Agree. Phasma was just a cameo. KMT was great
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
Kind of amazed Phasma wasnt executed for what she did at the end of TFA
wonder if she’ll turn up to get owned yet again in the next onestop trying to make Captain Phasma happen tbh (that just autocorrected to uppercase on my iPhone wtf)
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
he shoves them up his hairy ass Richard Gere style
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
Seeing this in 4D is fun if u have that near u
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
Also liked Luke's explicit references to events from the prequels
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Kelly Marie Tran below Gwendolyn Christie in the credits is some astonishing bullshit.
wait waht that is bullshit
tran was so great - just instantly likeable and principled and charismatic. i hope she gets a lot of work off the back of this
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
Apparently the JGL-voiced character is called Slowen Lo
― nashwan, Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
i also hope her hair becomes iconic xp
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
This piece articulates many of the things I loved in the movie: https://www.avclub.com/part-kurosawa-part-wile-e-coyote-the-last-jedi-boldl-1821291545
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, December 16, 2017 2:40 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there is a comic series about how she avoids getting executed apparently
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Lol this universe man
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
and to think it took this long for leia to be revealed as a jedi master
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
there's one moment where Kylo looks like a human Tom Servo
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
and now they can’t follow up on it :( xp
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
really glad her daughter Billie got to be alongside her in her last Star Wars film
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
TFA and TLJ actually the first two movies she ever starred in, too!
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
An important lesson from this film is to never, ever follow a plan cooked up by Poe or Finn. Those two dipshit cowboys are basically responsible for 99% of the resistance deaths in this movie.
― El Tomboto, Friday, December 15, 2017 9:37 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah and I loved that Johnson framed it this way to the audience, too. confounding the typical definition of heroism in the SW universe, where it's traditionally been ok for scores of young Rebel soldiers to die in 5 minutes as long as one of you delivers a badass knockout punch that results in a temporary setback for your opponent
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
really need to re-watch this.
stuff I've been thinking about:
if TFA was disney "unfucking" the SW universe post-prequel then i can see this movie as further "unfucking" the Force as a belief system/religion etc. No midiclorians, no science. a poor orphan can use the force etc.
I could see TLJ really succeeding in a complete TFA->TLJ->EP9 cycle. That is to say Disney knows they have this for the long haul and they may have set up TLJ where it HAS to exist in w/in the other two movies.
Also feel like TFA built up a large reservoir of goodwill for future SW movies/EU material and they used a LOT of it on this one in ways I can't quite articulate. It seemed really piecemeal. Too many ideas @ once.
Not sure if I liked it!
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
one for the poster
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
kinda bummed me out that maz kanata not only ignored the resistance's call for help (presumably; "no response") but she's a union-buster to boot
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
she possibly fucked the codebreaker guy tho
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
Who we never see again!
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
lol I loved that.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
This was ok. Lotta ironic humor, lotta tribbles. My daughter and I left with a good knock knock joke idea.knock knockwho's there?pewpew who?pew pew!!! pew! pew pew pew!!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
are you gonna tell us what the good knock knock joke idea was?
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
when rose and finn are in that cell, realising they're fucked, and they get an offer of help from an admittedly shady character, why aren't they immediately on the case? i know the script wants us to understand they don't trust him or believe him but what's the alternative?? they literally are like "nah we're good" when he promises he can break the code. uh? lost of lot of momentum and motivation for me there and i suspend disbelief for a whole lot less, believe me
I think of this the other way around - we are meant to understand that this will be their code breaker, but their distrust is entirely natural : why would a master of security be locked in a jail cell?
(It’s not clear what the film’s answer is - waiting for marks? Sleeping off a bender?)
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
i get that but "pshaww" seems like the least helpful, and least believeable, possible response. the entire resistance is about to be wiped out, along with all their friends.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
maybe they stunned him like everyone else kept getting stunned and he just woke up.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
I think it's emblematic of the hubris that afflicts the young Resistance fighters throughout the movie. The codebreaker they were assigned was a stylishly dressed, cool Maz Kanata-endorsed dude. DJ is an eavesdropping, stammering criminal sharing a cell with them, whose background they don't know, and who makes it clear he's only in it for the money. He's the type of guy they've been programmed to think they shouldn't trust or get in bed with. (And, in actuality, their suspicions were correct, though mostly because they shouldn't have been on the mission to begin with).
They know they don't *really* have it covered, but they've pulled off many last-ditch efforts in the past and naively think if they can get released from jail, they can find the Kanata codebreaker and be on their way.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
maz kanata is a trumpian casino maven. not sure why they trust her, star trek long distance 3dphone style
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
she's more than 1,000 years old, and is a former smuggler that is sympathetic to the cause. and Han Solo vouched for her. that's probably as far as it goes
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
I just assumed Benicio del Toro had lost that pin in a gambling match and that the guy wearing it was not the real code breaker. Because what are the odds that two people in the same remote place could be equally adept at breaking into the impenetrable fortress?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
except she said the guy would be rolling at a high stakes table, which lapel/coat guy clearly was doing
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
Justin Theroux is also credited as "Master Codebreaker"
― Number None, Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
Bill Hader does some of BB-8's sound effects? huh
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
feel like between this and Peter Rabbit, Domnhall Gleeson's going to really start enjoying his scenery chewing
So what happened to R2D2?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 December 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
used as a makeshift privy
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
fathered several hundred porgs iirc
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 17 December 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
cy-porgs
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
This piece articulates many of the things I loved in the movie: https://www.avclub.com/part-kurosawa-part-wile-e-coyote-the-last-jedi-boldl-1821291545🕸
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 17 December 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
xpost -- Gross.
Enjoyed it! Imperfect, whoever said it dragged in the middle at points was right (I had to duck out at one point for a restroom break and pretty sure I chose well because I didn't feel like I missed anything much). During the movie I felt the whole 'sit-there-and-get-pot-shots-thrown-at-it' approach of the one cruiser was odd but given The Secret Plan and showing up impatience I suppose it works...sorta? Because why wouldn't a bunch of transports go to a convenient planet with an old base that's apparently right there.
But yeah, that was a fun watch, more than a few upendings of the SW visual templates, and the only two things I was convinced would happen -- Snoke surviving for a final showdown in the next film, and, perhaps oddly, Chewbacca dying (I really had a hunch that they were going to do that) -- obviously didn't, so I'm good with upset expectations. More than anything I'm intrigued where the hell the final movie in this sequence goes -- I figure Abrams will take it in for a solid landing and all but that's a higher bar to clear than before.
A whole lot of conservative types on Twitter seemed to really hate the movie. Sucks to be them?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
that whole anti-1% sequence chapped their asses i'm sure
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
imagining College Republicans standing up and yelling at the screen
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link
the other thing about the plan to go to the abandoned Rebel base is they had to come up with it on the fly, because they had originally jumped to light speed to escape and regroup for a while. Having Star Destroyers show up unexpectedly and kill 95% of their officers undoubtedly put a damper on things.
I'm not sure if the Mineral Planet was in the plans prior to all of that happening or if it just happened to be a lucky opportunity.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
why not more sorrow for Akbar?
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link
"We're in the middle of nowhere and the First Order is wearing us down. Oh hey a planet!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link
watching them all fly shitty, degraded speeders was amusing
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
I would wager most of my friends that didn't like this were the same people that didn't like Looper
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link