I’d object to that simply because then that means the character of Brent was prepping the run way for the real, more obnoxious version.

(Yes, I realize Brent’s more like a pastice of different obnoxious dude sociopaths with some very obvious nods to Kavanaugh, but still...)

I see him getting SOME revisionist treatment. But it’ll be more like a fringe sector comprised of a lot of the pundit class now that are currently insisting he walks on water running the argument because they will sooner eat broken glass than admit a gaudy NYC reality TV star to whom morals and principles are…

To be fair, this may be a case of ‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’, particularly in light of the questions hanging over his physical.

I’m seeing it playing out more like the final scene in The Omen - state funeral, everyone’s filing out.

“Madame President, we have to go.”
“Of course.”

As Ivanka turns back to the crowd, a sinister smile slowly crossing her face as Ave Satani begins to play.

THIS.

Young Griff alone, especially in light of the prophecies of the three-headed dragon and warnings to beware the Mummer’s Dragon would go a long way towards making Dany’s transition into violent paranoia make a LOT more sense than the show’s rushed portrayal did.

I’m not gonna say your wrong, but I’m also not sure I can agree that there was all that much of a strong vision behind those movies. There’s some themes Lucas dabbles with, certainly, but there’s also far too many parts of those movies that seem to amount to ‘because reasons’ (see - a huge chunk of act 2 of The…

Correction - FOUR movies.

People forgot, Clone Wars beat Solo to being the first theatrically released Star Wars movie to significantly underperform.

Slight correction - Kurtzman AND noted 9/11 Truther Roberto Orci.

Cause fucking Hell, he got that all up in ST:ID

...the first thought I had here was ‘Bad Lieutenant in Mos Eisley’ and I’m kind of ashamed at how quickly my brain went “I’d watch that”

‘Sodium!’ remains one of my favorites of the Mike-era skit songs. Both on its own merits and Crow’s ‘oh you kids’ rambling at the end.

THAT was the day my childhood got a grim reminder.

Say what you will about CH, when Deodato got called on that crime, he owned up to it.

That said, over the course of my life, have seen it twice (once for the curiosity, once because I’m a masochistic bastard who saw a local arthouse was playing it as a midnight and…

There’s something so uniquely fucked up about how it’s become ingrained state-side though. Particularly when it gets paired with things like the Prosperity Gospel and essentially uses Jesus as a carte blanche for acting like a sociopath, because if God didn’t want it to happen, then obviously he wouldn’t let you win!
(I…

Oh, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. If ever there was a smoking gun that Leia being a Skywalker wasn’t always on the books, THAT was it.

and re: Lucas vs Expanded Universe - Hell, he even overwrote some of his own canon there (such as how his RotJ novel had Owen being Obi-Wan’s brother until AotC rolled around and he…

To cut your friend a LITTLE slack, there’s a rich tradition of the Star Wars fandom going all Rashomon on its own history - often to make things that make it mad in the moment seem like bigger offenses because they had NEVER been done before.

Which also kind of shows one of the big reasons Bombadil was cut - yes, part of it was the fact he’s a character who is just so much Goddamn larger than life that there’s almost no one who could even hope to play him properly - but a larger part is the fact that that would have added a sizable chunk of time to a movie…

Fucking this.

Learned this lesson years back with the GN The Griff. I’d read some of Christopher Moore’s novels going into it and enjoyed the suitably funny/weird modern fantasy that was his style (EDIT - Okay, MOSTLY modern fantasy. Didn’t stop Lamb and Fool from being particularly enjoyable as Moore taking a familiar…

Gonna be honest - I read your description and my first thought was the guy from Wolf Creek.

...which, not for nothing, would be an interesting movie to watch in its own right. Just...not this.

We would have also accepted the butt-chugging scene from Blockers

The fact that this is the system that put the kibosh on a man who owes much of his relative wealth and status to his ability to license out his name as a brand strikes me as keeping with 2019's overall flavor of black comedy.

Additionally, Pepe has been somewhat backed off in recent years thanks to the character’s original creator taking active steps to try to push back (initially he just opted to kill the character, then he took to actively pursuing legal action against those trying to sell alt right merch with Pepe’s likeness. He can’t…