Good or not, I figure there’s a very good reason this keeps happening, and you mention it in the last paragraph. Traditional TV of the sort you’ve used as examples were episodic; they pushed the reset button at the end of each episode and started again next week. Movies, despite the contemporary proliferation of…

Felicity Jones doesn’t look much like Temuera Morrison...

Pretty sure this is the Star Wars Seven Samurai

I would imagine that if Serkis’ monologue in the first teaser is suposed to be in character then he will be some sort of Sith doofus.

Wookiepedia has a more up-to-date list of the canon works.

Gonna question the wisdom of traditional high-viz orange on a traditionally red planet.

I’m kind of glad they cut Biggs. The original trilogy doesn’t really make you get to know any characters that it then kills off for the sake of melodrama (Obi-Wan’s and Yoda’s and the Lars’ deaths all move the story forward), and that would’ve been the case if we’d seen more of him.

Battletruck came out just a month after Mad Max 2 so it’s hardly a rip off of The Road Warrior. And it’s not that bad, it’s interesting to see a post-apocalyptic action movie from the perspective of someone who is just trying to survive the explosions

Since when have movies had quadrants?