While it’s far from original, I’m only gonna give the Disney team just so much flak for Starkiller.

It’s dumb, but it’s not like Abrams was the first non-Lucas person to go ‘...what if they build a giant superweapon?’

(Just going from memory, I can think of at least three separate occurrences of ‘this will fuck up a…

The Book of Henry is...not a good movie, but it’s also kind of an awkward choice in comparison here, because SW and JW are both films with a lot of the proverbial ‘committee’ approach to them.
TBoH, on the other hand, is that special kind of bad movie that can only have been someone’s passion project, because no…

Hey, he was a camel with a lot of enemies. It was prettymuch open season after a point.

...I just hear a Don Draper sales pitch in my head culminating in “Death is but a door, time a window, he’ll be back!”

and I hate that I kind of want that now.

I’d watch a death match of good Matt Walsh and good Joe Walsh (...hey, not saying one has to like the Eagles, but In the City is a fucking good song) vs the two right wing fuckers that share their names.

It’s the easy answer here, but

“WARRIOOOOOOORS...COME OUT TO PLAY-AYYYYYYY.”

Others that keep looping for me on the strength of delivery.

“Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me - AND YOU’RE FUCKED FOREVER!”

“I know you gentlemen have been through a…

Somewhat apropos, the line/delivery from this movie that keeps coming back for me...

“...He’s losing his mind...and I’m reaping the benefits!”

As much as I all in all still love Star Wars, if I could go the rest of my days without hearing about the importance of the Myth (tm) or lore of Star Wars, I feel like I would probably be a lot happier.

That said, I do find it fascinating how many of the complaints I’ve heard with the ST are things that, in general,…

but the audience can’t magically forget he killed his father and tried to kill all of the good guys over and over

Johnson kind of threads a weird needle with it. He does acknowledge there’s a kinship between the two of them, and something that could definitely be more defined down the line. But as of that point, whatever you want to call it, romantic sure as Hell ain’t it.

EDIT - That said, as far as Johnson v Abrams…

Also, Luke having thoughts that would prove of a decidedly more Casterly Rock vein years later.

This is one of the points that bugs me the more I think about it.
Kylo Ren had already basically decided “Fuck the Republic, fuck the Empire, it’s the fucking age of Ren now, assholes!” and he was fully prepared to go ahead with it.
Hell, he cut a bloody swath across the galaxy expressly to find Palpatine and snuff him…

I feel like this is also a big part of where the myth that George Lucas planned everything out from the beginning came from, despite the fact there is still a fair amount of easily accessible evidence that many of the big changes were made as he went along (lookin’ at you, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.)
It didn’t help…

I was actively browsing the comments looking to see if anyone was gonna speak up for Cushing.
Thank you.

...clearly these were after my time in the EU, so I must ask - dafuq? @ Force-immune space orcs.
Only counter I remembered to the Force prior was the Ysalamiri.

EDIT - and whatever the Hell was messing with Luke in Planet of Twilight. Gonna be honest, a lot of that book has kind of been mentally lost to the ages for me.

Memory serves, wasn’t Lucas mainly just talking visually there?

I mean, it’s hard to argue he doesn’t like unnecessary recycling of the past when he took a fan favorite, but ultimately background character from ESB and made his backstory a prominent feature in Attack of the Clones.
To say nothing for the decision to…

Gonna offer a counterpoint on Dark Horse - their tie-in comics for The Thing were, with one exception, pretty lackluster.

If this is the character I’m thinking it is, this is also the point where I’ll remind people, even back during the heyday of the old EU, Kevin J Anderson wasn’t exactly praised as one of the greats working in the setting.

(Then he teamed up with Brian Herbert’s son and ticked off another sci-fi fandom, but that’s a…

That first part is something I think people really need to keep in mind when they’re playing the box office game (...semi-related, I can’t remember - is the phenomenon of actively trying to prove movies you didn’t like failed new, or just easier to witness in the age of the internet?) is that for a while, SW had a…

Not to mention this came after reading about how a whole lot of people with laser swords utterly failed to see fascism coming, even when its leader - radiating evil power - was right under their noses THE WHOLE TIME.