Star Wars 8 shit talk

wait, you guys didn't see the blinking "USE TOILET NOW" sign in the back of the casino? I guess my ability to read galactic basic text is a boon yet again

It was cool to see Dubrovnik as the casino planet, after being there over the summer.

I'm envious of some acquaintances who have been to Skellig Michael. I'm thinking tourism is going to be a problem there, now

but after a few days of reflecting that the image of Leia using the force to float back to the ship seemed a little off, even if seeing her have a minor bit of ability is completely expected

This is what bugs me about being people reacting so negatively against that scene. Leia actually using the Force to avoid death? Oh no! Maybe she should've adopted a different pose or danced her way back into the ship. No other characters even knowing it happened is also good or at least might've been if they'd been able to explore more Leia's history of restraint with her own abilities which was probably going to be more of a thing in the next one.

I'm still sticking with my "they trained the wrong Skywalker kid" stance

Yoda knows it, we know it, it's pretty obvious

I did go before I started! Honestly this was the first movie in recent memory where I did the bathroom run (in x parsecs ha ha) partway. Combination of catching an early afternoon show too soon after coffee (in order to snag a walk-up-to-the-counter ticket for moviepass purposes), limp theater cocktail, and it being two and a half goddamn hours long. the original Empire got it done in 124 minutes btw and i do think this could have gotten there by cutting some redundant stuff, some jokes, and at least one action set piece. at the same time there's other stuff that should have been left to breathe more so idk.

but there's so much little stuff that works in the moment but adds up the flab. evil imperial bb-8 spotting bb-8 on infrared... cute moment but it's thirty seconds of screen time that doesn't add anything to the movie and kinda cuts the tension of this desperate infiltration mission. i guess they want to sell iPhones shaped like evil bb-8 though. buy now and get your slidey rebel insignia ring for $5 off! i love the things in this movie that are generous and imaginative but even a movie full of delights can sometimes stand to be carved down a bit. kershner had directed ten feature films and a decade of TV episodes before 'empire' and i think it shows in how tight and yet abundant that film is.

BB-9E was good and I hope to see the lil bastard again.

He reminded me of the evil robot in The Black Hole.

I would have been down with a BB-8 version of Old Bob tbh

Is there a BB-8 toy with "special disguise" yet? It'd just be a box you put over him

but the neo-Praetorian Guard dudes had a little bit of Maximilian swag just on account of being all red and menacing and faceless.

hahaha. up there with the R2D2 "hyperdrive repair" playset from phantom menace.

Is there a BB-8 toy with "special disguise" yet? It'd just be a box you put over him

kershner had directed ten feature films and a decade of TV episodes before 'empire' and i think it shows in how tight and yet abundant that film is.

tbf RJ had to deal with what I can only assume was a hell of a lot more studio involvement/interference

Wanted a longer fight with the guards. Keeping them mysterious probably for the best but also means they end up seeming mysteriously kinda shit (part of the bigger complaint of the film not quite justifying its length meaning so many individuals and aspects get short shrift). It was good to see Kylo really struggling against them though however briefly and the catch-sabre-ignite-sabre-KILL moment was phenomenal.

oh for sure. but do studios want long movies? i'd assumed distributors and theaters would want short ones (more screenings) but maybe there's pressure to go "epic."

or I guess just "you have to include this, you have to include that" which would bloat the film. rogue one had massive, movie-breaking studio notes (ADD X-WING BATTLE SEQUENCE) written all over it so I'd buy that.

do studios want long movies?

they don't seem to care much either way as long as certain prerequisites make it in

I'm envious of some acquaintances who have been to Skellig Michael. I'm thinking tourism is going to be a problem there, now

― mh, Tuesday, December 19, 2017 10:39 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Irish tourism board had a booth at Star Wars Celebration in April actively soliciting tourism for the Skelligs! You could get your picture taken against a backdrop of the steps from TFA, and sign up for information or a travel package.

they advertise at Dublin Airport too

skellig mob scenes, star wars creeps

I thought it kind of funny that it essentially ended with the opening Hoth battle from Empire but the face down the emperor climax of Jedi is sort of stuck in the middle. Maybe that subconsciously explains some of the perhaps strange pacing?

for some reason the people behind me thought the "it's salt!" line was hilarious

i chuckled/groaned at the salt line (gotta let the audience know this isn't a snow planet! we're not on hoth! we're INVERTING "empire!" )... as with other places where the seams and strings just got so obvious. the awful maz kanata phone call was the other big one. "can't talk right now but to advance the plot you will need to complete the following fetch quest!"

Would have been funnier if the rebel guy licked it and then died.

"it's.... poisonnnnnnn"

i was kinda hoping for some cool thing where they exploit the fragility of the thin salt pan to crack the ground out from under the walkers or something. maybe that happened while i was in the bathroom though.

I, too have enjoyed the *tastes dust* "It's sodium cyanide!" jokes going around

the resistance has sympathizers from all over the galaxy - even the scientists from prometheus have joined the cause

https://io9.gizmodo.com/16-fascinating-revelations-about-the-making-of-star-war-1821389649

At one point, there was a line in the movie where Snoke mentioned his gold slippers.

Red Letter review is up
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-the-last-last-jedi-review/

they have some interesting points as you can imagine.

Most of those are hilariously bad.

For Rey’s costume change after Han’s death, an early design had her directly influenced by the smuggler, with a short blue jacket and brown pants with red marks down the side.

Aw

There was a bathhouse sequence on Canto Bight that was designed and shot but not used in the movie. It’s not entirely clear how it would have played into the film, or why it was cut, but it seems like it may have been another elaborate, lavish location for the fathiers to smash through. It was a steamy place complete with aliens in all manner of dress, lounging around and sweating.

AWWW

I hope we get a new trend in Star Wars movies: we no longer blow up a Death Star every time, but Ben Solo kills one of his space dads in every episode

I want them to let S. Soderbergh direct a casino heist movie on Canto Bight

I have the feelign this film woul dbe better in spanish

otm

Wanted a longer fight with the guards.

at least it was longer than the fight with the praetorian guard after the emperor died in ROTJ

seriously, did they just follow their boss into the reactor when he died or what?

they were like FUCKDAT! and started to dance to "YALL GONNA MAKE ME LOOSE MY MIND UP IN HEA UP IN HEA!" then went for a joyride on emperieal shuttles

iirc, Praetorian Lieutenant Lawrence B. Snoke escaped with what he characterized as a very minor, cosmetic head wound likely caused by a touch of rebounded force lightning.

And then his short term disability claim was denied

just gonna leave this debate here

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-fans-2-generations-debate-last-jedi-1068913

Is it just me or are Finn, Rey, Poe, and even Kylo all in a better position now than they were when the series began? They lost a lot of comrades but they're all doing quite well personally. Nobody lost a hand or accidentally made out with their sister or watched their homeworld get destroyed or got turned into an ice cube.

There are a lot of spoilers — and some discussion of Joel Schumacher's Batman movies, and the prequels

surprised they didn't call me

The following is a conversation about The Last Jedi held between two friends, one a spry, 30-year-old Millennial, and the other a wizened, but freakishly handsome 38-year-old Gen X kind of a guy.

Hope the writer can help bridge this yawning age gap!

That "38" must be a typo for "48," because then the first sentence says, "We should probably begin by stressing something that is apparent only to the few people who know us personally: you watched the Star Wars films when they were originally released theatrically while I watched them first on VHS." Somebody born in 1979 could only have seen Empire and Jedi in the theater, and would barely remember either at age 1 and nearly age 3.

Rey's parents should have been revealed to be Lady Bird's parents and "nowhere" should have been revealed to be "Sacramento".

The Imperial Guard weren’t around in the confrontation in ROTJ b/c the Emperor dismisses them early on, right? “Leave us!”

One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention is that we get one of the Praetorians full-on mulched, right? We get blood and viscera tossed up, almost in compensation for the dude who get his head bloodlessly air-holed

That was just bits of the outfit. No actual viscera, though it was clearly meant to evoke it.

a better death star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle#/media/File:Colour_sketch_of_a_spaceship_creating_crop_circles.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle#/media/File:Colour_sketch_of_a_spaceship_creating_crop_circles.jpg