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I think we can probably go without spoiler tags at this point. That sound good? Kind of pointless, nobody should be reading this thread if they don't want it spoiled.
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Great, now I can break out all of the spoilers!I think we can probably go without spoiler tags at this point. That sound good? Kind of pointless, nobody should be reading this thread if they don't want it spoiled.
Yousa insulting Jar Jar.I'm just going to believe that Snoke was Jarjar. Rian Johnson is a secret jarjar fanboy and wanted to keep it a secret.
Luke left a map to emo island because... no reason...
Max von Sydow was... never mentioned again...
Was any of that in a movie?Luke didn't leave a map to Ahch-To. It was known that he went to find the first jedi temple. Lor San Tekka (Max Von Sydow's character) was an old explorer, student of the history of the jedi, and a member of the Church of the Force. As part of his studies he uncovered a map showing the location of the first temple. Being a long-time friend of the Organa family he reached out to Leia to offer it to her when he learned she was looking for Luke (who hadn't been heard from for several years by that point).
And there isn't really much need to mention San Tekka further. As a character he did what was needed by handing off the map and was killed shortly afterwards. He's not important to the story beyond that.
Was any of that in a movie?
He has the rest of the map so he has a reason to be in the movie and deliver those nostalgia feels.Them why does r2d2 have the rest of the map? Doesn't make sense
I suppose Luke gathered the map himself to find it? Also why did R2D2 wake up at the end of Force Awakens?Them why does r2d2 have the rest of the map? Doesn't make sense
Rian Johnson employed the age-old technique of 'show don't tell' to good effect. This is why he got his own trilogy.
I love Star Wars but the movie series has been absolutely crap at communicating with the audience other than blatant exposition. Take Vader for example. How do we know he has good in him? It sure as hell aint there in A New Hope and it doesn't seem to be manifest in Empire either. Only in Return of the Jedi do we see any notion of Vader's redemption (nominally the main arc of the whole prequel + OT hexology) and only then because Luke tell's us that he senses good in his father. Luke actually mentions it a few times (to Yoda, Leia, even to Vader himself) yet at no point do we, the audience, see Vader show even a hint of reluctance to do something terrible much less anything good until the moment he picks up the emperor and chucks him over the railing.
I suppose Luke gathered the map himself to find it? Also why did R2D2 wake up at the end of Force Awakens?
You... feeling OK?this is just too perfect. this piece of shit is exactly the movie you fanboy nerds deserve for bending over, spreading your assholes wide open and begging big daddy Disney for more and more after the last abortion of a movie. Episode 7 was Disney getting a feel for how much abuse the pathetic Star Wars fanbase is willing to take and the response was, "PUNISH ME DADDY!" well, you got your wish! Episode 8 is a full on rape of established Star Wars lore and characters, basic logic and general storytelling. congratulations, you all just paid $15 to be lectured of the morality of alien giraffe racing by the same group of people who feel compelled to sexually assault every skank they can get their hands on. I rate this movie 10/10, I couldn't do a better job of shitting all over Star Wars if I tried. looking forward to the exciting Episode 9 reveal of which new minority will be hamfisted into a god awful plotline, hoping for aborigines personally.
Oh ffs, tone down the red pill gamergate moronic shit, it wasn't "lol womyn r better than men", it was CLEARLY age/experience vs youth/bravado and the pro/cons of each. Especially when it comes to making sacrifices when they really count. It was about learning from mistakes and moving on as a wiser person. It you don't catch that the first ten times the movie hammers on it, it gets spelled right the fuck out when the past is literally (der) killed with fire.
Unfortunately, the example of NOT moving on from mistakes had to be Goddamn Luke Skywalker. God. Dammit. Well, it's consistent - the Skywalkers are clearly blinded by their emotions above all fucking sense. Yoda justified it - new times, new ideas, blah blah. But c'mon man, they dicked Luke hard.
Also, Yoda blowing up the Jedi texts could be interpreted as a huge middle finger to religious fundamentalism. Adapt to the times, etc.
Yes you could erase Dern and put Ackbar there. But Dern was there because Poe didn't trust her judgement and neither did the audience and so you had the mutiny thing. That arc wasn't about Dern, that was about Poe. And Poe sure as shit would have trusted Ackbar.
I liked that Del Toro was an actual scoundrel instead of another romance novel "scoundrel." It's a shame they couldn't do something better with the casino bit than those donkey things. Suddenly I was in a Harry Potter movie.
I assume they intended the real slicer to be Lando but thankfully realized that would have been cheap shit to use him like that.
Stuff did happen that moves things forward - Kylo as Supreme Leader should be a disaster, and that retarded huge ship that got fucked up looked expensive. It was enough to make it plausible that the pitiful Resistance has time to regroup for Ep 9. The First Order is big but it's no Empire - they didn't even want to waste fighter craft finishing off that cruiser. (another /eyeroll) Do you think Palp would have given a flying fuck about that?
Look, I grew up on this shit. And I can still rip any one of these movies apart if I want to. Obvious example: Escaping the Death Star. Leia: "YIPPEE WE DID IT!!! Hugs all around! Oh, actually you suck and they let us escape, they are tracking us. But we'll go straight to our base anyway!"
There was a lot to enjoy in this movie. But I don't think it's one that you rewatch much. Hell, I can only watch Jedi by skipping the Ewoks.
tl;dr Go see Thor 3 if you haven't.