re: Ranking all the Star Wars films--what say you?

Posted on 5/29/18 at 10:36 am to Baloo

Posted by Breesus

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Posted on 5/29/18 at 10:36 am to Baloo

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seemingly have real stakes.

Real stakes? In what way? Nothing happened in that entire movie and every time a character was in a situation with any gravity or stakes they were immediately saved or the audience was fooled and they were safe the entire time.

And then, at the end of the movie, no one gives a shite. They finally send out the resistance signal and "it was received. No one's coming". Even the people inside the universe don't give a shite about the resistance. Why should I?

And how the frick did that little kid at the end know the intricate details of the fight scene between Luke and Kylo?

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Posted by Baloo

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Posted on 5/29/18 at 10:39 am to Breesus

The rebellion is completely crushed even more thoroughly than it was in Empire, which as Dante in Clerks reminds us, is a series of down endings. Yet in crushing the Resistance, the First Order itself is stripped down, destroyed, and remade.

And for the first time in the entire run of the series, the villains make a compelling argument. Sure, they are still stand ins for the Nazis, but Kylo's argument to kill the past is compelling... and probably correct.

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