lowkey one of the worst aspects of genAI being shoved into things is that I am constantly sceptical when presented with unknown art and artists. 'can I like this, or is it literally made of art theft?'

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Technology is all just tools for telling a story. I say if there’s a point where it “peaked,” that point will different for each storyteller, based upon what tools they need to use to tell their story.

Oh well, pobody’s nerfect. The important thing is that you learned from your mistakes so you know what to do differently in the next holocaust!

Just heard a guy say that they just heard a guy say you can say whatever you want without getting banned by claiming you just overheard a guy say what you want to say and adding 'that's wild' after it. The guy said it was wild. That’s wild.

Apparently Big Beautiful Bill meant something else entirely

People sometimes accuse me of “making the prequels my whole personality” but you have to understand, I like them and it’s unbelievably frustrating seeing people claim they’re “objectively bad” all the time. Feels like I’m defending my right to enjoy a movie! Just let me have this one thing please?🙏

It's insane to me that there are people who try to lambast Qui-Gon as an immoral person for freeing Anakin from slavery in part because he suspected Anakin was the Chosen One who would destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force.

i don't know i think we have a reasonable estimation that steven soderbergh, who has been making good movies for four decades, would've made a good movie

Just realized that in Revenge of the Fallen, because Sam Witwicky basically uploads the Transformers Wiki into his brain when he touches the shard of the All Spark, he becomes… Sam WitWiki

“The problem with the democrats is that they tell young white men they are the root of evil and everything wrong with the world” and what do you think the republicans say about literally every other demographic that isn’t a white guy? POC Men and Women? LGBTQ? People with disabilities? The Poor?

NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz

Yeah, I think it’s official that George really has a thing for Mon Calamari ships…

Imagine all the skill, love, creativity and problem-solving that a team goes into lighting and shooting a feature-length motion picture... and bozos online praise the look of the film and attribute it mostly to "they shot it on actual film!"

When I was thirteen months old in 1999, I got sick with scarlet fever. My parents feared I wouldn’t make it, but after I ate my dad’s ticket stub from the TPM screening they’d gone to the prior week, I not only miraculously recovered, but also developed an IQ of 195.

The problem with The Phantom Menace is that I don’t have object permanence. If I don’t see something happen on the actual screen, it may as well have not happened in the story.

“We don’t see the Naboo suffer but we see alderaan being destroyed” We don’t see the people of Alderaan die, Obi Wan tells us about it. In TPM, we see the Invasion of Naboo, we see the Gungans and wildlife displaced, the Queen and her people captured at gunpoint, Nute Gunray sitting on the throne.

It cannot be overstated how embarrassing it is for so many people to sandwich their (just barely) credible accusations of racist coding in Jar Jar’s design in between recycled takes from a reviewer who yes, does claim Sam Jackson was nothing more than a diversity hire.

Rewatch those videos. I promise you this isn't an exaggeration. Disagree about the prequels fine, but don't use arguments of an asinine uneducated racist while ALSO using random people of color who dislike the prequels as a cudgel to beat PT fans into submission over topics of racism/imperialism

James Bond’s ‘death’ is a sacred canon event now.

My last word on the matter

The sigh of relief I just uttered registered on the Richter scale.

The problem with most online discussion about film is that too many people think that the role of films is to make them feel good about how they already think about the world. People don't want to watch movies to feel things anymore. They want to watch movies to not feel things.

“George Lucas has always been a clunky, pedestrian filmmaker (just look at “Star Wars”)” So, the second sentence is a bald-faced lie. Off to an inauspicious start.

This short quote from my talk with George Lucas shows first that George wanted to expand what a Star Wars movie could be. And second, he asserts his rights as a creator. This is from #StarWarsArchives19992005 My unboxing here: youtu.be/Ocm__ZQTZVk

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Yeah, there's a difference between "I'm not a fan of this film" and "this film is objectively bad and therefore you're a [insert slur] for liking it" Which sounds like an exaggeration, but was mine and many other PT fans online experience prior to 2015 or so

The things you and others are bringing up aren't objective flaws with the movie but are preferences on how to write and present a story. Lucas isn't breaking filmmaking rules by not focusing on one specific character's journey like he did with Luke in A New Hope

“I want you to tell me who the main character of Pulp Fiction was.” “Now you might think that the main character of Magnolia is Solomon, but we don’t meet him until forty-five minutes into the movie!”

“George Lucas has always been a clunky, pedestrian filmmaker (just look at “Star Wars”)” So, the second sentence is a bald-faced lie. Off to an inauspicious start.

The problem with most online discussion about film is that too many people think that the role of films is to make them feel good about how they already think about the world. People don't want to watch movies to feel things anymore. They want to watch movies to not feel things.

I guess BlueSky wouldn't be the platform that it is without a bunch of libs proclaiming themselves as a resistance movement against the evil reassessment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy

Every filmmaker, showrunner, and video game designer that Big Screen Bobby has covered deserves our gratitude, regardless of the quality of the media they’ve produced. For their capturing of his attention keeps him distracted from the pursuit of public office.

In times of hardship, when people are being particularly and wilfully obtuse, I recall the ancient words of wisdom from one of our most cherished myths…

We are twenty-six years removed from The Phantom Menace and not once has anyone been able to explain in reasonable terms, on a fully objective standard, why it’s a bad movie. What could this mean?

Yo know, sometimes it can be kind of lonely to love something thats so wildly hated online, but on the flipside, when you meet a cool person who also likes that thing, you're like instant friends for life lol

Raymax makes some very good Star Wars vids, by the way 👇

You must be new to my little corner of this site.

It kind of blows my mind because they do not understand basic human psychology? You entertain and draw in the kids to the film with funny jar jar then provide them with valuable lessons about how the world works. This is what every piece of good children’s media does.

November 10, 1998: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Amazing teaser poster released #OTD, designed by Ellen Lee. The title simply states, “Episode I,” but the long shadow of Darth Vader hangs over the film. #StarWarsArchives19992005 youtu.be/Ocm__ZQTZVk

“The Fox board of directors still had to see Star Wars, too. As expected, the screening was a disaster: several members fell asleep and most of them hated the movie.” — Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas by Dale Pollock

After the opening title crawl, and excluding mentions of name “Trade Federation,” the word “trade” is uttered a whopping seven times in The Phantom Menace. The word “senate” is spoken six times in A New Hope. Therefore, the whole story is about senate meetings.

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

I knew it was stupid of Jane to opine about Star Wars but y'know she used to be a libertarian, didn't bother spending energy on that conversation

"I have no idea what being a contributing writer for a fascist rag has to do with despising a character that was created for children to sympathize with indigenous populations"

The inciting incident for conflict in The Phantom Menace being a trade war is inherently a flaw, according to a writer for the New York Times (a piece of unofficial regime propaganda for the current presidential administration).

I don’t talk about my personal life on social media all that much, but my grandfather just underwent medically-assisted end-of-life treatment a short while ago, and I was actually incredibly glad he went out the way he did.

Fuck it, Star Wars discourse grenade: saying the Jedi failed Anakin and didn't give him all the support he needed to stay good and so really it's their fault is basically the same two-step the media does when every white teen boy school shooter was clearly a troubled soul who needed understanding.

So unbelievably dumb. Like, not only did the sith kill all the Jedi, it’s also clear that they’re f@ci$t, racist, sexist etc. The Empire is mostly human men in a diverse galaxy of hundreds of alien species. Why is the only woman in a position of power a rebel? Why are all the aliens rebels?