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re: 'The Last Jedi' was released 5 years ago today
Posted on 12/15/22 at 12:41 pm to StringedInstruments
Posted on 12/15/22 at 12:41 pm to StringedInstruments
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aw it with my wife. As someone who actually enjoyed the prequels, I was nothing but excited to get a new Star Wars film. I’m not really the most active critic, so if I’m expecting something to be good, I usually just go with the flow.
So when we left the theater and my wife asked if I liked it, I said “yeah” but something was off. I felt kind of weird about the whole thing. As the night went on, I started questioning some scenes.
Like Luke drinking alien milk and tossing away the light saber. That was weird.
And the whole “the empire, dark side, Jedi stuff is all puppetry for the rich elite” storyline was dumb.
And then the nobody-Asian girl stopping a character from being a hero because killing is bad or whatever was obnoxious.
And Leia flying through space.
And the feminist wizard woman thing overruling Poe but making absolutely asinine decisions that were portrayed as good ones was…bad.
Just a bad fricking movie. Thanks for bringing it up again.
haha kind of exactly how i felt.
I saw it with my 7 year old son at the time.
He asked the same thing when we walked out, if i liked the movie, and i remember just feeling weird and confused and saying "i guess, i don't know".
I was so excited to go see that movie b/c of the teaser of Luke.
I didn't take as long as you to start getting extremely irritated. From the time he asked me that question as we walked out the theatre to when we got into the car, i started going off, and by the time we got home, i was pretty furious at how fricking stupid that movie was.
frick that movie and frick Rian Johnson, fricking idiot can't even spell Ryan right.
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Posted on 12/15/22 at 12:41 pm to achamb7
Put the lightsaber throw scene vs what Favreau did with Luke in Mando and it’s just like why, why did we have this shitty movie when we could have stories like Mando Luke. This movie still pisses me the frick off.
Posted on 12/15/22 at 12:42 pm to RLDSC FAN
When the opening scene was a prank phone call I knew we were in trouble
Posted on 12/15/22 at 1:01 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Let's hear some stories on how you felt walking out of the theater...good or bad
Theater? After I paid to see the first turd, there was no way i was going to get fooled again. The worst parts of the movie, and there are a lot, are completely ruining a beloved character in Luke Skywalker, the stupid worthless casino scene, Leia doing her Mary Poppins flight, Snoke being the worst villain in the history of the series, stupid woke bitch Holdo.
Posted on 12/15/22 at 1:12 pm to RLDSC FAN
At first I was just happy to have seen new Star Wars. I loved the scene with Luke and Yoda. Then when he died for no reason and it was over, I felt legitimately sad. They had really just taken the biggest soft toss of a story ever, Luke coming to the rescue, and crapped all over it, the character, and the fans.
In hindsight, I should have seen it coming since they had just made Han Solo a deadbeat dad and husband.
In hindsight, I should have seen it coming since they had just made Han Solo a deadbeat dad and husband.
Posted on 12/15/22 at 1:44 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:Between all the PR leading up to the release making it seem like they were more worried about making a feminist woke fest than a good Star Wars movie and then seeing all the threads on here complaining about how bad it was, I didn't even bother trying to see it in theaters. Didn't watch TLJ or ROS until they were out on Disney+ for free. Glad I didn't waste money going to see either of those at the theater. And I had been so pumped to see TFA and Rogue One that I took half days off work on their opening days to go to a matinee showing for each of those to avoid possible spoilers.
Let's hear some stories on how you felt walking out of the theater...good or bad
Posted on 12/15/22 at 1:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
You give me this:
And one year later you bend me over and do this to me.
frick you bitch!!!
And one year later you bend me over and do this to me.
frick you bitch!!!
Posted on 12/15/22 at 1:45 pm to StringedInstruments
Good points. This one has me scratching my head though
When did that happen?
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“the empire, dark side, Jedi stuff is all puppetry for the rich elite”
When did that happen?
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:06 pm to RLDSC FAN
If I was paid to make a movie to destroy the franchise, I don't know if I could beat TLJ. Maybe add some gay love scene between Luke and Chewy?
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:18 pm to RLDSC FAN
I was never a big Star Wars fan but I liked them enough to be hyped for the new ones. There was some cool moments in LJ like the red room scene and the scene where Laura Dern takes out that ship.
But the movie is plagued with a lot of dumb shite, the plot Laura Dern’s character had made little sense and nearly caused a mutiny by Poe. As mentioned before the casino storyline was pointless and went nowhere other than hey look rich people fund wars. Rose as a character sucked, her sister seemed to be a much better character but she died early on.
Also the movie tried to act like Rose stopping Fin was heroic when had it not been for Ray and Poe everyone would have died. Speaking of dying, Luke gets a one minute force battle and just randomly dies. Also definitely would have rather had Ben actually betray the FO and have Hux become the third movie villain or keep Snoke alive.
Just a bunch of storylines that went nowhere with some cool shite sprinkled in, also after the third movie Finn literally contributed to nothing outside a few scenes which sucked because he had promise
But the movie is plagued with a lot of dumb shite, the plot Laura Dern’s character had made little sense and nearly caused a mutiny by Poe. As mentioned before the casino storyline was pointless and went nowhere other than hey look rich people fund wars. Rose as a character sucked, her sister seemed to be a much better character but she died early on.
Also the movie tried to act like Rose stopping Fin was heroic when had it not been for Ray and Poe everyone would have died. Speaking of dying, Luke gets a one minute force battle and just randomly dies. Also definitely would have rather had Ben actually betray the FO and have Hux become the third movie villain or keep Snoke alive.
Just a bunch of storylines that went nowhere with some cool shite sprinkled in, also after the third movie Finn literally contributed to nothing outside a few scenes which sucked because he had promise
This post was edited on 12/15/22 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:20 pm to RLDSC FAN
Watched it at home.
Originally got about as far as Leia Poppins and I said “frick this, I’m out.”
Subsequently watched it on cable while on vacation and I was not impressed with the remainder.
If this were a deconstruction film of the SW series, it worked.
As a middle film in a trilogy? It fricked things up so badly that they had to do an even bigger arse pull in the finale to attempt to fix things.
TV Tropes would likely consider it a “torch the franchise and run” because so many important characters died or were horribly derailed in the film, combined with Carrie Fisher dying before the third one was released and having to appear through retasked deleted scenes.
Originally got about as far as Leia Poppins and I said “frick this, I’m out.”
Subsequently watched it on cable while on vacation and I was not impressed with the remainder.
If this were a deconstruction film of the SW series, it worked.
As a middle film in a trilogy? It fricked things up so badly that they had to do an even bigger arse pull in the finale to attempt to fix things.
TV Tropes would likely consider it a “torch the franchise and run” because so many important characters died or were horribly derailed in the film, combined with Carrie Fisher dying before the third one was released and having to appear through retasked deleted scenes.
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:23 pm to RLDSC FAN
I would have thought that was way longer than 5 years ago.
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:33 pm to RLDSC FAN
The film ended, we were at a smaller theater, one of those dine in movie theaters, maybe 60 people in the theater...anyway the film ended..there was dead silence..suddenly somebody started to clap but it was reluctant, they didn't know whether to clap or not. I stood up and wheeled around to face everyone in the theater and demanded to know "who clapped? whoa! You don't have to clap for that points at screen, that was the worst frickin' film I've ever seen, what a piece of shite waste of time"
ETA: My super progressive family members loved it
ETA: My super progressive family members loved it
This post was edited on 12/15/22 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:44 pm to RuckMaul1
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The film ended, we were at a smaller theater, one of those dine in movie theaters, maybe 60 people in the theater...anyway the film ended..there was dead silence..suddenly somebody started to clap but it was reluctant, they didn't know whether to clap or not. I stood up and wheeled around to face everyone in the theater and demanded to know "who clapped? whoa! You don't have to clap for that points at screen, that was the worst frickin' film I've ever seen, what a piece of shite waste of time"
bruh
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:51 pm to RLDSC FAN
My favorite was the your momma joke two minutes into the movie
High level dialogue like this
High level dialogue like this
Posted on 12/15/22 at 2:55 pm to RLDSC FAN
This movie is such a giant steaming turd. It saw Indiana Jones frick around with aliens and said hold my beer.
Its weird how the Twitter Hive Mind celebrates this trash arse film like its Casablanca
Its weird how the Twitter Hive Mind celebrates this trash arse film like its Casablanca
Posted on 12/15/22 at 3:05 pm to DMagic
yeah, that was so badPosted on 12/15/22 at 3:26 pm to RLDSC FAN
I took my wife and 3 kids to the matinee. We left the theater in silence. Driving home nobody said much. We got home and got supper ready. When we sat down at the table as a family my wife started in on the movie. I had no idea where she was going when she started talking but she began with "I'm sorry but I just can't hold it in any more...." from that point on she went on a 5 minute rant about every awful thing about that movie. She spouted out virtually every complaint that people have had about that movie. It was one of the most impressive, anger filled, cynically laughing, profanity laced, disgusted to no end rants I've ever seen or heard.
It was awesome and almost made up for how awful the movie was.
It was awesome and almost made up for how awful the movie was.
This post was edited on 12/15/22 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 12/15/22 at 3:33 pm to RLDSC FAN
I was enraged leaving the theater. Not because it was bad, although it was awful. A bad Star Wars movie, I can handle. I was enraged because someone took something that was important to my childhood and decided to intentionally ruin it in order to make a retarded sociopolitical statement so that idiots would call him "brave" and "visionary." The only way it could have been worse would have been if they had revealed that Han and Luke were lovers.
It was a Star Wars movie made specifically for people who hate Star Wars.
It was a Star Wars movie made specifically for people who hate Star Wars.
Posted on 12/15/22 at 3:46 pm to RebelTheBear
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One of the points I always heard from people who liked this movie was "It subverted expectations."
I expected it might be good and make me like Star Wars again, or payoff the huge potential of revisiting the characters from the original trilogy, and it definitely subverted that expectation.
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