Nah, it wasn’t “padding” from Jackson’s perspective, it was his self-indulgence with a studio blank check. All those overlong sequences were lovingly done, however much they wore out our welcome. The infamous bug scene was what you get when the director of Dead Alive/Braindead gets a chance to resurrect a deleted…

I think what I remember most from King Kong is the scene with a dinosaur stampede and everyone starts tumbling in a giant ball like a cartoon. I started looking at my watch when that dragged on 

Hot take: Peter Jackson’s King Kong just rocks. Period. No apologies.

That really was a pleasant surprise for me. Kong could arguably be his best role.

I wish that after delivering that line, Jack Black bugged out his eyes,  screeched, “Zibbadiggy chow, chucka wimma mow wow,” and did one of his little dances, then turned to Peterson Jackson, mimed the international sign for eating pussy, and deadpanned, “that’s the one. Print it,” before turning away and moonwalking…

I like to (pedantically and rather irritatingly, I admit) point out that the “Holdo maneuver” was a thing that existed BEFORE her hyperspace Kamikaze run. 

“The prequels at least had some great designs in ships, costumes and settings like the city of Theed and the palace on Naboo, our first look at Coruscant, Mustafar, Utapau, etc.”

As an aisde, you might want to hit the dismiss button on the user with the ableist username who is posting creepy gifs about George Lucas “raping his childhood”.

I’m old enough and cynical enough to be a Star Wars “originalist,” but I’ll take the prequels every day of the week over The Rise of Skywalker.

My biggest disappointment in the sequel trilogy was that I felt they dropped the ball on Finn. I liked what they introduced in the first movie, and the third hinted at him being able to use the force, but he ended up feeling like a side character at the end so they could pair Rey with Kylo.

“There really isn’t a single memorable or ‘WOW moment’ thing about the sequel trilogy.”

i imagine you meant ‘space opera’ but fuck me, Space Oprah is a glorious typo/image. 

Yoda’s Force Ghost appearing to Luke in TLJ is the best scene in the entire sequel trilogy, and the worst thing about ROTJ is how it makes a mockery of that scene by making Rey save the Jedi texts.

I can never watch the throne room scene where Kylo tells Rey “you’re nothing, you come from nowhere” without my hair standing on end. Partly it’s the execution and partly the sheer audacity of that revelation, that Johnson was brave enough to attempt this twist in a franchise known for its genealogical surprises.

There was the lightsaber battle where Kylo and Rei mop up the floor with all of Snokes’ guards; there was Luke Force Projection keeping Kylo and the Entire Fucking First Order occupied while the remnants of the New Republic made their escape (and Mark Hamill’s offhanded contempt for all of it was perfect); Holdo’s…

Regardless of how you feel about it breaking the universe or not, Holdo’s Sacrifice is absolutely the most memorable visual in any Star Wars movie, and if it’s not quite the WOW factor of “I am your father,” for an entire generation of people born too late for that to be the defining moment in cinema for them, I’d…

Strongly disagree. There were several wow moments about the sequel trilogy, most especially in TLJ.

I fully agree.  I get what Lucas is trying to do.  A space Oprah version of Charles Foster Kanes story, mixed with a political backdrop about the rise of space nazis, made in the same era as the Bush administration.  I really get it.  But the man cannot write to save his life, its so painfully clear that the real…

I’ve said it before and it’s been said by others but The Prequels were a good story told terribly and The Sequels on the whole (I quite liked The Last Jedi.) were a bad story told really well.

There has been this sort of... life through rose tinted glasses look at the Prequels lately. Partially because of nostalgia. Partially because the new movies were somewhat disappointing. Likely because of all those damn memes. I’m sorry, no amount of time has made these movies any better. Revenge of the Sith has a few…