If it doesn’t address the allegations against him then it’s pointless to watch.
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It’s a project driven by his estate. Not only does it avoid it, the original treatment had the entire third act devoted to portraying the accusers as money grabbing liars. They only found out once filming had already started that Jackson signed a non-disparagement clause as part of the settlements, which the estate has to continue to honor, so they had to rewrite it on the fly. Their pivot was to just pretend that part of his biography never happened.
Everyone involved comes out of it looking pretty bad IMO
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Watch this Ifti…
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Grogu cash in?
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I watched Wicked 1 and 2 I story is very good and a very good lesson.
I really enjoyed it story wise and visually. I would haved liked them to have worked the songs and music more.
The main observations are that it is a film that feels like 4 or 5 episodes of a tv show stitched together. As insane as it sounds, there is speculation that they simply converted a story written to be 4 or 5 episodes of season 4 of the tv show into a film because the Disney CEO needed to get the spend off the streaming platform’s balance sheet.
I suspect it feels pointless because LucasFilm has become artistically bankrupt, with the guy who runs it is someone who only seems capable of delivering fan fiction content for his own star wars nerd self. But its a mark of how badly DIsney have managed the brand management of SW, and to a lesser degree Marvel, that people would believe this.
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My kids took me to see that for my birthday, as a surprise. It was to be the 4D version or something. I had to let them down and explain that 2 hours of being rocked around in a chair wouldn’t do my back any good.
So we watched the ‘normal’ version. There were some good moments however no story line, more a 2 hour episode of a series that should have been no more than 40 minutes.
I’m not up to date with films anymore so understanding what’s what isn’t easy. I do wish Toy Story 5 had been out I think I would have enjoyed that much more.
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I remember there was some tooing and froing a few years back on whether this would become part of the movie franchise or remain a tv show, so it wouldnt surprise me if thats how the script came around that way.
not a film, but relevent to the SW content discussion…thought Maul was excellent…animated star wars at this stage is now far superior to anything they produce on screen…
Andor was good, so maybe a hole in that theory…but still…
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One of the criticisms of Filoni is that he’s too much of a fan and so is making high budget fan fiction. Its all very insular in vision - looking backwards and and reusing. Tony Gilroy was famously not that sort of fan, but knew he had a story about fascism he could tell that fit perfectly into the universe. He focused on that story and outsourced a tremendous amount of the work making his story fit into the cannon to Lucas Film who provide all their creators with an official cannon export. Gilroy knew his story needed a false flag and the Lucas Film experts gave him Ghormon and a large collection of trivia about it he could use in the scripts as needed.
I recently listened to a podcast where this quote was from one of the writers of Andor commented on the directive Gilroy gave them before they started writing S2
“When you’re working on IP storytelling your impulse is to open the toy box and start playing with all the toys. And he (Gilroy) said ‘you should try to resist that, and what you should do is leave more toys in the toy box than were there when you got there…..resisting the impulse to be a child and be more like a storyteller who’s adding to the world rather than taking from it.”
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There is also an incredible story Jeremy Allen White tells about his involvement in this film. He said while chatting to Favreau at an event they were doing the industry style “I love your work, we should work together sometime” thing and he agreed to come in and do half a day’s voice work. He says he showed up and found out they hadnt filmed anything yet and didnt really have a script, but had some lines for him to read so he did and left. Then a year later they started calling him telling him he had to come back because the role was now bigger and he’s like “I didnt sign up for this” but did it anyway 
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Not one I have ever heard of… Maybe I am missing out, maybe not, but as a film buff, I feel obliged to track this one down and give it a go… Not so sure how easy it will be to stream though.!
‘Best movie ever made’ is a ‘masterpiece’ 1975 classic
Story by Kris Boratyn
Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels
Some films come and go. Others quietly grow in reputation until they are suddenly being called the greatest ever made. This 1975 classic is one of them. For years, it was seen as a slow, unusual drama. Now, nearly five decades later, critics have crowned it the best film of all time.
In 2022, it topped the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound poll, a once-every-10-years ranking voted for by film critics around the world. It also holds a strong 95% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. But it is not a big Hollywood blockbuster. It is not packed with action or special effects. Instead, it focuses on something much simpler and much more uncomfortable.
The film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.
Written and directed by Chantal Akerman and starring Delphine Seyrig, the film follows three days in the life of a widowed mother living in Brussels with her teenage son.
Shot over five weeks on location and funded by a $120,000 grant from the Belgian Government, it premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival on May 22 before being released in France in January 1976.
The story unfolds slowly. Jeanne cooks, cleans, shops and carries out her daily routine with near-perfect precision.
Each afternoon, she receives a man in her flat for a brief encounter, hiding the money afterwards. As tiny mistakes creep into her routine, the tension quietly builds towards a shocking final scene.
Over time, the film has been re-evaluated as a feminist landmark and an early example of “slow cinema”. For many, it is now essential viewing.
One person wrote in a review on Rotten Tomatoes: "There is a reason this is considered the greatest movie ever made. It is a brutally hard watch because of how real it feels.
“A lot of people don’t seem to have the capacity for empathy during the gruelling, long and boring scenes of housework that reflect how women were and are isolated and oppressed.”
Another added: "Absolutely deserving of its present status as the greatest film ever made. If you watch it passively, you won’t appreciate or enjoy it. It will seem boring or pointless.
“If you watch it actively and engagedly, you will find it stunning and richly rewarding. And the ending is a whopper!”
A third wrote: “Absolute masterpiece. Mesmerizing. Beautifully shot. Very interesting idea that is well executed. The film has its own pace and makes the monotonous everyday life intriguing and hypnotising.”
Someone else commented: “This might be one of my new favourite films! Every frame had meaning and information that built the story. Every moment was essential to the larger message. My own boredom, if any, came from incorrectly reading the information presented.”
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles can be streamed on the BFI player.
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