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    "Wow, they got that Goosebumps sequel on track really quickly," I thought to myself before realizing it came out over two years ago and that my life is speeding away before my eyes faster and faster as I get older.
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    The entire point of the sequence in the pit is to set up that the only thing standing in Rey's way to learning the truth about her parents was her.
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    The Rock getting carried away and Foley agreeing to the headshots at all (then stupidly letting his kids watch it in the crowd) are one thing. Vince telling Foley, "Never do anything like that again," after Hell in a Cell and then letting that match happen is among the shittiest and most irresponsible things Vince has ever done.
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    I must've been no older than four or five when I saw the Tales From the Crypt television show version of And All Through the House. I was shook. My mother explained to me that it wasn't really Santa Claus, which I totally understood. However, she couldn't convince me it was implausible that someone could break into our house and axe murder us.
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    Yeah, I was surprised they got into it at all. It's definitely not something that one would want to linger on. Even though it's generally taken for granted that war profiteering is bad, we're essentially arms dealers to the rest of the world and no one wants to think about that while they're watching a Star Wars movie
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    Vince rules because he's overseen more scripted television than nearly anyone else in the entertainment business and he's never learned about basic morality tale hubris.
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    I'm perfectly fine with them just reusing the soundtrack. Those are jams. Lily James was a revelation in Baby Driver and I'd watch pretty much anything with her in it. I shamelessly popped for the grandmother reveal, although her being Meryl Streep's mother requires some suspension of disbelief. But I guess Meryl has to be playing like twenty years younger than her actual age for anything in Mama Mia to make sense anyway.
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    It would be very symmetric storytelling if Kylo somehow meets his fate in Episode 9 by confronting his past, much like Han and Luke do in the 7 & 8. I'm not sure how they do that without Leia as the key element though. I think Kylo and Rey both have to die. The strongest living manifestations (possibly ever) of both sides becoming one with the Force would be a way of balancing things. Maybe then the First Order and the Rebellion can finally be laid to rest, and Johnson's trilogy can be about something else.
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    Yeah, I think he was just set in his ways from learning it in the territories. On one of his episodes with Austin he discussed how he always wore it on his finger instead of his wrist, and that if the shield came off it would cut up whoever he was working with. I guess that's the kind of thing you don't get heat for when you're a legend.
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    She hadn't refined her corporate responses to things like that, so she was saying things like, "There's real life, and then there's real life." He may have also been intentionally obtuse because he didn't think that she was trying to promote it as a work.
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    I'll never forget Steph having to sheepishly promote that match on Jimmy Kimmel, being totally embarrassed and basically apologetically explaining that it's a work. Kimmel wasn't understanding what she was trying to say, and asked Quentin Tarantino (there promoting Kill Bill) for help. QT then started talking about comic book multiverses. It was a really great shitshow.
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    To Matt's point about Johnson's self awareness, there are several times where the joke is on Rey, seemingly to let the air out of the Mary Sue balloon (Luke screwing with her when she reaches her hand out during meditation training, Snoke smacking her upside her head for attempting to steal the saber with the Force, etc.)
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    I'll allow for personal taste, but I saw TFA once, liked it just fine, and I may not bother seeing it again for some time. I can't wait to watch Last Jedi again. There are a lot of expectations from these movies, and we're all looking for different things from them. Since they're probably going to make one a year for the rest of our lives, I think we're in a fortunate situation where everyone will get serviced. Frankly, I'm astounded that of the first three Disney has produced that two of them I've absolutely loved and consider vital parts of the saga and extended universe now.
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    I'm just arguing for Leia's response to it. The scheme was exactly like something she'd pull with Luke and Han in the original trilogy. There's no doubt that she learned the possible human cost of such brashness in the subsequent decades as a leader, and she was forgiving because she saw her younger self and her compatriots in Poe (and the young Resistance members.) Almost everything the Resistance does in any of these movies is a Hail Mary that would have far reaching and dire outcomes if the plan doesn't work.
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    Leia was indisposed at a critical and perilous point where the leadership vacuum was filled with someone Poe didn't know who wasn't showing all of her cards to the crew. He learns a lesson, but he's also working with the information he has, so he's seemingly given the benefit of doubt. She's certainly more patient than can be expected in most scenarios, but Poe's still a huge asset to a resistance now comprised of like two dozen people. She's also known to be predisposed to having a soft spot for asshole fly boys.
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    I'm reminded of a certain archeologist who tried very hard to be relevant to the plot of his own movie and failed. I don't think it's about shoehorning in elements or characters. It really comes down to Johnson making a movie about failing and learning from that failure. We get the expected Star Wars beats on our way there, but I think the futility and even stupidity of the characters' actions is there by design. I totally get if that's not what someone wanted to see or they didn't like it. I just don't think the structure of the plot was incidental or not thought out.
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    I think if James Bond can show up in a helmet and get owned by a member of the Resistance, they can get about anyone to do it.
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    One thing I really liked about the Force ghost/projection stuff in this one is that the physical manifestations of Yoda, and later Luke, have everything to do with who they're appearing before. Yoda looks precisely as he did in Empire because that's the version of him that Luke is most emotionally connected to. Later during the final confrontation, Luke appears to Kylo as his younger self from their time together in training at the temple. It's either because that's how Kylo remembers him best, or it was a ploy by Luke to unnerve him. I'd never really thought about it, but presumably Force ghosts can manipulate their form to whatever they feel like, or psychically suggest the most appropriate version of their former physical form based on who they're reaching out to.
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    My idea for the new Charlie's Angels was to have the villains be the "original" Angels from like the early 70s who are grumpy old men misogynists that can't stand Charlie's Angels program becoming solely comprised of women. Just get like Michael Douglas, Kevin Costner, and...someone else from that generation who hasn't gone down in flames due to recent sexual assault allegations.
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    If Oceans 8 were exactly like Ghostbusters 2016, it would mean the creatives threw all of the female leads under the bus and gave all of the funniest bits to a male supporting character, while only one of the actresses managed to brilliantly make chicken shit out of chicken salad.
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    I normally zone out during the space battles, but I thought the assault on the dreadnought at the beginning was a fantastic set piece. I have a lot of affection for the series, but I'm not a die-hard, so I can get over the new saga not necessarily going in the direction for the characters or universe that I'd like. Considering Rian Johnson had to play it where it lay with how TFA set the board, I thought he made a great film.
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    If Vince is really going to give it another shot, he's definitely going to target reactionaries as his core audience, up to and including using his access to others' political capital to do so. The only thing that could stop him would be Paul and Steph convincing him it's not worth the bad publicity and embarrassment that would ensue.
  24. (BP)
    Just learned of @joeldongsteen, which retweets Joel Osteen but replaces "God" with "your dick" in every sentence.
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    FADE IN: EXT. Cityscape - Day We see a muted color palette montage of evil socialist architecture structures to the soundtrack of a slow, haunting piano ballad version of Muskrat Love.
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