Stop whining, you asshole, idiot crybabies.

As a follow-up, I checked to see what the independent theater in the closest big city to me showed this year and they didn’t show any of the films on the list either other than the ones that played here as well. So I’m not even sure where I’d see the rest of them even if I had the time and money to drive somewhere…

Blade Runner 2049 was such a good movie. It sucks that it is being sidelined when it comes to awards recognition.

Strangely, one of the most commercially successful films of the year, the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s “IT”, was apparently not list-worthy.

Do you still use your student ID at Harkins? I still use mine, despite the fact that it’s clearly a decade old. They don’t care, I’ve had my father use one even.

I thought Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 and even Spider-Man: Homecoming were better than either Logan or Wonder Woman. They didn’t take themselves too seriously but neither were they as inappropriately facile as Thor: Ragnarok.

Logan beat it for me by doing something genuinely different and emotionally resonant with a character who it sometimes felt like there were no surprises left.

Just once, it would be nice to see an end of the year film list and be able to say I’ve at least had a chance to see all those films. It’s almost getting to be like the theatre where only the very rich or those with special privileges get the opportunity to actually view certain kinds of films now. I’m really looking…

These loudest and most abrasive fans (many of whom often sound like they hate the thing they profess to love, or at least any part of it that’s not frozen in the amber of their cherished memories from youth) tend to share one trait: that reception to pop culture is an all-or-nothing proposition.

The problem is that Kylo wasn’t really offering a break in the cycle, and Rey saw through it. He even used the same words Darth Vader had said to both Padme and Luke. He wanted to actively continue the cycle, just with them in charge.

I think the difference is neither Ben nor Rey want to live in the past...but Ben wants to move past it (“kill it if you have to”) opposed to Rey who wants to study and learn from it’s mistakes.

It’s a sad state of affairs when you have the governmental equivalent of a 1989 Ford Taurus.

Service Democracy Soon

*mournfully clicks the like button*

This isn’t funny, this is fucking scary. The Republican Party has mutated and twisted into an authoritarian death-cult willing to lay waste to truth, democracy, the rule of law, and anything else that stands in the way of permanent one-party kleptocratic rule. The “arguments”, the deliberate warping of language, that…

Yeah. It was a much-needed look at how the war is effecting everyone else in the galaxy after Abrams blew up multiple planets (or a planet and some moons, not sure) and completely glossed over it.

Yeah. There’s definitely a side of me that wanted her to join up with Kylo, but he was pretty clear that joining up with him meant starting a two-person galactic dictatorship. Not exactly “breaking the wheel.”

Yes. That’s one of my big hopes for the next movie, that Rey will build a new Jedi order that doesn’t make the same stupid mistakes as the last one. Like maybe ripping tiny children away from their families and turning them into magic space monks with no bonds to other humans is a bad idea.

No. Wait. Stop.

In the short-term, I don’t think anything major will change since they’ve promised to be on their best behavior. In the long-term, I think they’ll start threatening Netflix again and Hulu and Amazon along with them and the prices for all those services will skyrocket. We’ll probably have the same issue many of us have…