Yeah, call other people “sheep”, that’s a good way for your post to be taken seriously.

It isn’t the fault of Disney/Star Wars that you and a bunch of other virgins don’t like girls.

There’s a big difference between, “The first time I saw this, it really wasn’t where I saw the character going, but over the course of the filming I came to respect the ideas that the director brought to the table” and “I have been coerced to do this movie at gunpoint.”

These nerds will never be happy about anything. TFA was too much of a re-hash of ANH, TLJ literally destroyed their childhoods and blah blah blah. I didn’t love everything in TLJ, but it was more good than bad and seeing these dorks fill their diapers over it makes me like it even more.

Mark’s conception of Luke seems to be that he had boundless optimism and heroism inside him, but I think even in the OT we see that slowly eroding as he transforms from the overeager farmboy to the Jedi Knight heading into the Death Star to kill his own father. I appreciate Mark’s desire to see Luke as an eternal…

I’ve had enough with the pants pissing, entitled nerds who claim complete ownership of the Star Wars Universe. Eat shit, assholes. Shoot your own stop motion film with your figurines if it means so much to you.

Flashbacks are the cornerstones of any good movie. Also voiceovers. And the phrase “what if I told you.”

Or, alternatively, “Please stop taking everything I said completely and totally out of context in order to use me as your borrowed authority to shit on a man I really liked working with.”

My personal favorite was:

So I looked it up to make sure but I was right, Steven Seagal is one of those super super who’re people who gets wet at the idea that they are really Native American despite no fucking way they are.

I’m pretty sure the writer meant that Hamill was able to get over it (“it” being the movie not doing everything exactly the way he wanted it to) because he was an adult, and by getting over it he was able to form an unbiased opinion of the movie, which in his case was positive. I may not always agree with the AV Club…

We don’t SEE him eat it, but we also don’t see him actually drop the porg-on-a-stick. It’s already dead, so discarding it would have been a waste of good porg. Actually, I was hoping to see Chewbacca discard his meal, then have half a dozen porgs swoop in to devour it (i.e. the little guy with the puppydog eyes…

Lando Calrissian, the eternally smooth smuggler who somehow became the Baron Administrator of Cloud City and a general for the Rebel Alliance.

Lando should’ve appeared on the casino planet... in some kind of ad. Lando should’ve used his success and fame for destroying the second Death Star to make himself into a galaxy-wide celebrity, who, decades later, had to resort to shilling for the Star Wars equivalent of Colt45 ads, which would’ve been a nice…

Hammil and fans may be correct about LUKE’S character not giving up, but saying the Jedi don’t... um... the entire film series started with Obi-Wan Kenobi in exile not using the force, didn’t it? How is Luke any different?

that brush of the shoulders was one of my favourite moments of the entire movie

True.

Am I the only one that remembers that Rey herself says “They were nobodies”? I need a second viewing

I feel like a jerk for saying this, but to me right now the very dumbest part of the very dumb backlash to this silly space adventure movie is people rending their garments over Admiral Ackbar, as though he were an actual important character in the series—or, really, even a character at all, as opposed to an…

I’m not young, nor am I a “blogger.” I’m an Eisner-winning comics journalist that went to grad school to write about the history of Batman. Just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean you get to invalidate me or project your insecurities onto me.