I am stupidly happy
It's true I have crossed over to the Dark Side, but if your uniform was that tight, you'd be pretty bloody cross too!— Adrian Edmondson (@AdrianEdmondson) December 18, 2017
You sucked it in admirably. Been holding onto this one for awhile - one day way back in post production I got bored during an effects review ❤️ pic.twitter.com/HZ7bJU3rmE— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) December 18, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
kelly marie tran 4 presidetn
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 December 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
I am also stupidly happy about this too
You CRUSHED it, Ade! A rare addition to the #StarWars mythology: a #FirstOrder officer with an actual wry sense of humor ("humour"?)! Having you in #TheLastJedi was such an honor ("honour"?)! 😜 #MayTheForceBeWithSuperfluousYous #BottomBaddie https://t.co/DYa0LZVHFM— @HamillHimself (@HamillHimself) December 18, 2017
'BottomBaddie' could be interpreted in many ways here in the U.K....— Adrian Edmondson (@AdrianEdmondson) December 18, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
Is it true that Bowie's "Rebel Rebl " was used in this episode as the Rebel Alliance's thenme?
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, 18 December 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
did they really need a gratuitous shot of shirtless Adam Driver?
ordering vacation matinee ticket
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
I thought this piece was great, apologies if someone shared earlier:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-backlash-negative-fan-reactions-rotten-tomatoes-score
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 December 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
some great scenes in this, some glorious visuals (probably some of the best in the series tbh), some bits that got me teary-eyed just out of lifelong affection for the characters. but my god did it need to be four years long? i went for a bathroom break as soon as poe announced "we've got to take out that cannon!" there was a long line from another screening letting out so by the time i got back it was luke talking to leia, yet i'm not convinced i missed anything. maybe some cgi critter antics and more red dust spaceship stuff which admittedly looked cool but man...learn to edit.nice of the opening crawl to just be like "look, it's basically going to be The Empire Strikes Back with some stuff moved around, what do you want from us?" - it let me accept that early and settle in for the ride. also nakedly abandoning any effort to make the republic/first order/resistance setup feel real or organic - "we just want there to be an empire and some rebels, is that so much to ask?"cgi yoda was bad. much better once they switched to a puppet for the closeups. at least i think they did. could be a different cgi team. never know these days. leia flying through space with the force was laughably absurd and would be a real jump-the-shark moment if i hadn't completely forgotten it by the next scene.luke's screed against the jedi and their romanticization was excellent, marred only by him saying "darth sidious" and not "the emperor." i get the irony of me complaining about the line not living up to my ideas of classic star wars but c'mon.... it was the emperor he met. did he read about "darth sidious" somewhere? reminded me of everyone in x-men suddenly calling magneto "erik" after he was retroactively given that name in the early 90s. erik!!!!but was very glad to be rid of snoke and have rey be rid of fannish silliness about her parentage. if these have to be shiny remakes, at least try to rip the plot free of the original trilogy so there's some chance the third one at least could feel something like a new movie. or do better at maintaining that illusion.love how finn and rose's entire plotline was irrelevant to the outcome of the story, except i guess it teaches finn to be brave for one line of dialogue with poe. poe's arc was interesting to follow and i'm glad they took him being a mansplaining jerk to laura dern and did something with it but boy does it feel like these characters have to learn the same lessons five times each. one hilarious thing was rose talking about how the most heinous destructive forces in the galaxy are the fossil fuel and resource extrraction magnates who ruined her planet. "and this planet we're on is full of the most heinous destructive people in the galaxy!" "you mean... gasp!" "yes! ARMS DEALERS!" "wait, what?" feels like a last-minute, board-of-directors-friendly edit of something that once made sense, oh well.some distracting things going on with lighting/continuity on luke's island, where "dawn" seems to be ten in the morning, and where from shot to shot, rey doing her dangerous lightsaber practice on the edge of the cliff is lit from totally different directions. oopsie.del toro as asshole han solo who does not come back to save them was a cute touch. unless he got redeemed while i was in the bathroom. or blown up. i liked him. he'll flip ya!as with the last one, but less severely, it needs an edit on the jokes. all good jokes but it'd be a stronger movie with 75% as many of them. agreed with moka - let a scene be a bummer scene or a scary scene for a minute! anyway all the jokes reduce space for information to rest in your mind... no time to establish a little oomph for one scene before we've written over it with another scene. we've barely started to reconsider luke in light of kylo ren's flashback before we're given his version of events. i had the same problem with Moana (which i really liked overall!) so maybe it's a disney thing. also the word "big-ass" should not be in star wars. thanks for reading.
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Monday, 18 December 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
haha I missed the "big ass"
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 18 December 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.rockpeaks.com/files/eggs/s/Spinal-Tap/000618-Spinal-Tap-Big-Bottom-Saturday-Night-Live-1984.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 December 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
Yoda being like “you definitely have not read the ancient jedi texts” to luke is me to EVERYONE who says they’ve read Hegel. no you haven’t, youre just a good liar— [to the tune of star wars] (@See_Em_Play) December 18, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Monday, 18 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
all yr questions answered
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kylo-ren-shirtless-last-jedi_us_5a343a2ce4b040881bea8a2f
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
lol @ ppl needing a reason. that’s adorable
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 December 2017 23:09 (six years ago) link
man, the famous Jedi texts that are in none of the 13 hours of Jedi-centric Star Wars films we have, it was so sad to see Luke burn those! and the Tree! dude Darth Vader never shut up about that Jedi Tree.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 December 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
Jedi Tree was in the background in some of the council scenes of the prequels iirc, along with his partner Master Switch
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Monday, 18 December 2017 23:53 (six years ago) link
Loved Luke and Yoda chilling in front of the big bonfire.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 18 December 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
the rich on the casino planet make their money by selling women to the first order
Nitpick here, but was it women or weapons? I was under the impression it was weapons.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
Ok, who wants the Good Shit?
http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/18/last-jedi-worst-star-wars-movie-ever/
A sampling:
The plot is further degraded by its pointed failure to follow up on the various story points set up by its predecessor, the wonderful “Force Awakens.” One of the best was the mystery of Rey’s parentage, which seemed to promise an exploration of the Jedi’s typically convoluted bloodlines. We discover, however, in a belated revelation, that her parents were “nobodies” completely unconnected to anything remotely interesting
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link
lol that's trolling right? i mean the movie has problems but at a skim most of the claims there are laughable or designed to reveal the reviewer as a complete clod. "objectively bad," ha.
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, December 18, 2017 7:14 PM (thirteen minutes ago)
oh, i heard women. might have been weapons
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
Bruneau p impressive how you manage to become tedious in new and inventive ways each week
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
Johnny was right - it's "weapons"
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
lol The Federalist reviewing Star Wars in between their Trump fellatio
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
Found it! Here’s Armond!
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454666/last-jedi-shape-water-juvenile-political-fantasies
He didn’t like Del Toro’s latest either.
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
i loved Laura Dern's explosive finale visually even though it meant Star Wars is now ripping off Starcrash (except w dumber heroes).
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
there's a petition making the rounds for disney to "remove episode VIII from the canon" and honestly when will these fuckin nerds go extinct pls
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-list-of-some-of-the-times-the-last-jedi-told-the-olde-1821396631I was seriously tired of all of the acrobatics done to make everything conform to a formula with deep reverence for the most superficial details that the franchise had become. The best shit in the original trilogy was the swamp frog man hitting the main character with a stick and telling him not to rely on his assumptions, and there was plenty of that in this one
― mh, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
Has anybody commented that it’s really strange that Leia would spend so much resources and effort in TFA to find Luke, only for him to be hidden out.. in a cabin next to a famous Jedi Tree
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
It’d be cooler if this movie wasnt 5 hours long.
― y'know, LIBS! libertarians, libertines, even liberians and librarians (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
xpost It was an unmapped island that from space looked like mere ocean. they knew he was going to the original Jedi temple, but nobody actually knew where that was, just knew *of* it
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
like "famous" Jedi tree = I sincerely doubt most laypeople knew of it or much about it other than it existed
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
it was famous thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago as far as I could tell, not so much a tourist attraction these days
― mh, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
the jedi got really into having a hierarchy and all hung out in the galaxy’s capital planet where they could make rules about how to be a jedi and complain a lot, they were kind of bad at archeology
― mh, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
some of the hyper focus on logistical issues and "plot holes" makes me wonder how closely some of these fanboys watched the original trilogy, in which the definition of what you could do with the Force seemed to get expanded every movie, Yoda tells Luke not to abandon his training only to tell him a movie later that he doesn't need any more training when he comes back, Luke romantically kisses his sister, etc etc
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
like if there was ever a universe that really wasn't tightly plotted and contradicted itself at will, it's this one
Why did yoda burn down the tree but then i saw a lorebook later? I figured if yoda burned shit down everything was toast. Its hard not to cling to stuff if you arent serious about your lesson, yoda.
― y'know, LIBS! libertarians, libertines, even liberians and librarians (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
let the whiny laser sword man think he’s burning it all down, it’ll give him that kick in the ass he needs
― mh, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
lol at a magazine called The Federalist. Their horrible writers appear on FOX News and MSNBC with stylish haircuts and viewpoints straight out of Andrew Mellon's diaries.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
Rey had already taken them prior to that moment. it didn't matter if they were really there or not, the burning was a symbolic of the destruction and "rebirth" of the Jedi. it's also Yoda saying "being a Jedi is about more than stupid artifacts and boring books", I guess dude isn't as into the dogma as once thought
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
yeah if you ever wanna see insanity, go to RealClearPolitics and just look at the TITLES of the Federalist articles.....
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
― mh, Monday, December 18, 2017 8:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes this
also maybe leading the whole galaxy into total multi-decade disaster has changed yoda's outlook on things
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
btw everybody who wants Kylo Ren to "turn" to the light needs to go find other movies to watch
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
I am embarrassed to admit how many times I've seen this already, let's just say I can pretty much recite the dialogue from memory now
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
Read that as "turn to the right"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
there’s that yoda bit at the end of the prequels where he’s like “oh we fucked up majorly, I’m gonna go into hiding until we can sort this out”
― mh, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
if only Sanders had done that!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link
ba-zing!
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
weird relics in the basement, cool fortress, now a gun battle? maz kanata is the semi-retired indiana jones of star wars who was trying to run her own casablanca-style bar in semi-retirement
― mh, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, December 18, 2017 8:45 PM (eight minutes ago)
sort of feel like we can chill a little bit with the stanning, people can have different experiences of the same movie, want different things from it, etc. you're being a little obnoxious
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
― mh, Monday, December 18, 2017 8:48 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 18, 2017 8:51 PM (eight minutes ago)
someone get this guy on the star wars joke writing team!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link