HOLY BALLS. that was unbelievable. I might still be buzzed from having just seen it, but I think it might have been the best one. Can't wait to see it again. I am not sure how they can follow that one.
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Not really. They don't like it because it's not familiar. I'm actually shocked the critics liked it. It's different. I enjoyed it.64% rating from fans who have seen it on RT.
Sounds like Star Wars got Disneyed.
My thoughts exactlyIt was decent enough.
Good...solid...not spectacular.
No one knew anything about Palpatine in the originals.Poor storytelling, odd pacing, and while it doesn’t have to be *just like* the originals, keeping it in the same feel would have been nice.
While I wouldn’t say I’m a geek, I think it’s reasonable to have questions from a general storytelling perspective as to why Snoke existed or how he came to power. That’s a key premise of the prequels- Palpatine turning to Emperor. Now we have this new uber-bad guy with no bona fides, backstory, or rationale for why he cares about any of this at all.
I’m not sure how this movie moved the overall story arc along in terms of empire versus rebellion.
Would not say it was a good movie. I liked it because I’m a fanboy, but I liked it despite itself.
So why the hell did Luke just call it a day and join the force? WTF
Milking sea lion scene...was that really necessary?
Rey’s parents are nobody? Really??
We know as much about Snoke as we did before the film. Which is nothing.
Since when did the resistance only have one major capital ship?
Leia’s Space float while semi conscious in the cold vacuum of space....uhh. Ok.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the film. I’m glad Laura Dern is toast, have never liked her as an actor. I’m glad the film was less predictable than Force Awakens. Just still processing it.
And if I’m right, there’s literally not even a single X-Wing left to fight.
I both loved it and hated it.
Two of the three major villains in this trilogy are gone, Pricess Leia will almost assuredly be unceremoniously tossed to the side in IX due to real life circumstances, the rebellion goes from destroying Death Star 3000 in the last film to literally having like 6 people left with no explanation. Finn and the Asian girl are not interesting to me at all. Poe being a hothead who needs leadership skills is also uninteresting to me.
Also, there is no carrot to keep me talking the next two years. No cliffhangers, no great mystery to solve, etc.
On the positive Kylo Ren is more interesting now as is Rey. I actually like the way Luke went out and believe he will still have a significant part in the next movie.
Action scenes were also on point as usual.
I think Laura Dern going kamakazi into the First Order ship may have been the single coolest thing I’ve seen in a Star Wars flick.
That was really cool. I really liked the affect they used.
Need more light speed based weapons now. How have we not seen that before?
Speaking of that moment though... Did the Star cruiser destroy the light saber or did Ren and Ray?
The Resistance wasn't apart of the New Republic, it is a privately funded para-military organization that Leia founded because she found out about the First Order and lost almost all of her pull in the New Republic Senate about 6 years before TFA. So they never had much in terms of a fleet, just what they could scrape together.So why the hell did Luke just call it a day and join the force? WTF
Milking sea lion scene...was that really necessary?
Rey’s parents are nobody? Really??
We know as much about Snoke as we did before the film. Which is nothing.
Since when did the resistance only have one major capital ship?
Leia’s Space float while semi conscious in the cold vacuum of space....uhh. Ok.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the film. I’m glad Laura Dern is toast, have never liked her as an actor. I’m glad the film was less predictable than Force Awakens. Just still processing it.
And if I’m right, there’s literally not even a single X-Wing left to fight.
I like that Rey's parents are nobodies it shows that you don't have to be apart of a certain bloodline in order to be special or powerful with the force.
Gravity bombing something in space would not work
Luke said, at least twice, that he would never leave that planet (he said it specifically, and he said he went there to die).
He said numerous other times he would not return to fight the First Order.
What he did do was far more impressive, in terms of sheer power, than a light saber fight anyway. One final lesson for the pupil consumed by hate.
I guess I’m not sure what you guys expected a more mature Luke to do with Kylo Ren. His mentor intentionally allowed Luke to witness his death, one he accepted with no self defense. Luke chose to fall into the unknown in Empire rather than take Vader’s hand and maybe fight another day. In VI he throws his light saber away.
Luke picks the third option.
He picks the third option again here.
The first time on screen you see the red surface of the salt planet your mind thinks the soldier standing there is bleeding already. Everything that touches that planet leaves red behind. Everything except Luke Skywalker (when you watch it again pay attention to his footsteps. No red). There is no blood on his hands, and he didn’t come to kill.
The scene where Leiasurvives hard vacuumskywalks does look cheesy.
It didn’t bother me though because (a) it’s only the fourth time (at least) we’ve seen a major character survive hard vacuum in modern popular science fiction (Guardians of the Galaxy, Battlestar Galatica, the Expanse) and (b) it is mechanically no different than moving a sword out of the snow with your mind. She’s not literally flying because it is space. She is pulling on the ship with the Force, and because the ship’s inertia is so much greater than her own, and there is no gravity or atmosphere to resist she moves toward it.
What did bother me though...
Why do we have to “drop” bombs on a space ship in outer space? How does that even work physically for one thing, and why do we not have a better delivery system to start with? Those space bombs seem closer in tech to what the Ewoks use than the weapons systems on Poe’s X-wing.
That's cause it's fantasy in space and not true sci-fi.They wanted us to be suspicious of Dern along with Poe.
I still think that (a spy) makes more sense than tracking through hyper space, but Star Wars has always been soft on the science half of sci-fi so who knows.
The hyper space tracking was setup in Rogue One as it was one of the 1st things the Tarkin Initiative researched.They wanted us to be suspicious of Dern along with Poe.
I still think that (a spy) makes more sense than tracking through hyper space, but Star Wars has always been soft on the science half of sci-fi so who knows.
BB-8 is the one that says “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”No “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
No hands chopped off.
No knights of Ren.
Fin’s story was boring.
Rey was not sufficiently developed.
Half dozen heroic endings for Leila passed up.
Snoke build up for not much.
Dissatisfying Rey origen story.
Poe is no Han Solo.
Other than that I loved it. Complexity of character development is welcome. Kylo is now one of the best characters in Star Wars.
BB-8 is the one that says “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
I believe they set it up for the Knights of Ren to be featured in IX, because Luke noted that Ran did not kill all of his students but took several with him and JJ loves them so much he wanted to do a entire movie about them.