I’m so glad you two have finally found each other. Now please vacate to the beach planet of your choice to make out and leave the rest of us alone...

Rise of Skywalker is the only star wars movie that’s not canon.

88 Films put out a pretty good blu-ray of it earlier this year. Sadly it doesn’t seem to include the Smash Mouth music video.

You forgot that they hid the last hope of the galaxy under the last name of his father that was born on the planet they were hiding him.

It would be kind of neat if somebody somewhere was able to remake the whole thing but given the freedom to fix everything that was wrong with it.

My friend and I walked out of opening night just confused. We weren’t sure if it was really good or not. I can’t remember wanting to go see it in the theater a second time or if I did.

Hard agree. The sequels have their problems, and I am deeply bitter that I have to accept Ep. IX as canon. (One thing the prequels do have over the sequels is that at least there was a fucking story arc for them planned out in advance instead of just letting writers and directors wing it as they went along.) But I…

Im with you.  The Sequels made some baffling choices but the acting and effects were always better then the Prequels.  Not even close, I'd take most things over Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.

My take has always been that the actors who actually had enough experience to still give a decent performance even without a good director (e.g. Neeson and McGregor) came off fine. It was the actors who weren’t experienced enough to “direct themselves” yet in the absence of a good director (e.g. Portman, Lloyd, and…

Hey, 20 years post Star Wars: ANH we got the computer enhanced upgrades ... fuck it, George ... it’s 20 years post Phantom Menace. Go ahead and tinker with this one too. Trim this, add that. Heck, if you still only improve it by a quarter star, its still an improvement. You broke the seal on tinkering with older…

2000 also had American Psycho, Battle Royale, Requiem for a Dream, Memento.. It wasn’t 1999 but it wasn’t so bad and O Brother is so great it raises the year on a curve.

Anyone who wants to tell me that the sequels were worse than this flaming sack can exit

To be fair, that’s what I’d have done.

All January movies are bad.  That’s why they premiere in January.

The person who benefitted most from the prequels was Ewan McGregor. I knew him already from his Danny Boyle movies, like Trainspotting and Shallow Grave, but this made him an international movie star. He also happens to give a pretty good performance in Episode 3.

Now I’m imagining a young Nate Silver trying to calculate the chances of Chancellor Valorum surviving his no-confidence vote...

Yeah, the other thing that made it hard to judge the Phantom Menace is that we knew at the beginning that it wasn’t just one movie, or a movie we hoped would lead to a series, but it was a trilogy. I think this was maybe the second time that I went to a movie knowing it had guaranteed sequels, and that the story it…

Like all of the other prequels, if somebody gave you a big, overly broad synopsis of the plot, it would sound great. Even the whole trade policy part is interesting if described less like an actual trade issue and more like the dastardly attempt by Senator Palaptine to begin the process of overthrowing the republic.…

[Jon Lovitz voice] IT STINKS!

You know the tip story isn’t true because A) MAGA guys don’t tip, not even to own libs, and B) they never take their fucking hats off in the first place.