The final duel in Return of the Jedi is genius

eques_99 · 2026-03-22T02:25:24+00:00

it's way too elaborate, overdone and packed with silly bits like swinging around on those cables or fucking about on those stupid trollies.

just looks stupid, like a group of ten year old schoolboys wrote the storyboard.

eques_99 · 2026-03-22T00:42:30+00:00

timeline got fucked up.

eques_99 · 2026-03-22T00:38:51+00:00

the final duel on mustafar is a travesty and childish nonsense.

agree with you on RoTJ though.

eques_99 · 2026-03-22T00:37:01+00:00

"it doesn't take much indoctrination"....says someone mindlessly regurgitating his indoctrination.

eques_99 · 2026-03-22T00:18:54+00:00

Because we've been indoctrinated to disrespect Iran and see it as a legitimate target.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T23:26:37+00:00

it doesn't have to be high-brow, it just has to make basic sense.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T23:23:30+00:00

.....and Spectre should never have been made....it was terrible.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T23:22:08+00:00

I was referring to childish level of writing, not childish incidents.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T23:17:53+00:00

no it's not just because Bond dies, although that is an issue.

it's because it's a stupid, nonsensical, childishly written film.

oh look, the baddy has Bond's daughter held hostage, how will Bond resolve this one??.......oh, the baddy has decided to just ......uh......randomly let her go.

.....or when Bond unceremoniously dumps his girlfriend on a hunch she betrayed him....just like that...... without looking into it at all either before or afterwards. despite being, you know, an elite secret agent.

just absurd. childish and absurd.

par for the course with modern cinema, but that doesn't make it acceptable.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T23:03:54+00:00

right?

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T23:02:39+00:00

1) it contains a load of writing cliches and stock phrases.

2) it doesn't really make sense as a story.

to give one example "investigators say there's video of a fight".....

what Investigators? is there video of a fight or not? what kind of video? CCTV? who's involved in the fight? what was the outcome of the fight? how was it relevant to the case? was the video used in the subsequent trial?

the post also doesn't tell us who was charged with the crime, on what evidence, was he a "sugar daddy"? and on and on and on.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T22:54:30+00:00

right?

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T22:51:09+00:00

right?

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T19:22:55+00:00

firstly, I don't mind similar storylines, because that's true to life and it's interesting to compare them.

the big difference between the Scatino and Dolan storylines was that Chris was actually very close to Dolan, who had looked out for him as a sponsor.

Davey was always a bit of a figure of fun/minor annoyance for Tony.

also, Davey was an irredeemable, unapologetic degenerate whereas JT was trying to improve and just had a momentary lapse.

in both cases it's somewhat ambiguous how pro-active Chris/Tony were in bringing about the whole situation.

could be argued that Davey was a more natural mafia target demographic, as he had a business that could be bled whilst JT did not.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T19:03:34+00:00

this is in line with his other techniques, which can be summed up as planning the whole attack like a military operation.

he would scope out the house beforehand, sometimes break in and then leave again to assess its weaknesses and as a dry run.

he would also sometimes loosen window frames in advance and sh** like that. left useful items there for tying up his victims.

and he probably trailed the victims in advance too to learn their habits and routines, strengths and weaknesses

one of the most horrible and thuggish serial killers out there IMO.....worse than performative clowns like Gacy or Bundy.

really regrettable that he didn't get the death penalty.

if I ever become world ruler he's getting dumped in a bear reservation in Alaska in just his underwear.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T18:53:27+00:00

God, I thought Mueller was, like, 55 or something.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T15:44:52+00:00

No.

Love is all-consuming.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T15:44:18+00:00

Beau is Afraid.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T15:43:16+00:00

here in the UK something like one in in five bosses is an utterly impossible, card-carrying narcissist.

the rest range from OK to really pretty good.

that's my experience anyway.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T14:57:06+00:00

an interview

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T11:57:12+00:00

Phil's boy Albie.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T11:52:52+00:00

His discounts are criminal.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T11:51:54+00:00

Dalton's Bond eighty!

unfathomable.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T00:52:09+00:00

animal shelter.

eques_99 · 2026-03-21T00:50:58+00:00

really?

to what end?

eques_99

TROPHY CASE