Star Wars 8 shit talk

he did. I took it as a statement of derision though apparently it upset some people cos sabers aren't literally laser swords.

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., Monday, December 18, 2017 9:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post

yes we all know you're the cool SW 'outsider' guy

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, December 18, 2017 9:02 PM (fifty-five seconds ago)

i don't think i've really attempted to cultivate a persona vis a vis star wars, your need to go line by line and refute everything anyone didn't like about the movie is just lame!

yea i could give a shit thanks for stopping by tho

cool i look forward to your next 400 posts

can't say the same about yours sadly

bo jackson hyperdrive

good one

Dude, keep up man

In one of the new canon novels, Leia survived an assassination attempt because of something written on paper - “Something was written on the paper streamer on her plate. Actual writing. Virtually nobody wrote any longer; it had been years since Leia had seen actual words handwritten in ink on anything but historical documents.”

https://io9.gizmodo.com/oh-so-thats-why-leia-doesnt-trust-the-new-republic-in-1757108196

So nobody cared except Luke and Rey cared about the tree with the books in it, because they kept shit in holocrons, or in the cloud, or whatever. And Yoda already knew Rey had snagged the books by the time he Thor’d the tree from beyond the grave.

Wow that was a ton of xps

a thousand xposts to phil but yeah re podcasts Rebel Force Radio grossed me out.
I remembered them from an interview episode they did with a composer about TFA and that was super great but it turns out it was just the guest who was great because yeah the podcast itself super is NOT. bleh.

I am trying out 'Full of Sith' which is kinda low quality audio-wise but the ppl seem cool and have good ideas and stuff.
The names of these things though. Jeez. Giving me full nerd-cringe.

No one has mentioned the obv chemistry Poe and Rey had upon meeting (?!?) at the end of the film.

pretty sure this is just Poe/Oscar Isaac, who has chemistry with every character he speaks to in the movie, up to and including BB-8.

Nah. There was a magic moment. The camera held on Rey's smile (reverse shot ) for a bit, too. It was emphasized.

Poe would have chemistry with a chair. He is magical.

http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/oscarisaac7-1716.gif
Veg, I do NOT recommend you google "oscar isaac gif" if you want to get anything done with your day.

yeah it's like in llewyn davis when he had excellent chemistry with that cat

lol

haha

is the real reason everybody hated XMen Apocalypse so much cos Oscar's face was obscured too much

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

just shoot them out of the canon

Poe would have chemistry with a chair. He is magical.

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl)

Poe would have excellent chemistry with "Edgar Allen"

xxposts MatthewK too late it’s what I do at least once a day (all day)

Oscar gifs are life <3

it's interesting, i had fun watching this and think it is a better made movie than TFA but my enthusiasm for it is pretty low a few hours later. the prospect of ever watching it seems just tiring. which is weird for a movie that's just stuffed to the gills with beautiful photography of incredible wonders never before seen.

i think the time may have finally come when i'm burnt out on this series/universe. one a year is too much. no room to breathe and grow curious again. and of course, i am not twelve and devote a lot less of my imaginative energies and joys to fictional universes and what mysteries await in the next installment. and the naked assembly-lining of them probably preempts any sense that you're waiting for the next revelation of the true adventures of your favorite characters - rather you're speculating on what direction might be taken by director x and which properties the studio might be trying to greenlight. i can always see the "they" deciding things, whether it's "groan, i wish they hadn't put that in there" or "hooray, i'm so glad they put that in!". but mostly yeah, with time i have lost, i fear, the pleasure of being able to breathlessly believe that what we see in the next movie matters. those were good days.

thankfully the han solo movie is such an irritating idea that i will likely skip that one. maybe in two years I'll be ready to see one of these and it not just feel like an exercise in evading spoilers and keeping up with the conversation.

i do feel like it was probably more fun to take these in pre-social media/blog/podcast days with wall to wall coverage. but the only SW films I saw during original release were the prequels since I wasn't born til 80 :/

ditto, born 81! but how i relate to serial stuff and fictional universes generally is just different. half down to internet, half down to not being a kid. maybe the last thing where i was really invested in the next installment having weight as the next real, unspoilable installment in something i cared about, was the harry potter books, at which point i was college-aged. long gaps between 'em, and not a lot really being leaked or dulled by advance hype. in between I believe i did spend time thinking and discussing what might happen, whether snape was good or evil, whatever, it was fun. not life or death as i think it was for people who were really kids for those, but a lot of fun. oh and scott pilgrim i was pretty invested in. i bet comics of that sort, that drop as big chunks with a good span of time in between, generally evade some of these problems.

the very obvious "x a year til the end of time" mechanics of stuff like this and the marvel movies doesn't keep me from enjoying individual installments onscreen but it does really preclude a sense of special-eventness. i'm just too aware of the brand exercise and the cross-promotion and the upcoming side movie with hired-gun-indie-director-so-and-so, to get swept up in anything like the movie magic i felt as a kid, or the movie magic i've felt as an adult in genre movies not doing the franchise thing. this is just a really long way of saying the new movies would be better if they came out three years apart. but i believe that's actually true.

Oh man...it was excruciating as a kid waiting for any tidbit of info ( a photo or production art ) to pop up in Starlog or something. And back in the OT days itvwas 3 years between films. But any little clue was gold.

I love insane people.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/hilariously-dumb-change-org-petitions-about-the-last-je-1821394256

I just saw it, and if I had any misgivings about it I will now just claim it was perfect to make those people mad

I love that the idea of destiny is considered a positive thing to these dorks (re: #8)

I'd be pretty pissed if I found out I was pre-ordained to be a requirements analyst for 25 years

I just fell down a reylo twitter rabbit hole

Finn/Poe OTP tbh

definitely enjoyed this but flying leia was dumb and bad

I love insane people.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/hilariously-dumb-change-org-petitions-about-the-last-je-1821394256

― Ned Raggett, Monday, December 18, 2017

I just saw it, and if I had any misgivings about it I will now just claim it was perfect to make those people mad

― .oO (silby), Monday, December 18, 2017

i haven't seen this yet and didn't have particularly high expectations based on The Force Awakens, but the wailing of fanboys has my hopes up. may the tears of anyone who earnestly refers to the movie "Star Wars" as "A New Hope" salt my popcorn.

wait you can't get a laura dern action figure (yet?)

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, December 17, 2017

Would you accept a Laura Dern minifig?

https://images.hellogiggles.com/uploads/2017/08/31071336/dern1.jpg

ppl are hung up on who rey's dad is & meanwhile chewie is right there. driving her to jedi practice. keeping the engine running. dropping her off to meet the new boyfriend he doesn't exactly approve of, but just tells her to get home safe. her search for a father figure is OVER

— 🎄all I want for christmas is yuuuuuvic BABY🎄 (@inknose) December 18, 2017

nice

this is a good thread if a bit long:

Are we at the point where we're talking about Star Wars spoilers? Because that is what I'm going to do, spoil The Last Jedi.

— Jay Allen (@a_man_in_black) December 17, 2017

yeah that’s excellent

I liked this from the replies too

“This was a fantastic write-up, Jay. Though as others have mentioned I do think it's worth pointing out that it's the literal illusion of heroism that in fact saves the day.”

TechCrunch has had enough

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/17/the-last-jedi-should-be-the-last-star-wars-film/

.. meanwhile the troubled Solo movie is due in just 5 short months!

Rewatched yesterday. Still very corny but a better film than TFA. And I love any and all stuff with Luke. Dude stole the show.

The fish!

Speaking as someone who really enjoyed both The Force Awakens and Rogue One:

Everything that happened on Luke's island - lame
Space Monte Carlo - lame
DO YOU SEE??? class politics - lame
Under-utilising the younger cast - lame
Casting Laura Dern and giving her pretty much nothing to do - lame
Rey/Kylo Ren telepathy scenes - lame
Snoke - LAME
Tedious Luke/Kylo exposition - LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME

Action scenes - still pretty awesome

The entire movie felt hamstrung by the need to incorporate Luke but also giving him nothing of interest to do, which might have worked if it hadn't also meant leaving Rey stuck out there as well, and if the other main plot hadn't involved half of the cast floating in space going nowhere. Way too much time was devoted to those scenes and there wasn't enough plot or character interest to keep them going, and the whole film went weirdly baggy as a result.

It felt like you could see the strings moving throughout, maneuvering everyone into a place where they could press the Reset button to keep the whole franchise going indefinitely, but the Force Awakens did a pretty good job of pressing that in the first place. Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac should have been the core of this but they didn't get anywhere near enough screentime together and their characters were left pretty underdeveloped, even by Star Wars standards.

One of the things the originals get right is that they understand that the Force and all the Jedi stuff is complete hokey if you explain or think about it too much. And that *no one needs to do that anyway*, we already know all we need to know about it. Whereas this script inflated the focus on all that stuff to the extent that everyone could see there was nothing there, those scenes were all so plodding and portentous and could have been cut down by like 3/4 in order to make room for other things.

https://kotaku.com/lets-talk-about-the-weirdest-and-best-scene-in-the-la-1821376910

Let’s talk about the moment where Luke Skywalker walked purposefully towards a gigantic fish/elephant/cow looking alien, squeezed a half litre of green, full fat milk from its engorged teat and gulped that strange liquid down with the gusto of a man satisfying a well-earned thirst.

".. we should look to the movie’s CinemaScore, an America-based exit poll system that scientifically works out an audience score.
The Force Awakens earned an A score, with 90% of all respondents being positive, the average score being 4.5, while Rogue One earned an A, 91% positive feedback and the same score. By comparison, The Last Jedi also won an A CinemaScore, 89% positive feedback, and a five-out-of-five score. With those statistics being so positive, how can the negative online reaction be explained? According to Deadline, non-Disney sources are saying the backlash has been primarily online “trolling”. The publication also points to one Facebook page titled “Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and Fanboys” who are claiming to use bot accounts to target the film’s score. "

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-audience-cinemascore-rotten-tomato-user-score-a8116166.html

idk I liked all the force stuff. what luke taught rey and what yoda taught luke. seemed like a good steer away from ~explaining~ it and getting it back to the vague trust-in-it nature/zen/posthumanist thing suggested in Empire, now with more emphasis on the humility vs vanity. also think it was a really interesting character place to take luke skywalker, once a young hothead flyboy looking for the force to be an instrumental tool in his own quest. prob could have been done more efficiently tho and i agree totally that the slow ticking space chase was way too much of the movie, and that keeping the last film's three young leads separate was a weird choice. kind of strange that poe and rey are just meeting at the end of the second movie! but that's ok imo. if we really need to see them all on an adventure together i guess there's the next movie.

man what was great though was rey and kylo fighting those red dudes in the burning curtain dome room. and the red dirt salt planet. amazing visual that i got used to from the trailer and didn't fully appreciate when it was onscreen.

nice to see someone back me up on the trolls/bots theory xp

Yeah Jay Allen's thread v good