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RANT: Is Star Wars making too many different TV shows on Disney+?

on December 17, 2020

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Ranting Review: How Rise of Skywalker is both the best and worst of the sequel trilogy

on August 20, 2020

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RANT: What's the worst scene from Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker?

on April 20, 2020

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Ranting Review: How the Mandalorian brought me back into the Star Wars fold

on January 06, 2020

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Chris Gregg: This a space for me to rant and rave about the important things in life. Sci-fi/fantasy, movies, books and tabletop and video games. You like those things too? Well, have a seat! Say hi, chat, stay a while!

Chris Gregg: This a space for me to rant and rave about the important things in life. Sci-fi/fantasy, movies, books and tabletop and video games. You like those things too? Well, have a seat! Say hi, chat, stay a while!

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RANT: I like movie posters

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RANT: Starship Troopers: The fascist propaganda movie that won't turn our world into a dystopian hellscape.

I see these days, there are an increasing amount of videos that have finally figured out the movie Starship Troopers. Maybe, it's our current political climate of "fake news", but I've had conversations with people who insist that I'm reading too much into this movie and give it too much credit. I guess that phase of my life is over. We are literally a quarter of a century late on this one guys, but I'd like to take this opportunity to go on record saying I got the movie before it was cool to get this movie. At the time it was released most people missed the point of Starship Troopers (the movie) taking it as a straight forward space opera where the humans are the good guys, fighting the good fight against the evil bugs. But it's actually a satire that fools the audience into rooting for soldiers in a fascist regime. Aside from the Nazi imagery that is pervasive throughout Starship Troopers, the movie itself is essentially a fascist propaganda film for a f...

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