i have a list of movies i’ve seen bits and pieces of on tv and/or with my dad over the years that i’ve never actually watched start-to-finish and heat’s been at the top of that list for ages but i never bit the bullet until tonight only because i saw a tweet about it today and thought you know what… this is a sign. it’s time.

anyway yeah there’s nothing i can say that hasn’t already been said a million…

first 15 minutes remain all over-the-place but as soon as our crew gets to jedha i lock the fuck in and never look back for the next two hours. lacks the richness of andor’s character writing (would’ve loved to see a version of this with edwards and gilroy working in tandem from the start, because the former’s epic sense of scale paired with the latter’s sophisticated storytelling is a match made in star wars heaven for me) but the cast…