This movie stinks. Shocking, I know. The world doesn’t need another person to dunk on this movie, and that’s not why I’m here, mostly I’m just frustrated because the story of the animated series is so great and it’s just a huge bummer to see it rendered in this way where 90% of the movie is people talking about things that have already happened. It’s all tell, no show.

It’s also weird on a structural level that the movie sprints…

I just got to see STAR WARS projected from an immaculate 70mm print. The original STAR WARS, pre-special edition (“A New Hope” was on the crawl, but otherwise unaltered). It’s an impossible dream come true, and I’m so extremely grateful for this opportunity. It was a 70mm print struck for the UK in ‘81 that was never screened because it tore the first time it was projected. There’s about two seconds of major damage right as the Death Star explodes,…