Star Wars 8 shit talk

fine, i don't care who chops Luke's leg off

lol unfortunately i've spoiled myself plenty already but i'm psyched for this film based on tombot's impressions

return of the jedi
star wars
the empire strikes back
rogue 1
the last jedi
the force awakens
revenge of the sith
the clone wars
the phantom menace

that's encouraging

there's unique magic to this one (without being too spoilerrific -- a super dope fantastic racing beast stampede) though for sure it is not perfect given its bloated running time but still it is way way worth seeing. it never gets as dumb as when han first got introduced in the force awakens with that raiders of the lost ark big trouble in little china space smugglers sequence. anyways i'd say the 'good' star wars movies outnumber the 'bad' ones now 6 - 3 \m/

I wouldn't rate Return of the Jedi that high but I'd say my list would be:

Empire
New Hope
Force
Rogue 1
last jedi
return

then all that other shit in a heap at the bottom

luke skywalker jedi knight outfit is the best star wars action figure

serious battlestar galactica / fifth element vibes in this one

I got no bad feelings about this movie.

not reading the above right now, but don't you guys usually change over to a current thread once these genre OOH SPOILERZ things actually get released?

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, December 15, 2017 12:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If we do, will you stay in here and behave yourself?

I enjoyed this. BB8 sucks though. I can't even explain why ... something about that little bugger gets on my last nerve.

was it the 8 scenes of BB8 Ex Machina that did it?

I like BB8 he’s such a little rapscallion

was it the 8 scenes of BB8 Ex Machina that did it?

Totally. I liked the scene where General Hux was doing the Turing test on her but they could have tossed the rest of them. ;-)

do Finn and Poe fuck in this

https://entertainment.theonion.com/new-star-wars-film-once-again-disappoints-die-hard-ni-1821291309

xp There were a few scenes near the beginning that I thought were REALLY playing with the Finn-Poe shippers for sure. Frankly Poe seems to love BB-8 more than any actual person.

BB-8 is p-dameron's muffit / space-pup

I just realized there was no "I have a bad feeling about this."

Sweet.

“I have a bad feeling about this” could have been spoken by the protagonists during almost every scene, tbf

Spoilery take on how this is finally the common people’s Star Wars

http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/rey-parents-star-wars-last-jedi-populism.html

BB-8 spitting coins and slot machine tokens at dandy arms dealers was not the subtlest class-warfare flourish

boy this is kind of a mess huh

nice to see eddie hitler getting work tho

my kids literally had to pee three times during this movie so i missed a lot of it (rey in a hall of mirrors??) but it was p good

the action didn't feel as lean and directed as TFA. there were even bits that were kind of.. boring? too much snoke. that was a cool red room though. and i loved the way it all burned and fell apart.

once everybody's safe i noticed rey just chilling with her characteristic bandages wrapped all up her arm EXCEPT on the actual place where she's been slashed lol

there was a LOT of innocent deaths going on in this one, like entire ships full of people, again and again and again :(

the escape on the beasts was magnificent

agreed with the pointlessness of the poe/finn/rose gambit, and how quickly poe's forgiven

when rose and finn are in that cell, realising they're fucked, and they get an offer of help from an admittedly shady character, why aren't they immediately on the case? i know the script wants us to understand they don't trust him or believe him but what's the alternative?? they literally are like "nah we're good" when he promises he can break the code. uh? lost of lot of momentum and motivation for me there and i suspend disbelief for a whole lot less, believe me

and it felt like rey was on that goddamn island forever

hux has really taken snivelling to a new level tho, it is quite an accomplishment

Another layer to this is how it seems like Johnson just decided to throw away everything from TFA he didn’t like. Snoke. Phasma. Kylo’s mask. By the end of this he’s boiled it down to the one big conflict that matters, taken the meaningless mysteries off the board, and raised the stakes by an order of magnitude

Johnson had said that the plan was for this to be the more Luke-centric movie and the next one more focused on Leia (for reasons now clearer) iirc

i liked how tangibly glad poe was to see finn. probably the best thing for me about the OG trilogy was how much hand/luke/leia's friendships mattered.

on that tip, near the end, when poe introduced himself to rey i was like..... they haven't met?? that's crazy

anyone else wonder if rose’s sister was originally written as her romantic partner?

huh?

i did!!

my man

tell you 1 thing for sure.. i've no idea where they go from here.

if anyone can write them out of the corner they’ve painted themselves into it’s... jj abrams?

oh

next film will have only droids and chewy as holdovers from the original.

I do hope Finn has more to do in the next film, I feel like he was kind of misused here. I just saw the movie for the second time, and I still don't really like that whole casino scene. bah.

the attempt at social/class commentary shit was weird and lame

but yet not weird enough

there's good weird and bad weird ffs

hall of reys + teat monster + jodorowsky room were good weird

Mark Hamill was very good in this btw

Really dug Salty Luke

yeah, hammill, driver and kelly marie tran were the standout performances for me

i could watch domnhall gleeson get smacked around all day

I was sad to see all the women pilots get such short shrift tbf.

Completely concur, bg.

Hux standing awkwardly over the murder scene as Snoke’s bottom half flops out of the throne was great too.

Simon I would like to read a more detailed take from you on the lameness of the social/class commentary if you’re up for it

the best, most surprising scene in this (yoda's tough-love destruction of the tree and dismissal of the jedi order) also kinda ends up poisoning the rest of it, i think

it creates the expectation that there might be further shocking twists, which makes it extra disappointing when kylo asks rey to join him and she doesn't - how much more interesting might it have been if she had taken his hand, or she had managed to persuade him to give up on the dark side? instead we're back to a big climactic battle scene, in which both sides line up and slowly advance towards one another across a flat white plain, which seems like an unintentional visual metaphor for how the film feels after the goodies and baddies are firmly established once more

the destruction of the tree is also completely undercut in the penultimate scene when the jedi books show up in the drawer on the falcon - so in the end all yoda really did was create a big bonfire for luke and tell him that failures are important like he's a cheap motivational speaker

BG extremely otm, I will write more on the class stuff later but these points are related

lol was i the only one who interpreted those books as an allegory for the prequels

i was unclear on where Rey and/or the Falcon were supposed to be much of the time

The Last Jedi currently rocking a 56% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 88% for TFA and 87% for Rogue One