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Name a movie scene that instantly became iconic the moment you saw it.

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

My father is a very technical person. Easy to have a conversation with him about orbital mechanics, almost impossible to talk to him about people. He doesn't really go for movies or other media, either. If it's primarily focused on characters and story, he isn't interested. His favorite "movie" is episode 5 of From the Earth to the Moon, because it's about the design and development of the Apollo Lunar Module at Grumman. But when he was young, he watched Star Wars fresh in theaters with his buddies and became obsessed with it. Once I came along, he shared it with me, and it was the only non-technical media we could enjoy together. Anytime a Star Wars movie came out we saw it together in theaters. We saw the re-releases together in theaters. We saw the Prequels together, which we agreed sucked but it was really no big deal. We saw The Force Awakens in theaters and, like a lot of people, we thought it was at least better than the Prequel trilogy, even if it was kind of a retread and a bit silly. By the time The Last Jedi released in theaters, we already pretty much knew it was going to be bad. The reviews were pretty clear about that. But who cares? It's a way to spend an afternoon together and you can at least talk about the movie, everything they could have done better, where they screwed up continuity. It would still be fun, so we went and saw it like we always did. By about the halfway point, I noticed everyone in the family was visibly uncomfortable in their seats. Nobody was having a good time, actually they seemed genuinely unsettled. Nobody wanted to be the first to walk out, either. We sat there like that until the unbearable end of the movie and then filed out of the theater in silence. Actually I think the whole audience was pretty quiet, too. Nobody in my family said a word. Someone suggested food; we'd caught a matinee. That seemed to be the excuse everyone needed to forget about the whole thing. Nobody said anything about the movie. My dad and I haven't talked about Star Wars since, not once.

What’s your favorite Game 7 moment of all-time? There’s a 49% chance that we see 5+ Game 7s in this year’s NBA Playoffs, via Kalshi. We already saw 3 of them in Round 1.

Luke Skywalker’s stand on Crait in The Last Jedi (2017) had the whole theater locked.

Turning Star Wars into a girl brand will prove to be one of the costliest decisions in entertainment history.