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@outlawvern

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Unlicensed critic at , author of WORM ON A HOOK, Seagalogy, Niketown. ().

across from Silvercup Apts.
Joined April 2009
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I'm being pedantic here but blockbuster films did not look like this. Sam Raimi movies did. What we need to go back to is Sam Raimi having a new movie every couple years.
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Blockbuster films used to be edited like this. We need to go back
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The Wes Anderson negativity I've noticed lately is so goofy. Were people ever like, 'Oh great. Here comes Jacques Tati with another one of his fucking Jacques Tati movies'?
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If only there was an Eminem song that could address this situation
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I understand the novelty of the Winnie the Pooh horror movies, but what if some outsider/indie filmmakers took advantage of the public domain status to just... make a really nice Winnie the Pooh movie?
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I like how George Miller never gave a fuck about continuity or timelines. If "the fall" is the war that seems to have happened between MAD MAX and ROAD WARRIOR, Max must be like 80 in FURY ROAD, right? But these are mythical tales, not for the literally-minded to dissect.
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'The Making of Return of the Jedi' has transcripts from a story meeting where they're discussing whether or not they have to explain where Luke got a new lightsaber, and Lucas says, "The worst thing about that is you get a letter in Starlog magazine. Big deal."
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That's really funny that Vin Diesel met Rita Moreno's grandson at the premiere of WEST SIDE STORY and he said "You should put my grandma in a FAST & FURIOUS," so he did.
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People make fun of Christian Bale's "Batman voice," and I don't agree with that. But one thing that's so brilliant about Kevin Conroy's interpretation is that he's not putting on a "Batman voice" as a disguise or for intimidation. It's the Bruce Wayne voice that's an act...
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Who does that motherfucker think he is meticulously developing a signature style and tone across a long career of masterfully crafted and widely beloved movies that might not be your particular thing
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"Grandpa, what did you do about the concentration camps?" "Uh, you know-- there was a lot going on at that time."
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One reason I love PROMETHEUS is the part where they decide they're going to sacrifice themselves to save humanity and Charlize doesn't even say anything, just turns around and hauls ass to the escape pod. A character who's a damaged, cowardly asshole but also I kinda like her.
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If you've seen FURIOSA and the aspect of it you want to discuss is the box office then we are not of the same tribe. In fact our tribes are enmeshed in a generations long intractable holy war.
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I still think Adam Driver was cast for looking like Han in the Holiday Special cartoon.
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Saw some people on the internet here talking about how bad THE NORTHMAN is so I put it on again and it turns out they were mistaken.
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This guy Tom Burke was awesome, so I wouldn't have it any other way, but it's interesting that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was originally cast in the role.
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Vader admiring it and saying "I see you have constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete" somewhat answers questions about Luke's level of training and gives Vader a fatherly moment, sincere or not. So thank you hypothetical Starlog readers if you inspired that.
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I urge you to let people have their Blockbuster Video nostalgia. I'm glad I also had access to cool little mom & pops places and still have the greatest video store in the world, but many people never had that. Their nostalgia is for the video store experience.
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I'll give this to BATMAN FOREVER: they had a different Batman, Batmobile, Gotham City, tone and visual style, but they kept the same Alfred and Commissioner Gordon, and I don't remember anyone getting hung up on whether it was the same timeline or not. They just went with it.
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My ALIEN ranking is that ALIEN and ALIENS are literally perfect, the rest are flawed movies that I like more than most movies.
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TOP GUN: MAVERICK, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER and JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4 prove that huge blockbusters with great filmmaking and incredible spectacle can still be done today. Now we just need it to be viable for non-sequels again.
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First of all, Leatherface can say what he wants about Marvel movies, he's more than earned it. Secondly, read the whole interview - that was just one off handed comment, he mostly talks about taxidermy. Tired of this clickbait.
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THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and FAST X have the same amount of years between them as STAR WARS and THE PHANTOM MENACE.
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For 25 years I have been slightly embarrassed to know the name of the conehead Jedi in the prequels so it is really, really funny to me that there is an asinine controversy about him right now. Anyway we really need to do something about mental health in this country.
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He jokes that "You will get lots of letters, so we'll make a form letter explaining that Luke made it." (Of course they ended up adding a line about it anyway.)
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I loved THE NORTHMAN. Ethan Hawke talks like Christopher Lambert, Nicole Kidman goes mega, there's a sword that can only be drawn at night, good shit.
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I'm disappointed that Lily Gladstone didn't win, but I got to see Arnold Schwarzenegger give an Oscar to Godzilla, so it was a good year.
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I see THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS is gonna be one of those movies where people complain about the story and I think "I guess I can see not liking that" but then when they say what they wished happened instead I think "oh, okay, we are not on the same planet."
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A funny IRISHMAN take is "I don't like the de-aging, they should've cast young and aged them up." Yes, other than Pesci coming out of retirement to reunite with DeNiro for one last Scorsese gangster epic and 2 of the best performances of their careers what would you really lose?
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I'm grateful for the distributor NEON because I've been able to see movies like TITANE, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE and INFINITY POOL in multiplexes. In The Age of I.P. and Content it feels culturally important to have at least a few weird, transgressive movies in wide release.
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I still don't think MAD MAX could take place after whatever "The Collapse" is. There are police, hospitals, TV news, ice cream shops. He owns a house, pajamas, a Tor Johnson mask. Green places everywhere. Not post-apocalyptic, just chaotic. (I dig the disregard for continuity.)
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I don't know how they resolve the strike because streaming is basically a scam. They don't know how to pay residuals per stream because THEY don't get paid per stream. It never made sense as a business model but they pretended it did, everyone played along, now everyone's fucked.
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Well, he made another masterpiece.
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I feel like this is the end of a slasher movie where the killer is laying there and you're yelling at the screen that he's not dead yet.
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JUST IN: McConnell concedes GOP may not be able to repeal ObamaCare
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I think we may take it for granted how unprecedented the JOHN WICK series is in the sense that American martial-arts-based action hits used to get straight-to-video sequels with a different star. They never got the T2 style bigger-badder sequels.
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I'll have a long-ass review eventually, but I feel THE LAST JEDI is true Star Wars, respecting The Force and The Rebellion as philosophies rather than fetishizing them as pop culture. Its answers are more meaningful and interesting than the ones everybody expected. Loved it.
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I've seen assholes (mostly with blue checks) taunting striking writers, saying they will soon be obsolete because of AI. I know it's performative cruelty, but the idea of even pretending to be dumb enough to want TV and movies not to be made by humans... Embarrassing.
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I hope Bob the Goon is in THE FLASH.
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I get why fans of the show hated Phelps being the villain in the first MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie, but now it plays like an echo of so many of our pop culture heroes turning terrible in real life.
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WB is pouring $70 million into a longer version of a movie they consider a disastrous failure just to promote their streaming service, and the fans who harassed them into doing it are convinced they're trying to make it "fail."
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If you're mad that GET OUT didn't win an award: welcome to liking horror movies.
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One thing I love about Batman movies as opposed to any of the other super hero movies is that the director's version of Gotham is as important as their version of Batman.
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Anybody making a big budget American action movie should be shown JOHN WICK CHAPTER 3 and told "Look, you're not gonna make a movie this good. But you are going to make a movie for people who have seen this. For God's sake, put some fucking elbow grease into it."
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There should be a movie where Warren Beatty is a senator who decides to end it all and hires an assassin to kill him but then before it happens he smokes weed and decides to start telling the truth about everything, in the form of raps
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If you don't like the Tati comparison, substitute John Waters, Sergio Leone, Jackie Chan, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or anybody else who spent years doing their own distinct thing.
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You're allowed your "Tom Hardy Max is a different guy" interpretations, but the point I'm trying to make is that you don't have to make up explanations like that. It's not that kind of series. FURIOSA will be the first one with returning characters other than Max.
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Often times, even out of costume, alone with Robin or Alfred (or as an old man in Batman Beyond) he just talks like Batman, because that's who he really is.
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Imagine if when I was high on seeing ARMY OF DARKNESS the first time people lectured me about 'it opened at #6 , you know audiences don't really care about EVIL DEAD, Universal should've known Bruce Campbell isn't a big enough name, blah blah blah.' FUCK OFF, WHY WOULD I CARE.
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I haven't seen FURIOSA a third time yet, but I keep thinking about it. I'm still fascinated by how the climax parallels the end of the first one. The premise of MAD MAX was that the world drives him mad by the end, so all he's trying to accomplish is a sadistic revenge.
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I challenge all Oscar nominees to carry a guitar or saxophone to the podium and if the orchestra tries to play you off to start jamming with them
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I'm excited for the day when some young film nerd who has heard the Kevin Smith/giant spider story suddenly makes the connection that he's talking about Bradley Cooper's character from LICORICE PIZZA and has their mind blown.
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I regret voting for Senator Palpatine, but he seemed good for Naboo at the time.
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Four Oscar winning actresses in this one. Vin should just go down the list of previous winners and see who else is interested.
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It still haunts me that Mitch McConnell is rich and could've retired years ago and just enjoyed life. It was more important to him to keep making everyone else's lives miserable until the moment his brain gave out. Power attracts the most soul-less fucking creeps that exist.
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@Klee_FilmReview It's a Netflix movie. They do not sell tickets. To get a bunch of stars in it they have to pay way more up front, that's how it works.
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Thousands of people on Twitter taunting James Cameron because a new movie made more money than his old movie is a new level of box office weirdoism.
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People talk about Vin Diesel exactly like they used to talk about Stallone: his ego is too big, he's dumb, he can't talk, he just makes sequels, he ghost directs, he got old. In some cases they're wrong and others they're missing that that's part of the appeal.
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This cliche that prequels by definition lack dramatic tension is a superficial understanding of storytelling. There can be bad prequels, but this criticism usually assumes the only point of the story is who lives and dies at the end, which is not the point of most good stories.
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@TheJastrom Or tattooed on a History Man.
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(LONG THREAD ALERT) Action movies are one of my favorite things, so I've thought a lot about what they mean, and whether their values are at odds with my own. I don't take them literally, so it doesn't bother me being a non-violent person watching dudes get kicked in the face.
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R.I.P. Kevin Conroy
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Just remembered Pedro Pascal was also in Zhang Yimou's epic kung fu monster movie that people decided was racist because Matt Damon was in it.
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@Jfcdoomblade So is this
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DOCTOR STRANGE 2 vague spoiler: There is a minor character I later read was from a TV show I never watched and forgot existed. And it didn't matter! I was fine!
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@STARS_TyranT The court of 12-14 year old Twitter. Fuck 'em.
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Remember when VENOM 2 teased Venom crossing over to the MCU and then we found out he just stayed in a hotel bar the whole time? That was great.
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Now that he got Leonard Bernstein out of his system I hope Bradley Cooper's next prestige acting/directing passion project is THE A-TEAM II.
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The LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL A.I. thing seems minor, but I don't think people are wrong to make an example out of them. Just think of it in the terms of that story about kicking the nazi out of the bar.
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I'm personally not buying the "murders don't count if someone curses at the murderer during the murder" argument.
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@FrankYan2 Nothing against that but a $70 million Disney movie does not fit the description.
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Virtually every podcast I've listened to discussing TOP GUN: MAVERICK has joked about the non-specific enemy country without realizing they did that in the first TOP GUN. We remember them as Russian the way people used to remember TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE being gory.
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It exists
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Biggest plot hole in JUSTICE LEAGUE is they don't use the motherbox to resurrect Prince and David Bowie.
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Skepticism about upcoming Tarantino film, Film Threat, February 1994. http://t.co/vGEBDoPMtN
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Too bad the directors of 2020-2021 tentpoles didn't have a heads up that they'd all be dumped straight into the garbage and wouldn't have to sell tickets. They could've been making some insane SPEED RACER x HOLY MOUNTAIN freakouts with their hundreds of millions of dollars.
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I wish there was a way to make modern Star Wars dumbasses experience the world before the internet when they would've had to fit all their complaints into one letter to Starlog or Cinefantastique and then find something else to do.
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In 1990, TOTAL RECALL, NIGHTBREED, DARKMAN, DICK TRACY, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, TREMORS, GREMLINS 2, I COME IN PEACE and PREDATOR 2 were all wide release movies. (There were other great movies, but I'm listing the weirder ones.) I would like more 1990 energy in today's world.
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It's so funny to me that they waited until after manufacturing the blu-rays and dvds.
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β€˜MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING - PART 1’ has been officially retitled to β€˜MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING’.
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I think that would be cool.
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Have they considered having Michael B. Jordan star in the SPACE JAM sequel and calling it SPACE B. JAM thank you
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Brian Thompson invented Rami Malek's acting style.
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Fourth Law of Robotics: A robot may not simulate a Wes Anderson shot or, through inaction, allow a Wes Anderson shot to be simulated.
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The internet wanted to hang George Miller for casting young unknowns in JUSTICE LEAGUE. This was his Wonder Woman: http://t.co/cZiFc2K1Vb
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Remember that when you mock these AI dipshits with a retweet instead of screengrab you're promoting their garbage and also giving them engagement they can monetize since every last one of them is a Twitter Blue subscriber.
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I paid to see STEALTH in the theater, as well as KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD, HERCULES, both VENOMs, Taron Egerton ROBIN HOOD, THE LAST WITCH HUNTER, only missed BLOODSHOT because of Covid. I have to face that I am the audience for MORBIUS, and this is a life I have chosen.
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I love this movie. Though it seems somewhat forgotten now, it's one of the only old-timey-adventure-hero updates that was actually a big hit. It's just such an appealing mix of action, adventure, sexiness and movie star charisma (plus swords). Likely my favorite Martin Campbell.
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Mask of Zoro (1998) is almost like a family friendly action film if it weren't for all the impaling and explosions in the end. Simple but effective fencing choreography with lots of doubling but we get enough shots of the actors where you sometimes forget it's happening.
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HBO Max fixed it so clicking on TOM & JERRY no longer plays the Snyder Cut. But there's still a bug for some people where it plays after you've watched JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH in its entirety and discussed it in-depth with friends. Try it out.
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Sacred relic
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I feel like that clip of Pence blandly looking through 400 filthy suffering people crammed into a cage, nodding like he's pretending to inspect factory equipment but doesn't know what he's doing, is gonna be in all the documentaries about this era.
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I'll try to forgive you all but I really do feel it's disrespectful to the unlikely perfection of BLADE and BLADE II that everyone keeps saying it should be easy to make a new one.
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Two of the great American super heroes. One's a Muslim, the other is a refugee treated like shit by a corrupt businessman with hair issues.
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Watched PREY again with a group of friends and afterwards my wife said, "I didn't know 'if it bleeds we can kill it' was such an important line to you men."
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@rbottoms Is this a serious argument you're making, that it is anti-Black to want more Sam Raimi movies? That made sense in your head?
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Never forget DMX making Nas watch GUMMO in BELLY.
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If you love MASK OF ZORRO like I do I can't recommend this enough. An enormous collection of stories from writers, stunt people, the editor, the sound designer, all kinds of people. Really makes the case for ZORRO as the last great practical blockbuster.
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The original Hollywood Reporter review of RETURN OF THE JEDI makes a questionable claim about Jabba.
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These fuckin anti-trans people. Why not just say "I don't understand it, but it's not my life, and I support people doing what they want and being happy"? It seems like so much more effort to be a hateful asshole digging a tunnel to the wrong side of history. I don't get it.
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Look, I'm not trying to defend what Green Goblin did at the World Unity Festival, but it's worth noting that he vaporized 6 war profiteers, punched 5 cops, and left Macy Gray and her band unharmed. Just for the record.
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Fuck bullies and bigots, and thank you so much to the ever growing community of action fans and scholars who I've seen promoting empathy and inclusion rather than using the genre to excuse fascism and macho bullshit. I appreciate you more than you know.
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So it took Nazis almost 40 years to figure out Star Wars was about them.
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