Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

Lanx said:

oh pretty much exactly my wife too, except we watched TPM cuz it was out in college and she slept through it...

i didn't give a shit, but our friend did, since he got us advanced tickets, lulz.

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I remember that year quite well. At least we had EQ. We had Kubrick dying which sucked, Backstreet Boys playing everywhere as grunge died off and then TPM came out. I stood in line for hours with my warhammer buddies.

After that day I was sure God hated me because the Ultramarine/High Elf player everyone hated tagged along without asking. Having to listen to that troglodyte laugh at Jar Jar’s jokes while the rest of us recoiled in horror will haunt me for all eternity.

Jozu said:

I watched The Last jedi out of sheer boredom and wanted to see how bad it actually was as I never watched it.

Wow.

It was laughably bad, but my biggest takeaway from this and Rian Johnson, is the glorified obsession with sacrificial suicide.

I mean, the emo man child that is Kylo Ren and Purple haired dyke admirals is bad enough, but then for some reason these freaks decide to really go for it and base the entire narrative of the film around characters killing themselves.

Holdo sacrifices herself in a kamikaze suicide act. Then Finn tried to suicide himself in a similar sacrificial suicide act. To top it all off, Luke commits "Force Suicide" in order to again, save the day through sacrifice. To make everything even worse, he mutters that nobody's really gone. I dont even know what to say about it all. Its truly awful and dumb.

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I will never forget coming out of Phantom Menace and watching my friends mouth the things they thought they should say about it and me unleashing full throated disappointment hell on the crowd of people we had come to see the movie with. I held out hope young Anakin and Jar Jar were going to make the turn there at the end and complete their arcs by being better but when they won the battle by being kids and idiots respectively, I was one of the original haters. I softened somewhat later and my kids loved it years later when I had them but in 1999, I expected Star Wars, not whatever that "Pee-yousa" was that George made.

Going into the Last Jedi, I knew something was up but I didn't know what. My greatest fear was that Luke was already dead, and I was really upset by that thought. I was really hopeful that we would get to see Luke back in action. Maybe not Star Destroyer/AT-AT crushing with the Force Luke from the novels but the Jedi Master in action. What happened on the screen was really really shocking. I was in disbelief the entire time. From the first dumb joke to bombs "falling" in space to the Casino planet insanity to DJ to Space Leia to everything about Luke. The battle in Snoke's throne room was cool but how does someone like Rian Johnson, a director I had previously liked/loved, make this Star Wars movie? I need to go back and read what I wrote about it at the time. I remember the ride with home my wife repeatedly asking me if I was OK, and me telling her I was fine.

It wasn't even Star Wars fan fiction because that would imply that they were fans of OT Star Wars. It was just fiction involving Star Wars characters for profit.

Edit: I did go back and read what I wrote after seeing it, and I don't know the person who wrote that. I gave it a super high score but in my defense I said I need more time to digest it and listed out all of the things that I listed here And when I got over my shock, I got angry.