Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Dec 15th, 2017)

[crows]

The new Annabelle...damn you....damn you to hellll!!!...wait a minute...that aint real...how come she got round eyes?

 

[Shadow Master]

I liked TLJ a lot but it definitely isn't without some serious issues in hindsight and has it's share of fatal flaws. A movie with as much good as it has bad going for it. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up when I see it again.

Maybe I'm in the minority but Rogue One is my new favorite SW film. Still surprised by how awesome it was. Would've never expected to leave the theater back in 2016 thinking it'd be my new favorite SW.

 

[Adolfo]

agreed

putting lambs blood over my thresholds in my house...let the angel of death by pass me and head to the land of 10,000 lakes....being inside a Saarlac without a rocket pack > TLJ

 

[Khev]

Maybe I'm in the minority but Rogue One is my new favorite SW film. Still surprised by how awesome it was. Would've never expected to leave the theater back in 2016 thinking it'd be my new favorite SW.

It still boggles my mind to this day how good RO turned out to be.

putting lambs blood over my thresholds in my house...let the angel of death by pass me and head to the land of 10,000 lakes....

"I'll take 'Things You're Likely to Read in a Star Wars Thread' for 500 Alex."

 

[jye4ever]

Adolfo has some good sayings lol

I love Starblazers btw.

Did you ever watch the live version lol

 

[Shadow Master]

It still boggles my mind to this day how good RO turned out to be.

You're telling me. That was like the SW movie I always wanted since I was a kid. All about the Empire vs. Rebels, not just the Jedi and Sith.

 

[Khev]

You're telling me. That was like the SW movie I always wanted since I was a kid. All about the Empire vs. Rebels, not just the Jedi and Sith.

Absolutely. I remember after the OT when movies like Top Gun, ALIENS, and Platoon came along thinking about how awesome it would be if someone made a Star Wars film that was as exciting and intense as those movies but was still "Star Wars-y." 30 years later our man Gareth delivered.

 

[DarthBakura]

Adolfo’s love for TLJ is deep... like an ocean of dead porgs.

 

[Shadow Master]

Absolutely. I remember after the OT when movies like Top Gun, ALIENS, and Platoon came along thinking about how awesome it would be if someone made a Star Wars film that was as exciting and intense as those movies but was still "Star Wars-y." 30 years later our man Gareth delivered.

I hope we see him return for more SW films. I'm honestly more interested in the spin-off and Expanded Universe films than more sequel films after how R1 turned out.

 

[DarthBakura]

After this next film and the Han and Obi-Wan spin-offs... everything will be pulling from the “expanded universe,” in some form or fashion.

 

[Asta]

Actually the fact that a movie might need to be watched more than once to fully appreciate isn't the scathing indictment that some make it out to be. Sometimes it just means the viewer brought so much of their own baggage that they couldn't properly evaluate it after one viewing.

That was the experience for me.

On my first viewing I was so loaded down with baggage that so much of the film was a stumbling block. I had to stumble all the way to the end bare foot over sharp rocks. It was painful.

After you start shedding the baggage, which includes the unsound reviews of those who were also loaded up with baggage, you begin to view it as a Star Wars film, and in particular on the level a Star Wars film is aimed at. Remember that it's escapist fantasy and not science fiction. George was a big kid reliving childhood nostalgia.


Once you can cut through all that you can actually start to listen to the dialogue, follow the story, and dismantle the ridiculous idea that it was proposing an anti-male ideology: the story of the film just does not support that theory.

 

[TaliBane]

I hope we see him return for more SW films. I'm honestly more interested in the spin-off and Expanded Universe films than more sequel films after how R1 turned out.

Yeah, they should can all new ST films including Rian's new Proctotrilogy (and even some of the rumored standalones that sound pretty meh) and let's get the "story set a few days before ESB" hard prequel movie going. I had issues with RO, but in my post-TLJ evaluation, it just won the Best Picture Oscar.

But then again, maybe Khev's sweat lodge TLJ intervention sessions in here will make me re-evaluate TLJ some day. He is very patient and helps me to see TLJ clearer every day...

 

[Wor-Gar]

After you start shedding the baggage, you begin to view it as a Star Wars film,

 

[Asta]

 

[DarthBakura]

Too funny!

 

[Asta]

Lucas prepared my pod in 1978, the same year as pointy Donald.

And the rest is history.

 

[TaliBane]

 

[crows]

Yeah, they should can all new ST films including Rian's new Proctotrilogy (and even some of the rumored standalones that sound pretty meh) and let's get the "story set a few days before ESB" hard prequel movie going. I had issues with RO, but in my post-TLJ evaluation, it just won the Best Picture Oscar.

But then again, maybe Khev's sweat lodge TLJ intervention sessions in here will make me re-evaluate TLJ some day. He is very patient and helps me to see TLJ clearer every day...

 

[Adolfo]

Yup he's been indoctrinated,decaffeinated,assimilated, and cocooned. ...no question

 

[Asta]

Yup he's been indoctrinated,decaffeinated,assimilated, and cocooned. ...no question

See, I think that statement applies to a proportion of the haters who hate TLJ because they think they see a message in the film that isn't there.

The lie has been told by so many Youtubers and board posters, spouted and respouted, spreading like an infectious disease until it's taken for 'truth'. They're so coccooned that they can no longer think for themselves or see the film clearly without being weighed down by the baggage of others.

It's all a machine.

Live free, don't join.