Star Wars 8 shit talk

first thing my cousin and me discussed in a xmas day analysis of TLJ was 'WTF was up with that brush-dirt-off-the-shoulder moment??' he's a bit like me; loves the movies but not a fanboy. i think that moment is going to have a grim afterlife. i REALLY wish it wasn't there.

i was fine with it, seemed clear that it was meant to further enrage driver

he should have put his hand up to his forehead and made the ‘loser’ sign imo

people who say Rey is a Mary Sue are off-base, BB-8 is the true Mary Sue

then again, so was R2...

Chewbacca and Lt Konnix have a secret, off-screen romance

nah chewie’s smashing those space nuns for sure

i was actually legit confused when luke's super subtle force push did not appear to actually dislodge anything, so alien to the world of star wars is the symbology of shoulder-dirt-brushing for me

it would have been possibly even cheesier for the at-ats to tumble sequentially into each other like the choppers parked outside the biker bar in pee wee's big adventure at that moment but it's what my mind wanted

I mostly liked this! Kinda sad this grouchy version of Luke won’t be back (?)

In retrospect, this one took the meta-referentiality of TFA to the only place it could really go. Not that I don’t appreciate the audaciousness of it.

finn is way less irritating in this movie than in tfa

i also think the humor works way better in tlj than in tfa or rogue one, but i seem to be alone there. only good laugh in tfa is 3po’s red arm

I mentioned to my older sister (who introduced me to the original trilogy when I was little) that seeing Luke deploy what was essentially the myth of his own heroism in the climax was an intense experience in a Jungian kind of way.

Xpost nah the humor was far better here. Finn's comedy bits in TFA were shit

x-post: Otm. The shoulder brush was the best moment :(

^^^ THANK YOU

xp to neanderthal

:(

well i don’t mind the shoulder brush at all either fred

Kinda sad this grouchy version of Luke won’t be back (?)

I think Luke will have at least one force ghost interaction with Rey in IX, esp since I have to assume Leia will die of natural causes in the opening crawl

Some of the comedy in TFA was really good, a lot was hacky in-joke stuff but I think the Finn/Rey "are you okay??" "...Yes?" bit was really good and worked to cement affection for the character. In both films I can point to two or three worst-offender jokes that, if removed, would make for a stronger and more continuously immersive film. The "holding for Hux" bit is just so wrong for the universe in a way that Han's "fine, uh, we're all fine here... how are you?" bit in the original film isn't.

An absurd thought I had while watching is if they had known while making this movie that Carrie Fisher was going to die they could've had Leia be the one to go down with the ship instead of Holdo

Yeah, I found having her character survive when we all know Carrie is gone gave me an odd feeling of hopelessnes.

carrie fisher died like a year ago iirc, probably could have figured some way to kill her off given the 12 times leia almost died and also considering she was not really an important part of the movie anyway....

I just think comedy in big budget films is kind of broken right now.

i assume they have enough b-roll/unused footage to find a resolution for the character. i think they won't go down the CGI route after the general reaction to grand moff tarkin/leia from rogue one.

the humor in this was objectively bad, but par for the SW course

yeah carrie fisher’s family have already ruled out a digital resurrection iirc xp

i assume they have enough b-roll/unused footage to find a resolution for the character. i think they won't go down the CGI route after the general reaction to grand moff tarkin/leia from rogue one.

― 龜, Tuesday, December 26, 2017 9:06 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or they do a time jump for ep 9 and casually mention her passing in the crawl

The "holding for Hux" bit is just so wrong for the universe in a way that Han's "fine, uh, we're all fine here... how are you?" bit in the original film isn't.

they're both of their time imo. the han line is straight from the SNL school of murray/ackroyd-esque bullshit artistry, the hux scene is straight out of the office

y'all should be glad there's no Millennial internet humor in this movie

the shoulder brush kinda counts imo

AND THAT'S A GOOD THING

AND THAT'S A GOOD THING

heh I really don't think that's what silby meant. the dirt off your shoulder seems antithetical to millennial internet humor actually

milennial normie humor, maybe?

I HAVE SPOKEN

KINDA

Milennial internet humor version would be like, that whole standoff at the base is set at a Denny's instead

Luke would be the waiter and Kylo Ren would be ranting at him about something and Luke would be like "So do you want hash browns"

you're right, i'm glad that wasn't in the movie

How do yall feel about the fan-wish to recast Sigourney Weaver as Leia? I kind of feel like it could work.

bring back Sissy Spacek imo

leia really hasn't brought a whole lot to the table these past couple of movies, just write her out imo

Pretty sure Leia's story will end like this
https://media1.tenor.com/images/fa8950c47e2ed420544078ea9e052b9d/tenor.gif?itemid=3715215

we all go on about poe's impetuousness, but finn and rose deciding to crash their shuttle into the resistance hangar coulda ended a lot worse than it did

Leia at the start of EP9 = Newt in Alien3.

Xpost

"Oh my God...Poe! Where's Leia?"
"Thanks to your crash landing, there are multiple answers to that question"

I’m a little worried we haven’t heard back from Alfred

I love Sigoyrney recasting Leia is a terrible stupid idea.

i mean, if they do that then why not recast Han and fkn Jabba the Hut too

I mean they're gonna have to do a jump forward anyway, unless Ep IX will be centered around the growth of the Resistance from 12 people to 14 people

or they could do a Bela Lugosi and have an actress wear a cape in front of her face while she speaks