This column will introduce you to the most popular movies that are coming out in theaters this weekend and why you should go see them.
What movie will you see this weekend?
Beauty and the Beast
Reasons to see this:
Inspired by Disney’s 1991 animated film, this live-action adaptation tells the story of a young woman and a cursed prince who fall in love. Starring in this magical fantasy musical are Emma Watson, Dan Stevens (The Guest), Luke Evans (Dracula Untold), Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, and more. Bill Condon is the director of this film. Condon has directed The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 & 2, The Fifth Estate, and Mr. Holmes. Now, go be a guest at a theater this weekend.
The Belko Experiment
Reasons to see this:
80 Americans are locked in their high-rise office and are forced by an unknown (unknown cawwwllllaaa) voice to participate in a deadly game. Starring in this horror thriller are John Gallagher Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane), Tony Goldwyn (Ghost), Adria Arjona (Emerald City), John C. McGinley (Scrubs), Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), and more. Greg McLean directs this hellish office space. Mclean has directed Wolf Creek 1 & 2 and The Darkness. James Gunn penned the script for this flick. Now Belko to the theater this weekend.
Song To Song
Reasons to see this:
Song To Song is about two intersecting love triangles, set within the music scene in Austin, Texas. Starring in this dramatic romance film are Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Val KIlmer (whoa, where has he been?), Benicio Del Toro, Holly Hunter, and more. Terrence Malick is the writer and director of this flick. Malick has written and directed The Thin Red Line ,The New World, and The Tree of Life. Need more Gos set in a music setting? Then check out Song To Song this weekend.
T2 Trainspotting
Reason to see this:
Trainspotting 2. After 20 years, Mark Renton reunites with his friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie. Ewan McGregor, Roger Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller, and Ewen Bremmer all return for the sequel. Even Danny Boyle is back in the director’s chair. John Hodge who penned the first script is also back to write this one. Catch a train to the theater this weekend.
We are coming down to the wire folks. We are mere days away from the release of perhaps the most anticipated film of our, or any other, generation. Yes, Episode I can definitely compete with being up there in terms of how bad all Star Wars fans wanted to see it. But the whole after effect of the film did not settle well. I kept telling people, and promising myself, that it was indeed a good movie. And I will hold true to that statement. However, with all that being said, I do not want the feeling I had in 2002 be the one I have in 2016 and beyond. In 2002, I was not sure if I wanted another Star Wars film if it meant a few years more of waiting for that definitive one. And even worse, if this one’s failure meant for the potential of that one movie which would eventually see the formation of Darth Vader – letting us down as well
Background: I have said it at least a dozen times, and I will probably say it at least a dozen more. I will probably always hold 1977’s original Star Wars film as the best out of the entire saga, if only for the simple reason that it did not have to live up to the hype of being a Star Wars film. By the time Attack of the Clones rolled around, there was not as much joy in the film world’s atmosphere as much as there was pessimism. Word had come out that fan backlash had caused George Lucas to do away with more storylines involving one Jar Jar Binks, and fan adulation of a certain character caused major changes to the original clone origins. Catering to fans’ needs is the biggest catch .22 in film circles. On one end, you are pleasing those who pay their hard earned money to see your project. On the other side of the coin, you are tinkering with your original vision, which can in turn hanker your final product.
Though there are those who claim Lucas was never that big a visionary to begin with. Sure, he could create worlds and environments with all forms of characters inhabiting them. But it was only when he brought in true effects artists, as well as his Oscar winning editor/ex wife Marcia Lucas, to tinker with it did Star Wars end up becoming as big a success that it was. And it took Lucas bringing in Lawrence Kasdan for the full potential of character development in this space opera to take place. I don’t feel there is any doubt that the combination of Irvin Kershner’s directorial touch and Kasdan’s sharp pen is what made a scene like Han and Leia talking about dirty hands come off as well and, perhaps most importantly, seemingly natural that it did.
So without Kasdan or Kershner at his disposal, Lucas took on the task of writing and directing the love story of the saga. Basically, Attack of the Clones could not dilly dally around and skip emotional beats. It was vitally important for the mother and father of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia to fall in love right in front of our eyes. Sure, he brought on one of his old Young Indiana Jones Chronicles buddies Jonathan Hales to spice up the romance aspect of the story. But the God’s honest truth was there was no caking, or for that matter cloaking, this love story with action oriented frosting. It was front and center, and there were questions if the man who brought us Jar Jar could even come close to pulling it off.
As for me, I was almost immune to feeling one way or the other. I was not front and center with my fandom, and in fact had been spending months singing the praises of one Sam Raimi’s foray into comic book filmmaking called Spider-Man. Much like The Matrix did in 1999, Spider-Man had stolen a lot of the thunder behind my very own Star Wars hype train. Nonetheless, I gathered four geeky friends and headed toward the local theater for the film’s very first midnight showing. Despite the fact I had to work at 4 the next morning.
What I Thought Then: Sitting back in the ‘defense of Star Wars’ chair was not an easy thing to do. Especially after seeing Attack of the Clones. Here we had a petulant, creepy, bordering on maniacal character named Anakin Skywalker. A character whose journey toward the dark side we were being asked to think of as a tragedy, but in the end came off as almost anything but. As Anakin and Padme, showing damn near no chemistry, would bicker, snicker, and fiddle with the love tree, we were stuck in what I have always classified as the least Star Wars feeling film out of the entire Star Wars saga. Though there was a nice looking, intense Clone War battle to feast our eyes upon, it would always be interrupted by either Padme falling perfectly out of her ship or a fake Christopher Lee fighting a fake Yoda. And by fake, I do not mean faux. What I mean is Lucas had almost completely abandoned any form of physical interaction at this point, and watching a digital Yoda jump around as if he was swinging a laser sword on a pogo stick, while fun and gave the audience something to laugh at, did not exactly instill any beats I had felt before. For all the shit Episode I gets, I can defend its existence by saying it is the most Star Wars feeling out of the entire prequel trilogy. Jar Jar was not exactly Jawa levels of background fodder. But it still took place inside the fantastical universe we have always been familiar with, giving it an aesthetic that I still classify as unsleek and Star Wars-ish.
With Attack of the Clones, I felt none of that. Between Count Dooku, a character who people outside the Star Wars canon had no idea of existing, running around with plans to the Death Star, and Hayden Christensan riding a fake CGI animal -poorly, I might add- I did not like where I was, and was not in any hurry to return. By the time its DVD release rolled around, I went to the S’s alright. But instead chose to pick up Spider-Man before Star Wars Attack of the Clones. 25 years after dazzling audiences with his original vision, I as a former die hard fan was stunned at what I had just seen, and that bitter taste would last for quite some time.
What I Think Now: In rewatching Attack of the Clones today, I am far less harsh on it than I was. Much like Anakin in The Phantom Menace rubbed me the wrong way until I realized Jake Lloyd’s personification of him is probably exactly how a slaved nine year old boy would act, I grew to become more comfortable with the man who once again took the brunt of criticism in the outpouring of hate, Hayden Christensan. I have said it in every podcast and I will say it again, I think the direction Christensan was taking had more to do with what came across onscreen than how he personified it. I began this article saying that there was not going to be much more to latch onto in Attack of the Clones except the love story which takes place between the future parents of Luke and Leia. And in my mind, with the exception of one look Natalie Portman gives while they are sitting in grass, I did not feel an ounce of emotion. Even now it is hard to watch.
Funnily enough, the storyline I DID enjoy much more this time than last was the one involving Obi-Wan Kenobi and his surveying of the clone army’s construction. Now take into account how much I enjoyed this section of film, and think about how much more I would have liked it had there been a cloned character I gave two ounces of feelings about. Jango Fett -and this is not a knock on Temuera Morrison- is just not a strong enough presence for me to even care. Not to mention, how and why Palpatine even chose him to be the main clone is never even explained. Hell, Lucas’s original plan of Lando makes more sense the more I think about it. But Lucas changing this pivital storyline points to the fan service these films ultimately ended up being instead of the organic feeling story it should have been. Jango’s inclusion is pandering toward that cult of audience who for some reason clung onto a jet pack wearing bounty hunter named Boba Fett in the last series. The same section of fans, mind you, who claim Fett went out ‘like a bitch’ in his final moments of Jedi. Did we REALLY need to see the shot of Boba holding his father’s helmet after the Geonosis battle was over? Did we really need to sit and listen to that kid’s cheering as each shot at Kenobi in the asteroid field is followed by another? As good as I find that asteroid field sequence to be, I am always distracted by that child’s laughter as his father tells him what he is going to do next. And the final thing we take away from this sequence, which is Boba figuring out that Han uses the same hiding technique in The Empire Strikes Back that Kenobi uses here, is reaching higher than a 5’0 person reaching for a 10′ basketball hoop. I’m not buying it.
Still, Attack of the Clones was released the year one of my best friends got married, and I was even able to stand as an usher in, what is an unadulterated inhumble of opinions, one of the coolest karate gi/lightsaber holding outfits of all time. That night still stands out as one of the best wedding nights I have ever attended, and I will never forget it. I am also pleased to say they are still married to this day. And from what I hear, their house is barely big enough to contain their excitement over this month’s Star Wars event.
In Conclusion: Well, what else can I say? Attack of the Clones still holds that mantle of being my least favorite film out of the entire Star Wars saga. Though again, I am not as harsh on it as I once was. While The Phantom Menace‘s lightsaber duel brought up my hopes for another great one, I have accepted the fact that the ending battle accomplishes what it needs to accomplish. And, the love story is what it is. Still, in looking back at Attack of the Clones, should a fan say ‘they have learned to live with it,’ as opposed to ‘it lived up to all my expectations.’ Especially since my expectations were hardly up there to begin with? Unlike 13 years ago, today I like and accept Attack of the Clones. But I sure wish I could love it.
After this, the prequel commentaries are over. Let that sink in for a bit.
They are sent out in style though, as Garrett, Kupka, Batch, and Moreno sit down to give a commentary for the Hayden Christensen Oscar reel known as Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Some of the things discussed in this two plus hour bit of internet madness include:
What is a ‘high bar, low bar, high bar?’
What asshole let Obi Wan’s Boga sound like a dog’s squeaky toy?
Ooohhh, that ‘subtle’ symbolism Lucas attaches to Anakin turning to the dark side is AMAZING.
How’s Star Wars like Marvel?
How’d Lucas try to ‘inject’ Peter Cushing?
Mace Windu’s Dark Side.
Is Garrett a woman hater for hating Natalie Portman?
So HOW exactly did Padme hide the fact she was pregnant from the Jedi?
What’s a ‘face actor?’
Why are the Jedi ‘Skyping’ into their own council meetings?
What is Garrett smoking to see similarities between this movie and Rosemary’s Baby?
Jedi Sportscenter (trust us, it makes sense).
Lightsaber Dildos.
Grab your favorite alcoholic beverage, put on your best Vader brooding face, and watch with us the last Star Wars film to hit upon the masses until…well, you know.
The Phantom Menace exists folks. I know. It is such a crime. It is almost as if people are treating Episode I today like our parents treated Faces of Death back when I was growing up. I know people who want to keep it as far away from their kids as possible. That, my friends, is ridiculous. Acknowledge its faults -which I am going to do here- but do not treat it as a sort of black eye George Lucas gave you when you went to theaters in 1999. Let them decide for themselves.
Whew. Now that I got that out of the way, let’s get to the movie shall we?
Background: After 1983’s Return of the Jedi came and swooped that year’s box office title with a thrilling conclusion, people thought Star Wars was done. However, I remember reading interviews with George Lucas in the weeks leading up to Jedi‘s release (my mom used to get People Magazine and I would, even as a six year old, go through it just looking for movie related articles) and he was saying he still has ideas of stories he would like to tell about that galaxy far, far away. The problem is that effects standards were not up to speed yet. His vision, he proclaimed, was beyond the reach of what modern technology could handle. In other words, let me make Howard The Duck and Willow before I start thinking about how to progress with plans for a new Star Wars story.
Fast forward to 1993. After baring witness -and even helping with post production while his friend Steven Spielberg was out on location with Schindler’s List– to the Spielberg directed epic Jurassic Park, Lucas was convinced the time to start with new Star Wars tales was upon him. Park‘s realistic computer imagery astounded audiences and filmmakers alike, and Lucas decided to test the computer generated imagery -or CGI- standards by fulfilling his ‘true vision’ of what his original trilogy should have been when he originally filmed it with only 70s and 80s technology at his disposal. After audiences showed up to these re-releases in droves, Lucas concluded that he could now start with his telling of Darth Vader’s back story.
As for me, by the time The Phantom Menace had started production, I kind of wavered in my Star Wars fandom. My toys were put away in the garage, I had just graduated high school, and I was starting to tip my toes in the waters of real life. Believe me, I was in no hurry to grow up. But with filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, M Night Shamylan, and David Fincher out there, at the cusp of their primes and setting new standards with their storytelling ways, Star Wars just wasn’t ‘cool’ to me anymore. Goodbye Star Wars. Hello Pulp Fiction.
I would go to friends’ houses and they would scoop up every magazine cover featuring that spiked red headed figure that they could. But I would turn a blind eye to all of them. I would skim the Star Wars articles to see what this new science fiction story featuring a main character named Neo was all about. Or how a low budget horror movie about a group of kids getting lost in the woods had captured the pulses of audiences so many other directors could not even dream of finding. It was a new era of film, and I still say to this day that has a lot to do with how The Phantom Menace is perceived today.
Still, even with all that ambivalent energy leading up to Star Wars Episode I, I remember seeing its trailer before Wing Commander and Meet Joe Black, and finding that as much as I did not want to admit it, I WAS looking forward to The Phantom Menace. As was my father. So on one hot April day, I approached the box office of our recently opened movie theater and bought two advanced tickets. One for my father and one for me, with a little gold plated heart that I got for a $2.00 donation to charity. There was no escaping now. We wouldn’t be waiting in lines for weeks. But a smile creased my face as I felt a tinge of that excitement I had as a child enter my body like a sneaky thirst.
What I Thought Then: Going into the theater that May evening was sheer excitement. I did not read reviews of the film going in. Though I was a huge Howard Stern listener back then, and as you’d imagine, his on air review of the film the week before its release was not overwhelmingly positive. In fact, it was just the opposite. Yet, this was a night out at the movies with my father. Lightsaber battles were breaking out in the staging area in front of the screen. My father looked at me and thanked me that I was not out there with them. I looked at him and expressed a hearty ‘you’re welcome.’ also exclaiming I would never do that. But something deep down inside REALLY wanted to!
The movie started and when that theme hit those speakers, I was in awe. Here I was, on the first day of The Phantom Menace‘s release, and I was seeing a brand new Star Wars vision onscreen! It was at that moment I felt like the kid I was at Return of the Jedi. Wide eyed, I took in the CGI’d elements, and didn’t even have too much a grip on what the story was. I was enlightened by all the battles, the way the Jedi took out droids with kicks and strokes. It felt like magic had befallen us, and even as a little character named Binks permeated a lot of frames, I was taken into Lucas’s mind of what he envisioned Vader being as a child. The final frames hit, and Dad and I had left, still talking about the awe inspiring images we had seen.
As we left the theater, we came upon a couple college friends of mine who were also in the theater with us. We spoke about what we had seen, and they were convinced it was everything they envisioned and more. I honestly do not remember what we spoke about that day in the car on the way home. But I do remember thinking, something is just not right. Especially when my father brought up the fact that he didn’t remember midichlorians ever coming up in the last trilogy.
I saw The Phantom Menace two other times in theaters. Once with a huge Star Wars fan whose wedding I was three years away from being in. Bet you can’t guess what their theme was? And it was on this viewing where I had the ET scene pointed out to me. Very cool callback to your buddy, George.
Though it was the third and final time I saw it in theaters which told me the most about the film and how much it had failed at what it was trying to do. Though he is now, my (at the time) six year old brother was not a huge Star Wars fan. I took him to theaters to see The Phantom Menace, thinking it was going to be a fun time at the movies for both of us. We stopped by Taco Bell, grabbed some lunch, and sat down to watch the movie. Around the time the story moved to Tatooine, I looked at my brother, the core aimed at audience, and he was fast asleep. The audience Lucas had tried so hard to reach, millennials if you will, had been sleeping away as his new creation Jar Jar Binks was yukking it up onscreen. Here is when it finally hit me. Lucas, for all intents and purposes, had failed in his attempt to reach in and grab the hearts of a brand new audience. Instead, he put them to sleep.
What I Think Now: Look. I am not going to sit here and try convincing people how misunderstood a masterpiece The Phantom Menace is. It has almost none of the magic I would widely relate to while watching the other trilogy. It had none of the characters I loved so much. Oh yeah. Ewan McGregor was lingering around as Obi Wan. But does a new audience really CARE how these people from a trilogy made in the 70s and 80s came to be? I feel that is a massive part of the prequel trilogy’s overall biggest issue. It did not tell us anything we did not already know. Except, of course, for the fact that midichlorians determine a biological reason why you are either born a Jedi or not. So how many midichlorians does Luke have?
Watching The Phantom Menace today, I can still get past a lot of the complaints people have against it. Taken in context of the entire saga itself, I think the film fits in rather well. It certainly has some awesome battles -though I still find some big issues with the final space battle- and seeing the inner workings of how the Empire came to power gets more interesting the more times I watch it. In the final act of Return of the Jedi, we were treated to a ground, a lightsaber, and a space battle. We get all of those once again in The Phantom Menace. You can’t fault Lucas for going for a formula that didn’t carry results.
I still take a lot more positives out of the film than most. I find the podrace to be an exciting and innovative way of showing Anakin’s ability to think his way out of any situation no matter what it may be. I enjoyed seeing Artoo spreading his heroic wings earlier than we had imagined. I enjoyed seeing the magnificent final lightsaber duel, where Obi Wan learns to control his emotions, therefore defeating Darth Maul and saving the galaxy from more of his menace. And before people start messaging me about how Maul should have lived, I will just say let it go. This was not a story about Maul. It was about Palpatine’s imperial plan to rule the galaxy. So, stop with that movement. I don’t care what canon says he has lived, he is done. Enough.
In Conclusion: All of the things people criticize about The Phantom Menace -and all the prequels as a whole- I can certainly make cases for existing the entire saga. It’s just, after a decade and a half, Lucas’s world was now mixed with the likes of Tarantino, Fincher, Zemeckis, Jackson…..
The list goes on and on. But seeing The Phantom Menace today is not the horrible experience people make it out to be. Sure, Jar Jar gets some very uninspired comedy in, and there are not any of the heart tugging moments we saw so many of in The Empire Strikes Back. But seeing Darth Vader as a child, one who rests with the entire galaxy fifteen years away from being his for the taking, is not nearly as bad an experience as, say, a movie featuring autobots and decepticons.
Three guys sat down to do a commentary on what is widely regarded to be the worst film in the entire Star Wars saga. Anger is spewed, laughter is shared, and George Lucas’s decisions are derided.
Armed with beer and pockets of knowledge (ok, Supka), Garrett, Moreno, and Law watch and dissect Attack of the Clones. Some things the boys ask, discuss, and rarely answer are:
Why is everything and everyone a EWAN MCGREGOR?
How hot is Natalie Portman?
How useless is Artoo-Detoo? Fly you idiot!
How can Zam Wessel shoot a drone out of the air from 1,000 feet away, but miss EWAN MCGREGOR when he is 10 feet from her?
Ooohhh, what WILL that crazy Jar Jar do next?
Spaceship bun hair (trust us, it makes sense)
Why is Yoda such a dick?
Why won’t Law’s computer let him watch Episode II again?
Why is Mace Windu such a lazy ass?
EWAN MCGREGORS EVERYWHERE!
That love story, though.
So sit back, pop in your copy of Star Wars Episode II, grab a drink, and listen to us dissect the shit out of Hayden Christensan’s acting, as well as Natalie Portman’s rack.
I’d be lying to you (poorly) if I said the original Star Wars Trilogy isn’t my absolute all-time favorite trilogy. There have been some amazing contenders, specifically Lord of the Rings, but for my money nothing in the realm of entertainment has ever made such a lasting imprint on me the way Star Wars has. Some of my earliest memories were of watching Return of the Jedi over and over again on VHS, having no concept of the fact that there were “other” movies in the series until my Uncle Bill hooked me up with copies of Episodes IV and V. Before that, all I knew was Jedi, which in a lot of ways was a blessing in disguise. Jedi is very publicly the least well-liked of the trilogy, but for me that has never been the case. When your only exposure to Star Wars is the least liked film, and when you’re so young that you’ll go on monthly binges of watching nothing but that one movie, it does wonders for your taste later in life. Of course, after seeing the other two films, I slowly but surely came to love them all equally, as I do today. Sure, we can nitpick whether or not the twist in Empire even remotely makes any sense, or we can laugh at the clear smears of Vaseline on the lens to mask the Landspeeder’s wheels in A New Hope, but why? The sum total of that trilogy is something truly amazing that has rightfully earned its label as the most sought-after entertainment brand in the world. That was, until, the Prequel Trilogy, where everything went to shit.
If you’re a fan of bad movies then you’d be hard pressed to find three more peculiar and awe-inspiring monuments of failure. When viewed as a trilogy, the films have few redeeming qualities. For instance, Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi was an inspired choice. He truly made the part his own and blended the wisdom of Alec Guinness with his own more youthful sensibilities and is still the standout performance of the trilogy. That’s not to say his performance is sometimes awful in its own right, but more on that later. You see, many have gone out on a limb and blamed George Lucas, solely, for the failure of these movies. When measuring them in dollars and cents, they are a rousing success without question. The biggest issue with these films is the lack of finesse and development as an artist on the part of Lucas, where he somehow manages to take Academy Award winning/nominated actors like Natalie Portman and Samuel L. Jackson and make them sound as if they have all the personality of a wet noodle. The directing and writing is at the center of the mess that is the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, an abomination that most of us wish never happened.
Without going into the gory details, we all know where things are now. Disney owns Star Wars, Kathleen Kennedy is producing and masterminding the universe, Lawrence Kasdan is involved in several of the films now in development and it’s being kickstarted by JJ Abrams. Disney did everything in their power to remove Lucas from the equation, leaving him on with no more than a producing/story credit on the upcoming film. This is a good thing across the board. In fact, their main selling point behind this year’s Comic Con panel was to hammer the idea into our heads that the film is being made with “real, practical effects”, something that is welcome but annoying to hear over and over again. Despite all of this, here’s the thing…this past year is the last one where we won’t have a new Star Wars film on the horizon. Think about that. The only studio to do something near this level of production is Marvel Studios…coincidentally paired with Disney as well. There’s no argument that Marvel’s business model is the new Hollywood trend with everyone from Jurassic Park to Fast & Furious trying to build their own “universes”, but is this a good thing for Star Wars? We’ve all wanted this for a long time. Someone to come in and do another GOOD Star Wars film. I make no qualms about it, I am in the camp of wanting more of this universe on screen. My rationale is simple, and is tied to this past week’s Ant-Man.
Ant-Man shouldn’t have worked as well as it did but it proved a bunch of things to me all once. Slap “Marvel” in front of your movie and you will be #1 at the box office without question (see last year’s smash hit “Tyler Perry in Marvel’s ‘Medea Goes Transgender'”). Seriously though, you had a troubled pre-production, mostly unknown character, kind of bland trailers/promos and a director best known for rom-coms. It shouldn’t have worked, but it did, and I think it had to do with the corporate machine that is Marvel Studios. Marvel is bigger than any one piece of its films at this point, so much so that they can “will” their films to success. Granted, there have been some duds in the MCU, but they’ve done a good job taking the good elements from the shittier entries and using them later to further validate the company’s ideology, i.e. using older Howard Stark in the opening moments of Ant-Man. So let’s apply that logic to Star Wars. Will all the films be great? No, but odds are a few of them will be. Right now we have a 50/50 chance of Episode VII being a great film. People, it could very conceivably be an awful movie. All signs point to it hitting us right in the childhood with references to the original films, but honestly, this film could be a gigantic kick to the nads outside of that.
Where do I stand? I’m ok with this plan. I know Marvel is what Marvel is now but their structure has been imitated to give us Fast Five, the upcoming Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice/Suicide Squad and even the Rocky spinoff Creed. We can rage about the finer points of quantity over quality but in all honesty, so what? If they keep trying, odds are some of what we’ll be getting will be pretty good. Well, at least 50% of it.
So what do you think? Are you happy about the upcoming plan over the next few years or would you rather they left it alone? Let us know below! Enjoy your week and Binge On!