Absolutely true. However, it’s also completely fair to not want someone who is suffering from addiction to join you on stunts that can get you maimed or killed.

Nah. And I’m sure there are more instances like that behind the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”

Not really. If she didn’t support him, why should he support her?

His mother was supposedly a piece of work. 

I mean it depends on if it was a one-off or typical of their relationship. If she was indeed a toxic parent, I can understand him not wanting to have anything to do with her (the usual caveats about Tarantino being a Weinstein enabler who puts his actresses in unecessary danger aside)

“What they don’t know is in the South we love our Second Amendment rights”

Well said. One (of many) of the stupid-ass arguments that drives me nuts is, “LUKE TRIED TO KILL HIS NEPHEW! WHAA?!”

I loved the fact that Luke had gotten crotchety and sarcastic in his old age (and come by it honestly, too). The whole notion that he should act exactly the same way when he’s 60 as he did when he was 25 is ridiculous.

I think the idea of “Badass Luke” is a consequence of the Legends EU. Where a lot of the pacifist elements of Luke are slowly weeded out to the point where it’s all lightsabers and badass force powers.

That (the holdo maneuver) blew me away. Throw in the throne room fight and the salt/red clay contrast st the end, and you wind up with one of the more visually stunning sci-fi films of the last decade or so.

Wait, what? Finn doesn’t have much of an arc? The guy starts the movie trying to run away from the war and ends the film ready to commit suicide for the rebellion. His arc is very clearly about learning to care about things other than saving his own skin. Also, the Canto Bigt stuff isn’t pointless. It’s a chance to…

Beautiful. 

Said it before, but it’s still true: If Empire Strikes Back had come out after the invention of social media, it would be just as “hated” as Last Jedi. By which I mean, not hated at all, just whined about constantly by a small mob of manchildren who most media sources (including this article) insist on spotlighting at…

Whatever else the movie did wrong, the idea of ‘TLJ ruining Luke’ from ‘hardcore’ fans is the most hilarious misunderstanding of Star Wars characters, lore and philosophy they could muster.

I get why some people don’t like the idea of Luke considering killing his nephew when he realized he turned to the Dark Side. It’s very shocking revelation. However, it’s important to note that the moment he considered it, he immediately felt shame for what he did. But by then it was too late as Ben had seen him…

The strange part is that it was the last Star Wars movie. Like, they said it was supposed to be a trilogy, but the third movie never materialized. Still, I’m pretty satisfied with the ending of TLJ.

This movie is fucking awesome and an excellent addition to the Star Wars saga.

I’m not going out on a limb to defend the guy who scripted X-Men: The Last Stand and Inspector Gadget, but I doubt even William Goldman could’ve made RP1 watchable.

I more got the sense that he wanted it to be more clever and thoughtful than it is, but regardless, isn’t any negative criticism of a movie expressing the desire for it to be different than what it is?

“The script, co-written by Zak Penn (who helped usher to the screen the comparable video-game exploits of Ready Player One)“