Star Wars 8 shit talk

biggest disappointment -- where are the knights of ren? i was promised knights of ren!

also regarding rey's parentage -- do we trust a knight of ren to be honest?

not i!

speaking of mocap, apparently mark hamill played the drunk little alien that keeps pumping change into bb8 xxp

good point about the knights of ren! rian johnson says the first cut of the movie ran over three hours so maybe they've hit the cutting room floor again

Lol yea its like two movies no knights

IMO the 9th film is gonna say the previous 8 films were a coma patients slumber dream

Don't get me wrong, I loved Rogue One,

no let me get you wrong!

it was def nice to see puppet yoda back in action (even if he did look a little... off in his first few shots)

Wait that wasn't CGI? Damn

p sure the first shot of him was CGI, and a few subsequent ones too

hard to tell if the first shot was or it was just because of the glowing haze. I've seen it twice and can't tell. when he's wiggling around and sitting down it definitely the puppet though.

"Apparently JGL voiced a character."

who is that?

http://www.slashfilm.com/joseph-gordon-levitt-has-a-cameo-in-star-wars-the-last-jedi/

ah. I was trying to figure out who JGL was and all I could come up with was Jennifer Gason Leigh

totally re watching Rogue One tonight. Star Wars is great innit?

jean guc lodard

cgi porgs were lame too. if they'd figured out how to do it practically it could have been great. i did appreciate a "lone chewie thinkin' baout things" moment tho

most of the porgs were puppets I believe

not that that excuses them

I like how in Luke’s fantasy oh himself at the end his hair is a lot less grey

yeah when he pulled off his hood at the end i was like ‘wtf I guess he stopped off for some grecian 2000 and a quick haircut on the way’

Also blue lightsaber. Spent too much of that scene internally spluttering "but that's the wrong lightsaber!" before I realised what might be going on

what is wrong with you porg haters

The porgs got a huge positive reaction in the theatre. But I suspect everyone else hated them

The Porgs were a harmless diversion.

Not having Han helped this movie

guess I'll read Chewie and the Porgs by myself then

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Last-Chewie-Porgs/dp/1484780760

He eats live Porgs

Thats why they call him Chewie

he shoves them up his hairy ass Richard Gere style

The main Rebel ship looked kinda like a giant dingleberry

if I were to venture a guess about the JGL voice it's probably the Canto Bight alien who reports the ship parked on the beach.

More aliens should have Baltimore accents

Kelly Marie Tran below Gwendolyn Christie in the credits is some astonishing bullshit. That’s pretty much my only complaint.

Agree. Phasma was just a cameo. KMT was great

Kind of amazed Phasma wasnt executed for what she did at the end of TFA

wonder if she’ll turn up to get owned yet again in the next one

stop trying to make Captain Phasma happen tbh (that just autocorrected to uppercase on my iPhone wtf)

he shoves them up his hairy ass Richard Gere style

Seeing this in 4D is fun if u have that near u

Also liked Luke's explicit references to events from the prequels

Kelly Marie Tran below Gwendolyn Christie in the credits is some astonishing bullshit.

wait waht that is bullshit

tran was so great - just instantly likeable and principled and charismatic. i hope she gets a lot of work off the back of this

Apparently the JGL-voiced character is called Slowen Lo

i also hope her hair becomes iconic xp

This piece articulates many of the things I loved in the movie: https://www.avclub.com/part-kurosawa-part-wile-e-coyote-the-last-jedi-boldl-1821291545

Kind of amazed Phasma wasnt executed for what she did at the end of TFA

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, December 16, 2017 2:40 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is a comic series about how she avoids getting executed apparently

Lol this universe man

and to think it took this long for leia to be revealed as a jedi master

there's one moment where Kylo looks like a human Tom Servo

and now they can’t follow up on it :( xp

really glad her daughter Billie got to be alongside her in her last Star Wars film

TFA and TLJ actually the first two movies she ever starred in, too!

An important lesson from this film is to never, ever follow a plan cooked up by Poe or Finn. Those two dipshit cowboys are basically responsible for 99% of the resistance deaths in this movie.

― El Tomboto, Friday, December 15, 2017 9:37 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah and I loved that Johnson framed it this way to the audience, too. confounding the typical definition of heroism in the SW universe, where it's traditionally been ok for scores of young Rebel soldiers to die in 5 minutes as long as one of you delivers a badass knockout punch that results in a temporary setback for your opponent

really need to re-watch this.

stuff I've been thinking about:

if TFA was disney "unfucking" the SW universe post-prequel then i can see this movie as further "unfucking" the Force as a belief system/religion etc. No midiclorians, no science. a poor orphan can use the force etc.

I could see TLJ really succeeding in a complete TFA->TLJ->EP9 cycle. That is to say Disney knows they have this for the long haul and they may have set up TLJ where it HAS to exist in w/in the other two movies.

Also feel like TFA built up a large reservoir of goodwill for future SW movies/EU material and they used a LOT of it on this one in ways I can't quite articulate. It seemed really piecemeal. Too many ideas @ once.

Not sure if I liked it!

one for the poster