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Lol Hux was a Saturday mmrning cartoon in TFA

I can potentially see this being a dig (it's followed up with him not being able to think of one right now). But at no point should an opposition party consider a member of the other party considering why I'm voting for the top of the ticket.

Haha.

It was fun to see him contradict himself.

Spark is great, yeah. But The Last Jedi -- what plays during Kylo v Luke -- is amazing. 1:48 is when Kylo finally realizes that Luke's not dead. The music is so fucking good; the ending is the perfect musical representation of how confused and twisted Kylo is.

Yoda was such a shock, but man... one more conversation between the two and a mid-life lesson from a Jedi who straight-up said, "Failed, I have," in 3 was pretty great. As I said earlier in the thread, it was weird that Yoda just "fails" in 3 and that none of the Jedi sensed by Palpatine, but if you just accept that the Dark Side if powerful like that, then taking those failures and going, "Look, the Jedi failed. Luke, it's OK that you filed because you can teach Rey how not to," was so fucking good.

Too extreme a reaction, but lol, ya.

TFA feels significantly more polished than RoS, and considering its critical acclaim and my own love for it, I think he was fine and that delay was good enough. RoS, I know I talked about earlier in the thread, needed more time to feel tighter and cleaner and work on the pacing and edits, but the story beats were JJ. I don't know if he'd have thought something better than, "Look at this test tube of Snokes."

I liked the damn bill part. Because at the end of the day, I thought they were significantly more condescending to Bernie and that he claps back more than he takes a cheap shot. Ex: Delaney saying, "I've been in the industry and it doesn't add up!" Brah, you've spent millions and haven't done shit in the race, wasting your money instead of using it to promote fairer economic policies; FOH with you saying you know more because you handle money. So did the guys behind Lehman Brothers.

But he barely kicks in action sequences is my point.

You said the movies should be spaced out three years instead of two. From your post it sounds like TFA should have had more time and then everything should have been spaced more: "I do think that they should have just delayed the entire project for a year (to give Brad Bird more time on TFA) and then spread them out by three years each instead of two)." I'm suggesting that's not the issue.

I kept waiting for her to do something the whole movie and waited for her to show up in the celebration at the end. While we were still in the theater, my friend and I said, "Why did they just drop Finn and Rose's relationship?" TLJ had two and was excellent. The issue isn't the two years. I'm pretty sure RJ could have done the whole trilogy from 2015 - 2019 and been fine.

Donahue did a good interview with Bernie after he won his mayoral race. Bernie was 30-fucking-9. Makes me very impressed with how I aged. My favorite line is: “My goodness, how could this happen in good old conservative Vermont?” It seems like so long ago, but Vermont and New Jersey going Democratic in 1992 was big news at the time. New Jersey went double digits for Bush in 1988 and Vermont was around 4 points for Bush after decades of mostly Republican voting on the national level.

I think I became a Berniebro, so I find myself sufferable.

There was an overall spike in crime in 2016 nationally, though I'm not sure why considering the overall trend since the 90s. Crime rate decreased for most years this decade, too.

He didn't kick him with that kind of force because he didn't kick him. Batman mostly fought by scaring enemies or using his hands. Bane is also someone who can break materials with his bare hands.

I can actually buy this explanation, particularly since we know some of Rose's scenes were cut (though it doesn't seem like anything crucial, sooo.... there are still big issues). But even if that's 100% the explanation and there was no outside influence from the neckbeards on Twitter, it would really go into the writing and how ill-conceived using out-of-context Leia footage was. A bit of it is fine, but the way she reacts to what others say seems weird. You have to write the script around her out-of-context lines, which leads to Leia seeming out of place sometimes. Other times, it worked, but because of the difficulty of pulling it off, why not utilize a living actor more instead of giving a dead actor more to do than a living one? One of the things I loved about TLJ is everyone had big and/or memorable moments. Finn saying, "Rebel scum," was a fantastically written piece of evolution for him. Rose saving Finn. Leia using the Force and having that great scene with Kylo as they both sensed each other. Kylo's got too many to list ("MORE!" his entire throne scene with Rey and Snoke), Rey's got a ton, Luke with his sass ("Feel that? That's the Force!" "See ya round, kid.") and his wipe the dirt off your shoulder move and his wink, Poe's epiphany on what the Resistance is and what Luke was doing, Holdo's maneuver, Snoke's taunting, Hux's comic relief and tension with Kylo (I stand by thinking Hux being the mole being a great evolution of his character considering his relationship with Kylo in the previous two movies)... Fucking Rose's sister and broom boy were more memorable in TLJ than Rose was in RoS. >__> Even more evidence of how well thought-out TLJ was and how well-utilized everyone was.

The Rise of Skywalker writer explains why Kelly Marie Tran had a reduced role

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-crime-stats-end-of-year-20181228-story.html What's different:

I'm on Chapter 5. Zip lines, muthafuckas.

I've noticed Buttigieg has been slipping in the national and Iowa polls. It's still strong enough, but it's not early December lengths. Iowa's the more relevant of the two. That's likely why he's now going after Biden.

Stage 4

I have a feeling that I'll find stuff to like about this long-term. The PTs aren't good movies but there are aspects or scenes I like, so I feel there will be things I like about this. And at the least, I'll enjoy watching McDiarmid scenes.

I never beat the PS2 ones; I just played until I either got stuck or I had played enough. And I used cheats the entire time, so my skills were lacking (and the worse gameplay didn't help). I beat 4 and 5, though, without any cheats (if there were any). That's not to say I didn't love 3 and SA (never played VC for whatever reason); I just never felt like playing until the end.

Judging what the city should have done is the same reason the cesspool of the IGN Movies Lobby criticized TDK's ending. "I'd have blown up the other boat!" Gotham's police department has been corrupt since before Begins. You guys had working with the mob in both movies. Now the entire Dent Act was based around a murderer. The notion that someone would take anger over corruption in what's supposed to be law enforcement and create a populist uprising is fantastic, never mind the ones who partook in the eating of the rich and loved what was going on.