Hmmm...possibly something about the nature of how legends sometimes get reinterpreted over time, leading to either different camps or people trying to claim something they technically have no hold over?

Just brainstorming, admittedly. It’s a topic I would like to see horror dabble into more (the one other film that…

I suppose now’s a bad time to remind that horror is the genre that is most often pointed out for cases of remakes that were not only good, they managed to surpass their originals.

Not all do, but if there’s any genre that kind of disproves a remake isn’t automatically a bad thing, horror is it.

They don’t exist. They’re either giant robots or they can’t top the five foot barrier. There’s no other model. Sealab told us so.

The sad thing is, it will still make more sense in the minds of a lot of conspiracy theorists. It doesn’t matter how nonsensical the entire follow-through is, you give them a choice between ‘it was meant to happen’ and ‘people fucked up and mistakes were made’ and they’ll pick the former because it’s less scary than…

In either case, we can safely say he has more blood on his hand than Trump does.
Trump is guilty of a LOT of shit, but given how bad he is at keeping secrets, it’s pretty safe to say he hasn’t had a hand in someone’s murder or he’d have told on himself looooong ago.

See, you’re kidding, but the rate conspiracy theorists are spiraling inward and being fed more rope, I am waiting for the day we hear some of these guys head out to Pripyat, and maybe even get caught attempting to crack open the sarcophagus, because they’ve bought into some nonsense about how the whole thing was a…

Re: point 2 - see the infamous “He’s not hurting the right people” soundbite.
For some people, it doesn’t matter that he’s doing horrific, monstrous shit so long as it’s other people getting hurt instead of them.

Come to think of it, has there been a particular standout documentary/dramatization of IranContra? Cause right about now, that shitshow is feeling ripe for a revisit.

Semi-apropos to this larger topic, as soon as I read this, I heard Stan Smith in my head yelling “I’M SICK OF YOUR LIES ABOUT COBURN!”

There’s one other for DC...and this is driving me nuts because, for the life of me, I can’t remember the character’s name off the top of my head. She was a supporting character in one of the main Batman runs. Scientist who helped develop gear for Batman. I’m not sure if the development was new for Rebirth or not, but…

While we’re all making offerings from the pool of ‘why the fuck do I remember this?’ that just gave me a flashback of those old Star Wars anti-smoking bits where C-3PO catches R2-D2 with a cigarette.

Yes. This was actually a thing.

He’ll be the young up and coming agent who sees the warning signs and is ignored.
That whole ‘this never would have happened under Putin’s watchful eye!’ sort of deal

Every time I hear someone claim the right has the meme game mastered, I just remember how easily duped its thought leaders are by really easy shit like this and can only shake my head.

The lightsaber fights I can get on board with (especially since Duel of the Fates remains the best thing Williams did for the entire prequel trilogy) the pod race, it really depends on how much I think of it.
I take it on the pure spectacle level, it does its job well, and as the CG of the movie in general goes, it…

Another PMS case here.

I went through many of the motions that summer - had some of the figures, the soundtrack, the novel, the script (credit where it’s due, that script was the reason I knew about the young Greedo scene that was thankfully cut. Yeeeeeeesh), the trading cards, all that jazz.
I got through the whole…

Favorite SW riff still goes to Revenge of the Sith for me:
Anakin: “What have I done!?”
Kevin: “Well, you’ve wrecked two movies, ruined the franchise — pretty much crapped the bed you sleep in!” 

Ready Player One’s ending is...
So, first time I watched it was with my girlfriend at home. We get to them getting the second key and figure “Okay, third act, here we go.”
...then we look up at the time on the player.
“...how the fuck are there still 45 minutes left?”

I was actually kind of feeling the movie prior to…

Weirdly, I’ve come to reverse my stances on 3 and 4 over time.
I used to like 4 and HATED 3. After learning more about what happened, with both movies, and really taking them in light of the first two, I’ve re-evaluated.

See also: the creative background of Star Trek. Nothing makes you fully appreciate the great contributions of people like D.C. Fontana and Nicholas Meyer quite like seeing some of the things Roddenberry wanted to put in there that didn’t make it.

I am silently dreading the growing likelihood of this getting a rehabilitation campaign in another few years. Perhaps not on the level of what people have done for the SW prequels (unless they do manage to come up with a new Indy, in which case CS may get the extra boost to further justify scorning the new one) but at…