While we’re looking at corporation logic, let’s consider the following -

The ‘Okay sign as a white power salute’ thing isn’t a recent controversy. This has been a thing that’s been a subject of debate and question for months now.
With that in mind, the idea that a corporate entity’s family-oriented theme park, knowing…

I realize you guys were suggesting him for Lloyd, but with his name on the docket, I’m now imagining Goggins as Trashy, and not gonna lie - I kinda want it now.

‘and they still kept taking shots at him after his daughter killed herself’

and, unless I missed something, none of the shots had to do with his daughter’s suicide. Rather, they targeted him for his films and his statements on them - many of said statements being made after said suicide (most recent example coming to…

Okay then, would ‘stick to the script’ be preferable?

Because every time he goes off book like this, it just comes back to various degrees of ‘Christ, what an asshole’ that are doing him - and his movie - no favors.

...now I just have to wonder if they’re tapping him as insurance in case D&D decide they’re gonna season 8 on their SW deal.

It’s in the same camp as Rogue One for me.
It’s alright. It has a few moments where it REALLY shines, but there’s also a lot of time where it feels like the movie could have been so much better if they’d stopped retooling sooner and just trusted their first attempt more.

They are definitely a good chunk of this (and credit where it’s due - Filoni and his team did a LOT of heavy lifting to help rehabilitate the Clone Wars as a period in SW history) but there’s still a lot of people, especially post TLJ, where their anger seems to be specifically about how they feel the OT has been…

The sad punchline on all of this being how a good number of the people who will be rallying around this as vindication of their disdain for the new movies will likely be the same people who previously gave full-throated condemnation to Lucas for what he did with the prequels.

(Which, not for nothing, is still sadly in…

Which is part of why I find it fascinating that, for all the things they hired people to name and write up backstory’s for, the fact that Yoda’s species remained unnamed seems almost willful/arbitrary to the point of Lucas trolling the lore fanboys (seriously - check Wookieepedia - they’re literally just called…

As others have said, it tacks on a whole happier/more triumphant ending that does away with the story’s original ‘He Who Walks Behind the Rows remains in control’ ending.

Interestingly, there WAS a made for TV version in the aughts that tried to follow the original more closely.
Also predating both, there’s a pretty…

I really need to give this one a rewatch. I don’t remember nearly enough of it, and part of my memories of last time trying to watch it got hijacked by realizing ‘Holy shit, that’s a young Fred Willard’

In King’s defense re: Maximum Overdrive:

I remember Sci-Fi Channel would play this longer cut of Halloween not infrequently in the late 90s/early aughts (I think I might still have it on tape somewhere.)

Interestingly, they said nothing about it being a longer cut, so it wasn’t until I’d seen that version several times that I saw another version and realized…

Hey, at least Succession was a deserving win.

Though yeah, the fact THAT was the script they entered smacks of D&D taking an unearned victory lap.

A cunning plan if ever there was one.

Interestingly enough, after part III, the ending of First Blood is probably the next biggest thing people have spoofed from the series. Just off the top of my head:
-the back end of the American Dad! episode In Country...Club plays out as a truncated spoof of the movie, right down to Stan being dressed akin to Trautman…

Semi-related - I still kind of hope that, when the day comes that Trump’s heart looks at that latest Filet-O-Fish and decides ‘On second thought, fuck this!’, as he collapses to the floor, the red in his face showing through his spray tan while one hand clutches his chest with an intensity it usually used to reserve…

Which was, I suspect, Lewis’s reasoning for wanting it to be released - all those years spent keeping it locked away had allowed it to grow a large shadow, and he likely knew that said shadow wouldn’t go away even if he took it to the grave with him.

Having said that, until I see proof otherwise, I will continue to…

There’s an audio novel version of Dune that sounds like it might be up your alley. While much of the narration is single reader, they arranged a voice cast for many of the key characters, and large chunks of the dialogue are recorded with a full group.

This is part of why Needful Things left such a sour taste in my mouth - there’s a couple of alright characters in there, but so much of it’s just a cavalcade of truly awful people doing horrible shit to each other and reaping the whirlwind for it.