movies

[MrSaigon]

Episode I was received even better than 56% as I recall when it was released. Fans liked it initially, too. Once everyone got a little distance it was seen a little more for what it is. I do wonder what the tomatometer would have been at the time.

I always used to prod my Star Wars-as-religion friends, that are perpetually angry at all times about the prequels about I. But I tried to watch it about the time 7 came out and it is really, really awful. I don't prod anymore.

[Jocephus]

[Arthur Dent]

I was as big a Star Wars fan as anyone when I was a kid, but this tying of so much of your own psyche to two words (which is all it is now, with the original creator long gone) seems odd to me. Well, it's just a particularly extreme form of commodity fetishism, I suppose, so it's not that odd.

Never heard the term commodity fetishism used in this way before.

[ghostrunner]

I love that guy.

[Famous Mortimer]

I was as big a Star Wars fan as anyone when I was a kid, but this tying of so much of your own psyche to two words (which is all it is now, with the original creator long gone) seems odd to me. Well, it's just a particularly extreme form of commodity fetishism, I suppose, so it's not that odd.

Never heard the term commodity fetishism used in this way before.

I thought I was using it properly, but after a bit of reading, you're right. What term was I thinking of? Anyway.

"Rogue One" does look pretty good, too. But Star Wars had better watch out, the more movies they do, someone will [expletive] up and they'll have to do a timeline reset or alternate realities or something. Darth Vader will be a good guy before you know it.

[Schlich]

I'm not really sure where else to put this, but that hipster movie buff friend from undergrad I referred to earlier did a nice little interview with Ice Cube. Cool stuff.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I kinda eyerolled when I saw they were making a Jungle Book movie, but the two movie critics I work with both say its outstanding.

[Schlich]

I kinda eyerolled when I saw they were making a Jungle Book movie, but the two movie critics I work with both say its outstanding.

I never knew how much I wanted that movie to happen until I saw the preview for it.

[ghostrunner]

Strangely enough, there's another Jungle Book movie coming out in 2018. It's amazing how often this happens.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I kinda eyerolled when I saw they were making a Jungle Book movie, but the two movie critics I work with both say its outstanding.

I never knew how much I wanted that movie to happen until I saw the preview for it.

Even after seeing the preview the first couple times, I was thinking "No one asked for this!"

But, it grew on me, and I generally trust the opinions of the guys I talked to.