It’s not vanity, it’s strategy. He’s trying to trigger Kylo Ren’s rage, and the best way to do that is to project himself the way Kylo remembers him.

[prolonged shocked reaction shot]

How do you balance work and family?

“Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall.”
“Yeah, whoa! I’ll say he is... He’s crazy, off the planet. Isn’t he gonna freeze himself?”

The scene where Will Forte tells Ryan Phillippe about his shared past with Val Kilmer is one of the funniest movie scenes of all time. Between that movie and his clearly-in-on-the-joke appearance on The Eric Andre Show, Phillippe is a vastly underrated straight man.

Looks like Kinja finally managed to transfer the last of our running jokes over from Disqus.

That was stupid, but not entirely out of place in the Star Wars tradition. I just wish it had looked like the ships were moving faster than 10 mph. Same with the bombers. I get that they were doing an homage to WW2 films, and that was cool (I also loved the design as a beefed-up B-Wing), but those things were just…

Totally agree. I loved it, but I can’t argue with anyone who hated it. And I never want to watch it again.

My girlfriend keeps calling him “Snope,” “Snopes,” “Snork,” and “Snorp.”

Even without the “rule of two” Sith bullshit, Kylo jumped at the chance to kill his ostensible leader and teacher. Probably not a smart decision to team up with him.

Hey, you might want to mark this post with a spoiler alert. I certainly don’t mind learning any of this stuff before seeing the movie (I’m especially relieved to hear that about Rey), but it’s only been out for a day and so far the other comments here have been pretty much spoiler-free. Thanks!

I know I shouldn’t care at this point, because while the original trilogy was a really important mythology to me as a kid, it’s just another giant profit-driven media franchise that sometimes manages to tell a decent story with fun characters and excellent production values.

I can only think of 2 ways that claim by Vader makes any sense:
1. He’s thinking about Palpatine’s decades of deft manipulation that made him the most powerful person in the galaxy, or
2. He’s full of shit but knows he can choke out anyone who argues with him so he can say whatever he wants and get away with it.

That’s a good point that had never occurred to me until now. Vader has always been a sassy thug with a corny sense of humor (“Don’t act so surprised, your highness...”) and that just doesn’t show up in the prequels.

Man, there are plenty of things to hate about the prequels, but Ian McDiarmid is a fantastic villain.

You, sir, have excellent taste in both sauce and science fiction novels.

I have a handful of older PC titles (Diablo, Max Payne, KOTOR, Jade Empire), but I haven’t played any consoles since college. The first moments of Breath of the Wild made me feel like a 13 year old playing Ocarina of Time for the first time, and it has sustained that feeling for over 300 hours now. And I might burn a…

I’m so unbelievably jealous that you’re about to start playing BotW for the first time.

Raising Cane’s sauce is the best. I do wish their chicken breading were thicker and crispier, and their fries are thoroughly mediocre, but the sauce is just unreal.

I read this in the EXACT same voice as the Rebel pilot in The Empire Strikes Back who says “Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?”