star wars 9 spoilers and postmortem shit talk

Just saw this and liked it (not as much as TLJ, maybe the same as TFA).

Highlights:
- that force fight that crosses time and space! Esp liked the barrel getting slashed open
- chewie got his medal :,,,,,,,,,,,(
- Hux’s reveal as the spy and death was hilarious
- liked the 42nd anniversary shoutout
- the amount of time people in this trilogy spend talking to ghosts/voices in their heads (this might qualify as weird I feel?)
- Finn and Poe chemistry was great and the main three were charming and tons of fun to watch
- moved along at a fair pace
- Adam Driver looked hot in some scenes

Didn’t like:
- agree that you weren’t ever really feeling the danger, feels a bit sanitised
- definitely felt they were hitting all the old beats which is good but you have to offer a bit more

I don’t fuck with SW fandom but I definitely laughed at a) Reylo being made canon and then Kylo immediately dying. Plus Poe and Finn clearly should have kissed at the end, come the fuck on.

can i just say since no one else has? the new droid? that looks like a lamp on a wheel?? the best!!! i’m not sure how he, or babu frick, or the hurt snake fit into everybody’s metatextual ip analysis or whatever - i don’t think they do? - but that little wheel guy got probably more screen time than R2D2 and i was extremely there for it

The new droid exists so JJ can get cash from voice residuals when it starts racking up the views

I think they make a D-O that doubles as a drinking cup.

My friend was drinking booze out of D-O's head last week

When Fandoms Intersect

So much love for a Droid with unknown trauma who expresses healthy boundaries when folks get too close by backing away and saying “no thank you” 💕💕💕

— Brie Larson (@brielarson) December 27, 2019

When does this movie open?

I know he hasn’t been around, but I want to know if dayo liked D-0

I was sad that it wasn't Dio instead of D-O

that’s how it’s pronounced. if c3p0 can be threepio, then the little guy is dio

HOLYYYY DIVERRRRR

I have a sq-squeaky wheel

ROLLING TIIIIIIIAAAAHHHH

Lol

Glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking of Ronnie James.

I never stop thinking of him

RIP

Some article claimed the droid’s name is pronounced like “deo” and I became very angry upon reading that

of course it's "dio", I mean in the song they say "life's a never-ending wheel", open and shut

Like a Rey-blow to a Darth

When Rey said something about D-0 having been mistreated by its former owner did anyone momentarily fear this was a dig at G Lucas R Johnson?

Who even knows. Possibly. At any rate, capitulations made to the detractors of TLJ were acts of creative cowardice afaic, and it bodes ill when you throw noisy internet douchenozzles any kind of a bone that lets them think they have power to reshape IP according to their own regressive whims.

The friend with whom I saw TROS voiced the first (extremely mild) offline negative comments I've heard about TLJ (which I basically agree with, namely: a jokiness which seems to refer more to our universe than to the universe inhabited by the onscreen characters).

Also, very disappointed rn: ctrl+f itt for 'lens flare' nets zero results, shame on y'all for failing to properly recognize the multiple instances of that deeply-beloved directorial flourish.

which I basically agree with, namely: a jokiness which seems to refer more to our universe than to the universe inhabited by the onscreen characters

I don't know if they mean e.g. the steam iron joke but that's in my 'not Star Wars but I like it' pile as opposed to the slightly bigger 'very Star Wars but don't like it' pile

When Rey said something about D-0 having been mistreated by its former owner did anyone momentarily fear this was a dig at G Lucas R Johnson?

OMG, u ppl are wacked out!

“Dueling auteurs”/side-taking SW fandom is a new thing I never could have predicted I’d be cringing at in 2020

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New thing?

“Dueling auteurs”/side-taking SW fandom is a new thing I never could have predicted I’d be cringing at in 2020

Saw this yesterday, and I'm a big sucker but it did what I wanted it to do (texturally feel like Star Wars and uh trigger incongruous weepiness due to watching the original movies so many damn times in my childhood).

I guess you all thought young CGI Luke/Leia was bad, but that scene definitely hit me with some unexpected emotion. More so than any of the other Carrie Fisher stuff, just because it's always poignant juxtaposing real age vs youth, and I didn't expect them to lift their visors (it helped that it was so quick too).

Obviously there was a lot of dumb stuff too, but I'm not really interested in nitpicking a Star Wars movie to death. Sure, it could have been better to do something completely new rather than a souped-up RotJ, but for what it is I really enjoyed it.

-I did think it would be funny if Rey and Kylo kept sacrificing themselves/reviving the other back and forth for the rest of the movie

-the entrance to Palpatine's lair -- was that a gigantic hovering monolith that they walked under? If so, I'm into it.

-I did think it would be funny if Rey and Kylo kept sacrificing themselves/reviving the other back and forth for the rest of the movie

lmao

There was a gigantic shitstorm at Rian Johnson in 2017, were you living under or rock or something morris? How on earth can anyone be surprised at Star Wars fandom being cleaved in two, like it's been for two years now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I guess you all thought young CGI Luke/Leia was bad

Consensus itt (which I agree with) seems to be 'young CGI Luke = almost uncannily good, young CGI Leia = we ran out of time so here is a Final Fantasy character who vaguely resembles a young Carrie Fisher if you squint just right'

It was like 1 second of screen time though, so I thought it was effective enough

And people 'chose sides' because the abuse at Kelly Marie Tran was organized by white supremacists. So we kinda didn't want to be on that side...

I'd be interested to see a rundown of what everyone thought was the dumbest moment from each of the SW movies. I think mine this time around is when the dagger perfectly aligned with the Death Star rubble. That's like something a relatively precocious ten-year-old would write into an adventure story without realizing that it doesn't actually make sense.

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-kinda liked how the snake first looked like a Rancor when it appeared, and then turned out to be a non-recycled element. I was really hoping that they wouldn't find anything important down there and that it would just be a detour for its own sake.

-obv Poe & Finn should have ended up together, but barring that, I did like that he didn't get the girl at the end. It's a good lesson, saving the galaxy should be enough, it doesn't mean that you get to go home and fuck.

the main group of characters in every Star Wars movie is a polycule

you KNOW that obi-wan was on chewie like a womp-rat up a drainpipe at every opportunity

If you stroke me down, I shall come more powerfully than you can possibly imagine.

i regret this

Will you never learn, my youngling?

that youngling in full

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This pretty much summed up my feelings on the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2zZFtq13c4

I'd be interested to see a rundown of what everyone thought was the dumbest moment from each of the SW movies.

1: Binks pulling his mouth wide and rolling his tongue at Qui-Gon - sums up the whole film p much
2: It's Yoda saying "around the survivors a perimeter create"
3: Having recently rewatched it's tempting to nominate the bit where Obi-Wan and Anakin are in an elevator alone, it suddenly stops and they both ask each other if they pressed the stop button. Or Grievous commentating (to no-one) on his escape. Or yeah Padme dying of a 'broken heart'. Yet somehow this is still better than the first two.
4: The sabre fight between Vader and Obi-Wan always looked very clunky
5: No one moment springs to mind but I've never liked the rapid pace and editing of the first ten minutes
6: "Jedi Rocks" or, from the original, the shitness of Boba Fett in combat

Having just watched the first half hour of TPM the other day, the fact that there are at least three separate instances within that half hour of a character making that [rapidly shakes head and/or flaps jowls like Roger Rabbit saying 'P-B-B-B-B-LEASE!'] sound made me want to die a lil.

7) I have the high ground

No place for the stupid “sand” bit from AOTC?