Star Wars 8 shit talk

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.

nashwan: UNLESS...

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/889781/Star-Wars-Last-Jedi-Finn-Poe-gay-relationship-truth-LGBT-rumour-Oscar-Isaac-interview

“As to actually seeing how that manifests in Poe - that isn’t necessarily going to be a clear story point in this one [Episode 8].

That's not a denial!

I asked a Star Wars nerd to go with me to this so I can just lean over and go "who's this?" any time I can't figure out what's going on

Harf harf

imo that's fair! Appreciate sic giving this a good try as a Rian Johnson fan

I can't argue that approach, I should have done that with Lord of the Rings because I still have no idea who half the characters are. By the end of the second I couldn't tell which long-haired northern european-looking human dude was which. At least Star Wars characters look relatively different so tracking them scene to scene is a little easier.

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

eh this guy hated 7

Saw #TheLastJedi. By far the best #StarWars movie since the original trilogy, maybe the best since Empire.

— Tim Molloy (@TimAMolloy) December 10, 2017

point taken, though keep in mind that he's also the author of Is Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ About Pennywise the Clown?

yep, until Armond White shits all over it I can't take any of this early press seriously

tbf that piece kind of sounds like it was lifted from the TS snake gifs thread on ILM

7 being fairly generic & essentially a retelling of 4 was kind of what I expected; Disney poured a zillion dollars into marketing this and making it into an EVENT and I think just really didn't want the reaction of "eh this kinda sucked" that the prequels got.

In unusual news: My wife (of all people, hadn't seen any Star Wars film until about 14 months ago) bought us tickets for this on opening night. Would be understandable if I was a fanboy but I hadn't even seen any of the prequels until we watched them together (see above timeframe).

More of a Bond family?

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

oh god wouldn't that be horrible to be amazed by a movie /s

your puny minds are tricked by a flash of light on a piece of celluloid WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!

I think you’re missing the point that was being made, there

did Harrison Ford specify "No ghost shit for me in VIII"?

IIRC they're planning to have his poorly-stuffed corpse propped up in the Falcon's copilot seat alongside an inappropriately-grieving Chewie.

luke can use the force to make it seem like he's talking

Head stuffed and mounted in Kylo Ren’s library

Only Jedis have the power to become exposition-ghosts afaik.

when they're having trouble in a battle his voice is heard, "I TOLD you to punch it to lightspeed!"

Embargo lifted and reviews everywhere and etc. I'll just say my girlfriend's take was that it was great, a more than good sign. Talk you all more on Saturday.

v v nice

Only spoiler I'll provide: we finally learn what a 'nerf herder' is and it's unspeakably filthy.

A friend was disappointed.

welp the new yorker is doing a little prequel rehabilitation in their review. was this the guy who wrote other contrarian/positive takes on the prequels?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/star-wars-the-last-jedi-reviewed

I desperately miss the pseudo-Shakespearean dialectical wrangles and the exhilarating sense of C.G.I. discoveries that mark George Lucas’s last forays into the franchise—their sense of renewed personal investment in a cinematic universe that seemed to be growing ever more complex before its creator’s eyes, their sense that its creator was personally wrestling with a world that was escaping his own control and taking on a life of its own.

take your prequel rehab think-links to the prequel poll thread

oh good i nearly posted another one

was this the guy who wrote other contrarian/positive takes on the prequels?

lol people talk about people who like the wrong star wars movies like they're cryptonazis

there are several critics who like the prequels. most convincing pieces i've read have all been by mike thorn. don't know if i'd go as far as brody does in that quote

I desperately miss

wrong adverb there

If Force Awakens is better than the first and third prequels, the gap is not large.

Force Awakens at least mostly got the star wars look and feel right, despite its flaws. That puts it miles ahead of any of the prequels.

it mostly had the plot of the original

Brody -- author of a massive book on Godard, and regularly assailed as a "contrarian" -- is perhaps mourning the steam-cleaning of any idiosyncrasy out of what is now 'perfected,' big-budget product.

i would sorta disagree that it got the feel right; first twenty minutes of tfa i was like "what movie is this where i'm watching a fleet of storm troopers land on a planet via a shaky handheld camera"