He honestly wasn’t much of anything in Rogue One.
To be fair though, the same can be said about most of those characters.

Speaks to a lot of their levels of latent charisma as actors that many of them still managed to be likable despite that.

Gonna be honest - if that’s the end game, I think that’s the moment I go from “The films are bad, but he seems alright” to “On second thought, fuck Kevin Smith.”

The whole crypto-market and its horrific energy sink is bad enough without it being used as a tool for masturbatory PR games like that.

I feel like, independent of the abuse allegations, Depp’s involvement in Tusk and Yoga Hosers was his ‘you’re dead to me’ moment for me.

Granted, then it was less a ‘What the fuck is wrong with this person in general?’ style of dead and more ‘and like that, any remaining goodwill of your career is gone’ sort of dead.

I kind of feel like at least part of it’s being bolstered by a kind of denial factor.
Given how many of its problems are problems that are already latent in crypto-currency, and how many speculators have already invested so much time and energy (ESPECIALLY energy) in to that, if they start questioning it in the form of…

Offer him enough money and he probably would.

Dude’s close enough to the bottom of the barrel now that a little ‘fuck you’ money could take what’s left of his dignity for one Hell of a ride.

Besides the good will Reeves and Winter bring, it also helped that it was a movie that recognized by this point doing something that was too reverential to the originals would be a problem. So we get a lot of the Reeves and Winter charm and a logical progression of how to handle the fact they’re now older and still…

...well would you look at that. My skin just up and crawled off.
Funny thing, that.

(Having said that, Goddamn, I do take a certain sick glee in watching as even the normally ‘all in it together’ GOP is turning their backs on him. Does not bode well for what else may be revealed.)

Those two were obviously sick of the show and, instead of doing the decent thing and stepping aside to let others write and manage the final season, they rushed through it, made a terrible mess, and made us all feel stupid for having sat through all those other seasons.

To this end, Moore’s gone on record as saying in interviews he wasn’t saying ‘Everything should be this dark’
What he was trying for was ‘We can do different things with these properties. Don’t be afraid to branch out and try something new’

To which they all then just tried to ape him.

I mean, you’re still supporting creatives that way in the ‘You won’t be insanely wealthy, but seeing as the alternative kills us all, including the artist...’

Which, to be fair, we kind of got with Underwater.

Still counts - they DO keep trying to make Donald Trump into their heroic messiah figure.

As there’s been talk of his other roles in these comments - have to give a shout-out to him in Sam Fuller’s The Big Red One.

Especially the end of that movie when he finds the ovens and there’s just that moment when you watch something die in that kid’s eyes as he processes what he’s just stumbled across.

And Goddamn,…

To be somewhat fair, part of what helped ItSV is that the multiverse aspect is a central focus of the movie by its design. They couldn’t not address/explore it because it’s a major part of the story.

By comparison, a lot of the DCEU worldbuilding feels more like it’s just dropped in there to go “Yeah, this’ll pay off…

I get the sense at least part of the initial positive response is thanks to the power of:

The funniest/weirdest part of trying to reconcile Snyder’s vision of the DCEU with other DCEU movies goes to the fight in the toy store in Shazam, where there are just Batman toys on clear display.
WB really hoping audiences don’t remember they had previously presented this Batman as a guy who mutilates criminals,…

Honestly, and I say this as someone who has been recommending the movie a lot to people, even if it had a larger release, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to see The Assistant get an Oscars freeze-out.

It’s a movie about how producers can and do abuse their power at the expense of those under them and how those working…

I suppose now’s a bad time to remind that part of the reason for this rerelease is likely to gin up interest for the first of four sequels Cameron has been touting for this, huh?

It’s the mix of it being so successful, but seemingly leaving so little long term impact on the culture at large.

Yes, there was the 3D boom, but that’s been petering off slowly since then, and while I won’t say Cameron has always been a fount of originality, Terminator, Aliens, and even Titanic all echo in our culture…

Besides Piers Morgan losing another gig, the best thing to come out of this entire royal family debacle for me has been the comedy that’s ensued from watching figures in the American right wing - people who so lionize - nay, FETISHIZE the founding fathers that hearing someone say ‘1776' arguably puts them at half-mast…