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So, it's been a few weeks now and I've had time to ruminate a bit more on the latest Star Wars movie. If you didn't see my previous thread that linked to my twitter post, I can boil most of my feelings toward this movie as this:


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Click the date to see the entire twitter thread. Only spoilers if you are swayed by opinions in gif format.

I will eventually type up my thoughts on #RiseofSkywalker but until then, here are initial reactions in GIF format:
- orangerful (@orangerful) December 21, 2019

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I'm not sure why I thought a fun thing to watch on my Saturday morning would be a movie about the Congressional investigation in the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" but I'm going to blame Adam Driver, who I just really like and trust when it comes to choosing interesting roles.

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So, this happened today.

I sat down to watch Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald. I steeled myself because I knew the reviews for this were all over the place. But something about it bugged me right off the bat and I ended up sort of live-tweeting my viewing:

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I had no intention of watching Fantastic Beasts. I had fallen out of love with the HP fandom after the 7th book. When it was announced it would be a 5-film series, I decided I wasn't interested in committing to yet another story set in Rowling's magical world. But then rogueslayer452 linked to Pop Culture Detective and I started watching the videos on that ( Read more... )

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One of Tim's co-workers told him he should watch Logan's RunI don't know why they told him that. Perhaps he was talking about getting older. Or maybe they were just talking films from childhood or something. But anytime Tim actually *wants* to watch a movie, I jump on it because it is so rare, plus I force him to watch so many random things, it ( Read more... )

I did make a bunch of end-of-the-year posts in December to wrap up the year. But I was so excited about my paid Wordpress "public" blog, that I forgot to post them here!!!! **facepalm ( Read more... )