No.

Please stop doing slideshows.

Welp. That’s 37 slides I’m not going to waste time clicking through.

Gross. Sad to hear.

I still can’t get over the design of this thing. So many questions. It seems like it’s only so tall because of the weird design, and that the stand is required to keep the thing from falling over on account of its long, slim footprint. It’s an awkward machine.

I dunno, I re-read Matilda recently as an adult and woah, did he despise children. 

Okay I have, a lot of thoughts

My first Diana Rigg exposure was “The Great Muppet Caper.”

That villain was a weak imitation of the Emperor and I’m glad they killed him off, although they probably shouldn’t have had him in the first place. Kylo’s arc being the inverse of Vader was Vader’s arc in the terrible prequels, so that would have been breaking no new ground. The whole thing is a regrettable…

You’re skipping over the fact that Michael Arndt was the original writer of Episode VII and worked on his script for, what, a year?

While it’s clear that boy bands are the most common top TRL artists for 1999-2000, you also have a decent amount of Korn, Limp Bizkit, Eminem plus Sisqo and Tom Green. Honestly, you could argue musically it was the peak time to be an 11 year old boy, in terms of music existing that could basically only be found…

“ I am not mad at the new Star Wars movies, just disappointed in how they turned out”.

I’m mad, or maybe just so very disappointed the intensity of it feels like being mad.

They had every advantage possible, access to any talent they wanted to make a trilogy in one of the most beloved franchises ever...and they didn’t…

So much of The Rise of Skywalker reminded me of those (mostly awful) Star Wars Expanded Universe books from the 90s, so this is pretty spot on. They even leaned into the whole “another Death Star, but ten times more awesome!!!” strategy.

I think the biggest take away from this they had no fucking idea what they were doing and making it up as they go along. Which works a lot of times but not every time. Once they said she was no one in the second movie they had to stick with that. Going back on it just makes the second movies revelations irrelevant and…

You don’t like anything do you?

I think Star Wars Episode XI: Palpatine Fucks can be easily summed up with something I’ve said many times: What did we honestly expect from the director of Star Trek: Into Darkness and the co-writer of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice?

Yeah, I don’t see it happening. And as you noted, enough people failed to “get” Starship Troopers that it was often read as an endorsement of the jingoism it jabbed at. I don’t think we’re ready to try that at this point with this kind of topic. It’s maybe just too soon for the ironic treatment to be a viable option.

I’m reading these comments thinking “Dredd made in 2020 is a horrible idea, unless they give it to Verhoeven.” Now I’m thinking I really want to see what he’d do with the property. 

The persecution of right-wingers is just quality control to everyone else.

Look, Dredd was great. Totally underrated, deserved a sequel, had shit marketing. But maaayyyybbbbeeeeee right now’s not the time for another story about a cop who’s judge, jury, and executioner all in one? Because I get to see that on Twitter every day.