That’s pretty much where I stand as well. Kitbull’s the favorite, Hair Love is tremendous, but if they split, the only other choice is Memorable. The melting effects alone are worthy. Dcera was a bit too gritty and I couldn’t see the father’s eyes, even though the film made it seem like that was important. Sister to…

This is my vagina, empty. Do you see?

Spoilers for Parasite

It has been a second so I don’t remember.  Melville actually traveled a lot, Typee was his real big hit book about traveling in Polynesia, so I don’t remember if his portrayals of those two were racist or not, he may have met people who traveled around with shrunken heads?  But my point was simply: put a bunch of…

For me it wasn’t depressing at all. It gave me the same feeling I had at the deaths of my grandparents, all of whom lived long, full lives and weren’t afraid to go: a feeling of sadness but also a profound peace and a sense of rightness. It was time for them to move on, to make room for the next generations. And my…

Ah I see... Sorry think I misread something in your post. Yeah I agree!

One of my favorite scenes in TLJ is where Hux comes into the throne room post carnage with a WTF look on his face. And in a brief moment he is thinking “I should just fucking Kill Ren right now” But he misses his chance.

Oh man, didn’t know the Jordan Peterson thing... That’s interesting given what I know about the movie, to be sure.

Venkman may have gotten the best lines, but in terms of someone I’d actually want to hang out with if they were real, Winston is my favourite Ghostbuster. And Hudson’s a great actor; he was really funny and likeable in ‘Grace and Frankie’. So yes, I’m 100% here for him being the legacy Ghostbusters guy.

For a brief moment I thought that screencap was showing that Mr. Peanut had hanged himself...

Yeah, I wonder why Luke Skywalker, who has seen the re-emergence of fascism he thought he helped defeat (ultimately without marching in with a laser sword), and has observed his own human failings in the process, would EVER say that one person with a laser sword can’t make the difference between victory and defeat.…

Maybe part of the problem is seeing all of this in terms of trilogies. If you love TFA and TLJ, love them. TROS doesn’t erase them no matter what happens in the plot. TLJ especially stands alone pretty well. You don’t have to be bound by the Nine-Film Saga if you like some movies and don’t like others. Like if Season…

There is one thing I blame for the crappy Star Wars prequels, that’s the PBS series ‘Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth’ from 1988. Campbell spouted pseudo-spiritual nonsense about ‘the hero’s journey’ in epic literature and latched onto the Star Wars movie like a fan boy (Nevermind that the details of the Star War…

As someone who was at ground zero on day one I have to say “Star Wars” was best appreciated when nobody took it seriously. Everyone, even the fanboys, saw it as a pop culture collage that touched upon everything from Flash Gordon and Errol Flynn to Kubrick and Kurosawa and had its tongue in cheek almost as deeply as…

“the one actual movie star in the cast”
Whoa! Why the Cushing shade?!  I get that James Earl Jones wasn’t on screen, but come on.

Palpatine coming back to life has been a thing for almost 30 years. The Dark Empire stories saw to that, and those were done in the early 90's. Abrams clearly borrowed from them.

The only Star Wars trilogy that planning actually went into was the worst one, so that might not have been the issue. 

Jones apparently claimed he’d “intentionally fired the gun as a joke.”

I doubt very little of the new trilogy was plotted out in advance. But guess what else wasn’t? Either of the other two trilogies. Lucas plotted the prequels around concept art he liked, and despite his self-mythologizing, took the classics one at a time as well.