Star Wars: The Last Jedi **Spoilerriffic Thread**
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But there was a constant fall of dust/ash/whatever-it-was-that-was-falling. That snow like substance kept covering every track, explosion residue, scar and step by whatever made it. There were several angles/shots besides the extreme close ups of their feet.
The more I think about the way they sent off Luke Skywalker, the more awesome I think it was.
I'm glad they didn't have him actually die by losing some epic lightsaber battle to whoever, or something else.
The series needed to move on from Luke and Han somehow, and I think they did it well.
Luke didn't lose in his death, he won, he went out a legend that did something unimaginable to save what was left of the good guys. I had no idea he was not actually there and while watching it I thought "holy s*** this is the most amazing jedi thing anyone has ever done he's the greatest jedi ever I guess is the explanation? maybe this is a bit ridiculous though? a little over the top?", but him dying from doing that made it more believable (you know what I mean) because that is the cost of going that deep into the force.
Pretty awesome IMO.
My Facebook review:
My last Jedi Impressions...
Likes: Some of the best action set pieces in any Star Wars movie. The lightsaber fight in the throne room was excellent, looked like an actual sword fight, and reminded me of Akira Kurosawa samurai films. Benecio's character pointing out that the rich prosper from selling arms to both the rebels and the first order showing the grey area of who is actually good in all of this fighting.
Dislikes: The completely pointless Fyn plotline. I can easily overlook the diversity olympics throughout the entire movie but the asian chic was pointless and the romance was forced. Complete inept rebel alliance leadership with another pointless, "strong female character in a leadership role", who's only purpose appears to be to fill up screen time. In the directors effort to add some SJW flavor he completely made them look like buffoons. By the way, purple hair's plan was awful and she let those people in the support ships die for nothing. The pathetic attempts to point out Poe's 'mansplaining' all the while pretending to be so much smarter than everyone else made me want to punch the screen. Luke would never even think of killing Kylo because he had darkness inside of him. After all, he spent at least two movies defending Vader.
Overall: As a sci-fi movie it was good because of the action. As a Star Wars movie it was lame. If I'm rooting for The First Order by the end of movie because I'm so irritated with the tactical incompetence of the rebel alliance then something went wrong. I did however like the very end. The kid using the force to grab his broom and the shot from behind him while he looked at the stars was great. The angle even made the broom handle look like a lightsaber. It appears that kid in the janitor closet swinging a broom handle around has been vindicated.
My last Jedi Impressions...
Likes: Some of the best action set pieces in any Star Wars movie. The lightsaber fight in the throne room was excellent, looked like an actual sword fight, and reminded me of Akira Kurosawa samurai films. Benecio's character pointing out that the rich prosper from selling arms to both the rebels and the first order showing the grey area of who is actually good in all of this fighting.
Dislikes: The completely pointless Fyn plotline. I can easily overlook the diversity olympics throughout the entire movie but the asian chic was pointless and the romance was forced. Complete inept rebel alliance leadership with another pointless, "strong female character in a leadership role", who's only purpose appears to be to fill up screen time. In the directors effort to add some SJW flavor he completely made them look like buffoons. By the way, purple hair's plan was awful and she let those people in the support ships die for nothing. The pathetic attempts to point out Poe's 'mansplaining' all the while pretending to be so much smarter than everyone else made me want to punch the screen. Luke would never even think of killing Kylo because he had darkness inside of him. After all, he spent at least two movies defending Vader.
Overall: As a sci-fi movie it was good because of the action. As a Star Wars movie it was lame. If I'm rooting for The First Order by the end of movie because I'm so irritated with the tactical incompetence of the rebel alliance then something went wrong. I did however like the very end. The kid using the force to grab his broom and the shot from behind him while he looked at the stars was great. The angle even made the broom handle look like a lightsaber. It appears that kid in the janitor closet swinging a broom handle around has been vindicated.
I think I get it now. I think the director was attempting to direct like Whedon. Many of the scenes and 'jokes' would be something I'd see out of Firefly or Avengers. It took me awhile to compare this to something and that's what it was but on a much lower Whedon scale.
I see your vid, and I'll raise you this great track. Bad Lip Reading really kills it...sometimes:
I had some issues right away with TLG, but I definitely feel this way when people get way too bent out of shape over the movie.
I also feel like those people who say TFA (or TLG) was the worst Star Wars movie should no longer have the right to talk about Star Wars on any forum ever.
I don't know why anyone would bring up the prequels as some kind of defense. People have been s***ting on the prequels for 20 years.
Episode 3>8 though
Episode 3>8 though
Saw this somewhere....
“To help JJ plan the next film here is the the perfect formula.
Make it the same as the original trilogy, but also make it different. But don’t change anything, make sure to include surprises but not surprises we don’t want, in fact, avoid surprises but don’t rehash anything, also don’t try something new because we won’t like that. Make sure we do justice to the cast but we don’t say how. Make sure we get it right. I want it exactly the way I want it but just a bit different, also the same. Make sure we know the backstory to all the characters, even the incidental ones because we are all speculating and you better be reading my mind but leave it mysterious at the same time. No CGI, keep it practical. Make sure to expand the universe like the Prequel did, you know, using CGI. Also don’t do anything the Prequels did, or the Force Awakens, or the original Trilogy but make it like those films too. Give it some humour but don’t make it too funny. Show us some new force powers but not the ones we haven’t seen before because new powers are ridiculous. Don’t kill anyone, it betrays my childhood but also make it unpredictable by killing off a few characters...”
“To help JJ plan the next film here is the the perfect formula.
Make it the same as the original trilogy, but also make it different. But don’t change anything, make sure to include surprises but not surprises we don’t want, in fact, avoid surprises but don’t rehash anything, also don’t try something new because we won’t like that. Make sure we do justice to the cast but we don’t say how. Make sure we get it right. I want it exactly the way I want it but just a bit different, also the same. Make sure we know the backstory to all the characters, even the incidental ones because we are all speculating and you better be reading my mind but leave it mysterious at the same time. No CGI, keep it practical. Make sure to expand the universe like the Prequel did, you know, using CGI. Also don’t do anything the Prequels did, or the Force Awakens, or the original Trilogy but make it like those films too. Give it some humour but don’t make it too funny. Show us some new force powers but not the ones we haven’t seen before because new powers are ridiculous. Don’t kill anyone, it betrays my childhood but also make it unpredictable by killing off a few characters...”
It was a pretty fun movie and I love Star Wars, but a few things that bugged me:
- Finn should’ve died in the suicide run. He’s annoying and his new fling should have had no more than 5 minutes of screen time instead of becoming a main character. I’m not racist.
- The interim leader for the rebellion could have just explained her plan rather than begging for a mutiny.
- Would have liked to have seen Luke really go HAM rather than evaporate.
- Why do ships always have to be manually piloted? Have they not mastered remote control yet?
- Why/how were they dropping bombs in space? Were they close enough to that planet for there to still be gravity? Those things couldn’t have been rocket propelled?
- Unless Phasma comes back as a charred badass, maybe the biggest wuss of all time. Did she kill anyone?
Still liked it.
- Finn should’ve died in the suicide run. He’s annoying and his new fling should have had no more than 5 minutes of screen time instead of becoming a main character. I’m not racist.
- The interim leader for the rebellion could have just explained her plan rather than begging for a mutiny.
- Would have liked to have seen Luke really go HAM rather than evaporate.
- Why do ships always have to be manually piloted? Have they not mastered remote control yet?
- Why/how were they dropping bombs in space? Were they close enough to that planet for there to still be gravity? Those things couldn’t have been rocket propelled?
- Unless Phasma comes back as a charred badass, maybe the biggest wuss of all time. Did she kill anyone?
Still liked it.
This is the single funniest thing ever typed out at UnionVGF. I literally made an audible giggle upon reading it and I rarely laugh or smile at comments. Thank you for making my day better, intentional or not.
I wished Force Luke could have seized Kylo's Lightsaber and used it to slice off Kylo's right hand. Or if even his Projection did it.
That would have been insane and the audience would have lost their s***.
I also think in a strange way this could have enhanced Kylo's character development to be humbled this way, probably have the black glove over a robot hand, or let it sink in what it being like Darth Vader really means.
That would have been insane and the audience would have lost their s***.
I also think in a strange way this could have enhanced Kylo's character development to be humbled this way, probably have the black glove over a robot hand, or let it sink in what it being like Darth Vader really means.
Watched the force awakens earlier and noticed a bit of foreshadowing in a literal name drop to the sequel, when Snoke first appears and says something something “the last Jedi....the new Jedi”. Anyone want to wager on “the new Jedi” being the title of the next one?
25 shmeckles...
Wonder if the title may be spoken somewhere in “the last Jedi”
Star Wars: Every Word You Just Said Was Wrong (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Ewoks)
This is partly how I see things with what I know, though #2 is completely made up.
1. I see that one as mostly justified. The rest of the leadership might have been told, (the ones aboard the other ships obviously were) but Poe disobeyed a direct order to leave and got the entire bombing fleet destroyed. It did lead to the dreadnaught blowing up but he keeps trying to go over the chain of command and it gets people killed every time. Him sending Finn and Rose away with the code breaker plan doesn't solve anything either. So Holdo complicated it by not letting the crew know, but Poe in particular had no right to be involved with all the crap he caused, I feel.
2. I have to imagine that every ship has all sorts of failsafes and lock outs to prevent anyone from jumping straight into a planet and nuking the surface. Hence the need for a living pilot. Droids would probably be hardwired to not be capable of doing that themselves as well. If two organized militaries like in the clone wars started lightspeed bombing planets, I imagine it would be like our concept of nuclear weapons. Any one nation (republic/CIS) uses them and the gloves are off, that country is going to be annihilated in short order. So I see the manual control as being necessary to prevent them being easily used as a weapon. This way it requires a living element to take the risk. As for Holdo being able to hyperspace through a fleet in the first place, the resistance does amount to a kind of insurgency. Such groups aren't above fighting dirty, so disabling said failsafes is probably on their to do list with every pre flight check. But now they should be ready for the reprisal.
3. Magnets, supposedly. TIE Bombers drop stuff the same way in the asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back. Somehow they're "heavier than space" and drop down into the asteroids? Probably a kind of sensor in the bomb that propels it towards the biggest nearby thing. like yer mum.
If none of that is good at explaining thats okay to feel the same as before, I just like discussing this stuff.