Star Wars May the 4th be with you (Spoilers)

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Jason P said:
    I enjoyed the movie.  Spoiler free thoughts ....

    * Adam Driver was an odd choice for Kylo Ren (which is an odd character), mainly because he is an odd person in real life (so perhaps he was perfectly cast), but his acting chops are several leagues above the rest of the cast.

    * The first 15 minutes of the movie was a hyperspeed plot setup for the rest of the movie since The Last Jedi spent several hours doing nothing.  

    * Kinda was hoping that Rose would end up in the Sarlacc Pit (spoiler: she doesn't)

    * It was a fun visceral last movie that I thought did a decent job wrapping everything up.  The movie is mainly an action movie.  It follows a Disney Marvel footprint which obviously the public enjoys, but don't expect any deep plot conversations.  People can crap on Lucas all they want, but at his heart I think he is a storyteller.

    * Oh, and I can't believe that Jar Jar Binks ended up [SPOILER]!
    How is Adam odd in real life?
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    This is hilarious. Poe has brain damage.

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    https://youtu.be/UZYppNS7mbM

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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    https://youtu.be/UZYppNS7mbM

    Jeremy Jahns is great. I don't agree with him about this film but he's very good at the YouTube racket.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Why did Leia stop her Jedi training again?
    I didn't quite capture it.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,296
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Jason P said:
    I enjoyed the movie.  Spoiler free thoughts ....

    * Adam Driver was an odd choice for Kylo Ren (which is an odd character), mainly because he is an odd person in real life (so perhaps he was perfectly cast), but his acting chops are several leagues above the rest of the cast.

    * The first 15 minutes of the movie was a hyperspeed plot setup for the rest of the movie since The Last Jedi spent several hours doing nothing.  

    * Kinda was hoping that Rose would end up in the Sarlacc Pit (spoiler: she doesn't)

    * It was a fun visceral last movie that I thought did a decent job wrapping everything up.  The movie is mainly an action movie.  It follows a Disney Marvel footprint which obviously the public enjoys, but don't expect any deep plot conversations.  People can crap on Lucas all they want, but at his heart I think he is a storyteller.

    * Oh, and I can't believe that Jar Jar Binks ended up [SPOILER]!
    How is Adam odd in real life?
    He only eats pancakes if they have square edges and only on Tuesday on the odd week of an even month (pending it isn’t a leap year).  
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,630
    I thought it was good
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    can this please, really, be the end of this nerd marathon? :prayer:
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,296
    As the great poet Alfred Yankovic once sang, "we'll be making these movies 'till the end of time"
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    This guy is spot on...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdwPVxotGBE

    Pretty much, IMO, Star Wars fans fucked this trilogy up.
    The Force Awakens: It's exactly the same story as A New Hope, where are the new ideas?
    The Last Jedi: We don't like these new ideas and this new direction, it's not what Star Wars films are
    The Rise of Skywalker: It doesn't make sense now

    Disney should have shown more balls and have written the trilogy they wanted not what fans wanted.
    This is the problem with social media it is causing so much problems in the world, too much extreme division and polarisation.
    Sad that this trilogy as a whole was a wasted opportunity we will never get back.
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
    Social media is definitely a large factor in what's wrong with the fandom. However not having any real plan for this trilogy is what doomed it from the start. JJ started one story, Rian told another one. That falls ultimately on Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy.

    Also, I don't think the Skywalker saga needed concluding. If you wanted to continue it, fine, but it pretty much ended already on Endor. To insist that it needed a conclusion and that you were going to provide that conclusion without having an idea of what that conclusion was going to be was basically malpractice.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,181
    saw an 8:30 show this morning. It was a big theater but only like 1/4 full (if that) which was kinda odd but i'm glad there wasn't too many people there. Overall I enjoyed it a lot actually. It was very emotional for me. I teared up quite a few times.
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    Thats not really what happened though.  They werent reacting to fans for each film.

    They should have created some strange pass-the-baton story with different writers and directors.  It was disjointed.  You could tell that Abrams crammed the first half-hour into transitioning from whatever the hell The Last Jedi was into his vision for the 3rd movie.


    The problem was disjointed and incoherent story-telling.  The Last Jedi was by far the worst and it stunted this trilogy.  I would have loved to see Abrams' entire vision/story for the trilogy
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,630
    edited December 2019
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,114
    eeriepadave said:
    saw an 8:30 show this morning. It was a big theater but only like 1/4 full (if that) which was kinda odd but i'm glad there wasn't too many people there. Overall I enjoyed it a lot actually. It was very emotional for me. I teared up quite a few times.
    Same here. I absolutely loved it.  I might go: 9, 7 and then 8.  
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    edited December 2019
    eeriepadave said:
    saw an 8:30 show this morning. It was a big theater but only like 1/4 full (if that) which was kinda odd but i'm glad there wasn't too many people there. Overall I enjoyed it a lot actually. It was very emotional for me. I teared up quite a few times.
    Glad I wasn't the only one that teared up. I was the last to leave the theatre as I wanted to recompose myself and dry my eyes. The last scene got to me.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,296
    Did anyone see it in 3D?  I didn't know 3D was still a thing.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited December 2019
    MayDay10 said:
    Thats not really what happened though.  They werent reacting to fans for each film.

    They should have created some strange pass-the-baton story with different writers and directors.  It was disjointed.  You could tell that Abrams crammed the first half-hour into transitioning from whatever the hell The Last Jedi was into his vision for the 3rd movie.


    The problem was disjointed and incoherent story-telling.  The Last Jedi was by far the worst and it stunted this trilogy.  I would have loved to see Abrams' entire vision/story for the trilogy
    That makes one of you. 

    OK, here you go. Abrams’ “vision”:


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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,114
    Jason P said:
    Did anyone see it in 3D?  I didn't know 3D was still a thing.
    I bought 3d tickets by mistake; my kids and I thought it was pretty cool.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......

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