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I'm not even into guys, but after that movie, he took a top slot on my 'Well, maybe?' list.

This has always been an interesting disconnect for me. I remember being a little kid and spending 2 weeks perfecting my Darth Vader sound effects so that I could make the perfect ventilator noises when wearing my Halloween costume. He's an awesome, iconic villain, but when we meet him, he's like the Adolf Eichmann of the Empire (there may be a better comparison, so apologies if I didn't chose the correct Nazi). Everything about him (until 'let me look at you with my own eyes') is straight up evil, but we embrace the awesomeness of the character design, red light saber, voice, etc., and don't give too much thought to the rest. I'm pretty sure that a large proportion of people who wear his shirts, get him tattooed, stan him, etc., do so because he's a badass, not because they're supporting his ideology. It's always been weird. Just a really weird, really interesting cultural phenomenon. (Full disclaimer: I own at least one DV tee shirt - the Warning: Choking Hazard one, and feel no shame.)

I love Richard Armitage! I was fully on board with the idea of him as an ex-romantic lead. Forgettable and no-name? Wth, lady. I am disappointed with you.

I can see the danger of that, but the counterbalance is that she would have been a real, fully realized character. As is, she was pretty striking in her intro. She and Beckett seemed to be equals who supported one another, and I was kind of getting into them being partners in crime who were apparently also partners in life and then (literally) boom. She kills herself for no apparent reason and without much effort put toward ensuring her own survival. On what appears to be a thieving job, she lays down her weapons in glorious sacrifice. For what reason? I surely can't say. Perhaps you could argue that she knew that Beckett would be on the hook for his life with the cartel and wanted to try to make sure the theft played out so that wouldn't happen, but it was such an iffy proposition at that point. Why not go on the run with him and use their combined resources to evade the cartel? It's hard to compare because who knows what I would have thought after watching the reverse if I didn't know this was the alternative, but I think I would have taken it over 3 minutes of screen time and a dumbass move, especially if they'd kept WH as Beckett. That would have pointed a little more firmly to 'look - we've subverted your expectations. WH is dead, TN is the mentor, and she might prove untrustworthy in the end, but at least we didn't default to some tired old trope'.

I think you're talking about two different kinds of fans, though. From my read, there are fans of SW who say "I don't like this movie and this is why..." and they talk about themes, plot points, and characterization. That's what you see in this thread. The kind of fans who bullied Kelly Marie Tran off IG are the same ones that pop up on every single piece of media about SW and talk about 'SJWs' and claim the movies are propaganda led by some kind of man-hating, anti-white cabal that's forcing diversity down everyone's throat. The first kind are probably pretty open to differing opinions (though will likely balk if you try to tell them they just didn't understand x, y, or z, because chances are they did understand it and still don't like it for the reasons they listed), and seem pretty unlikely to harass anyone involved in the production. They might have harsh words about the production, but you can tell by the discourse that they are talking about what they see as story-telling failings. The second kind can't be reasoned with and will continue to stew in hatred no matter what comes. Conflating the motivations of the two groups doesn't strike me as helpful.

That's interesting, because in my neck of the woods, queer ladies have been salivating at the prospect of this movie. I can't tell you how many had their fingers crossed, chanting 'please let one of them be a lesbian/bi'. Spoiler alert: missed opportunity.

I saw it this afternoon. Sadly, I was a little underwhelmed. The acting was fine, but the story was a little weak. It picked up a bit in the second half, but it was missing the zip I expected out of a heist movie. There was also a fair bit of product placement that interrupted the flow. Did Mindy K's character really need to learn how Tinder works in a scene unrelated to anything that came before it (and only related in a threadbare kind of way to something that came after it)? For a while there, it was name drop after name drop. I'm also generally not amused when real life celebs are in movies playing themselves, so the parts around the Met Gala involving them fell flat to me. Actually, maybe that was a big part of it - centering the heist around the Met Gala made it drag a bit for me. Sandy B and her German probably got the biggest laugh out of me.

I'm sure there are movies I'd be less interested in seeing, but I can't really think of any right now. For real. All costars should get a free tetanus shot as a signing "bonus".

They certainly do sexual exploitation (the infamous bikini and the dancing girl in ESB) and, at least in The Clone Wars animated series, they do rape. Pretty much everything about their Dathomir-centered episodes points to it as one of many ways the Night Sisters abuse the Zabrak males that co-inhabit their planet. They touch on all kinds of exploitation, though my faulty memory suggests this is more true for the movies after the OT than for the OT.

I would have liked a reveal about what Qi'ra had done as well, or at least a few examples. They kept saying that she'd done despicable things in this really sleazy tone, and my mind defaults to her being forced to participate in various forms of sexual depravity because that's usually what those sort of allusions entail. I would rather they flat out tell us she murdered all kinds of folks, in part because I'd rather the shady lady character come with a history of committing violence than of having sexual violence committed against her (or being forced to weaponize her sexuality out of fear). The latter might be more likely, but I hate when it's implied. It feels like such a slimy insinuation. It's like saying 'Look at this female character who managed to survive this hive of scum and villany. Now let's say something that, juxtaposed with her setting and the clothes she's wearing, etc., invites you to uncomfortably ponder how many d*cks she had to suck to survive long enough to get here." ETA: My desire comes not from a need for exposition for the other characters so that they could react to her deeds but for me as a viewer. Whether rational or irrational, I generally prefer being able to watch female characters without having to ponder their possible sexual exploitation. It just makes for a less uncomfortable viewing experience for me, especially for a popcorn flick.

I can't wait for this movie to come out so that I can stop seeing the trailer for it when I go to other movies. Every single time...

Meh. I spent most of the movie wishing it would end already. It had a really paint-by-numbers feel for me, like they were moving by rote through a list of things they thought the fans would like. I mean, I might have liked them, but even the movie didn't seem excited about them. I was excited when I saw there was more than one female character. I was less excited by the end, when they'd fridged 2/4. The movie both tried to tell me they were important and meaningful to their male counterparts while also not having anyone mourn them for more than a hot second. Chewie was cool, though.

I was slow on the uptake when it came to the twist in the movie Tully, so I spent most of the movie thinking she was going to sleep with her night nanny.

I can't recall, but prior to his more comic turn in Thor: Ragnarok, was Bruce always so goofy? He seemed really, really goofy and I didn't particularly care for it, but it's been a while since I'd seen him prior to the latest Thor, so maybe he's always been that way? Thor, by the way, continued his streak. He even stole the parts of the movie where he was unconscious. I do kind of miss his eye patch look, though. It worked for him.

If it contained all of the elements of this story (e.g., an extremely poorly conceived assassination plot on a figure skating rival) then... yes. Yes, I'd go see it. But, to your point, I'm not sure why it can't serve multiple purposes?

Alden Ehrenreich Has a 3-Movie Deal as Han Solo.

I figured they didn't live there because they couldn't construct a house/sufficient long-term shelter. They were always in sweaters so I assume it was cold there. Too cold for them to rough it with 2 (or 3) small kids. It would make sense, though, to try to construct some kind of dwelling.

Movie description taken from Rotten Tomatoes I saw it on Friday and can confirm that it's hilarious. Not all of the jokes land, but most of them do. A couple of scenes make it clear this was written by guys (testicle humor never quite manages to amuse me, but I guess guys find it hilarious). It all ends sweetly enough, and there's an adorable, geeky lesbian subplot that's 85% great. Overall, would recommend.

I had to handwave that away, because yeah. How did they use the bathroom? An outhouse, I guess, since flushing would have gotten you eaten. Then again, what if you accidentally let one rip in the outhouse? Is it light's out for you? Other questions I had: Where did they get all the sand to line the walkways? Why was the corn still planted in rows more than a year after all of this went down? How did they have access to oxygen tanks but not condoms? Why was there still electricity? Why didn't she do the washing at the river?

The theory of Ava being downloaded to the next with residual memories from the previous Ava(s) makes sense, because it seems as if she's been in the Time Bureau for a while. Unless everyone else is also a clone or is in on the Ava clone plan, she'd have to have some continuity or else everyone would wonder why they kept around that one chick who forgot everyone's names every 6 months. I think this is the same Ava clone that originally met the Legends, though. I mean, it'd definitely be an interesting new wrinkle to the relationship if Ava 11 was offed halfway through her interactions with the Legends and Ava 12 stepped in and developed a crush, but I also think the Avas each have to learn along the way. If they stuck with their programming and never evolved, they'd be robots. This Ava just happened to evolve rather quickly once Captain Lance made her start to feel funny things in the pants area. :)

Saw this today. It's an above average horror movie. I'd hyped it up a bit too much for it to ever live up to my hype, but I'd definitely recommend for horror fans.

"You killed my mom's sister!" She was your aunt, you called her Aunt Whatever. What a weird line. Agreed. Also weird, when Wade was doing the rousing speech about how they'd all lost someone/something so rally to the flag and the camera focused in on Daito with his eyes closed and his jaw clenched as if that line was personally relevant to him but I don't recall him actually losing anyone in the movie. Doesn't make it less odd, especially given that, when he found out the stack was going to be bombed, he freaked out and desperately called his aunt and willed her to pick up. He reacted immediately to the threat with clear panic and clear concern for his aunt, yet afterwards there was absolutely no reflection on of discussion of this horrible thing that IOI had just done to him specifically (and was egregiously horrible in general) and she's demoted to 'my mom's sister'. It's part of the broader tapestry of inconsistency that was this movie.

I was surprised by how bland this movie was. The outside of the Oasis acting definitely won't be winning any awards, that's for sure. I never felt a sense of rising tension. I mean, Wade's aunt is killed and a whole stack is taken out, and he doesn't even take a hot second to mourn. He's too busy macking on his Oasis crush. I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to buy into the stakes when the movie doesn't even bother to buy into the stakes. That said, H (or however it was spelled) was pretty funny. People in the showing I went to were hooting at the Shining parts, which I thought were entertaining but not necessarily hoot worthy. I'm a child of the 80s and sufficiently geeky so you'd think this would be catnip for me, but apparently I am not at all the target audience. All I wanted was for it to be over, which of course it wasn't because it was 2h20m long, ffs.

Here's my beef - if you don't have an upgraded theater with amenities that "justify" a higher ticket price, don't charge premium price for tickets. There's a Regal near me that, with taxes, puts you at about $17 for a regular, non-matinee movie showing. This is way too high in the first place, but compounded by the fact that this theater hasn't received an update in well over a decade. They don't have comfy, reclining chairs. Heck, they don't have chairs that aren't torn and possibly sticky half the time. I'm not entirely sure how they stay in business since there are a couple of much nicer, much cheaper theaters in the vicinity.

@Solace 247 - I finally found the clip and you're right. I think my initial misconception came about because her bones seemed to glow for a moment as they were constructed. In my admittedly faulty memory, it made me think they were metal. I suppose my interest is in how her personality developed. Presumably Rip programmed her, but how far did that programming go? Did she automatically begin to develop her own unique personality as soon as that happened or was meeting Sara a catalyst for enhanced personality exploration? Was her personality set as abrasive and by the book, as she was when she first appeared? Or, did Rip just give her some basic cues, like 'be a good Time Bureau Agent' and she absorbed and manifested bureaucracy? She mentions an ex-gf, which I believe she has because I can't imagine that Rip specifically programmed her to be into women (especially given what I think was surprise to see that she and Sara were hooking up). I guess I'm just caught up in the potential slapstick of a clone who doesn't know they're a clone and who is inserted into the world as an adult with a little programming. She doesn't know she's learning and adapting, but she is. Also, since they said about 14 times that she was the perfect woman and that the most favorable genetic traits had been combined to make her, does this make her the ultimate genetically engineered good girl who has fallen for the ultimate (redeemed) bad girl? :)