re: Rian Johnson's reasoning for TLJ scenes (spoilers) (Updated with more)

He probably hates himself for it.

Lots of "I"'s when he is referring to the decisions that were made about the movie. Having carte blanch is a movie can be good or bad. No one was brave enough to stand up to Lucas so we got the horrible prequels.

What is the issue here? Was Disney happy with anything he put out because they knew it would make a ton of money or were they OK with this?

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My guess is these will be a pretty big part of the Han Solo movie next year. I think that was Disney's reasoning for showing them several times.

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Click the link. They were in ANH. It is at 40 seconds.


Dice scene

And are they as powerful as they were when alive? More powerful?

The next movie will be 30 seconds long when Ghost Yoda, Ghost Luke and Ghost Anakin are team up to mindcrush everybody.

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It was really important to me to, at the very outset, make a bold statement of, we’re going to have fun here also. Relax, you can laugh with it also, this isn’t just going to be a dirge . . . That was the one thing I was most nervous about . .

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So in making the next installment in the Star Wars saga and dealing with issues like the Skywalker family, life, death, the balance of the force, power, war...his greatest concern was whether the movie was funny enough and whether the audience would be able to fully grasp just how funny the dialogue was that he wrote.

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I was holding my girlfriend’s hand very tightly when that came up

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fricking beta pussy.

Can we get a real man to make Star Wars?

in law school they tell you to avoid keeping all of your thinking in your head and not putting it down on the exam.

Had he pulled Snoke's ship from orbit I would have JIMP.

He's going to have Kylo and Fin making out at the end of the next one.

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the fact that these 2 movies exist, episodes 7 and 8, and Luke is the only Jedi alive going into them, means that his journey isn't concluded

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Nah. I agree with him. This isn’t another Luke Skywalker trilogy. Luke did go through the traditional hero’s journey. Too bad he came out the other side worse than when he started.


I’m just going to say it “I didn’t want Luke to pull out a lightsaber and start flipping around a cave ALA Yoda in Attack of the Clones.”

And I also didn’t want him to be more powerful than any of his predecessors that had decades and centuries of training. That would have been some stupid shite. So I accept the pissy Luke.

frick rian Johnson.