xxp to simon
they really didn't. compare it to ROTJ or the prequels
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
off the top of my head, the porgs, the horse things, the crystal dogs, and the little nun things were all on the cutesy end of new stuff. (if they market lactating toys of the teat creature we'll know they've hit the dregs)
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
The Porgs and Vupltices (yes) could've at least helped in the fight. Porgs shitting on AT-AT windscreens while the Vulptices (YES) gnaw at their cables.
― nashwan, Friday, 15 December 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
Those two dipshit cowboys are basically responsible for 99% of the resistance deaths in this movie.
Haha, yes, and if Admiral Laura Dern had just trusted in Poe to tell him her plan, Finn and Rose wouldn't have had to do any of the things they did. That's not QUITE Ebert's "idiot plotting," but it's close. Still, I liked Dern's character a lot.
I also liked that del Toro's character actually took the money and ran rather than having a last second change of heart. For a split second I thought that would be him in the AT-ST saving Finn and Rose.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
Benicio was the MVP for sure
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Bit disappointed that BB-8 and its First Order counterpart didn't actually go one on one so let's book ten minutes of Ep in for that.
― nashwan, Friday, 15 December 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
fingers crossed benicio is fleshed out in the han solo movies
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
This is canon now pic.twitter.com/lNvPKp1iPH— Jackson McHenry (@McHenryJD) December 15, 2017
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
"fingers crossed benicio is fleshed out in the han solo movies"
is he supposed to have never aged? how would that even work
― akm, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
science fiction movies have magical makeup, costume, hair, and special effects sorcerers iirc
favorite image from the film (besides "Luke" facing down AT-ATs at dawn) is space wizard leia surviving the vacuum. tearjerking!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
lmao I hated that scene so much and I'm not totally sure why
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
You know what I just realized is a very important choice that they made? Nobody gets their hand cut off in this movie. Thank you, Disney.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
Each SW director is allowed to choose either a hand removal or a bisection, but not both.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
*Shpoilers* I did like it a lot more than TFA. However, the only explanation I'll take for the Porgs is that Chewbacca took them as a sustainable source of meat on the Falcon. The Luke hologram sequence was bloody cool. However, like Simon I hated flying Leia...it felt very out of place in the sequence. The glossing over of Poe's coup attempt is ridiculous.
Things I probably thought too much about:
Are there not videorecorders in Snokes throne room? Or did the force disable them?
If a ship going at light-speed is so effective against Star Destroyers, why are there not kamikaze drone type ships? C3PO could also have taken one for the team instead of Dern and soulless old me wouldn't have cared.
Would they not physically inspect the gated cavern instead of trusting a schematic? These rebels are not smart enough to be worthy opposition to the First Order.
― finlay (fionnland), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Also, as god is my witness, when the movie wiped to Rey and Luke for the first time, and he reached to take it, I was milliseconds away from leaning to my wife and saying "He's going to turn around and chuck it into the ocean angrily." Then I thought naaaah, no way. The actual choice was funnier.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
"it" = his lightsaber
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
I think technically Snoke's hands were cut off...during the process of a wider sliceroo.
― nashwan, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
And if Luke shut himself off from the Force did that mean he was jumping on that big fishing stick with no manipulation? Impressive.
― finlay (fionnland), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Did anyone else notice that the credits include a listing for John Williams's original song from Altman's The Long Goodbye? I'm assuming it appears in the Canto Bight scenes somewhere but I wouldn't have been listening for it.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
LOL you guys this movie had both a space horse race AND a horseback chase scene in it. AND little ragamuffin space orphans.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
I was so relieved the kids didn't have corkney accents.
― nashwan, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
oh god how I hated the adorable space orphans lol
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
controversial Luke lol i didn't mind: lightsabre river-chuckcontroversial Luke lol i did mind: wiping dirt off the shoulder at a crucially tense and emotional climactic moment
― piscesx, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
otm
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
other good, possibly fan-bothering lol: Yoda says the Jedi books were not much cop; 'page turners, they were not'.
― piscesx, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Great lol:
"The odds against it are fifteen thousand, two hundred and forty -- "
"SHUT! UP!"
" . . . to one."
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
space wizard leia helps the audience cope with carrie fisher's death / sets rey up to take over for her as a surrogate daughter who brings jedi justice to ben
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
Another layer to this is how it seems like Johnson just decided to throw away everything from TFA he didn’t like. Snoke. Phasma. Kylo’s mask. By the end of this he’s boiled it down to the one big conflict that matters, taken the meaningless mysteries off the board, and raised the stakes by an order of magnitude
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
not reading the above right now, but don't you guys usually change over to a current thread once these genre OOH SPOILERZ things actually get released?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure how much credit RJ deserves for that / how free a hand he really had. xp
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
naw Morbs think we only had the one thread for Star Wars 7 shit talk
― nashwan, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
https://society6.com/product/our-blessed-rebel-queen-carrie-fisher_print?sku=s6-8248160p4a1v45
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
nashwan steered us right into spoilertown and there's no turning back
Ah wait how could I forget Star Wars 7 Spoilers Thread: This SPOIL bath is going to feel so good.
Better to keep it all in one place tho imo.
― nashwan, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
should a mod add "now with SPOILERS" to the thread title?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
fine, i don't care who chops Luke's leg off
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
lol unfortunately i've spoiled myself plenty already but i'm psyched for this film based on tombot's impressions
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
return of the jedistar warsthe empire strikes backrogue 1the last jedithe force awakensrevenge of the siththe clone warsthe phantom menace
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
that's encouraging
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 15 December 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
there's unique magic to this one (without being too spoilerrific -- a super dope fantastic racing beast stampede) though for sure it is not perfect given its bloated running time but still it is way way worth seeing. it never gets as dumb as when han first got introduced in the force awakens with that raiders of the lost ark big trouble in little china space smugglers sequence. anyways i'd say the 'good' star wars movies outnumber the 'bad' ones now 6 - 3 \m/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 December 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
I wouldn't rate Return of the Jedi that high but I'd say my list would be:
EmpireNew HopeForceRogue 1last jedireturn
then all that other shit in a heap at the bottom
― akm, Friday, 15 December 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
luke skywalker jedi knight outfit is the best star wars action figure
serious battlestar galactica / fifth element vibes in this one
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
I got no bad feelings about this movie.
― Roz, Friday, 15 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, December 15, 2017 12:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If we do, will you stay in here and behave yourself?
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed this. BB8 sucks though. I can't even explain why ... something about that little bugger gets on my last nerve.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
was it the 8 scenes of BB8 Ex Machina that did it?
― Simon H., Friday, 15 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
I like BB8 he’s such a little rapscallion
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
Totally. I liked the scene where General Hux was doing the Turing test on her but they could have tossed the rest of them. ;-)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
do Finn and Poe fuck in this
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
https://entertainment.theonion.com/new-star-wars-film-once-again-disappoints-die-hard-ni-1821291309
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link