chance to develop.  Here’s hoping he’ll get some more chances to work.

I think you’re putting more thought into this than JJ did. He clearly just wanted to end the trilogy like he began it invoking images (and emotions) from better films. If he really wanted to do this he would have done three things differently:
1) Kept Rey’s parents nobodies. If her name and blood isn’t important than…

TLJ works IF it’s the first one of the series. It fails as the second. As someone else put it in another piece I read:

This is true. The PT, despite its problems, is way better than the ST.

After Return of the Jedi, “the Skywalker Saga” (as no one called it) was finished for the first time. Then they did the prequels to provide additional backstory and motivations for the characters we already knew. Sure, the prequels had stories of their own but it was all in service of the original trilogy, I wouldn’t…