the writing is bad

I really disagree. As I said, it’s not a smart movie, but the world building was well done, characters acted in consistency with their knowledge and motivation and you had proper worlds building from the first movie onwards. Dialogues were cheesy, but certainly not as bad as it was in the prequels. It’s a fairytale with knights and princesses, so I wouldn’t expect or want deep, philosophical writing… It’s not blade runner. But it fits the setting.

the acting is bad

Sorry, but I just really disagree. It wasn’t stellar, but I really cannot remember a single scene where the acting put me off.

Nah. The first one is actually good. It’s not a bunch of smart movies, absolutely not… It’s a monomyth, but it’s well executed all around.

The prequels then removed decent dialogue from the formula but kept a proper story and the terrific world building.

The Disney trilogy lacked all of those as well and was reduced to terrible dialogue, terrible story and no world building at all, so all that was left were great visuals (which had lost much of their magic by then) and a decent soundtrack (which, however, had to bank on only nostalgia as the movies just didn’t know where they were heading).

So, no, I really don’t think the movies are all the same. Far from it.

You think Germans know how to joke?

Duh.

Dude, they butchered and kidnapped the attendees of a music festival. That’s not righteous resistance. Are you insane?

Soldiers reported they had heard cries of “help” and “hostages” in Hebrew, but that they assumed it was an attempt by Hamas to lure them into a trap.

They also reportedly found signs left by the hostages to get the military’s attention but dismissed these as part of the supposed ploy.

Everybody’s Hamas. If they’re not, they’re Hamas in disguise.

Are you really arguing that Hamas are the good guys because of their lower “civilian casualty rate”? Like, “yeah, they killed a lot of civilians, but the others killed more, so they’re the good guys, touché”? Are you insane?

Well… I guess those Israelis that were butchered at that concert don’t count, then?

Hamas is a terrorist organisation that has killed and kidnapped civilians. Israel killing more civilians doesn’t make Hamas any less of a despicable bunch of fucks.

the army said that it had “identified a number of terrorists armed with anti-tank missiles” approaching troops in Shejaiyya, and called in a helicopter strike on them.

It also said fighter jets had been striking terror targets in the Gaza Strip, as ground operations continued.

The area of Zeitoun, where the family house once stood, is now the focus of fresh operations by the IDF.

Everything is Hamas.

Wir sind die Volksfront von Judäa!!!

Take my love, take my land,

take me where I cannot stand…

I don’t care as long as we

get kebab for treefiddy

Eventually the cost of keeping and the benefit gained from returning them might become greater than the benefit gained from their leverage, which is when they’ll be returned. However, that remains to be seen. If, eventually, the hostages’ wellbeing can be used to force the IDF’s hand in Hamas’ favour, I doubt they’ll be returned anytime soon, if at all.

The leverage? The hostage being a bargaining chip? Which is lost when the hostage is dead.

If they don’t plan to return them they would’ve killed them.

That’s nonsense.

Denazification really failed in the GDR.

You know what’s even funnier? Replace “China” with “Iran” in my comment and it still applies.

Saying there should be harsher treatment of SA doesn’t make the sanctions against China any less justified.

It’s not about having a sales tax applied to some or all goods or about how much that’d be. It’s about not listing the final price including the tax right until you’re supposed to pay for it. How dumb is that?