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Way to miss the point completely. It’s not that Christensen stopped getting roles; it’s that he declined to pursue further roles for an extended period of time due to the pervasive harassment he received in his personal life from so-called Star Wars fans who didn’t like his performance and...

He’s only recently started acting again. There was a long period where he didn’t even try to get roles due to the repeated personal attacks that took away his enjoyment of the profession.

There's this ugly strain of Star Wars fandom that feels entitled to be cruel and actively hostile against things they don't perceive to be "correct" for Star Wars, and it's disgusting and so disheartening to witness. It's been going on for ages too - when the special editions came out in 1997...

I think you might be misunderstanding my point. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with tinkering for one’s own pleasure at home. I think there’s something very weird about taking someone else’s copyrighted work, re-editing it into something entirely new and different, and then putting it...

And I think that's when the "fan editing" started too. There was that huge deal about "the Phantom Edit" where someone re-edited the film in a way to make it "better", which then spawned a whole subculture of fans slicing and dicing the movies to "fix mistakes". Rather than just accepting that...

If we’re going to talk about actors negatively impacted by Star Wars - poor Jake Lloyd. He got to go shoot a Star Wars movie, which must be fun especially if you’re a kid - and then got made fun of, bullied and socially ostracized from his peers when he went back to school afterwards. It’s ok if...

I think Lucas stated in interviews that at least part of the motivation for selling Lucasfilm was that he was tired of the vitriol that came with making Star Wars movies. I don't agree with every creative choice that Lucas has ever made, but I've always respected the man himself and endeavor to...

I'd maybe even argue that it is major -- because these retailer exclusives aren't necessarily easy to come by. They sell out quickly, and often require an advance pre-ordered, or a day-of-release trip to the store in order to get it. It's more work than simply ordering the standard version on...

I think the ghosts of Obi-Wan and Yoda can hang out with whoever they want, while at the same time, the living can choose not to open a Darth Vader-run daycare :D

What does redemption even mean in this context? I know people say Vader was redeemed but I think there's a difference between finally doing the right thing after decades of doing the wrong thing, vs being morally in the clear. Vader's first act as a Sith was to slaughter defenseless children...

Agreed. I suspect we'll never know for sure, but my guess about his fate was this from when TFA opened - that after killing Han in 7, he'd be responsible for Luke's death in 8, and that Leia will take him out in 9. We'll never know now, but after the events in TLJ, it certainly seems that I...

In high school, I was able to take an aviation course, and I can report that flying a small Cessna plane is actually far easier than flying Microsoft Flight Simulator. I have no problem believing a novice could pilot such a craft in these films, particularly when they are the equivalent of cars...

Some of the deleted scenes on the TFA disc contained unfinished effects, so if that also happens with TLJ, it may be more pleasing to read about them in the novelization and get them in context rather than just seeing the snippets of unfinished work on the disc.

It's hard to take an article seriously that includes the text: "Star Wars: The Last Jedi might still be showing in theaters." It's showing on thousands of screens and brought in tens of millions of dollars last weekend!

I've never seen that smiley before but I love it. It's probably good that I don't know how to make it. I have no problem accepting that the movie is polarizing, it's just that outside of the Internet echo chamber, I haven't seen it in day to day life. I know a few candidates to have that...

I've never seen that smiley before but I love it. It's probably good that I don't know how to make it. I have no problem accepting that the movie is polarizing, it's just that outside of the Internet echo chamber, I haven't seen it in day to day life. I know a few candidates to have that...

When you're the sequel to a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, that sorta thing is bound to happen.

I saw a late show on a very frigid night yesterday, and it was far from full - about a couple dozen people. That would be normal or better than normal for a movie that's been out three weeks on a night that's not fun to go out on in the first place. There was a couple in the row in front of...

Anecdotally, that's matching my experience on the ground - I like the movies, I like collecting movies, I like going out to see them, and everyone I know knows this about me. I'm hearing from lots of people who normally do not go to the movies that they've gone out to see this. I'm having a...

What I'm saying is that I put absolutely no stock whatsoever in that 50% number on Rotten Tomatoes. I do not believe it is an accurate reflection of what the audience feels about the movie. I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of what people who would call themselves "Star Wars fans"...

I am saying it has made a phenomenal amount of money. In two weeks, it made more money domestically than any other film that had come out in 2017. I think it was never, ever, under any circumstance, going to come close to the nearly $1 billion domestic gross of TFA. I don't think TFA is a...

Disagree completely. The movie has already made a phenomenal amount of money, and has so far exceeded the gross of Rogue One by over $100 million. The financial success of The Force Awakens was a once in a generation thing that was extremely unlikely to be repeated. It was never Disney's...

Every Star Wars fan that I have spoken to in person (as opposed to knowing online) has liked the movie. The reaction has ranged from "liked it, but different than what I was expecting" to "absolutely loved it". I have yet to have one single person in my orbit make a derogatory comment about...

I would have hated that ending with every fiber of my being. It would have been a complete cheat to everything that had come before in the film. A complete throwing out of all of the film's themes, all of the characters individual struggles and collective journeys. It would be a betrayal of...

I think that's absolutely true. But in the case of TLJ, I think there is some surprisingly strong competition out there -- Jumanji is expected to overtake TLJ as the #1 at the box office this weekend, which is incredible. In the year 2017, now 2018, that simply doesn't happen in the business...

I think that's true to an extent, but a crowded marketplace will mean that a film has less screens to play on, which means fewer showings, which may make it difficult for people to return as often as they'd like. And with the theatrical to home video window shrinking all the time, that's also...

"The Finest Hours" with Chris Pine came out in January 2016 - was heavily promoted with TFA and took over in IMAX.

That all makes sense based on how the finished film worked out. However, in the earlier drafts of TFA, Poe dies crashing into Jakku at the beginning. They may have even filmed it that way; it was a smaller part when Oscar Isaac took on the role. However, they liked him so much that the role...

I remember after TFA came out, reading an interview with Abrams where he talked about the process of handing the reins to Johnson. Johnson knew where things were going with TFA, and had requested some minor changes (presumably before filming wrapped) so that it would be a smoother transition...

I don't think there's anything about Rey which retcons the saga. The Skywalker family does not have exclusive dibs on force sensitivity. Before the republic fell, force sensitive people generally didn't even have kids; they'd get scooped up by the Jedi as little kids, and it's part of the Jedi...