Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week joined by special guests Luke Dunne, Alex Towers, Alexandra Harvey and Andy Melhuish, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi.
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, the First Order and the Resistance struggle for control of the cosmos. Things are looking particularly grim, as the heroes find themselves divided; Rey is on a mission to recruit the lost Jedi master Luke Skywalker, Poe finds himself trying to hold the remnants of the fleet together, and Finn embarks on a journey to a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 24th October 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Scott Mendelson at Forbes reports on The Last Jedi becoming the highest grossing film of 2017, January 2018.
- Emily VanDerWerff writes about the “backlash” against The Last Jedi at Vox, December 2017.
- Michael Cavna at The Washington Post looks at some of the vocal the fan response to The Last Jedi, December 2017.
- Jack Shepherd at The Independent looks at the online backlash to The Last Jedi, December 2017.
- Matt Singer at ScreenCrush reports on The Last Jedi becoming the best-selling blu ray of 2018, September 2018.
- Julia Alexander at Polygon looks at the review-bombing of The Last Jedi by vocal online trolls, December 2017.
- A spokesperson for Rotten Tomatoes admits to The Verge that The Last Jedi was “seriously targeted” by trolls, March 2019.
- Hannah Shaw-Williams at ScreenRant looks at the recurring online rumours that Disney is “bribing” critics, March 2016.
- Stephanie Zacharek argues at Time that The Last Jedi is “a Star Wars movie that’s truly for everyone”, December 2017.
- Susana Polo at Polygon looks at how The Last Jedi doesn’t copy The Empire Strikes Back, it “explodes” it, December 2017.
- Genevieve Koski at Vox looks at how racist trolls tried to organise a campaign against The Force Awakens, October 2015.
- Matt Kamen at Wired reports on the “men’s rights activists” protesting Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- The National Post reports on the reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among the “manosphere”, May 2015.
- David Rutrelle at We Hunted the Mammoth looks at the absurd reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among misogynist sections of the internet, May 2015.
- Erik Kain at Forbes discusses the strange fixation on labelling Rey as a “Mary Sue” among certain corners of the internet, December 2017.
- Joanna Robinson at Vanity Fair discusses the misogynistic reaction against the portrayal of Clara in Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who, December 2015.
- Alissa Wilkinson at Vox looks at how the backlash against the all-female Ghostbusters effectively changed the game in how these campaigns operated, December 2019.
- Justin Hunt at The Guardian looks at the early days of fan influence on big-budget Hollywood filmmaking, July 2003.
- Darren Moonay at The Escapist looks at Joss Whedon’s Justice League as a movie that invited fans to gorge themselves at the nostalgia trough, March 2021.
- Charles Bramesco reviews Ghostbusters: Afterlife at The Guardian, October 2021.
- Darren Mooney reviews Ghostbusters: Afterlife at The Escapist, November 2021.
- Constance Grady at Vox reports on the racist and sexist harassment of Kelly Marie Tran following the release of The Last Jedi, June 2018.
- Kelly Marie Tran writes at The New York Times about the harassment that she received following The Last Jedi, August 2018.
- Kelly Marie Tran talks to The Hollywood Reporter about leaving social media following the targeted harassment, March 2021.
- Emma Ockerman at Time reports on Daisy Ridley’s decision to leave social media after harassment, August 2016.
- Rian Johnson talks to /film about his experience of the vocal online backlash to The Last Jedi, January 2018.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes reports on the box office disappointment of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot, August 2016.
- Padraig Cotter at ScreenRant looks at George Lucas’ claimst that “fans would have hated” his sequel trilogy, June 2018.
- Constance Grady at Vox reports on why “fan fiction” is so terrifying to certain fans, June 2016.
- David Harris at Dork Side of the Force reports on John Boyega as “a huge Star Wars fan”, October 2015.
- Rhian Daly at NME reports on John Boyega’s claims that he has “moved on” from Star Wars, July 2020.
- Maane Khatchatourian at Variety reports on the shrinking of John Boyega on the poster for The Force Awakens, December 2015.
- John Boyega talks to GQ about his own experiences having worked on the Star Wars franchise, September 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes considers whether Disney’s Star Wars franchise has been “swallowed whole” by nostalgia, December 2020.
- Angelica Jade Bastién reviews Wonder Woman 1984 at Vulture, December 2020.
- Joel Davis at Culture Slate looks at the evolving reaction to the Star Wars prequels, September 2020.
- Ana Dumaraog at ScreenRant reports on Ewan McGregor’s opinion about the shifting attitue to the Star Wars prequels, February 2019.
- Jamie Greene at StarWars.com discusses the importance of handing Star Wars from one generation to the next, February 2019.
- Yohana Desta at Vanity Fair unpacks Jason Reitman’s arguments that Ghostbusters: Afterlife will “hand the movie back to the fans”, February 2019.
- Michael Nordine at IndieWire reports on Leslie Jones’ response to Jason Reitman’s plans to “hand the movie back to the fans”, January 2019.
- Clarence Page at The Chicago Tribune reports on how The Last Jedi reaction brought Star Wars into the culture wars, December 2017.
- Bijan Stephen and Adi Robertson at The Verge explore reports on the academic study into online discussions of The Last Jedi, October 2018.
- Rewriting Ripley takes a look at how the Star Wars sequel trilogy got folded into online culture wars, March 2020.
- Rian Johnson talks to The Playlist about how he almost included the character of Lando Calrissian in The Last Jedi, December 2017.
- Dave Schilling at birth.movies.death argues for The Last Jedi as a meditation of the legacy of the Baby Boomers, December 2017.
- Zaron Burnett III argues at Medium that The Last Jedi is a movie about the battle for the souls of the Baby Boomer generation, January 2018.
- Jason Bailey at Flavorwire argues that The Force Awakens is also a movie about the conflict between Millennials and Baby Boomers, December 2015.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog looks at the self-help philosophy of Return of the Jedi, December 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist looks at how Return of the Jedi reduced Star Wars to a simple and repeatable formula, November 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist reflects on the generational conflict that has always been at the heart of the larger Star Wars franchise, September 2019.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the original Star Wars trilogy as a metaphor for the Vietnam War, March 2020.
- John Derrick at Midwest Film Journal discusses the importance of “Rey from Nowhere” in The Last Jedi, December 2019.
- William Hughes at The A.V. Club reports on the importance of Rey’s lack of a lineage in The Last Jedi, December 2017.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist positions The Last Jedi as part of a triptych of 2017 movies exploring lineage and identity, with Blade Runner 2049 and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, October 2021.
- Ariel Fisher at birth.death.movies argues that The Last Jedi is a metaphor for online dating, December 2018.
- Adam Ramsey at New Statesman compares The Last Jedi and Cat Person, December 2017.
- Kristen Roupenian publishes Cat Person at The New Yorker, December 2017.
- Olga Khazan at The Atlantic looks at how and why Cat Person went viral, December 2017.
- Tahlia Pritchard at Punkee looks at the most viral memes about Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox, October 2021.
- Rosie Knight at The Nerdist compares the redemption arcs of Zuko from The Last Airbender and Kylo Ren from The Last Jedi, April 2019.
- Tasha Robinson at The Verge looks at the nostalgia that drove The Force Awakens, December 2015.
- Richard Fausset at The New York Times offers an affectionate profile of a white supremacist in America’s heartland, November 2017.
- Indrani Sen at Quartz discusses the problem with affectionate media profiles normalising white supermacy, November 2017.
- Asa Mittman at The Public Medievalist looks at how The Last Jedi engages with the alt-right movement, February 2018.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog discusses the modern trend toward humanising fascists and white supremacists in popular culture, January 2020.
- Ben Pearson at /film provides an oral history of the throne room sequence from The Last Jedi, December 2017.
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at The A.V. Club discusses how The Last Jedi draws from a wealth of outside sources in the grand Star Wars tradition, December 2017.
- Sam Adams and Forrest Wickman at Slate discuss the cinematic references at play in The Last Jedi, December 2017.
- Matt Singer at ScreenCrush discusses the referencing of a shot from Wings in The Last Jedi, December 2017.
- Jim Hemphill at TalkHouse discusses the raw visual power of the score-only version of The Last Jedi, July 2018.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes argues that the fan reaction to The Last Jedi proves that Star Wars fans do love Luke Skywalker, May 2020.
- Siddhant Adlakha at Polygon argues that The Last Jedi reconnects Star Wars with its Buddhist roots, December 2012.
- Daniel Burke at CNN discusses the spirituality of Star Wars, January 2018.
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