Star Wars 8 shit talk

the plot twist is that Rey is also a "force baby"

150 minutes!

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/the-last-jedi-will-apparently-be-the-longest-star-wars-movie.html

value for money imo

that's going to be like 1 hour standing in line outside, never mind the previews, then 150 minutes in the seat - I guess my fluid consumption on december 14 is going to need to be carefully planned

real fans cath

I can't do that unless Driver shows his lightsaber

he does it in the trailer iirc

you're going to use the catheter if Adam Driver shows his....

nevermind, down a rabbit hole I'll never claw back out of

Happening in fifteen minutes

Psssst... at 10am Pacific time I’ll be taking over the @starwars account for a @Twitter q&a. MWAHAHAHAHA You can ask questions (and see a weird version of my face) by using #RianJohnson

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) November 28, 2017

So the three films this is inspired by are

Twelve O’clock High
Letter Never Sent
Three Outlaw Samurai

Right?

I am not 100% sure how I feel about this analogy but I do enjoy Old Mark Hamill

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/mark-hamill-the-last-jedi-runtime

mark hamill is kind of a treasure tbh

I misread their framing as Hammill saying the movie has a happy ending for a moment, and was bewildered.

ugh I saw that footage of laura dern and the dumb robot and it convinced me to pick up a ticket for thursday

early signals are that this is amazing

early signals = Twitter reactions, right? yeah, never ever trust those. they're almost always ecstatic.

Response is v positive but in the most predictable way. Trying to avoid spoilers before Thursday night although still feel like I know a lot less about this one than the previous one in advance.

My girlfriend's seeing a special screening tonight -- won't be able to catch it until Saturday myself -- and I'll post what her thoughts are (non-spoiler variety) after she's back. (And then I'm signing off the thread until Saturday.)

screening's today in South Florida but I gotta work so

Already saw it. I don't know what was more shocking: seeing Jar-Jar again or the fact that the movie is basically just about him.

Who would've thought that he was Rey's father.

early signals are that this is amazing to people who thought VII was amazing

I was not one of those people

Shocking revelations itt.

the fact that I can barely remember a minute of the previous movie (and I think what I can only recall is stuff from the trailer) tells me that my love for the SW universe has come at an end.

I will watch this one then assumingly in the same way the last one - ie guy in pub brings in DVD to share with everyone.

the fact that I can barely remember a minute of the previous movie (and I think what I can only recall is stuff from the trailer) tells me that my love for the SW universe has come at an end.

I will watch this one then assumingly in the same way the last one - ie guy in pub brings in DVD to share with everyone.

will we finally find out what a jedi is?

Kind of waterfowl iirc

Jar Jar injected Anakin with midichlorians.

I can barely remember TFA either beyond the climactic Kyle/Han scene, and I was stone sober.

*Kylo lol

the last jedoo

pretty sure that's the plural

i watched ep 7 finally last week after revisiting the original trilogy (return of the jedi: better than anyone remembers) and the prequels (which i love v much) and found it mostly .... all right. it’s the most visually anonymous star wars movie which made it hard for me to get into. the new characters were good but the movie didn’t seem to know what to do with them? and the han/leia dialogue was as painful as anything in the prequels. i think i’m just not a fan of abrams’ direction and his franchise redirects (mission impossible 3, star trek, force awakens) are a series of diminishing returns for me. still looking forward to the new one bc i like rian johnson and LAURA DERN IS IN IT

My interest in the new one is largely Rian Johnson driven; I saw ep 7 once in the theater and had a good time but all it is in my memory is a big, messy rhyme of A New Hope that was probably written in the editing room. I think I'll be seeing it next week sometime with my sister in LA. Cinerama in Seattle is all but sold out until sometime after Christmas

xp otm to all those reasons

let's jam to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrOSuY12Rrs

Replacing this song in the Special Edition was one of Lucas' greatest crimes.

I'm hopeful the promoted "casino scene" in the new one gives us a sweet jam like that

Casino scene? They should give a Star Wars Story to Steven Soderbergh so he can make Ocean's Fifteen In Space

TFA was more of a relief after the prequels, and comforting to view in its familiarity, than it was a great movie.

that's something star wars has been missing, the idea that people enjoy things during a time of strife. even if it's a slimy crime lord, I want to see someone actually finding enjoyment in something. something other than slicing up battle droids or whatever

Don't choke on your aspirations.

there was that delightful little moment when rey made puff-bread from paste, probably tastes hideous tho

the new characters were good but the movie didn’t seem to know what to do with them?

fortunately many people tethered to electronics every waking hour don't care about plot.

...he types with stentorian gusto

centenarian gusto, suh!

seminarian bluster

i mean i don’t care about plot and am tethered to a device but i don’t think star wars movies can get by on just mood or assocation (they can however get by on pure fandom-oriented projection, which basically accounts for every force awakens gif set i’ve seen on tumblr)

the main feeling i got from tfa was that the new characters were being forced through a script template

Rey, Finn and Poe were all introduced and established really well. Poe's scope feels pretty limited compared to the other two I guess (heroic pilot is heroic).

Have a ticket at 945 pm showing at one of the few legit IMAX theatres in the state.

Thanks to moviepass o/u of me seeimg this 5 times = even.