You've proved that conclusively.

"It's not Khan."
"It's definitely not Khan."
"For the last time, Khan is not in this movie."
"His name is John Harrison, not Khan."
"I swear to God it's absolutely not Khan."
"SURPRISE! It's Khan! You're totally surprised, right?"

In the old days we used to call that, the "Soggy Muffin."

"the audience is so sophisticated"

If human are too hard for them, then they shouldn't do them. But yes, the majority of non-human characters look terrible also. The rat in Ratatouille? I just find it amazing that people think this looks good. Absolutely everything in these movies looks like it's made of plastic.

Am I the only person in the world who thinks Pixar movies, all of them, look totally shitty? I mean the visuals, the character designs, landscapes, etc. It just looks so bad. Square-headed Carl in Up? He's a grotesque doll, as is every other human being in all of their movies. Everything's so exaggerated.

Yo, those dudes in the Einsatzgruppen and Unit 731 were all thirtysomething virgins, that's why they did all that shit.

Nah, if you waited until you're bored enough you'd never watch it. Start watching it when you're not bored and it bores you.

Also, look at Obi-wan's and Qui-gon's faces during that underwater sequence: they're totally bored, just no reaction at all, flat-lining. Some prequel apologist once tried to defend this to me, saying, "These are Jedi Masters at the height of their power [never mind that Obi-wan is just a student, but whatever], so…

"talk to anyone who actually experienced their childhood during that time about whether it was ruined by The Phantom Menace"
Mr. Hassenger seems to have gone very far in life for someone who doesn't understand the meaning of simple phrases. E.g., the phrase "George Lucas ruined my childhood" doesn't refer to people…

The punishment for writing this essay is you have to watch the prequels annually for the rest of your life. Have fun.

What caused him to switch?

To call "seeing stars in the making and […] sitting through a lot of garbage" the "appeal" seems to be stretching the meaning of that word.

They're kinda weird, and I find it odd they've become as popular as they have, but it's mainly the movies that are popular. Nearly a third of Moonraker is devoted to bridge, the card game. In Thunderball, roughly a quarter of the book is about a health spa that Bond goes to, in which Fleming mocks various health…

In addition to Daily Script and Drew's Script-o-Rama which people have already mentioned, there's Internet Movie Script Data-Base, imsdb.com, which has an excellent selection.

"Same goes for Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

I dunno bout that. We have anecdotes that indicate not everything is so intentional, including one, reported in the New Yorker, from the filming of Mulholland Drive: the crew is prepping a set but they can't get the light bulb to stop flickering when Lynch walks in and says, "That's great, leave it that way."

"when the hyper-ironic Generation X was ascendant in the 1990s, mega-hits like Scream put slasher pictures in quotation marks"

"Harry Potter is an important part of our shared literary culture."

To me that sounds like she's forcing them to waste their lives.