I’m surprised they weren’t tossing buckets of pigs blood at him.

The creator sold the franchise because the constant criticism and harassment from fans was so draining. The problem with the Star Wars fanbase isn’t “slavish unquestioning devotion from a large contingent of fans”. It’s the complete opposite. No matter what, a large subsection of Star Wars fans will never be happy…

Its almost like people are incapable of admitting that its a badly written movie

Kenner’s first official Star Wars merchandise was basically just a pre-order. They sold a box with with some foldout cardboard and like four 3PO and R2 stickers. Then parents filled out a form that guaranteed kids would receive Chewie, Leia, Luke, and R2 a few weeks before their friends could buy them in stores. 

It’s not just the companies. The toys would have to ship to retailers months in advance and sit back in the stock rooms. That means there’s a risk of an employee who doesn’t know better putting the toys out before Disney’s embargo lifts. That’s how it got out that Rey was the next Jedi. Someone put out a Rey figure…

Well, he was originally supposed to play Pennywise in It but dropped out. So he’s pretty good at predicting whether or not something bombs. Because that movie went nowhere. No one wants to watch evil clowns in this day and age.

It’s not an award. It is title that just means the person had the biggest impact on world culture that year. It doesn’t matter if they’re good or bad. Hitler was a TPoTY.

Can we talk about the Burger King ad campaign spoiling The Rise of Skywalker?

40 years ago, people were so desperate for SW merchandise that they spent money on a box with some fold out cardboard, a few 3PO and R2 stickers, and a certificate they could mail off guaranteeing them they’d be the first to get four SW figures. But yeah, this is solely a 2019 thing. 

1.) Hasbro’s rights are up for renewal at the end of next year.

2.) Mattel is releasing their own (better) Baby Yoda. They’ve also released a line of Barbies in outfits inspired by SW characters. That’s led to speculation that, at the very least, Hasbro may have let go of some of its exclusive rights (plushies and…

Wait you think flooding the market with SW merchandise is unique to the ST?

Oh, after this article, I’ve done a rough rewrite of the Prequls that lets you have both Maul and Dooku throughout the trilogy (but use the name Tyranus that showed up on some merchandise instead of Dooku).

Just rework the Sidious scenes so that it’s Christopher Lee playing Maul’s handler and pulling the strings of…

Supposedly he couldn’t sit through a Jean-Claude Van Damme film, demanding that his son fast-forward to his favorite parts. And that was thirty years ago.

So no, there is no way Captain Sundown made it through a nearly three hour film. This is someone in his campaign trying to appeal to the youth. Which, for Trump’s…

I don’t care for MCU movies per se, but it also drives me nuts that the “other side” of this discussion is a 77 year old man making his fourth or fifth movie about organized crime with the same cast.

I mean the headline is literally: “Read this: How nerds became bullying PR stooges for the Marvel monoculture”.

And at this point, what with it being the highest grossing film franchise of all time, it’s not really accurate to describe the Marvel movies as a part of “nerd” culture. They’re just pop culture in general.…

It’s gotten amazing reviews and - while it’s not killing it in the ratings - it has a loyal following. The folks at HBO have admitted they may have jumped the gun in cancelling cult shows like Carnivale and Rome in recent years.

So... It’s a divisive film? For every person that likes it, there’s another that thinks it’s a cringe-y Scorsese knock-off with some Batman thrown in.

You’re being really unfair. Fox is still the home of a lot of one-season wonders/failures. And now that Disney owns Fox (the film and television studio) I expect Fox (the network) to start really throwing things against the wall in a desperate attempt to make something stick.

The Golden Globes really aren’t taken that seriously by Hollywood outside of the press because - little known fact - you can easily buy a Golden Globe. The most infamous example is Pia Zadora “winning” the now defunct New Star of the Year Award in 1981 for Butterfly (she also won Worst Actress, Worst New Star of the…

Yes. The OP knows that. They spell “Doctor Manhattan” in the paragraph where they explain that they think the word is “daughter” because, as far as Veidt knows, Doctor Manhattan still has amnesia.