Star Wars Appreciation **Spoilers Ahead**

I learn something new every day. Well, not really, but today.

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Riveting

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A mate saw it and said it was great. Do I need new friends?

Haha!

oh and that shitty joke at the start about being on hold

how not to open a star wars movie

how do you open a star wars movie?

it was a bit of welcome levity in a movie series that historically takes itself far too seriously. i liked the fact that none of the stuff you were lead to believe that was going to happen didn't. now that's value or money. fanbois are getting salty because they've have had their expectations chucked out the window and they didn't get the fanfic screenplay they thought they paid for. hey ho.

fwiw this is the first SW movie i've enjoyed top to bottom, can't wait for the next one.

@greenhell - see all previous star wars movies

lol.

100%

Actually I thought the script and actor direction was spot on in capturing the honkiness of the original trilogy, excepting a few scenes where it was clear the comedy and dialogue was aimed at a contemporary audience. Each and every Star Wars film has done this without exception, and personally I think it fits this tone and remit to shape the idea of what exactly a Star Wars film is, especially given the interest Disney are showing in expanding the franchise.

From the sort of critique I've heard, if Empire was released nowadays then half of Star Wars fandom would prolapse themselves. Plot holes, continuity issues, kitsch dialogue ...

The whole thing is a fucking sci-fi pastiche of early cinematic portrayal of Knights, damsels and castles for fucks sake. Understanding that let's you make much more sense of the Last Jedi ... (which takes a lot of cues from WW2 era films)

"fanbois are getting salty"

Nah, it was just bollocks. Sorry. It's not just that things were 'wrong', it's that they were senseless, underwhelming, boring, inappropriate, anticlimatic, slow etc. It was so lame on so many levels. I'm glad you enjoyed it, I envy you!

I'm just dumbstruck by the amount of personal investment people have in these films. I mean, they're perfectly enjoyable, but so is eating a washing up bowl full of angel delight, fun at the time but not much sense in doing it more than once.

ok

So I saw Los Ultimos Jedi last night in 3D with Spanish subtitles. Both of which did nothing for the story. Fortunately it only cost 8,000 COP each that’s about £2 per child.

#pewpew

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Can’t believe no one’s mentioned Ray being a bit fatter than in TFA. That’s the first thing my kids said when I asked if they enjoyed it.

I was really bored / annoyed / disappointed right up until the last half hour when it got quite exciting.

The overt anti capitalism, pro veganism stance was a surprise.

I want a sparkly puppy dog thing.

Everyone seems to be missing the point - it's a fucking kid's film. No really, it is.

I saw it yesterday and nodded off halfway through. No storyline, abysmal acting, and it was all over the fucking place. And how Disneyfied was it? I was expecting them to burst into song at some point.

Having said that, I did lolz at reading some of the comments on IMDB, some people are completely losing their shit over it. It's only a bloody film.

Just saw it. Enjoyed it. Everyone needs to chill the fuck out about silly kids films.

The 'it's for kids' thing is a cop out. The originals were fun but also had vision and integrity and have remained loved, nothing wrong with being fucked off about the direction the 'franchise' (urgh) has gone it.

I'm a star wars fan and both my wife and me enjoyed it without finding fault.

On fact it was the empire strikes back with a bit more hope.

3/5 - would possibly bang if 2049 or Thor weren’t available

It had enormous potential but they really fucked it up.

I like the idea of Luke being burned out and going off where nobody bugs him, who hasn't thought of doing that?
Laura Dern, worst actress in history,she must have asked to be in it so they shuffled some script to fit her in. Dye her hair and find an old dress for her and we're done.
Admiral Ackbar is a popular guy with fans, he should have been the one to smash the Empire's flagship. Instead his death is barely noted.
Snoke was built up as such a powerful mysterious figure. He got cut in half and was forgotten. Palpatine's throne room was dark and menacing but Snoke's looked like the set for a Hollywood musical. Or a bordello. It's all CGI so they could have made it decent.
The casino bit, it didn't belong. Finn and the little girl could have had a nice adventure on the enemy ship. It looked like an afterthought to accomodate Guillermo Del Toro. Finn flies across the galaxy to look for the guy and the enemy has already discerned his plan and planted Del Toro as a saboteur, like fuck off already.
And how fast do they travel now? They are in the middle of a battle and decide to pop across the galaxy for a minute to look for a hacker. People used to sleep on long voyages in space.
Leia flying in space was ridiculous. It would have been a perfect point to write her out and it would have been good for Kylo Ren's journey further to the Dark Side.

Overall disappointing, such a waste. Could have been so good.

Guillermo Del Toro. Finn flies across the galaxy to look for the guy and the enemy has already discerned his plan and planted Del Toro as a saboteur, like fuck off already.

Benicio.

Did that happen? Didn’t he just do a deal with them after they got caught?

This thread has an amusing mixture of ripping off the old films/changing too much of the old films in the same posts.
Jedi stuff is magic right? why you trying to make rules about what can and can't happen? It's not real!

I thought it was good. Enjoyable and funny. Didn't take itself to seriously in a world where baking a fucking cake is an Olympic sport.

The saltiness is better than the film.

Which I thought was ace.

You think I'm worried about it but I'm not. Just pointing out that it was bad. Most of all I thought it was plain boring. Low speed chase for a plot, no high stakes fights, inconsequential tangents... I could go on and on but this box of truffles isn't going to eat itself.

Where to start?

Flying Leia (discussed many times earlier) - An ideal time to write out her character (given tragic real world circumstances), plus it complete the Empire/First Order/whatevs' blood letting of the Kylo Ren bloodline. Given that even full-blown Jedi cumple in a robey heap the second they come near a lightsabre, surviving then floating through space (albeit a little bit frostbitten), is pushing it a bit, even for SW

Swarovski dogs. Apart from their function in highlighting the escape route from the Rebel Base (#2), served no purpose other than show up ILM/Disney's medicore SFX that looked like they belonged in some gash low-rate fantasy movie.

Rose Tico's intervention in Finn's not-so-ultimate-sacrifice - Did I fall asleep where their love story developed to the point where she just had to prevent him killing himself in order to actually save everyone else. Selfish bitch. And what was the point of releasing all those animals?

Benicio del toro's character - don't even remember/care what his name was. Soon turned over on Finn and Rose, but why not include the scene where he's actually persuaded to betray them? Explain that shit! Let's see something about greed and the human condition.

Porgs- fuck off straight to the toy shops.

Ja Ja Binks could've showed up (unlikely) and I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

Oh, and fuck right off with those intergalactic 1st-person phone calls, you haven't done it yet, so how can you do it now?

Other than that, yeah great film.

Loads up Rogue One