Typical elitist New Republic response. You people have gotten to the point where it's only a matter of time until you stand up for the Borg's right to exist too.

I'm not saying things were better under the Empire but at least they knew how to handle obvious threats to their prosperity.

Anakin Skywalker did nothing wrong.

The Tusken Raiders are savage subhumans. Give me one good reason why they shouldn't be wiped out. There isn't a single redeeming quality about them. The only action any of them has ever expressed is "relentlessly try to murder anyone who isn't one of them".

They're constantly attacking people, even when those people are minding their own business. Their coming of age tradition involves capturing a living being and torturing it to death. Anakin's mother lived in the same desert ranch for years until one day when they showed up and gangraped her to death. They also randomly shoot at podracers. Imagine if every NASCAR race some Taliban member showed up and started taking potshots at Tony Stewart. We would be rightfully outraged and demand their eradication.

They live in easily identifiable campsites and within small enough tribes that a a small group of people with blasters could wipe out a whole village with relative ease. Why aren't they all dead? No one one would be sad if they all died. Anakin took the initiative when no one else would. Sure, it wasn't for the best reason, but his actions were completely justified in his actions.

The only thing Anakin did incorrectly was comparing them to animals. Animals are useful; they can be tamed or harvested. Tusken Raiders are more like a virus. As in everyone else's lives will be measurably improved once a concerted effort is actually made to get rid of them.

I just saw it and I thought it was really solid but not the new gold standard for blockbusters or anything like that. It's well-written, which is an absolute shock after reading that abomination of a draft last autumn, so kudos to whoever clean that shit up. I really enjoyed the editing with the resets and the clever way of showing scenes to us for the first time while Cage has experienced them about 50 times already. However, I thought the characters were very boring. I can't really tell you anything about Cage and Rita as people and even on a surface level, there's not much to them, although Cruise and Blunt gave fine performances.

My biggest gripe are the action scenes. They're all very cookie cutter and indistinguishable from any other PG-13 sci-fi action film over the past decade. There's not a single noteworthy moment that inspired any semblance of awe in me. It's a damn shame because I thought the designs of the creatures and the weaponry had a lot of potential for innovative and unique scenes. Some of the scenes described in the script sounded tremendous but were incredibly mundane on screen.

There's an episode of South Park where Cartman sees something so funny that it ruins his sense of humor forever. He can't laugh at anything anymore even when he knows it's supposed to be funny. I think the same thing happened with me this year when I saw The Raid 2. It has ruined my appreciation and excitement over action scenes. I know I'm supposed to have my adrenaline flowing when I see stuff like Edge of Tomorrow but it's just not there anymore. Gareth Evans has destroyed an entire genre for me.

Didn't you already record a commentary for Prometheus?

I'm not politically motivated enough to like or dislike any piece of fiction for ideological reasons. Not everyone shares my beliefs and I don't expect to see them represented and/or appealed to in everything I watch. This goes to back some of the shit I was saying about True Detective a few months ago:

As soon as we start bringing in self-congratulating tidbits like "maybe you hate women if you dislike this movie so much" and "I dislike this movie because it disrespects women", we get distracted by actual analysis and devolve into a debate where it's like we're trying to prove our moral superiority based on our taste in movies. It's an adaptation of a young adult romance novel, not Mein Kampf. Obviously, nobody in here is purposefully or even unintentionally turning the debate into a series of self-righteous exchanges, but those comments come off as embarrassing to me.

I dislike Twilight because I can't connect with the material and I think it's extremely hokey. Teenage romance does nothing for me. That doesn't mean a film can't come along that does it well enough that I'll like it, but for the time being I've yet to see a teenage romance story that I've enjoyed. Call me shallow, ignorant or petty and I'll probably agree with you but I just have a hard time caring about 16 year olds finding true love even though the world doesn't want them to be together or some such shit. It's just too absurd for me and unintentionally comedic when you throw in stakes like the fate of the universe depending on their love. I think it's cheap wish fulfillment for sexually repressed teenagers in the same way The Raid 2 is wish fulfillment for violence junkies like myself. Of course there are people who do connect with the material and that's totally fine. I'm sure some of them are just as turned off by The Raid 2 as I am by Twilight.

However, I really want to get wasted with my buddies and watch the last installment of the franchise. I have to see any movie that features this:

SPOILER Show

I did miss Tywin being such an piece of shit and saying "wherever whores go".

Cleganebowl is true. I can see it in the fire.

The four new endings - S1E1, S1E6, S3E9 and S4E4 - are all up on the main post.

Eddie, are you posting in the right topic?