re: Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi Discussion Thread ***SPOILERS***

I feel like I'm just ranting about dumb nerd shite now, but how do you not have at least one shot of everyone in the resistance in awe at Luke's arrival.

In the TFA they talk about him like he's a God among men. Instead, he shows up and everyone's just kinda like "oshit waddup" to this supposed living legend

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I just got out of the theater. I'm still digesting this. My initial reaction is that it wasn't a bad movie. It wasn't the best, but it wasn't Attack of the Clones bad.

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just wait til you really start to think about it and it start soaking in.

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I feel like they have forgotten what makes Star Wars so great. Or maybe is that it’s just because the generations now need either a laugh or action or feel good moments every 20 seconds of a movie. But not every moment needs something happening.

This scene is what I’m talking about. It doesn’t need jokes or fighting or some sappy moment. But it was still a powerful moment.

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People bitch about TFA not being original. So this is a very original story. Now people bitch about that.

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I keep hearing this. But I didn’t think TLJ was really anything original and something crazy different from the other movies. Instead of doing well, the the Resistance fricked up. But the way the told the story really wasn’t anything different or original in my mind.

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People bitch about TFA not being original. So this is a very original story. Now people bitch about that.

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There is original stuff that works in this movie: Kylo Ren and Rey. Stick with that. Double down and make this 80% of the movie. Rey does nothing in the finale and Kylo is only present in the Second Act through Rey’s visions. Instead they take us to fricking Monaco for 40 minutes.

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People bitching about luke’s death must have never watched Star Wars. The mentor of the Jedi always dies. It was pretty damn obvious when Yoda gave him the last lesson what was going to happen.

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That was written in awkwardly as well in RotJ and forced in because they had no other choice. Luke’s death was lame as frick. I mean after Carrie Fisher’s death, couldn’t they have just had Mark come in for 1 day of shooting to reverse his death at least since all Episode IX has left is Chewie?

Luke will be on the next movie. I mean Yoda is still showing up like 50 years after he died.

I really don’t want to pile on here but I’m a little upset I didn’t love this movie. It’s OK I guess but between TFA and R1, this is the first new episode that I walked out a scratching my head.

I understand they want humor. I do too, but Poe doing the prank call on the commander of the First Order’s fleet in the first scene really made me cringe. Then Luke threw the saber behind his back. I feel like there should have been some sound effects like “whump, whump, waaaaahhh”.

Name one baddie from the original trilogy that was a walking punchline. They had laughs but they were serious movies. This movie went from prank calls, to teaching us about the toxicity of a vendetta, to having Finn try and sacrifice himself because of a bloodlust TWO times in 30 minutes. Once with Fasma and the other with the door knocker.