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I’ll bring this up like I do every time his name is in a headline: If you haven’t seen Brick, watch it. It’s fantastic. One of my favorite movies of all time.

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14 points

Instructions unclear, stared at a brick for two hours.

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7 points

Riveting?

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Masonry mostly

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Can confirm - I really enjoyed that movie.

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That movie is such a gem, must be due a rewatch!

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Woohoo!

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I’m not American, and English isn’t my first language, but I had zero problems understanding him in those movies.

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I always have subtitles turned on

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I get that and I was born in the north but semi raised in the south. And still could not understand him. I thought it was a bit that would be revealed at the end but nope it wasn’t And I got netflix and everything and tried to watch glass onion and was still like wtf is this man saying. I thought I was the only one. Thank you brother or sister.

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I think it’s like an old school Georgian (the US state) accent. I have family from that area that sound exactly like that. I don’t have a problem understanding it for that reason but i could totally see not knowing wtf he’s saying. Just wanted to say there are indeed people that sound like that in case people thought it was just a British person putting on a bad southern accent.

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Does anyone else hate his “I despise Star Wars so I destroyed it and they didn’t notice” grin?

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I think you’re projecting your feelings onto him, he doesn’t hate Star Wars, he was just the wrong director for the job of making a middle movie in a trilogy. He’s a great director, and Episode 8 is a good movie in a vacuum. It’s just a terrible movie if you’re trying to bridge Episode 7 and 9.

I wish Disney had just let Abrams direct the whole sequel trilogy and given Rian Johnson a standalone movie like Solo. It’s pretty clear Disney had no fucking clue what they were doing with Star Wars after they acquired it.

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It’s pretty clear Disney had no fucking clue what they were doing with Star Wars after they acquired it.

One might argue that they still don’t have a clue.

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Solo proved that to me, the whole mystery of han just completely washed away by making a single film that shows every reason for everything about him.

Its like they were just going down a checklist

“Oh so we do the kessel run, and how he met chewey, and get this we show why his last name is solo and its just the lamest shit ever, oooh oooh lets also give him a love interest that was never referenced again ever!”

“WRITE THAT DOWN PATRICK ALL OF IT”

like the key and peele sketch about gremlins 2

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5 points

Statistically, it probably tracks that Rogue One, Andor, and The Acolyte are good simply because eventually something won’t suck if you put together the right combination of artists by accident.

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I’d never seen a movie that came across as actively hostile towards the supposed intended audience before. And this was before I heard about him dunking on fans on social media. If he really doesn’t hate Star Wars, he sure did a good job of pretending to. But hey, it convinced me to never watch either Disney Star Wars or anything else he’s done in the future, so expectations successfully subverted, I guess.

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To be fair, 7 and 9 were terrible movies to create a middle movie for. 7 didn’t really set anything up, it just tore down what was already there. Then 9 took an established story from the EU and pissed on it, then threw it on the big screen.

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Where did you get the idea that 9 was written before 8 was made?

7 set up a few things, 8 just threw everything in the trash without setting up anything to replace it. 9 was hastily scrapped together because 8 left nothing to work with.

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I probably would despise Star Wars too if I tried to make a good movie in that universe and kept getting micromanaged into the ground at every turn by clueless Disney execs.

He is a very good director, as his other films show. The problem was and still is in no way with him.

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Don’t know why you got so many downvotes, this douchebag ruined starwars for me. I didn’t even see 9 in theatres because he completely ruined luke and everything the OT built.

Im not even going to talk about his skills as a director, he completely misunderstood luke and completely destroyed his character by turning him into an old jaded man.

I can look past anything else he did in that boring movie, but to me luke was starwars so none of it matters anymore.

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Wow! I wonder if it will have the exact same obvious plot twist as the last two?

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First one was good, second one gets a pass cause of awkward COVID times.

Cautiously optimistic.

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The second one was a complete inversion of the first, so I’m really curious to see how he handles the third.

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