The past decade has left us with a good share of movie mysteries. From misplaced lightsabers to dreaming mercenaries, here's what we think are the biggest unanswered movie questions of the past decade.
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Well, isn't this ironic? Just days after Donald Trump not-so-humbly bragged about his appearance in a much-loved Christmas classic, it was reported that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation removed the disgraced politician's cameo from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Here's why.
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In an alternate universe, Star Wars fans were divided by a totally different movie. George Lucas had his own plans for the sequel trilogy before selling Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, and his conclusion to the Skywalker Saga would have borne little resemblance to The Rise of Skywalker.
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To exactly no one's surprise, director J.J. Abrams' The Rise of Skywalker is proving to be quite the divisive saga-closer. Fans are already debating about many elements of the film, but it's one of The Rise of Skywalker's lesser twists that has people flipping out.
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While Princess Leia presented both Luke Skywalker and Han Solo with Medals of Bravery for destroying the Death Star in the Battle of Yavin, Solo's trusted companion and co-pilot Chewbacca never received one. The Rise of Skywalker finally saw him get his medal — but what does the accolade mean?
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Cats, which had drawn fire for its unsettling visual effects long before its release thanks to its insane trailers, is continuing to do so for the fact that it was apparently shipped to theaters with those effects unfinished. One egregious example of this in particular has turned some heads.
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Samuel L. Jackson has had so many memorable roles that you could be forgiven for forgetting that he appeared in one of the most beloved movies of all time: Jackson played Ray Arnold, the island's unimpressed chain-smoking chief engineer, in Jurassic Park. Here's why his death scene was cut.
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Most actors might find the idea of helmet hair horrifying, but The Rise of Skywalker actress Keri Russell so fully embraced the mystery — and heavy headgear — of her new character Zorii Bliss, her cast mates and director didn't see her face for two whole days during filming.
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For one to rise, another must fall, and now we know precisely what befell Luke in 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The recent release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — The Visual Dictionary reveals Luke Skywalker's precise cause of death.
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One important character was left out of the action in The Rise of Skywalker, and fans are rising up to defend her. The film's co-writers J.J. Abrams and Chris Terrio basically sidelined Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico, a character whom Rian Johnson introduced in The Last Jedi.
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One day soon, Star Wars will return to the big screen — but when that day comes, J.J. Abrams will be far, far away. The Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker director recently told Variety that he believes his time working with Lucasfilm to be well and truly over.
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Sometimes a movie might go a bit overboard in the opening, and while the rest of the film might be awesome — or it might absolutely suck — it never compares to those first few minutes. From superhero flicks to spy thrillers, here are the opening scenes that were the best part of the movie.
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While the It movies are absolutely frightening, they’re also filled with a number of mistakes that are hard to ignore. So what exactly did the filmmakers get wrong? Well, put on your yellow slicker and avoid the deadlights as we look at the mistakes in the It movies.
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As light and dark forces finally finished their battle for supremacy in the galaxy in The Rise of Skywalker, one of Star Wars most surprising moments brought this particular saga to a stunning close. It's time to talk about that major Rey and Kylo Ren scene at the end of The Rise of Skywalker.
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Although not every new alien and droid introduced in Rise of Skywalker is cuddly (some are even downright monstrous), there's no shortage of creatures in the action-packed sequel that we'd want to snuggle -- or, in the case of the skittish droid D-O, squee over from a respectful distance.
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Geek Supreme Kevin Smith is in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker — not that anyone but him would notice. Following through on a promise he made to Smith, writer/director J.J. Abrams gave the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot filmmaker a small onscreen cameo in the final installment of the Skywalker Saga.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker gave fans plenty of answers to long-burning questions, but it didn't end without leaving a few mysteries unsolved one of which involved two of the sequel trilogy's most important characters. Here's what Finn was going to tell Rey in the film.
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Don't hurt 'em, Jake. In a jaw-dropping series of Instagram posts, actor Jake Cannavale — who recently guest-starred on The Mandalorian, the Disney+ series set in the Star Wars universe — absolutely excoriated Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth and final film in the Skywalker Saga.
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Star Wars fans went to great lengths to ensure that their opening-night screenings of The Rise of Skywalker would be as perfect as possible. Unfortunately for two viewers, the night didn't go as planned, as one man was allegedly punched mid-showing.
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Star Wars stands huge in popular culture, and while opinions always differ, the 2010s have given us moments that made fans cheer or cry in theater seats or living rooms. Here's our assessment of the best Star Wars moments of this last decade.
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It's a debate that's raged among Star Wars fans since time immemorial ... or at least since the prequels came out. What's the right order to watch every Star Wars movie? Well, pour yourself a glass of blue milk and settle in to watch every Star Wars movie in the right order.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker may not have given all of the fans everything they wanted, but it did give a certain subset a cameo that they desperately wanted. A sequence during the film's climax featured the voice of Ahsoka Tano, a Force user and fan favorite character from The Clone Wars.
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There's a lot going on, which means that some characters were bound to fall by the wayside as others took the lead in the closing chapter of the saga. Here are nine characters with small roles in The Rise of Skywalker, and our exploration of why each one ended up with limited screentime.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens left fans of the franchise with one burning question about the main heroine, Daisy Ridley's Rey. It's now four years later, and that question has finally been answered with The Rise of Skywalker.
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The Star Wars prequel trilogy gave fans of the popular franchise many things — even a look at a young Boba Fett, the notorious bounty hunter from the original trilogy. What happened to the kid who portrayed the most famous bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe when he came back down to Earth?
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Some of the movie's biggest surprises happen in a lightspeed flash. That's why we're here to run down the biggest surprise cameos in The Rise of Skywalker, from original trilogy sidekicks to behind-the-camera architects.
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Pour one out for Cats as it fades away to the Heavyside Layer. The box office verdict has rolled in for director Tom Hooper's second movie-musical foray, and it's not exactly the cat's meow. Here's why Cats bombed at the box office.
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