Why is an assistant principle at a suburban highschool giving any sort of permission for a student to investigate a homicide? That’s not his responsibility.

I still like most of the reviews here, but I was thinking recently about some discrepancies people were highlighting between critics & audience scores of movies. Audiences are self-selecting and can be unrepresentative, but there are some astoundingly lopsided differences. It seems like the people who become critics…

Ignatiy can be quite funny. He does actually criticize films as films rather than just saying people are good or bad for liking or disliking it.

Yoda disappeared at the culmination of dying of old age, whereas Luke seemed basically fine up until the end. Kenobi turned off his lightsaber and permitted Vader to strike him down. But nobody killed Luke. Where else in the films is there a precedent for what happened to Luke?

You don’t have to be a “fan” of the police in order to rely on them when someone you know gets murdered. And these were suburbanites who were hardly in some area where most crimes go unsolved and people need to rely on the threat of gang retaliation to deter murder.

Dying on multiple hills would be quite an achievement.

Appearances can be misleading, as I am not.

Did he even “change things up” that much? As the link points out, the film begins with the rebels/resistance on the run from the empire/first order and at the end that’s still the case. Luke has died from no apparent cause, but he also wasn’t doing anything, so it doesn’t appear to make a difference. There’s no Han…

Ah, I forgot that bit at some point during the two years between films.

A PI can investigate whatever their client* hires them to. That’s their job. And most detective films are about L.E.O.s (even Jack Reacher is at least a former M.P). The kid in Brick did not have any job to do that and exists in a world with police, so he could have just told them what he knew and let them handle it.

Scooby Doo does not have good writing, but at least they’re typically just investigating a haunted amusement park or something rather than a homicide.

Maltese Falcon has heightened dialog. Brick has entirely inappropriate behavior for its characters.

He does say that Snoke accurately describes Poe as too weak to be reliable, which then makes it stupid that he relies on Poe to kill Rey rather than having her promptly executed by less insubordinate henchmen.

I liked Rogue One for showing the forgotten stories of relatively ordinary grunts. I had hopes that Rose would provide something similar in TLJ, but then her sabotage of Finn just ruined the character for me.

The “Very Scary” door had a walking pair of legs without a torso, if I recall correctly. Which actually isn’t especially scary, since the worst they could do would be to kick you.

In this film they actually do discuss how its nature is determined by its form, but the result is dumber.

Not as far as I can tell. There are Star Wars fans with a lot of time on their hands. I guess people who saw the first during its initial theatrical run have a different relation to the series than someone like me whose first theatrical experience of them was with the prequels. And from what I recall of the film,…

Juno’s dialog was better than Brick’s, as well as Looper’s take on time travel, which only works in a comedy like Back to the Future where the scifi conceit is just an excuse and not load-bearing.

I don’t demand strict realism, but that there is an internal logic. That film did not take place in some kind of anarchic setting in which it would make sense for kids not to rely on the police.

Hey, my blog is WAY less entertaining.