Oh, for fuck’s sake. Fine.

I know the funding angle was the more important goal, but I seem to remember part of the benefit also included disrupting their payment/bribery schedule. At least for a while. I could be mistaken.

What’s weird to me about Solo is that the plot is pretty damn solid for a Han Solo movie. It just got the casting, the tone, and what this time meant for Han completely wrong. It should’ve been about Han learning the hard way that everybody is out for themselves and he can trust no one in the galaxy besides Chewbacca. …

I’m with you aside from the pacing. The second episode of each little trilogy drags. I get it, that’s the episode where they breathe a little and provide character and relationship development, but still, nothing happens in those episodes.

They all have their strengths and weaknesses. The Volume (the thing The Mandalorian uses) is an amazing step forward in making it possible to create really high-quality environments in-camera that look completely real. The Mandalorian intentionally took advantage of it by having Mando’s armor be super reflective.…

Yeah, Cinta’s escape plan was different from the rest of the crew, so she’s off doing her own thing, for the time being. 

He covered him, but only for a couple of shots before ducking back. The whole point of covering fire is to keep the enemy’s head down while your guy runs across a field of fire, which means you keep shooting until your guy gets to where he’s going. Skeen didn’t do that.

What struck me is that their plan was to steal all of the Imperial stash of credits, and in the end they barely made a dent just because there was too much money to steal. It’s an enormous victory for the Rebellion because it’s a huge sum of cash that will fund Rebel cells across the galaxy. To the Empire it amounts to…

. My only minor complaints would be that Taramyn and Officer Gorn’s deaths were very blink and miss it.

If you look up the medical definition of what counts as overweight/obese, 100% of the references from every corner of the medical profession cite BMI. 100% of our armed forces use BMI to determine individual fitness level. It is THE guide to what counts as a “healthy weight”. What does the doctor do every time you go…

but being very overweight is NOT good for you like you can say being fat is a problem, it is, and that not fat shaming,

Something Fraser’s The Mummy did that is almost never done in action franchises is that it allowed the leading romantic pair to stay together between movies. Usually it’s either “different love interest per movie” (like Indiana Jones) or it’s a “we broke up between movies and are just NOW seeing each other again” for…

Well, a mystery isn’t always about the who, often it’s more about the how. Hell, Monk and Columbo both ran forever and they would show the killer committing the murder before the opening credits. 

And he was talking about how it didn’t land with college student in 2019. Scrolling around touch-screen phones was hardly a new or novel thing. Jesus, why don’t you go ahead and make a joke about how rap isn’t really music because all they do is talk really fast? Or about how crazy it is that they made TVs flat!?! 

A lot of these guys miss the fact that their cultural touchpoints haven’t changed in 40+ years and are now irrelevant, and chalk it up to “woke” culture. Like, Jerry Seinfeld had an article where he complained that this joke didn’t land:

I have to imagine there’s a huge disconnect from being a working actor who’s hoping to get a role, ANY role, so they can keep paying their bills for the next few months to be a wildly successful celebrity. There’s also a “strike while the iron’s hot” factor where you’d want to accept the high-profile roles while…

Yeah, I think we just need to get used to the rhythm of the show. Ep 1 introduces story and stakes, Ep 2 takes time to breathe and develop the characters, relationships, and personal stakes, Ep 3 is the fireworks factory,

The OT was, of course, fantastic, but in retrospect they were hampered a bit by the kinds of movies they were and the absolute, 100% bulletproof plot armor our leads had. It’s unavoidable, but when a smuggler, a farmboy, a princess, and a Wookie can run around the freakin’ Death Star unscathed and ultimately escape, it…

I absolutely love that, instead of creating some CGI alien sheep, they just saw that Scottish Hebridean Sheep look weird as hell with their four horns so just left them alone.

I love Jedi stories, they just don’t all need to be Jedi stories. We’ve had nine main movies, two secondary movies, four animated series, and four live-action series, and this is the only one that hasn’t included at least one lightsaber (so far). (Except maybe Star Wars: Resistance. But that show sucked for entirely…