Star Wars 8 shit talk

Can Luke even park that thing on land ever, omg.

why didnt jedi's just always make bomb s float up behind their enemies and detonate - seems easy and non risky

Thought he'd get it together and raise his X-wing out of the water via the force and fly to battle.

i think the submerged x-wing shot was a red herring included precisely to keep people believing that luke had shown up to krait until the plot twist

i didn't even connect the x-wing to his arrival on krait and obvs He Wasn't Really There Anyway but man was i disappointed we didn't get a raising-it-outta-the-water shot

ideally he'd have promised the lizard nuns "hey, if you help me raise this ship out and fix 'er up, I'll come back and rebuild your tower and stuff" knowing full well he was gonna buy the farm

let face it its good to see peopel with huge powers - aht whats good about superheros - I want to see more Luke kicking ass - like he becomes 50 ft tall and battles the imperials ape walkers with huge swings of the saber that send them to the moon of endork

That was in Lucas’ original draft iirc

listen ok you may think rey is a mary sue but it takes a special kind of crazy to to doll up and fed ex yourself to the goth boy you met on space omegle

— [to the tune of star wars] (@See_Em_Play) January 5, 2018

I've seen it twice now in the cinema and the things that bothered me on first viewing (which were mainly tonal things in jokes, like Poe holding for Hux, or Luke tossing the lightsaber away) evaporated on second viewing.

I didn't get expectations from things like the shot of Luke's x-wing underwater, either; to me that just said he was done, washed-up, retired. The casino excursion didn't feel pointless either, far from it; while narratively it may have been a failed mission, it added some real depth to the world (rich arms dealers, indentured underclass kids, permeability between 'good' and 'bad'. Also I liked the horsecats.

I think it's probably a slightly better film than TFA, and feels like it will stand up better to repeat viewings better (a little like Empire). What it wasn't, was a fairground ride of a movie with whooping moments of joy and reveal and audience satisfaction - nothing like the Falcon unveiling, or the first whoosh of a lightsaber, or the Falcon flight through a ruined stardestroyer, or the ANH-aping shot of a speeder crossing a desert in silhouette to a giant red sun.

More of R2D2 and C3PO would have been good; the original trilogy IS about them, after all. Hopefully E9 will start with them walking through a desert on their own...

And of course, failed missions were massively narratively important to this film.

More of R2D2 and C3PO would have been good; the original trilogy IS about them, after all.

I wish they'd kept them as being the bumbling centre of the films, BB8 is is a great&cute looking thing but is basically just a poorer & more prequely cousin of r2d2 with worse noises (r2d2's noises ofc one of the greatest things in star wars - which makes me think there was a lack of incredible sound design in this; SW has had mb the most iconic sound effects in cinema from tie fighters to vader breathing to chewbacca to the lightsaber hum - even the prequels had the pod racing and those glorious space bombs)

the way they killed off snoke was a very satisfying use of a deeply corny & thin character and I agree that andy serkis should be pushed into the pit. the luke plotline was also surprisingly satisfying & convincing and skellig michael ended up being a great choice. adam driver remains the best thing in this by a distance and I'm more invested in what happens to kylo ren than I am in any of the other characters, which makes me apprehensive about ep9 as idk what they can do that will have the weight of a face-off with leia. as a kid the redemption of vader in ROTJ was a huge moment that elevated & defined the whole story for me. it would have always been a struggle to top that but something with leia had the potential. if he is just defeated&killed it will feel anticlimactic to me. mb rey could somehow sacrifice herself to turn him? or mb bb8 will take control of the new death star and blow him up from afar

just think of bb-8’s noises as all extracted from lost aphex twin songs and it works a lot better

Oh god the takes the hotness of the takes if rey sacrificed herself to turn a manchild into an adult oh Jesus the takes my eyes

mb the two of them will hook up, decide to pack the lightsabers away, and get into highbrow culture together

enjoy the dichotomy between Vader, hugely conflicted between devoted apprentice and father, throws the Emperor down the hole at great risk versus Kylo Ren, who never elevates Snoke above "great teacher," outwitting our Emperor surrogate via the insane level of hubris Snoke rides around on

and the lack of a turn, Ren just going "well, I'm supreme leader now" recreating Vader's offer to Luke and actually doing it

BB8 is is a great&cute looking thing but is basically just a poorer & more prequely cousin of r2d2 with worse noises

I shall meet you on the field at dawn, sirrah.

This is the first SW entry since the OT to feel like an actual movie, to me, rather than fan service. The Rashomon reference is particularly illustrative; yes, the original film was inspired as much by Ford and Kurosawa as by Buck Rogers, but the series has become far more insulated since then (in large part thanks to Lucas himself). Johnson has actually seen other movies, while Abrams has only seen Star Wars, and the film feels richer (if still overlong and occasionally jokey) as a result. No wonder the fanboys hate it.

i kind of agree w that

This definitely feels like the first SW movie since the first one to have some consciousness of film history, from Wings to Rashomon to The Lady from Shanghai and more.

ya some piece posted upthread made the point that the original was received as a pastiche of influences that it has, in time, generally surpassed in cultural influence--we saw "star wars" in TFA rather than (say) buck rogers

these sequels feel like jAWS 2 to Jaws

The prequels drew on their own influences, though. Mostly sword and sandals stuff.

these sequels feel like jAWS 2 to Jaws

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, January 5, 2018 3:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well that's certainly a thing you just said

please let LG be at LG levels

As for what happens in the final film, I'm convinced Hux offs Kylo.

The actor who played Hux was easily the worst performance in the movie. I was surprised to learn afterwards that he's a big deal for some reason.

Hux is an anomaly. Top ranking officers of the bad guy affiliation tend to last between 30-80 minutes in this universe. He’s going to have more to do in the next one than being a punchline - or not. Flip a coin.

Domnhall Gleeson is a solid actor, he's doing the hammy shtick cos that's the role he fills in the universe.

nothing like that in his other movies at all

He is a god amongst actors fuiud

It would a braver man than me that sat down to watch a random selection of movies he’d been in though, and that’s not even counting Peter Rabbit.

We can forgive him as one of the Weasleys in Harry Potter - as I understand it, he just didn’t get the form posted in time that ginger actors needed to fill out to avoid it.

The only fanservice that made me roll my eyes was that tiny like 17 frame shot of a tubby ginger pilot getting blown up almost right away, so pointless.

Gleeson was good in Ex Machina playing someone he thinks is the protagonist but isn't, and isn't aware of that until too late. Not that anyone in the movie is genre-savvy, but that he continually misunderstands his role in the proceedings.

reading Bloodline now....p interesting so far!

Gleeson was good in Ex Machina playing someone he thinks is the protagonist but isn't, and isn't aware of that until too late. Not that anyone in the movie is genre-savvy, but that he continually misunderstands his role in the proceedings.

yeah domnhall’s v v good

just gonna brag for a second that i went out for a beer w LG and a pre-fame domnhall one time, in new york, after a play he'd been in. it was an "irish" pub in hell's kitchen iirc, deathly quiet, bad beer. nice guy! i think he came with us to watch the nets play another night but i can't remember now.

cool story bro

so it's true, the Irish really do all know each other

Wonder what Daniel Day Lewis as Hux would have been like.

i saw this film this weekend, it was pretty good

I implore Disney to put your blurb on the front of the Blu-ray case.

"dece" - rushomancy, ILX

I thought this was a great movie, but also a super bummer what with almost the entire known resistance being killed. I think that may have been a bigger unconscious factor in the backlash than disappointment in Luke's characterization or the antics of reactionary trolls. Not even the ending of ESB felt this bleak; the last scene with the orphan kid as a result just rings so false, this attempt to put a feel-good cap at the end of 2+ hours of desperation. IDK, maybe that's just me.

i think the movie came off unexpectedly bleaker than intended due to carrie fisher's death.

I implore Disney to put your blurb on the front of the Blu-ray case.

― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch)

they can if they want, but only if they don't fuck around with what i wrote by capitalizing it

Nominated for 4 Oscars including score. Did John Williams do anything original with it?

The score was the least interesting thing about it! Just rehashes of the typical Star Wars motifs, some other generic bits, and we only hear the best/most distinctive new music from TFA (Rey's theme), like, once.

he wove the classic Star Wars themes we all know and love into new pieces that evoke the gentle majesty of space

I do give them credit, one of the best parts of the score was woven into the trailers, which isn't something we get very often these days

I kind of wish the Rogue One trailer music, which was SW classic homage music, made it to a release