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I'm not the biggest fan of the ads for Star Wars Battlefront, the upcoming video game that seems destined to break sales records. In an era when Star Wars is, thankfully, branching out—focusing on characters who aren't white dudes, making a point to include gay characters, vowing to put women behind the camera as well as in front of it, and even cutting back on Princess Leia's bikini—the Battlefront ads have felt weird and backwards and self-congratulatory, targeted at old nerds like me. This one is so sappy and desperately sad-white-dude-wish-fulfillment-y that it's just depressing.

There's another ad, too, one that just came out today, and is a little less shamelessly targeted at sad white dudes, and then—wait! What! Anna Kendrick!

Look, that ad is just as sappy as the other one, but it's got Anna Kendrick in it, and Anna Kendrick makes everything better, and also, it really seems like the way to go is to just make a Pitch Perfect Star Wars movie. I feel like here's where I should come up with a story that should somehow take place in both the Pitch Perfect and Star Wars universes, or explain why everyone in a Star Wars movie would suddenly be played by the Pitch Perfect cast and singing all the time. But frankly, there doesn't need to be a story (just how there wasn't one for Pitch Perfect 2!), and frankly, neither Star Wars nor Pitch Perfect make any goddamn sense, so who cares about any "reasons" why there'd singing all the time. That's probably exactly what was said in the meetings for the Star Wars Holiday Special, but moving on.

SO ANYWAY this idea is, clearly, very strong, and I urge all parties involved to stop making bad ads for Battlefront and instead make a Pitch Perfect/Star Wars crossover happen immediately. You know Kylo Ren is all about Das Sound Machine.

(This is either the worst post I've ever written or the best.)