Yeah, and it's interesting that Singer has been at the helm for nearly the entire time. He's basically helped reboot his own franchise.

How the aesthetic of the X-Men movies have changed from the first one in 2000 to the new one is fascinating. Feel like the first movie helped usher in a new era of serious, gritty superhero reboots that were trying to rebuke the garish excess of the Joel Schumacher Batman movies and others of its ilk. Now the series…

It wasn't just him, it was Carrie Fisher as well (which makes sense, considering her latter-day career as a script doctor). She changed some of her lines, and she was even brought on to help with some of the dialogue in the prequels, though it's clear whatever improvements she was able to contribute were limited.

Surprised that no one's mentioned Walk Hard. It seems pretty beloved, specially around those parts.

There's a great circulating article/gifset of Idris Elba explaining just this. http://nerdsagainstfandomra…

Not really. The Revenant is probably his least interesting showcase, and he's basically getting the award for being Leo and because people are afraid he's going to eventually kill himself if he keeps going the way he does.

Also reflective of the problem that black people and PoC are generally not considered for roles where it can be default given to a white actor.

Because they're against Asians, Latin@s, and virtually any other PoC….?

"she’s its Homer, a rampaging id monster who perpetually puts her family in actual, physical danger to fulfill her random whims."

It's a rewrite of a famous Hong Kong movie, though, so that probably accounted for a lot of the preexisting quality

He changes his voice in every movie, too. Not too overtly, but the tone/accent will be slightly modulated. A little whiny New Yawk in Inside Llewyn Davis and Show Me a Hero, slight Spanish hints in A Most Violent Year, etc.

Star Wars, Jumanji, Spiderman, Pirates of the Caribbean - where the fuck are new movies? Surely screenwriters didn't all die at once? It seems to be getting worse every year. Bah humbug.

Good. Three years elapsed between A New Hope and Empire. I'll wait if it means quality.

Ah, I think it could happen for Finn. It's clear that they have circulating duties and he would have a lot more to do than sanitation, and a prelude series would give us an insight into his psychological evolution — I never quite bought this charismatic, witty personality emerging straight from the brainwashed helmet…

Important to mention that for "Hollywood purposes," many of Isaac's early roles consisted of playing the ethnic sidekick with the accent who gets blown up. He's mentioned how lucky he is to get out of that rut and get to a point in his career where he can be considered for some of the same roles as white actors. I…

That's my favorite kind of Oscar Isaac, tho

Their couple name on Tumblr is StormPilot. (Because Finn was a stormtrooper and Poe is…you know.) The name for the Rey/Finn/Poe polyamorous grouping is called JediStormPilot. Good things to know, right?

Whoops meant to respond to Dino Ironbody. I agree with you.

Think there's a notable difference between a movie derived from a pastiche of influences (like Tarantino's style) and a movie that's literally just based off of another movie. I say that as a TFA fan.

Have to remember that a "fresh" rating means positive. It could be a lukewarm positive, borderline underwhelmed, and it would still count as positive. So 95% doesn't mean the film got an A-grade. It just means that 95% of critics could have thought, "it's not bad." It doesn't mean these were all raves, necessarily.…