Brick is (much) better than Looper.
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I was genuinely surprised at looper, and have watched it twice (on purpose even!). And the ozymandias episode is excellent. I’ll have to check out his other work, thanks!
People always pronounce it wrong! It’s “meh-nah-chay”.
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I had no problems with the basic idea of Indy 4 – the fact that Indy would go on to fight Commies and aliens rather than Nazis and mystics makes perfect sense given the 1950s setting. It was just how they did it that ruined it for me. The bizarre attempts at humor that fell flat, the annoying presence of Shia LaBeouf just because he was briefly popular, and the atomic-bomb resistant refrigerator (although maybe that was another one of the jokes that didn’t work).
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Well like I said, not paying for it may be a big factor. $15 for a theater ticket and well that would change my opinion quite a bit.
came to post this.
“which parent dressed you up like this?”
ETA: my biggest memory of Phantom Menace is pretty tangential. My close friend had already handled getting the tickets and the plan was to meet beforehand at the pizzeria. We got hook-ups there, so we thoughtlessly drank beer the whole time, at least 2 pitchers between us, maybe 3. We bounced to the theater and after bumbling through the lines and finding the last 2 (crappy) seats in the place, the previews were ending. there were still a few folks that got boned on seating milling around desperately as i sat. the moment my abs relaxed into the chair, i knew i had to pee. fuck. i’m gonna miss the most epic beginning of the decade and get my seat stolen, too. i don’t wanna miss a single moment at all! with steely determination to ride it out for the duration, i tied a knot in it, but half my movie experience ended up being me thought-suppressing my screaming bladder. The instant the credits and fanfare started, I leapt up and bee-lined to the gents. i’m pretty good at holding it, but nothing else can ever compare to the deluge i then released: i was first to the stalls. before i was done, the stalls to either side of me had been occupied by three different sets of urinating men and into the fourth.
so, yeah, that was Phantom Menace. it captured me pretty well with the pod race, but was annoyed by the commentators, as has been mentioned. all the obvious stuff annoyed me at the time but i was so invested in it, i said i liked it afterwards. i delivered pizza back then, so my whole next day at work was mentally re-visiting the race behind the wheel of my old Ford Bronco II.
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Nah, they might be organelles, but not one that’s been properly integrated like Mitochondria. More likely transitional. Or else genetic machinery like transposons or an invading parasite like an archaea or bacteria.
Either way… they’ve been manipulating their hosts and are the real reason why their galaxy is was destroyed a long time ago and far, far away. They’re also what that warning was about (what, you didn’t get the warning? It’s in EVERY MOVIE people!)
Secrets of Star Wars and the End of Everything.
And yes, Mark Hamill’s IS Luke Skywalker and has been spreading the plague all this time…why else do you think he’s been working on his evil laugh?
Marina Sirtis tells an amusing story about finding out she was going to command the ship, only to find out she crashes it. >.<
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Qui Gon should have raised his weapon and stopped fighting while everyone watched like Obi Wan did in IV.
My opinion didn’t change - but I only used monopoly money.
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Are too-big-to-fail franchises able to jump sharks? I know that was an identifyable leap for me.
I’ve actually spent years determining that this was precisely what Lucas was aiming to achieve.
Then you’d see the Number 2. And feel confused.
But, delaying the inevitable, 3 would need to bridge to ANH. Which is when things got really stupid and they frankly gave up.
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