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Oops, I meant Hoskins. I like the story of how Brian DePalma paid him to be second choice to play Al Capone in The Untouchables in case they couldn't get Robert DeNiro. Blade Runner is worth making it for that memorable final speech by Rutger Hauer which he actually wrote.

Connecting the subjects of Bob Hopkins movies and Blade Runner the art director on Blade Runner was the production desinger of the Super Mario Bros movie.

I like MCU Clint when he interacts with Natasha, Wanda and Pietro.

The first time I heard about Fagan was reading about it in William Goldman's book "Adventures in the Screen Trade". He used it as example as something in real life that if someone made it up for a screenplay nobody would believe it! A man just easily breaks in to Buckingham Palace to and into the Queen's bedroom the way he did seems incredible.

Always loved Teck.

I liked that a lot of the action scenes in this one took place at night(including Jack-Jack's fight with the raccoon).

Didn't you know? Even considering something bad but changing your mind about it is just the same as actually doing it. At least to people who don't know what "passed like a fleeting shadow" means. Some people thought Lando should've had Holdo's role and I can see the argument for that but then Rian would've had people mad that he killed off Lando AND Luke! I'm just glad the former Baron of Bespin will be in the Ep 9 and I don't think with Leia unable to be in it JJ Abrams is not going to kill him off. I hope I'm right.

I guess poor compared to Leia who grew up as royalty but "Middle class" compared to Rey! I mean the Lars had a landspeeder AND a skyhopper Luke used to fly bulls-eyeing womprats.

I enjoyed it when it was in theaters and I still like watching parts of it like the end battle but I think I wish it was actually longer. Those old wars movies like The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape were close to three hours which allowed you to take time to know and care about the characters so you were really emotionally invested in them and it hurt when they did die. Just an extra ten minutes of Jyn and the team interacting and getting closer before the mission would have been great.

The Skywalker family drama and Kylo's issues and the mystery of Luke's disappearance were such a central part of The Force Awakens that to want The Last Jedi to focus just on Rey and keep her separate makes no sense to me. Her arc always going to get entangled in that. I think people wouldn't have minded if the way they did it was by making her a Skywalker, either by being Luke's daughter or Han and Leia's. Also Luke might have had the big hero moment at the end but so did Rey. She saves the remaining Resistance while Luke says she will be "The Las Jedi."

And this stems from wanting clear cut good guys and bad guys with no ambiguity or shades of grey, which is fine. That was in the first Star Wars. Han was also introduced as this cold hard badass who "shot first" and in this scene he's bumbling around. Poe in the previous movie was brought before a guy he just saw freeze a blaster bolt in mid air and mocks him to face with with "So who talks first?" We've also seen Hux be a pompous ass who loves to give OTT speeches about how he's going to destroy the Resistance, which were funny. Finn bumbled his way through The Force Awakens. The difference he was on his own and trying to get away while in this one he's on an important mission which makes the bumbling less forgivable. Poe did a mistake the first time but he also succeeded in blowing up the Dreadnought so he wasn't going to learn from that.

They were interesting in a "comfort TV" way. They were entertaining but not that deep. In a recent Nash Bridges writers reunion at ATX Festival one of them said That's basically most of network TV since the beginning. And Rian Johnson came from prestige cable TV like Breaking Bad where it's very flawed anti-heroes and more novelistic on how stories unfold and characters develop as opposed to being the same week after week. The Force Awakens is more like comfort food TV and there's nothing wrong with that. I love USA shows like Monk and Psych and old Quinn Martin productions. I voted. (Sorry for the two posts, I thought they'd merge!)

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I'd agree with that if I thought her character really needed more developing but she really didn't in The Force Awakens. It's like Indiana Jones and James Bond where they don't really need to change. I'm not accusing her of being a "Mary Sue" but I do think there really wasn't anywhere for her to go. With Luke there was still a lot of room for improvement in terms of his Jedi skills and personality after the end of A New Hope. I don't think toxic men love seeing the male hero being shown as a failure and that the woman was right and he should have listened to and obeyed her!

The point in the story was to have all the adults distracted so the Mayor can steal newborn babies to sacrifice.

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A LOT of liberties were taken with history in this one but I can let it slide. Jackman was great as always.

Finn told Poe in private and Poe decided to go behind Holdo's back and sent him and Rose on a secret mission to find a code breaker.

This is episode was the first time I found out what a "Molotov Cocktail" was.

It's just two days ago I listened to the Nash Bridges writers reunion last month at the ATX Festival featuring writers like Carlton Cuse(co-creator of Lost) and Shawn Ryan(creator of The Shield). There's a lot of funny stories and it was interesting learning about about writing for a "star vehicle" show. Ryan who create and produces the new show SWAT starring Shemar Moore: Glen Mazzara(who would be producer on The Walking Dead):

I enjoyed the episode when it first aired and I still do. I think the candy not only made them act like teenagers but more reckless than when they were actually young because the point was to have them completely forget about responsibilities and worrying about consequences.

This episode was painful but definitely preferable to them lingering on unresolved tension and anger for a half dozen or more episodes into the season. Get the Scooby Gang to hash out their issues immediately and get rid of their old angst so they can be ready to face the season's Big Bad and deal with new and different angst!