Top Gun

Honestly I enjoyed it back then, and it helped a ton for the verbal section of the SATs. Not exactly doing shit for me these days though.

AIring 08th MS Team would be pretty kickass.

I had to translate part of Commentarii De Bello Gallico in Latin class in high school. Caesar loved his goddamn proper nouns.

There are a handful within a few days of mine, but just about the only one of any lasting note is Windaria, which as far as I know was hideously depressing. Sounds about right.

Wow...that song takes me back to OG Guitar Hero 2, but I had no idea it was drenched in freakin' Cobra.

Because back then the worst thing a president could do was get a hummer from a frumpy intern?

Nothing like nostalgia, right?

...it's a forum. Post those things in the places actually meant for them. The folder balkanization this community has always engaged in is really fucking bizarre.

No, I'm not 12.

Where are you getting the cowardice bullshit from? His entire goal throughout the film was to get to Rey and help her. Short-sighted and selfish, yes, but he didn't think twice about putting himself in danger to do so. I will freely admit that much of the Finn/Rose subplot could have used a defter editing touch, but I legitimately like what she represents. She was a true Everywoman in a franchise that has rarely (if ever) allowed those to get any legitimate presence. Um, that's how hyperspace has ALWAYS worked, going all the way back to the OT and much of the EU. Objects with large mass cast "shadows" into hyperspace that would destroy a ship that passed through them, which made precise navigational calculations a necessity. (See also the hand-waving to explain the infamous "made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs" line.) A large ship colliding with a much larger ship while entering hyperspace is going to obliterate the large ship and seriously fuck up the larger ship. The only reason the other ships got taken out is because they were directly in line with the debris and got shotgunned by it. As for why it hasn't been done in the past? Because A) the Rebel Alliance didn't exactly have enough capital ships to start sending them on suicide runs against a nigh-limitless fleet of Star Destroyers, B) nothing suggests that they would go for a kamikaze culture, and C) just what do you propose they actually would have accomplished? A 4-kilometer cruiser only managed to shear off the wing of a dreadnought, not immediately destroy it outright. Aiming one at a planet-sized battle station would accomplish nothing more than a mild puff of smoke and a Death Star in need of a new paint job. But really this sort of surface-level whataboutism is supremely uninteresting. It tries to bury the actual themes and purpose of a film beneath a mountain of fanwank. Maybe some people get off on that, but I don't.

Does it take talent to consistently have such terrible hot takes?

Um...no? That was one of the single-greatest pieces of cinematography I have ever seen. And it doesn't ruin shit. Seriously are you stooping to the StarDestroyer.net "WELL ACTUALLY they could have done X and Y at past event Z so this makes no sense!" level of pedantry?

I'm deathly serious. Like, I could go ahead and pick apart that whole spoiler post up there, but it's pretty much CinemaSins-level bullshit, and I've already devoted enough words to doing just that elsewhere. And I certainly respect Hamill's opinions, but he himself has stated that he regrets how the whole thing has been spun and that he had a great deal of respect for what Rian Johnson was going for. I'm really fucking sick and tired of the whole ZOMG HAMILL HATES IT! spin.

Anyone claiming that TLJ "ruined" Luke's character never understood Star Wars in the first place. Or character-writing in general. Seriously, this film is about the best thing to happen to the franchise since ESB.

Another classic:

I dunno, because he has a functioning brain?

A classic:

Fuuuuuuuck.

I sincerely doubt it, I've yet to come across anyone who mentions it favorably.

Oh yeah, that era had the best character designs in anime history. Beats the shit out of the current moeblob trend.

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize that "peer-reviewed studies in reputable scientific journals" equated to "corporate bullshit" in fuggs-land.

I was wondering what chemical she could possibly talking about and of course it was something retarded like that.

I'm a teacher. Fuck September to the blackest pits of hell.

I have yet to see Gunsmith Cats, but Riding Bean was irredeemably stupid.

So you then.