It’s an entire galaxy consisting of a majority of about a half-dozen races and robots that look like dirty trash cans. Why wouldn’t everyone wear the same space bathrobe?

It was the way Jackson withered in those movies that really broke my heart. If he couldn’t escape the gravity well of Lucas’ indifferent direction, what hope did anyone else have?

Huh. I’m glad to hear he’s a decent guy. Those seem to be in short supply these days.

I’m not interested in any more Star Wars back-fill movies... with the exception of an Obi-Wan film. God I’d love to see Ewan get another chance at the character with a good director.

That’s fair.

I haven’t seen it, but I hear Christensen is great in Shattered Glass. I mean, it’s certainly possible he’s just mediocre, but lord, he wasn’t faring any worse than anyone else in those movies. McGregor looked like he was working his ass off just to rise above the median flatness of everyone’s delivery.

It’s startling how nice it is just to watch something measured and thoughtful about this movie. I really dug this film and still agree with the the critique of Finn’s character arc. I love TLJ, but not unconditionally and it’s nice to be able to think about these things without the conversation devolving into the…

This show remains second only to the Simpsons as the most quoted by my wife and I. It really feels like this show came out during the only very narrow window of time where it would be possible.

I guess it’s no wonder that an anti-wish fulfillment movie about the uselessness of nostalgia would have such vocal opposition.

Yeah, but that Venn diagram is tightening.

Very true.

It’s so ironic that these shitheels are the self-appointed gatekeepers of nerd culture when they don’t understand a single thing about it past people hitting each other.

It’s such exhausting, remedial irony that self-described sci-fi fans, and comic fans, for that matter, are behaving in a manner directly opposite to the message of the series they claim to love.

Anyone who can see through their sorrow to still matter-of-factly taze a would-be deserter is aces in my book.

It’s almost as if defining a large part of your adulthood by a movie you watched as a child has real consequences on the maturity with which you approach said movie.

I see a lot more opposition to these new movies from EU die-hards than from the still very real misogynist creep contingent, and I can’t help but think that an entire subset of nerds weren’t helped by consuming twenty years of middling fiction of which it’s most basic underlying principle is nothing can really…

If superhero movies were as entrenched as they are now and the franchise could support a Brave and the Bold-style imagining, I’d love to see Clooney play up his Ulysses Everett McGill persona for Batman. He’s always done live-action cartoon really well. 

All you have to do is play every one of Snyder’s gratuitous slo-mo scenes real time, and the movie would only be 20 minutes.

It’s as if Baz Luhrmann directed an episode of the 60’s tv show for broadway. It’s such sweeping, aggressive camp. This was really around the time it began to dawn on teenage me that I was living in a terrible time for blockbusters.

God, who’s got the time when they’re chasing all those hard-hitting news stories?