“What are ‘sentences that are impossible for my third-grade reading comprehension to parse?’ Alex.”

SHE DIDN’T EVEN CATCH COLD!

Leonidas should’ve had a Scottish accent, don’t @ me.

Good burn, but technically incorrect: all professional women who own cats are desperate for love, but believe they don’t deserve it, which is why they own a cat.

Yes, my comment was referring to Lucas’s penchant for visual innovation in the prequels, not for innovation in story beats.

Yes, my comment was referring to Lucas’s penchant for visual innovation in the prequels, trying to bring new images and inventions into his world.

The cynical side of me thinks that this is just plain ol’ Fox Empathy Blindness, and Megyn Kelly is saying, “No, you don’t understand! It was worse in real life because it happened to ME!”

Chewbacca: “You might be calling me a walking carpet, lady, but guess which of the two of us is going to throw dog poop on your shoes when he’s tired of you.”

I think, to Lucas’s credit, he doesn’t like going backwards or recycling the past any more than necessary—according to Bob Iger’s new book, Lucas hated The Force Awakens because of how reverential it was to the original trilogy. While the prequels aren’t good movies, they represent a real attempt to expand both the…

I personally think the Maclunkey-free, remastered version of the original will eventually become available...exclusively in a $300 Skywalker Saga Box Set containing all 9 movies. And maybe as something you can rent on Disney Plus for $3 a play.

Meanwhile, people in Atlantic City likely won’t notice the difference.

Is it reasonable to assume, in a world where it’s been established that Force-sensitivity is passed through bloodlines, that the Emperor would ignore his presumably-powerful offspring (who would never factor into the story in any significant way) in order to mentor a volatile Force-sensitive backwater orphan who…

“It could be as small as a misdemeanor or as large as a felony.”

Why would you want them to speak like humans when they can speak like poets? The whole advantage of having your words written down beforehand is that you can speak with more wit and eloquence than this 24-hour-a-day improv exercise we call life can allow.

I love how part of Rocky’s training regimen in the montage is apparently just his trainer punching him in the stomach over and over.

You can’t just list the whole movie as a “scene.”

Okay—you’re crazy. It’s a linear story; you’re going to find out who it is eventually, and the author has concealed the information you’d need to make the deduction yourself. It’s entertainment, not a contest to accurately gauge Q ratings.

“Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow! HAAARK!

I find the idea of comedy that “punches down” being funny to be a strange one. I guess it makes sense if you’ve lived a lifetime of privilege, and see people less fortunate than you as objects of ridicule for you to laugh at, or if you haven’t lived a lifetime of privilege and hate yourself. But if you view comedy as…

Nah, The Shining is a good book in its own right, and King’s best 80s novel outside of The Stand.