Star Wars 8 shit talk

Time goes by so much slower when you're a kid. I'm sure there are teenagers out there that have plenty of time to forget about star wars and then get excited again.

i mostly buy that, except that with movies coming out every year, it never goes away. at no point in the last two years have my local dollar stores and chain pharmacies not been selling at least a half-dozen star wars items each. toys okay sure... but star wars paper towels?!

(this was somewhat true for harry potter also, but muddied by the movies overlapping the books.)

rogue one too many

how han solo can you go

Gonna say it now, I fucking loved the casino planet and especially that drunk alien who thought BB-8 was a slot machine.

mocap mark hamill!

after a few days i think my favorite bit, besides the rey/kylo/red dudes battle, was rey's montagey realization of the force with luke. the death that gives rise to new life. hokey sure but it felt right, it felt like the really cool inspiring version of the force that obi-wan and yoda talked about in the first place.

i also like the idea that when luke senses her contact with the dark side, he's wrong to be freaked out. he's flawed in ways that are recognizably the decades-on, matured but not saintly, version of the farmboy on the farm we met all those years ago. that farmboy was also a flyboy so it implies interesting things about poe's capacity for growth also. yeah it's also just that we're repeating ourselves, but this is how poetry should rhyme imo.

man there's a lot in this that i'd enjoy seeing again. if they released a two-hour special edition i think i'd do it.

yeah that’s how i feel too

i think i’ve enjoyed it more as a conversation piece than a movie tbh

agreed, it seems like almost everyone who saw it, saw a different movie

What are you talking about, we all saw Burt Reynolds and Dom deLuise try and make that cross-country run.

no, it was ryan reynolds and dom passantino iirc

What are you talking about, we all saw Burt Reynolds and Dom deLuise try and make that cross-country run.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, December 20, 2017 10:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is still the only viable Han Solo movie outline imho

A stand alone movie set in between A New Hope and Empire has to be fertile ground surely? I mean that's what.. a 2 year time-frame? Anything could have happened! Who wouldn't want to watch that? I know the novels and expanded universe probably cover this to death but still..

Who wouldn't want to watch that?

dear lord no more inbetweenquels please

xxxp The Kesselball Run

I did like the continuation of a jokey line from TFA, though. When Han and Leia first re-unite after the big fight on Takodana, the first thing he says is, "You changed your hair." In TLJ, when Luke shows up in the bunker at the end, Leia says, "I know what you're going to say . . . I changed my hair."

omg we'll finally get that movie about the poor Imperial probe droid's courageous journey to Hoth

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oh another great thing: hamill's "where's han?" almost guaranteed to work emotionally given our history with the characters, but i still thought it was well-performed and well-directed. would rather have seen that scene play out in dialogue than the cutting-away we got - feels like someone just decided it was too hard to write or would bum the audience out - better get back to some animal antics!

Just make a TV series out of the Darth Vader comic it would be fabulous.

hamill was p wonderful in this movie i thought

^ yeah but also the IV-V period is the only (?) one currently being explored in canon, so appearing in more media is probably not likely.

I loved that the force montage came shortly after Luke fucking around with Rey when she literally reaches out.

Enjoyed this piece -- talks about the Bolivian location used for Crait.

https://earther.com/the-amazing-earth-science-behind-the-last-jedis-new-min-1821429894

the first of the new Vader comics was between IV and V, current one takes place between III and IV

i demand Porg One: A Star Wars Story

out as a six-part comic book and ios game in april 2018 iirc

I managed to not see any previews for this and my only spoiler was that Dern was in it, so it was great fun not knowing what was going to happen. I was very glad they didn't make ESB 2 and managed to get the story beyond itself. I was only turned off by Casino Planet and the horseback escape because it seemed like something closer to the prequels and all the creatures looked like they came from Harry Potter. Other than that my only complaint was them scrapping Kyle's helmet - I thought that was a quality look. Acting from Driver, Hammill & Ridley was terrific- the three of them were the highlights for sure.

I love Laura Dern but she had quite an odd affect in this, like every line had a smile behind it. It made her character seem high af.

I was bummed she was a one & done.

Also I think anyone on this thread who doesn’t like the new kids is off their rocker.

During the first Snoke-Kylo scene Snoke asks him "how's your wound?" and it sounds a lot like "hows you?" which I far prefer.

realizing i missed what was evidently everyone's least favorite scene -- the skype-ing (?) before the casino. was it that bad?

Btw I really enjoyed this movie. I don't think about Star Wars except when I'm watching a Star Wars movie, but these new ones are an embarrassingly emotional experience. Like, I find myself wanting to cry more than at any other movie (which I don't of course, because crying at Star Wars would be ridiculous).

It's not about whether they're well-written or not. Something to do with having watched the original trilogy over and over as a kid + repressed childhood emotions + hearing the sound fx and themes at loud volumes + seeing the original actors as much older people.

prob the lowest point of the movie for me too, but idk it just kinda happened and then it was over xp

because crying at Star Wars would be ridiculous

yeah I mean it's not Pixar

My friend didn't even try to conceal his weeping at the end

I'm 50/50 on the kids but Luke Skywalker reaching his peace and becoming one with the Force and seeing the two suns and remembering what he's done and knowing this was the story of his life and he did okay has me getting a little choked up just typing about it.

I mean that is like the Big Fish ending of forty-year space epics, right there.

Well said

What's so special about the little Coke Commercial Kids ( assuming this is who you mean)?

no sorry I mean Finn, Rey, Poe etc. the new cast. I had my fill of SW toddlers in the prequels. Sorry for the confusion

i got pretty teary a few times & then i legit bawled over the memoriam line for Carrie Fisher “Our Princess” in the final credits

...Luke Skywalker reaching his peace and becoming one with the Force and seeing the two suns and remembering what he's done and knowing this was the story of his life and he did okay has me getting a little choked up just typing about it.

― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, December 20, 2017 6:46 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I loved this scene and it made me well up. I'm of the "saw it in '77" generation and these characters - even 3PO bless him - are close to my heart for much the same reasons Jordan mentions upthread. "Just get 'em outta here and bring in the new blood" isn't a view I subscribed to with these new films but there's nothing for it now.

xxpost Yeah I'm rootin' for Rey but yawn these new "kids" def don't compare to the og characters. Even the new droid is grating after 90 minutes

Sorry, BB8 is an annoying little character.

idk they're compelling, are acted reasonably well and have a good screen presence with one another. The magic of the OG series won't be duplicated, or even approximated, but I find them engaging and was happier to see Rey for instance than whenever Leia showed up.

the new cast are almost scarily charismatic and movie-starry. i'm still not much interested in poe, and finn has been saddled with repeating his story from the first movie (if enriching his worldview along the way). but it was cool that they made poe's arc to be a dick who thinks his arc is he's the cool dick who shows the commanding officer how wrong she is, but actually he's wrong and learns he should stfu. anyway five new big lead type characters that i give a shit about is kind of amazing for a series this deep into its lifespan.

no way, poe gave him a belly rub like I'd do with my dog if my dog just rescued my buds off an enemy star destroyer
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I did like how Poe's scheme not only failed, but caused Laura Dern's plan to fail (by ultimately giving away the escape pods), and really just resulted in a whole lot of people dying. He definitely got off easy (because everyone else was dead).

i cannot compute not loving Poe

he is an angel from heaven