I agree you shouldn’t be comparing Episode I to, you know, Tokyo Story. But even for pure entertainment, you have major contemporary franchises like Lord of the Rings, the first Pirates, even Kill Bill, which was is cut from very similar cloth as the OT in terms of influences. Sci-fi-wise you have X-Men.

I should have perhaps specified. While technically innovative, I don’t think anyone is going to argue that they really offer insight to the human condition, challenge the audience, or provide a ton of creativity in terms of filmmaking. Few experts are going to say that they belong as part of the “sci-fi film canon” if…

Totally! I have a ton of fun on opening day of Marvel movies. That doesn’t make them high art.

Again, you seem to be missing my point that you can enjoy whatever you like and you can keep enjoying it however you like. I enjoy all kinds of dumb, turn-off-your-brain, or critically-reviled crap. I’m going to keep doing that no matter how many times I’m told any of it is dogshit.

After Solo came out I stepped back and really just thought about what I even liked about Star Wars. Why do I like Last Jedi and Empire and Rogue One so much more than the other films? For me, I came away with the idea of how they embody and portray spirituality. I think that’s probably not what most people like in…

I like Avatar. On top of being well-made on a technical level, I like that a huge blockbuster actually has some kind of positive message, even if it’s super simplistic and delivered in a really ham-fisted manner (among other problems the film has).

I watched Kickboxer the other night and it’s awesome/dumb as dirt

I just said that you SHOULD like whatever you want! But regarding something as A Great Work of the Artform™ when someone has no background or formal study of the medium, its techniques, or history makes that person a fucking dipshit.

Attack of the Clones isn’t a great movie but it holds a great place in my heart

Secret wars should be huge. But they are going to solve that in a tv show

The Possessor bit almost reminds my of John Carpenter’s “Cigarette Burns” from Master of Horror

I was incredibly confused with the last two episodes, especially with the gods. What are ANY of their motivations, besides Ammit’s? How are they seemingly beaten by a single avatar, but then apparently strong enough to change the course of the world? How do they interact with Asgardians, etc?

The new writers have been pretty fucking insufferable on most articles they do

What makes this especially funny to me is how on ActionBoyz, Gabrus is always talking about how he “overheard” some movie trivia while doing some difficult gym exercise.

Yah, this article seems to not understand that 50-90% of Marvel audiences don’t go on sites like io9. I mean really, do you think ravenous hyper-geeks make up more of the gross or a kid/parent seeing a TV spot and then saying, "let's take the whole family to go see that"?

Or maybe... The Oscars are not the place to recognize animation at all?

It was supposed to be a signal that we’d outgrown “men’s” and “women’s” styles and anyone would wear anything!

I was excited because it was a theme of the film: you can be a hero, no matter where you come from. You don’t have to be “born special”. It signalled a "democratization" of the mainline films. The grey Jedi never entered my mind until you mentioned it and I honestly think the entire premise of grey Jedi is incredibly…

Riz Ahmed also won for best live-action short, just saying...

This article is likely just an advertorial, since The Batman: The Complete Series is coming out on Blu-ray this month