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re: Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi Discussion Thread ***SPOILERS***
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:04 pm to Scoop
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:04 pm to Scoop
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I thought this movie was fantastic and maybe the best SW ever
You must have LOVED Matrix reloaded!
It's SOO much more VISUALLY appealing with it's complete disregard of all things fathomable!
Normal pushing limits is sooooo 1990!
Bet you wish they had 1,000 jedi fight because the 100 jedi fight was SOOOOOO cool?!?!?
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Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:04 pm to OMLandshark
Haven't watched it yet, but Angry Joe's spoiler discussion: LINK
They acted like they were recently sodomized in the non-Spoiler review, and he's getting off to a good pissed of start in this.
They acted like they were recently sodomized in the non-Spoiler review, and he's getting off to a good pissed of start in this.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:06 pm to JabarkusRussell
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Regal?
Yep. Almost asked to be seated at another showing but wasnt sure if it would be different and was a good bit into the movie already.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:14 pm to Purple Spoon
Movie was damn good. I heard about all the diversity shite and saw it but it didn't distract me.
They did Luke right imo.
They did Luke right imo.
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:14 pm to JabarkusRussell
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Offers the Harsh Condemnation of Mansplaining We Need in 2017
yuck
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:19 pm to musick
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Movie was damn good. I heard about all the diversity shite and saw it but it didn't distract me.
They did Luke right imo.
I understand the initial denial. I'll see you in 3 or 4 hours.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:23 pm to OMLandshark
let them work through the progression. I fought it too.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:23 pm to OMLandshark
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And why did they write it? Because of people like us who will see through the bullshite, and they in turn can call us sexists for daring to call them out on it. Setting it up through something only maybe 30,000 fans will read is total shite.
I admit that I have a rather complex view on the politics of the new movies.
I think that the Rey character is fantastic and is immune from any criticism from that standpoint. Daisy Ridley is amazing and I love everything they have done with her. I especially like her because she was the doorway for my daughter to fall in love with Star Wars which has been great.
No quibbles with Rey.
Finn dragged down this movie which was perfect other than him and his cohort and he has no purpose. He did nothing that affected anything. He just had to be provided a storyline.
The main thing is that there is such an emphasis to avoid casting anyone in a protagonist role that that is a white dude. It's just weird.
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:24 pm to musick
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They did Luke right imo
Yeah kill Luke instead of unleashing him. That makes sense. Instead of unleashing his full potential over this film and the next, let’s kill him and force ghost him so he can Derp in Rey’s ear. GTFO
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:25 pm to lsuguy84
not to mention Yoda basically telling him he aint shite
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:26 pm to lsuguy84
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Yeah kill Luke instead of unleashing him. That makes sense. Instead of unleashing his full potential over this film and the next, let’s kill him and force ghost him so he can Derp in Rey’s ear. GTFO
Yeah, when marched out against 15 AT-ATs, I was gripping my seat in excitement thinking he was going to redirect the blasts and destroy them all... but nothing. So disappointing.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:27 pm to OMLandshark
While I need some time to digest it, my overall impression is one of annoyance. The best I can describe it is like expecting a good solid meal, but being fed nothing but appetizers.
There were parts of a good story here, and I agree with OML and C's take as to how this could have been greatly improved.
The stupidity of the B "plot" really took me out of any immersion. Between the casino planet, the "plan" to ditch their largest ships and hide on a hidden world, and the 18 hr running-on-fumes-slow-motion-space-chase, I don't understand how that all didn't get scrapped/fixed in rewrites/edits.
Also, the product placement pets were annoying as frick.
While cool, the force projection should have been established earlier, and Luke not actually being there was poor form in my opinion -- let him go out in blaster fire while holding it off for a long time or something, at least give him a hero's death.
I will give props to the final scene, with the little kid with a broomstick looking up at the sky.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:27 pm to Purple Spoon
It was purging of the old to usher in the new just for the sake of it. Hammill warned us....he absolutely did. Pretty pathetic they took the route they did.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:28 pm to OMLandshark
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Yeah, when marched out against 15 AT-ATs, I was gripping my seat in excitement thinking he was going to redirect the blasts and destroy them all... but nothing. So disappointing
get out of my head bro
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:28 pm to lsuguy84
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Yeah kill Luke instead of unleashing him. That makes sense. Instead of unleashing his full potential over this film and the next, let’s kill him and force ghost him so he can Derp in Rey’s ear. GTFO
You seem like the kind of guy that wanted Luke to land in his x-wing and force toss all of the walkers. Are you 13 years old?
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:30 pm to Scoop
You seem like the kind of guy that doesn’t understand Luke Skywalker. Congratulations on joining Star Wars at 34 and not having a fricking clue. Fight me at Sonic
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:31 pm to lsuguy84
He’s a fan boy that wants this movie to be good so bad that he’s in denial.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:33 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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wants this movie to be good
And it wasn’t. What’s your point? JJ Abrams basically laid groundwork for awesome cinema and Rian Johnson derped around for a couple mill. Good times.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:33 pm to AustinDawg
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While I need some time to digest it, my overall impression is one of annoyance. The best I can describe it is like expecting a good solid meal, but being fed nothing but appetizers.
I feel like it was like being fed a great main course, but with some bad sides and issues like the courses arriving out of order and the dessert taking forever to arrive.
Posted on 12/15/17 at 9:34 pm to Scoop
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I think that the Rey character is fantastic and is immune from any criticism from that standpoint. Daisy Ridley is amazing and I love everything they have done with her. I especially like her because she was the doorway for my daughter to fall in love with Star Wars which has been great.
No quibbles with Rey.
And no one does. She's well written and likable. Like Wonder Woman, she's a character first and a woman second. We root for Rey because she's flawed, compassionate, feisty, and looking for her way in the universe. Same with Leia.
Rose and whoever that Vice Admiral was: They're women first and characters second. They feel a need to be condescending to men who don't know any better and mansplain to them, but they are the ones who really know what's up. The Vanity Fair article had a correct point about this movie that it was about Mansplaining, at least in the B-Plot.
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Finn dragged down this movie which was perfect other than him and his cohort and he has no purpose. He did nothing that affected anything. He just had to be provided a storyline.
Yeah he was an anchor, although at least his story has nothing to do with his status on Earth.
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The main thing is that there is such an emphasis to avoid casting anyone in a protagonist role that that is a white dude. It's just weird.
Rey is a fantastic protagonist. As soon as the Star Wars sequels were announced, my first thought was to make the main Jedi character a female since it was a very organic way to mix it up. Unless the director is a literal sexist, I think that almost any director would have chosen a female protagonist for the sequel trilogy since it just seems like a natural evolution to what had come before. Making all the First Order male and the Resistance female (and tolerating their male subordinates) is not the way to go.
This post was edited on 12/15/17 at 9:51 pm
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