Star Wars 8 shit talk

appreciated David Edelstein review that coined 'Luke Cavesulker'

It’s good, I liked it. It’s all-over-the-place in the middle but the final hour is a barn-stormer.

ugh i'm so excited to see this and idk why

First 30 minutes was awful though xp

i mean i know why but really the force awakens should've defeated my desire xp

I love how Rotten Tomatoes gives the same weight to this person and the New York Times.

Diana Saenger
ReviewExpress.com December 13, 2017
Lucas Hit the Jackpot!
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Over my 20 years and more as a syndicated film critic I have sat through many Star Wars movies. Most of the time I wasn’t impressed, but that’s part of my job. However, I did enjoy an invite to Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch where critics learned so much about the making of these films and all the work that George Lucas and his comrades put into making the movies.

I just saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi and was delighted and immersed in the entire film. Writers Lucas and Rian Johnson have a real winner here, also to Johnson’s direction. We have new characters, new adventures but also back are some of our favorites making us laugh or holding our breath if they will survive.

Several people are out looking for the long- lost Luke Skywalker (expertly played by Mark Hamill). One is his son Kylo Ren (a determined Adam Driver) who wants revenge for things Luke has done. Of Course we can’t forget Leia (Carrie Fisher) who also wants to find Luke and sends the newest character Rey (Daisy Ridley) who also appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to look for him.

expertly played

Needs a New York Times review for comparison. For all we know their reviews are also written by a 12 year old.

Wait, Kylo Ren is Luke's son? So like, Luke and Han?

I was glancing at the contrary opinions on RT the other day and there were a couple that really seemed like writers deciding this was their moment to break out and gain some publicity

I should track down the best one, the language was... florid

turns out Rey is r2dr and c3po's daughter

It's too bad the new one still has a 94%, well out of range for being genuinely interesting

Love when Morbs gets guffaws out of mummified-film-critic-dad Jokes

"Dad Jokes"

UPROARIOUS!

Seeing this in two days and hoping it's a whole lot more compelling than TFA

i guffaw infrequently JV, mostly at Yorgos Lanthimos films

is Jake naked in this one

making us holding our breath if jake is naked in this one

Crossposting with the op-ed toon thread:

I'm the distressed box office worker who wants more patrons to buy a ticket to the film I am showing at my theater, Care About Real Wars pic.twitter.com/1CI0sn0lVu

— air brooks (@brooksasanoun) December 14, 2017

Seeing the movie tmrw. How much of anything apparently influenced by “Letter Never Sent” made it in?

this is a very odd film

sometimes to its benefit, often not

xpost to Morbs : should I even watch his latest ( have it queued up) ?

no idea where the raves are coming from at all, but then i felt the same reading all the 'Rogue One is better tan The Force Awakens' hype last year.

takin the kids tomorrow, hope it's at least alright

how would you rank tfa/tlj/rogue, pisces?

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tfa
tlj
(quite a big gap)
rogue*

*although the Darth chunk at the end of Rogue is still one of the best things i've ever seen.

i will say that this had the single biggest LOL of any Star Wars film; caught me completely off-guard and i was still laughing to myself deep into the following scene. lots of people are saying the lols are not very Star Wars-y, ymmv.

going to stop checking thread until tomorrow evening, but hoping for more lols along the line of “That’s not how the force works!”

Well I laughed out loud at least a dozen times. The audience also applauded about that same number of times at specific moments. Shit delivers.

There are a couple of real shocks in this I didn't see coming at all at least not at the moment they did. And one particular moment you can see coming maybe a minute or two before it does but was still jaw-dropping (it happens in space...sort of...).

My only real ish is with the ending and there are a few red herrings before it but it felt oddly conclusive - nothing like ESB in its final act.

A lot of stuff happens, none of it really matters though

Does *anything* matter

No one I’ve read yet seems to have spotted the (MILD TECHNICAL SPOILER) shot that very cleverly references the tracking shot from the party scene in WINGS yet. Thought it was cute.

yes JV, you should watch Sacred Deer, it's amazing it was even released in a country as humorless as America.

best in the series btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kJkhEcQ44k

This is an odd beast. Contains probably an equal amount of amazing and cringeworthy moments. Shakes up the formula somewhat, which I appreciated. Guaranteed to piss off nerdboys (a mark in its favor).

this was maybe 2% better than TFA

some interesting stuff on the periphery and a few arresting images, but also a *lot* of dreck.

Wheeeeee

more tomorrow

For now, I’ll just say I’m incredibly stoked for Rian Johnson’s trilogy in this universe, whatever that ends up being.

Some could make the argument that this is just an expensive, intentionally weird exercise in confounding expectations while playing an old popular song backwards, and they wouldn’t be wrong, but they would definitely be missing the point.

not nearly weird enough imo

i liked it. I particularly liked the *spoiler* ironing the jacket shot.

" the party scene in WINGS yet"

what wings? the sitcom?

steven weber shucks with lightsaber?

^^ lol yes that was fantastic

I really liked it, even if it suffered somewhat from Return of the King syndrome, and often it felt like Kyle Ren made decisions just to make them. It wore its emotions on its sleeves a lot more than any other SW film (though some of this might be residual sadness about Carrie Fisher), and I keenly felt the hope and despair of the characters.

It's probably my favorite of the new school Star Wars movies, and I'm worried I'll get whiplash when the series returns to JJ Abrams' shaky hands

Xps the ironing shot was fantastic I mean

"It wore its emotions on its sleeves a lot more than any other SW film (though some of this might be residual sadness about Carrie Fisher)" you mean your sadness? because she wasn't dead when they made it obv

I do wonder if they second guessed any of this after she died. they've certainly set themselves up for a bit of a conundrum in movie 3 now.

Right, i was saying I might have been projecting my sadness about Carrie Fosher, not that there weren't many intentionally emotional moments in the movie itself

I'm guessing this is the Wings tracking shot mentioned above?

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