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

[Khev]

 

[TonTon]

Doesn’t have tiny feet. Can’t be Liefeld.

 

[crows]

star wars fans everybody:

 

[Choryujin]

Doesn’t have tiny feet. Can’t be Liefeld.

Needs more pouches and a bigger gun too....and a woman with big *******

 

[TaliBane]

star wars fans everybody:

How can people take you seriously when you're screaming but dressed like this?

 

[crows]

How can people take you seriously when you're screaming but dressed like this?

hes got... a BROOM??

IS he BROOM KID?

 

[Niltusk]

And waving his hand to convince the theater worker to do what he wants.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

That's Kenny Omega, the greatest wrestler in the world right now.

 

[Wor-Gar]

My son , older and more salty cynic than I was at his age...

Likes RO the best, then TFA the TLJ.

Loves OT , hates PT.

I like this kid.

 

[TaliBane]

And waving his hand to convince the theater worker to do what he wants.

Based on this, I'm seeing a sandtrooper laugh in Kenobi's face, slap him in front of Luke and deny them both entry to Mos Eisley.

I get wanting to dress up for opening night but you'd think you'd kinda stick to the background if **** started getting real. Think of the padawans at least.

 

[Niltusk]

Look at that guy though, hes like a real life werewolf, right? he probably just ate the younglings.

 

[JAWS]

Lol! You know I'm not gonna lie, part of me was wondering if I might come away like you did from your second viewing of Kong Island. Luckily that didn't happen.

I'm genuinely shocked that so many of you feel that this film was rife with problems. Even having the majority of the complaints fresh in my mind they just didn't resonate and I found myself simply caught up in the characters and story all over again. Two parts did make me feel like I was watching another film series; the Canto Bight stampede escape felt like something out of a Harry Potter film and that black BB-8 sounding the alarm on Finn and Rose reminded me of the "Rogue robots, rogue robots" sequence from Wall-E but even with those nods I wasn't bothered by them.

And I forgot that the kids were actually playing with a makeshift Luke Skywalker figure at the end. Again it didn't bother me nor did Broom Boy. *shrugs*

I knew you would be honest if you didn't like it.. If I thought anything else I would have never posted that


Besides I knew you were going to like it the second time.. If the plot holes and awful story telling did not bother you after thinking about it the first time then there was no hope for you

 

[JAWS]

I think this has been asked before but not sure if there was a good answer..

If Luke went to that island to die then Why was there a map to find him in the first place?? I mean he was responsible for the map wasn't he? So they could find him if they needed him? Or was he not on the island to die? Did he leave the map?

I figure he did not leave the map as it would make no sense since he was done with being a hero.. I can't remember if it was even mentioned that he went to the island to die or if that is just fan theory I have read..

Or is it all just bad writing again

 

[TonTon]

He did not leave the map. They just stupidly call it the map to Luke over and over in TFA (so dumb audience remembers why what BB-8 has is important).

It’s really just the map to the first temple, which is hidden, and where people, assume he is. Not the best place to hide therefore, but he assumes correctly (for a while) that people won’t find him.

 

[Popnfresh98]

star wars fans everybody:

This actually happened at my theatre when I went to watch RoTS way back when, the camera flickered out around the time anakin and Obi-Wan were boarding grievous’ ship. But no one yelled or anything, and they restarted it 10min later. One of my friends complained to the manager just because he knew he could get free tickets out of it and he did get them. No yelling or bad juju though.

 

[klwn]

I think this has been asked before but not sure if there was a good answer..

If Luke went to that island to die then Why was there a map to find him in the first place?? I mean he was responsible for the map wasn't he? So they could find him if they needed him? Or was he not on the island to die? Did he leave the map?

I figure he did not leave the map as it would make no sense since he was done with being a hero.. I can't remember if it was even mentioned that he went to the island to die or if that is just fan theory I have read..

Or is it all just bad writing again

I have heard all kinds of things from TLJ lovers and haters, and didn't do the research myself, so it's still unclear whether or not the map was where they thought he would be, or if it was where they knew he would be because he left it behind
The fact that the missing fragment was in R2 would suggest that he put it in there? Or is it that thing about R2 downloading all the Empire's data in the OT? But then why is it just a fragment and not a whole map if he got that from the Empire's super databank?
And then the other part of the map that Poe gives to BB-8 in TFA, was that left behind by Luke?

And yeah I think he said he just went there to die...

 

[TonTon]

R2 had the whole map from the empire, except for the tiny piece that had been hidden away (that BB8 gets to start the movie) that contains the exact location of the temple, but the context of the rest of the galaxy is needed.

 

[klwn]

R2 had the whole map from the empire, except for the tiny piece that had been hidden away (that BB8 gets to start the movie) that contains the exact location of the temple, but the context of the rest of the galaxy is needed.

Oh yeah right, BB-8 had the fragment.

Damn that plot is as crazy as the deleted Kamino planet in AOTC.

 

[JAWS]

Yes I strongly believe that for the absurdity of SW to really work you always need a regular joe/sarcastic character who can step back and roll their eyes at the whole thing so that the audience doesn't have to. Nowhere is it more evident than the PT which has *no* such character. But in the OT you had Han and in RO there was K-2. Obviously Han filled that role again in TFA but in TLJ it was surprisingly Luke that had all those moments where he got to scoff *with* the audience at the narrative for the most part. Which was surprising and actually cool because I thought it helped keep his character relatable and interesting but it was also at the expense of allowing the new characters to really shine.

Which is why I really thought that Poe and Finn were even upstaged by Del Toro. "Eh, they blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow" is one of my favorite lines in the whole movie, followed by, "It's just business." "You're wrong!" *shrugs* "Maybe." Such a great character. Poe and Finn had moments here and there but neither narrative was really "about" them enough for them to be anything more than competent supporting characters.

Del Toro's stutter drove me nuts on the second viewing.. For whatever reason I did not notice it the first time. But yeah he is better then the poorly written Poe and Finn.. That says a lot about these movies IMO..

As for the series needed a "regular/Joe" character.. Hmmmmm I was fully on board with SW well before Han ever showed up. Granted he made the film better... So I cant argue with you there.. But he is such a great character in those early movies.. I would say he toned down the "doubter" role in Empire since Luke was not around and he played everything "serious" but funny because that is who his character is.. The Humor was natural and true to his character.

No "regular/ Joe" was going to save the PT from have the issues it had.. It might have helped but it would not save it..

Regular Joes or not, I would say that the ANH, ESB, and RO just had well done humor that grew naturally from the characters. The PT had stupid humor that was forced on us with Jar Jar and the ST lacks big time in the natural humor department.. Its forced and not natural or really part of the characters.. ROTJ suffers from this a bit also.

I also don't think Han played the regular Joe so well in TFA since he believed everything by then... I also did not feel the Humor was natural for him in this film... Though I like his "that's not how the force works" line... But no look shooting and telling Chewie he likes his crossbow blaster twice was more common rule then the exception.

One of the most brilliant films to ever have natural comedy due to the "absurdity of it all" is An American Werewolf in London.. No one liners, sight gags, or slapstick... Just people behaving like they really might if such a crazy situation landed in their lap... If you are a werewolf... You just might have to deal with waking up naked at the zoo

PT and ST fail at the natural Humor aspect IMO.


I get what you are saying though.. I am just not sure its due to having a "regular Joe" character as opposed to just having better writing and humor.



Edit: Actually the more I think about it the more I may agree that the audience needed a Han "doubter" in the original.. But he did not really play that up too much if at all in the next two films.

 

[SunrayTheWingman]