Jokes side, I think Star Wars is definitely a case study in film as a collaborative medium.

This article can’t inform me that D.W. is played by boys because I can’t read.

We are a Sorny household, sir!

Eh, Disney have the same hit/miss rate that Lucas did. One or two great films, a few middling ones and one or two stinkers each.

“Snyder says he started developing this idea as a “more mature take” on Star Wars a decade ago”

That Hidden Fortress thing is constantly blown out of proportion. The stories really aren’t that similar, and the one really obvious inspiration is the concept of telling this epic war story through the viewpoint of two random nobodies wandering through it.

Eh, I’m not willing to give Feige a complete pass on this. He still managed to get Black Panther and Captain Marvel into development, filmed and released before Black Widow was officially announced.

Her character really was pretty terrible. She keeps talking about earning redemption, but like, we never see or even really hear about any of the bad stuff she did. It’s just generic shit alluding to a generic “dark past”. Then you get the weird-ass beat in Age of Ultron, her sweet but go-nowhere romance with Banner…

American Sniper and Flags of Our Fathers are both perfectly good movie, but it’s incredible how much better Letters From Iwo Jima is than either of them. But one thing they definitely have in common is a view of war as essentially futile and dehumanizing, which is surprising coming from a guy of his age and political…

The Mandalorian is indeed very enjoyable but not exceptional.

The internet is a force multiplier for this kind of stupidity. The realization that there are other people just as stupid is empowering to them.

Damn, can’t believe I forgot that. Colbert on Birdman was amazing also, right behind his work on Strangers with Candy for me.

I assume he got kicked out because failed to return Sean Spicer’s “Mahok”:

He doesn’t need his Asperger’s to explain away anything. By now, the entire point of America is that if you have enough money, you don’t have to explain away anything. You just proceed, over and over and over again.

Wanna make sure this post gets out of the grays so that people know about his son, the dog murderer.

I mean, there was a whole different low-budget idea for the sequel to Star Wars that ditched Han and Chewie (because Harrison Ford wasn’t under contract), took place almost entirely on one planet with Luke and Leia against Darth Vader, where Luke and Leia hook up at the end. (The story was eventually reworked into the…

Don’t worry about what Lucas might or might not have planned.  He’s said a million different things at different times.  It’s clear there never really was much of an overall plan to it at all (hence the wonkiness of the Leia reveal late in the game.)  Yes, he talked and talked over the years about how “it was always…

Tatiana came out blasting with the good Star Wars takes and I love it. The prequels still suck, and the meme-driven attempt at reappraising them sucks, too. Excited for this show, though — Ewan did nothing wrong.

That doesn’t mean there’s not a problem, it means the problem is fandom altogether.

My wife, Eleanor.