“...this was the pre-Disney+ era when television still had the stigma, and the budget, of a lesser medium...”

Clone Wars has the exact same problem in a number of episodes but nobody ever seems to complain about it.

Merits of the lengths aside, if movies are going to be this long on the regular, they need to bring back intermissions.
My bladder can only handle so much.

I dunno — I think Star Wars still does a lpt of those “uncanny/ironic juxtapositions” and that tends to be when it’s at its best.
For my money, the single most memorable image from TFA was the Apocalypse Now shot with the TIE fighters and TROS showed the most potential when it briefly became a John Woo movie.
Mandalorian…

I’ve never seen a movie that was so much less than a sum of its parts than Southland Tales.
So many great bits in isolation, such an incoherent mess taken together.

I’d say he was good in Southland Tales as well. Didn’t everyone think he was awesome in The Mummy Returns?
And why doesn’t Ballers ever figure into these discussions?

My impression is this movie is vitally important to many of us who were 16-18 when it came out and wholly inconsequential to everyone else. 

That answers a question I had in another post, but I thought you couldn’t apply a changed statute of limitations retroactively?

It’s kinda hard for me to square Hussey’s filmography with the statement that she didn’t do much acting after Romeo and Juliet. She wasn’t in anything big, but that does happen to actors.
I’m also a bit confused because I thought there was a statute of limitations on this sort of thing that ruled out lawsuits for a…

“The near-death experience they face when going the wrong way on the highway could have been easily avoided by using a navigation app.”

You’ve clearly never had a navigation app send you the wrong way up a one-way street.

Dido?

The Stormtroopers who found Leia in ANH were all “There’s one! Set for stun!” and shot her with a blaster bolt that came out in a distinctive blue circle and just knocked her out.
And then stun settings never came up again in the movies.
The crew in Rebels used stun settings a lot so the good guys in a children’s show…

I think maybe some people were hoping for a storyline where she slowly confronts the fact that she’s on the wrong team — something like Kallas’ face turn in “Rebels” but with a little more work put into it.

I read this comment and immediately thought of Han in ESB -- “They didn’t even ask me any questions.”

Could the minimal way we’ve seen them touch each other be one of the indicators of how strained their relationship is?
And is the treatment that much different? ANH had a married couple that never touched each other once and a fairly chaste kiss between what turned out to be siblings.

I think people are overstating its maturity.
One of the guys at my game night got bizarrely hung up on how there’s a brothel scene in the first episode. He wasn’t objecting to it — he’s totally down the whole “this isn’t your father’s Star Wars” thing — but he was telling one of the other guys that he might not want to…

Counterpoint: I have a job and a kid and a girlfriend and need to get to the gym if I don’t want my body to rot away. I prefer not having to find an 8-hour block of time in which I don’t need to do anything but watch television so I don’t have to avoid spoilers and be completely left behind by the online discussion.

“The prequels removed any tension by making it scores of nameless clones versus droids, and the sequels threw out any semblance of tense grounded warfare/galaxy world building bar potentially the opening of TLJ and focused all in on the soap drama to negative effect.”

This is the most succinct, spot-on analysis I’ve…

Martin gave us people to root for. We knew Robb was doomed but we hoped against hope. We liked Jon and Tyrion and Ned and Dany. There’s nobody here pushing those buttons. Daemon’s kind of charming sometimes. I guess I’m supposed to root for Rhaenyra?
And the villains aren’t nearly as much fun. Cersie was exquisitely…

“Jazz” and “Jizz” are believed to be derived from the same etymological root.
So they both kinda mean semen. Just one was turned into a musical style. Early Jazz was rude as hell. A lot of musicians had nicknames that were phallic references — Jelly Roll Morton, for one.