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

That’s what I thought.

Both of these movies are so heavy With exposition it’s annoying

We all get ham solo is the father figure rey didn’t have. It was clear, but Kylo has to explicitly say it because the makers of these blockbusters think we’re all dumb as rocks

Just seemed odd this revelation wasn’t explicitly told to rey.

It wasn’t as bad as leia recapping the movie 2/3 of the way through

But the last Jedi takes that flaw in TFA and juices it up like Barry bonds

the real underlying problem with this film is that Rogue One is just better

this movie harkens back to the awful prequel films

quote:

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Never forget the real hero of Endor. Some nameless Awing pilot.

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Also don't forget that pilot was black.

But, to be fair, that took destroying the shield generators for him to get through. Which is happening in the gif you included.

They're acting as if this is actually a good thing here, because yeah I agree:

Is there a correlation between:

1) Your feelings on the OT
2) Your feelings on the Prequels
3) Your Feeling on TFA
4) Your Feeling on TLJ

I'll start:


1) OT are part of my childhood, and even though ROTJ is flawed, I love them all
2) Dislike them in general, but Sith is ok and I can live with most of it honestly
3) TFA is not perfect, but it's a good popcorn flick and puts a lot of interesting pieces in place to expand the Universe
4) I hate it. Rian Johnson has Snyder'd Star Wars and seems to dislike Star Wars in general.

And in the 1 hour since TFA ended the opening title tells us the first order has seized control of the galaxy

Saw it last night finally.

I felt like this was definitive proof of Newton's Third Law of Physics. For every moment that I was in awe and thoroughly entertained, there was a moment that I was like, "Jesus, this is terrible."

I'm not sure how I feel about it overall. Felt like a throw-away summer spectacle movie: "Just give me crazy visuals and slapstick comedy during otherwise dramatic sequences while I stuff overpriced popcorn in my face." I accept that for movies like Transformers or any of the 48,584 superhero movies. I don't think that's why people go see a Star Wars movie, though.

Packed theater. Few goofy moments produced some laughs here and there. There weren't any cheers which really surprised me. There certainly wasn't any standing ovation at the end like someone in this thread said he experienced. It was eerily quiet when the movie ended. I had the distinct impression the audience didn't enjoy it.

I guess my initial reaction is I liked it, but thought it was way down the list of great Star Wars movies.

A shockingly good piece by Vox (a typically Leftist publication) on why people hate this movie. They civilly disagree that many of these are problems in the movie, but they at least see why people loathe this movie and aren’t members of the Alt-Right like other publications are claiming: LINK