One small quibble with that Obi-Wan take - the lightsaber and the robe are still there after he’s killed.

We even see Vader stepping on the empty robes to confirm he’s gone.

‘Namely, that if he was wise enough to see the goodness in Darth Vader, why couldn’t he do the same for teenage Ben Solo?’

I’ve discussed this in other articles here, but fuck it - let’s play again.

Two reasons:

1) He wasn’t there for his father’s fall. He didn’t see firsthand the damage dear old dad did, nor was he in a…

‘ This is not even an arguable take, it was so clearly depicted in ROTJ that it is the ONLY interpretation.’ — I can see you’ve never taken part in a ‘Death of the Author’ debate on the internet.
Even if you guide people to a point with a map and neon light arrows, some will still take off in the other direction,…

I see them knocking at this door, and I remember the number of people in the right wing social media sphere who tout varying degrees of dubious veteran statuses...

and I give them a Gene Wilder “Stop. Don’t. Come back.”

Japan’s already had to deal with enough of his garbage, thank you.

Personally I vote it ends with a talk between him and Troy Duffy, seeing as this doc sounds like it’s tailor-made to play as a double feature with Overnight.

I keep fluctuating between wanting him to have a massive coronary on the air as a consequence of his manliness supplements and questioning the idea that he might be a prisoner of his own design - a weird performance art angle for money that he got in too deep on, got too high on the money and power, and once it…

...that’s actually a really cool fact on Quarshie. For a long time, outside of SW the only other thing I knew about him was he was Macleod’s cool friend that gets killed off way too quickly in the first Highlander.

...I want to see this done, but just with older soundbites now. Like when Anakin’s bemoaning that Padme didn’t notice him in AotC, JarJar breaks out Coach McGurk’s “Women are insane” explanation for him.

Greater is the pity that many of the people that COULD provide such technology will be siding with the guys using the term and so won’t want to make it.

As bad as the acting in the prequels can get, I think a lot of people fail to give credit to the fact a lot of it’s a consequence of the cast members being given fuck-all to work with, both in terms of writing and things to actually play off of.

It’s no coincidence that the two actors whose performances are generally…

I’ve said it before, I will say it again - there’s a lot that can be said for JarJar Binks, the character, as a concept. But as a performance, give the credit where it’s due - Ahmed Best was one of the few people in that movie who was actually fucking emoting.

For that, I commend the actor, if not the character.

I’m still not sure if his movie version is necessarily better. For all the ‘sad dad’ aspect they tried to play up, the overhanging, still unanswered question of why the stones can’t just fix resource shortages just presents him as “...well, I’ve already come this far on the murder plan, so I can’t just change course…

And still continue to insist the Democrats are somehow the ones holding their hands back and keeping them from NOT being horrible.

Schrodinger’s Power.

‘Trump’
Wait...are we still pretending this guy ever had a left leaning streak?
The guy who got sued for racial discrimination back in the 70s?
The guy who famously took out a full page ad calling for the Central Park Five to be killed, a stance he stands by to this day even in the face of DNA evidence and a confession…

Seeing Bernsen’s conservative filmography always amuses me for remembering probably one of his higher profile appearances last year was his guest spot on the ep of American Gods that played a major broadside towards conservative American culture, in particular its almost cult-like reverence for firearms.

First Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe rips off the Anti-Life Equation to use in its film before Darkseid even gets any sort of filmed incarnation.

Then his brother from another company gets a big blockbuster while he’s still being relegated to teases.

Darkseid can’t get a break.

Horror is one of those really weird areas politically, in that you can find titles that both fit the traditional ‘conservative’ mindset (just about anything by Eli Roth comes to mind) as well as films that try and flip that script with the idea of the monsters hiding behind the veneer of respectable conservative…

The thing is, I actually liked the idea behind the ending on paper. Everyone being at the mercy of Stem’s master plan was an interesting turn. The problem is the actual execution just feels, if you’ll excuse the use of the word with regards to our hero here, limp.

The Neeson nadir?
That bad?
Cause I mean, I still remember the ‘99 version of The Haunting. That movie was the first time I ever truly came to reckon with the idea that a movie can be bad right when I saw it in theaters.
And this was at the end of the same summer that gave us The Phantom Menace and Wild Wild West, so…

“it basically means no one in the movie has any relevant agency” —Which is actually something I give the movie some props for as a reveal, if we’re being really honest.
Yeah, I get it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but I genuinely liked how the whole miniatures element of the movie ultimately set up that part…