Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
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Chukzombi
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Star Wars: George Lucas names Jar Jar Binks as his favourite character
The Star Wars director selects the widely-derided alien as his favourite Stars Wars character.
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Melvin
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The start was so jarringly un-starwars that it pulled me right out and it took a while to get back in. A pink ship with some irish lady piloting it? Get the fuck out of here
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I think both are kinda true.
Yes, our expectations were too high. And yeah, the movie was a piece of political propaganda. The analogies he was making to Bush were just so hamfisted and unavoidable. Instead of that he should have just retold the Julius Ceasar civil war except when they try to stab ceasar he busts out a lightsaber and murders the senate, then he tracks down all the jedi one by one with the help of young anakin, who he has corrupted with a vision of empire and glory.
You start with clone wars as ceasar in gaul, then you move into phantom menace (ceasar against coruscant, and the jedi suspect fuckery, and the political tension resulting from a senator personally being in charge of a clone army) and then you end with MURDERSPLATS. You can even have anakin beat obi-wan in some climatic duel but release him in an act of mercy, foreshadowing both his redemption by luke and giving context to the obi-wan/vader duel in new hope.
That would have been better at least than NatPo talking about sand in her vagina.
Yes, our expectations were too high. And yeah, the movie was a piece of political propaganda. The analogies he was making to Bush were just so hamfisted and unavoidable. Instead of that he should have just retold the Julius Ceasar civil war except when they try to stab ceasar he busts out a lightsaber and murders the senate, then he tracks down all the jedi one by one with the help of young anakin, who he has corrupted with a vision of empire and glory.
You start with clone wars as ceasar in gaul, then you move into phantom menace (ceasar against coruscant, and the jedi suspect fuckery, and the political tension resulting from a senator personally being in charge of a clone army) and then you end with MURDERSPLATS. You can even have anakin beat obi-wan in some climatic duel but release him in an act of mercy, foreshadowing both his redemption by luke and giving context to the obi-wan/vader duel in new hope.
That would have been better at least than NatPo talking about sand in her vagina.
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Lucas has talked about midichlorians-- but I forget his exact words, so I can't quote him.
I think it had something to do with a strong desire to explain some things that he was not able to explain. He had this philosophy about answering questions people had about the technology with mumbo jumbo. A lot of Star Wars tech is explained by mumbo jumbo, especially in the EU (For example, there is a full "real world" explanation for blaster and laser bolt technology but it makes no sense in the real world because it defies the current known properties for those energy types. You can't mix laser, gas, and electricity and you can't shoot an "electrical bolt" of anything, creating a bolt makes no sense. Electricity is not able to be projected in that way in a specific aimed burst) but the force was one thing that was left spiritual and open to interpretation.
Despite Star Wars already having mumbo jumbo in it long before he invented midichlorians-- he still had to go all Star Trek on the force. It sucks.
I think it had something to do with a strong desire to explain some things that he was not able to explain. He had this philosophy about answering questions people had about the technology with mumbo jumbo. A lot of Star Wars tech is explained by mumbo jumbo, especially in the EU (For example, there is a full "real world" explanation for blaster and laser bolt technology but it makes no sense in the real world because it defies the current known properties for those energy types. You can't mix laser, gas, and electricity and you can't shoot an "electrical bolt" of anything, creating a bolt makes no sense. Electricity is not able to be projected in that way in a specific aimed burst) but the force was one thing that was left spiritual and open to interpretation.
Despite Star Wars already having mumbo jumbo in it long before he invented midichlorians-- he still had to go all Star Trek on the force. It sucks.
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Gavinmad
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Honest to god, my first thought when I heard he died was 'at least in heaven there is no Episode 8'
Chukzombi
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Rian Johnson subverted his expectations by not even having him in ep8. ditto Solo.
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spronk
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he always sounded like an extremely nice and kind guy, being extra kind to fans at events even though probably half are autistic sperglords. Its crazy too that such a tall guy lived so long, as a moderately tall guy (6'4) i know genetics are not in our favor for lifespans
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