I’d agree on the story in broad strokes.
Very broad strokes.
But in terms of the actual plotting and layout, I’m sorry -The Phantom Menace, as a story, shouldn’t be there. Not in a ‘it’s awful and can’t be redeemed’ way, more the fact that it’s a huge digression that doesn’t really service the larger story the trilogy…

All I remember of Darksaber is it’s one of two books I go to that help highlight one of the biggest differences between the old EU and the new continuity - the old EU’s imbuing of the original cast with relative invincibility.

For years, the novels treated anyone from the movies as prettymuch indestructible. The death…

A nod to Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers in Star Wars?

Now THAT’S one I wouldn’t see coming.

Also nominating for that list - the nigh-unplayable Flight of the Falcon for the GBA.

and that Japanese version sounds like the NES Predator game, which is mostly a just a dime store Contra with an inexplicable final boss that’s just...a giant disembodied Predator head.

I feel like it doesn’t so much have a word as the dictionary just shows the picture of the Man From the Other Place in Twin Peaks rubbing his hands together and leering.

“maybe being told that I deserve to die because of my sex and skin colour isn’t the right fit.”
...did we watch the same movie? Cause you seem to be doing some HEAVY additional reading here.

It’s not even like this is a subtle movie. It wears what its saying on its sleeve (or for better or worse) and pretty overtly so -…

Now, now, let’s make sure we’re completely above board with this.
He didn’t JUST commit adultery with her - he eventually left his terminally ill wife while she was dying of cancer for her.

Truly, a love story for the ages.

Multiplicity - The Musical?

Seeing as some of the best things to come out of that first trailer were people recutting it to horror film scores, that tracks.

“but it’s safe to say the writer’s reportedly squid-less vision has been lost forever to time.” — I’ll have to check if I’ve still got it somewhere, but unless there was a doctored version, a draft was floating the web at one point.

Assuming said draft was legit and this is the same version, it ended with Dreiburg…

“The Little Caesar will die before these eyes and then he’ll know—HE’LL KNOW!—that is I - Papa John Schnatter - who encompasses his doom!”

Well, you’re partway there with that salary cut comment.

Those evil people last longer because they can afford to have people keep them going more.

...and I’m still a semi-truther that Trump has had some heart surgery on the sly that he keeps covered up so as not to appear ‘weak.’

Would need to actually check back as far as if the name was said in the movie, given there was another Rodian kid.

The almost I’m referring to is a scene that was in the script, and possibly in the novelization that didn’t make it into the film - after the race, Qui-Gon sees Anakin getting into a fight with a Rodian…

Years later, this is one of two ‘...holy shit, that almost happened’ moments I remember from reading that script.
The other being the longer version of the visit to Gunga City where Boss Nass explains that JarJar’s punishment for returning from banishment was to be ‘pounded unto death.’

Whether he felt that was too much…

Oh, and yeah, although I remember it clearly, I can’t believe there was a time when right-wing conspiracists weren’t instantly suspected of editing their ‘gotcha!’ videos.

Times change...and a big part of why we keep having this debate is the fact that, despite that, every year or so, someone decides “You know what seasonal song we haven’t run into the ground enough yet?”

aaaaaaaand
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As a rule, I have no time or interest in the idea of being a truther for anything.

Having said that, if there is any one idea I would consider myself a ‘truther’ for, it’s the belief that Donald Trump’s seeming lack of a heart attack is due to some heart surgery he had in the past and paid big bucks to keep out of the…

‘Those who remain are fired up’ - the big question being, how many of them are the ones they bussed in/hired for this one?

I’m gonna be interested to see if we ever get a final figure of how much of his overall crowd-size was organic vs outsourced.

It’s genuinely sobering to think we may be several generations out before we can ever properly comprehend the full extent of the damage Roger Ailes did to this country.

I’m pretty agnostic all around, particularly with the notion of an afterlife, but people like him make me want to believe there’s a Hell and he’s…

...to be fair, your description of CHUDs DOES kind of line up.
It’s not perfect, but as far as many of them are concerned, they were being ‘forgotten’ by the govt, and now through a mix of said corruption and malfeasance, many have turned into genuinely kind of monstrous people who know longer feel the need to suppress…