The Last Jedi
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Monday, January 22, 2018 16:42
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Pitch video was spot on and hilarious. 
The entire first world sees ' Mary Poppins in Space ! ' when Leia does her thing. Too funny.
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I think the last scene left a bad taste in my mouth too.
"We know we didn't give you anything you actually WANTED in this film, but keep telling the kiddies about Star Wars so we can make lotsa money off them too..."
Oh, and Benecio Del Toro WAS OBNOXIOUS...could you imagine if MAL had that part??? Would have been EPIC!
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Quote:Three out of eleven critics agreed that Space Mary Poppins was the least favorite part, but it didn't bother me because I had seen it before on the TV show Dark Matter when Two was blown out into space, and yet The Force was with her. She would have died when her blood boiled in the vacuum if not for her nano-bots. Leia's blood would have boiled in outer space if not for her midi-chlorians, which are magical nano-bots under a different name. www.imdb.com/title/tt4159076/
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Pitch video was spot on and hilarious.
The entire first world sees ' Mary Poppins in Space ! ' when Leia does her thing. Too funny.
What was your least favorite part of the film? from www.theringer.com/2017/12/17/16788228/star-wars-the-last-jedi-exit-sur
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* Yoo: Space Mary Poppins.
Gruttadaro: That Kylo didn’t keep the mask for just a little bit longer, because his voice was really sounding like the end of “Runaway” and I was into it.
Baumann: I thought Ghost Luke’s intervention in the movie’s last battle poured it on a little thick.
Uggetti: Rey’s I, Robot clone dream.
Fennessey: I think Casino Planet could have been avoided entirely, thus removing about 20 minutes of runtime.
Herman: The runtime? There’s a lot of unnecessary plot in this movie, probably born of a Disney-imposed requirement that Star Wars must be all things to all people. Internal contrast is the bread and butter of this franchise, which places sci-fi war stories alongside Buddhist-adjacent space monks. Even by those standards, however, certain elements here felt grafted-on or disjointed: cutesy animals for toys; cutesy kids for sequel protagonists; Marvelesque one-liners for levity in what’s objectively the saga’s darkest chapter to date. And while I loved the overt populism of the casino plot line, that entire detour felt like one complication too many.
Kram: The payoff to the Laura Dern subplot is tremendous, but the buildup—in which her character hides plans from Poe and he leads a mutiny—isn’t. In a movie already full of surprising twists and real stakes, there was no need for this extra bit of manufactured tension, and Dern’s sacrifice would have worked just as well without it.
* Kwak: Leia floating through space. C’mon, son.
Lindbergh: The Canto Bight detour was mostly a mess. Admiral Ackbar’s death deserved more fanfare, and Captain Phasma was still lame. But I’m the guy who was hyped for the soundtrack heading into the movie, and if anything, The Last Jedi’s score was even more reliant on references to past movies and devoid of new and noteworthy themes. Maybe I’m the only one who’s still expecting enough from octogenarian John Williams to feel let down when he doesn’t deliver at the level he used to, but as exciting as The Last Jedi’s throne-room fight was, it would have been twice as adrenaline-inducing with a track to rival “Duel of the Fates,” “Battle of the Heroes,” or my favorite snippet of Star Wars music ever: the 40 seconds or so that accompanies the end of the last Luke-Vader duel.
* Samman: Leia flying through space was a case of “right idea, poor execution.” It’s cool that we got to see her use the Force; I just wish it hadn’t been as cartoonish as it was. Also, the casino scene, while a beautiful critique of unregulated capitalism, was kind of unnecessary.
Surrey: There’s only one correct answer: Chewie killed and roasted a porg. I don’t care if he didn’t eat it on-screen, Chewie went to the dark side.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Perhaps you forgot you were viewing the new Star Wars/Trek, where all action and battles take place on gravity Wells (planets, and Trek-specifically Earth).
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Just saw it, and I'll steer clear of major spoilers.
As was the case with TFA, I thought i was watching a remake of an earlier SW movie.
Great liberties were taken with - everything. Super powerful advanced tech and weapons, but ... meh, not always. Time / Space / Distance ? Apparently not a problem for ANYTHING.
Princess Mary Poppins Skywalker... :facepalm:
Can you hear me now ?
And it's really darn good luck to travel around w/ one of these things in the trunk of your Star Cruiser, just because...
I mean, seriously ! Who thinks to build and then carry around a massive hypersonic battering ram when they're flying around in space ? The Resistance literally had no idea they were going to make a run for a Helms Deep style hidden base until they happened to stumble across it while trying to figure out their next move ! And don't tell me the N.O. carries around industrial grade battering ram rays as standard gear. No freakin' way.
Oh, and bombers ?? Really ?? That have to fly directly over a ship, so close that the explosions take out the bomber itself ? Ughh! This movie made no damn sense.
Space and Star travel is only handy for hauling around your baubles from one planet to another.
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Quote:There are 20 stories about how characters, scenes, dialog got added to the movie. Here are three, including why Benicio del Toro was directed to be more Elvis Costello than Mal:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
"We know we didn't give you anything you actually WANTED in this film, but keep telling the kiddies about Star Wars so we can make lotsa money off them too..."
Oh, and Benecio Del Toro WAS OBNOXIOUS...could you imagine if MAL had that part??? Would have been EPIC!
www.thisisinsider.com/star-wars-the-last-jedi-making-of-details-2017-1
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The "DJ" in Benicio del Toro's character's name stands for "Don't Join." The phrase comes from a 1978 poster for Elvis Costello and the Attractions' third album "Armed Forces." Director Rian Johnson said he "loved that phrase."
Captain Phasma wasn't originally supposed to exist at all. Her costume was a sketch for Kylo Ren's costume. "It was a design for Kylo Ren that I had hanging up in the design room even after J.J. said, 'I want him totally different. He's not leading the stormtroopers as one of them,'" said costume designer Michael Kaplan. "I guess it hung there long enough that I got attached to it. Then Lucasfilm president Kathy Kennedy walked in one day and said, 'What is that? That has to be in the movie!'"
The simple design of the porgs was to make sure they were easy for kids to draw. "If a child wants to draw a porg, how easy is it to draw so that you instantly know it's a porg?" said creature and droid effects supervisor Neal Scanlan. "That pushed it to two eyes and a little head on a stubby body with little legs." A million times a million toy Porgs will be Christmas gifts.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Snoke doesn't have much of a backstory...he's Nowhere Man.
After the Battle of Jakku, what was left of the Empire fled the galaxy to the Unknown Regions where it slowly became The First Order, re-emerging with Supreme Leader Snoke at its head. Logically, since Snoke was not a known member of the Empire prior to it fleeing into the Unknown Regions, he would have come from there himself, and more evidence from Pablo Hidalgo’s Star Wars the Last Jedi the Visual Dictionary lends credence to that theory.
https://screenrant.com/the-last-jedi-snokes-orgins-unknown-regions/
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Perhaps you forgot you were viewing the new Star Wars/Trek, where all action and battles take place on gravity Wells (planets, and Trek-specifically Earth).
Space and Star travel is only handy for hauling around your baubles from one planet to another.
Does OUR military today have a battering ram ? Seriously, no modern military has one. And we fight exclusively on the planet. Battering rams are what... 16th century tech ? Shaped charges or bunker busters do the job better. And cheaper, I'd imagine.
And speaking of explosions, the impact of the ordinance that took out the bridge on the rebel / RESITANCE ship alone should have killed Leia. The incendiary effects, the shrapnel, the concussive forces of 1. blowing up and 2. explosive decompression , and oh yeah, the vacuum and cold temperatures of space ... she dead. Sorry. That SHOULD have been her final scene. That she lives and Luke dies... just ridiculous.
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Quote:OK, so Wishy actually had a good idea here.
Originally posted by Wishimay:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
They are people who have been discarded and stepped on.
And I am ALLLL for empowerment. But...STAR WARS. The thing that always attracted me was "the force" idea. Always made a hell of a lot more sense than most religiosity. Rey goes down the hole of evil and does an infinity party trick?? Maybe there is a deeper meaning like "everything is a circle" or "you and life will go on" but it was just hollow filler for me. WHAT DOES THE FORCE MEAN, to ANYONE HERE??
Nothing really was learned and I have sooo many questions...
(((MILD SPOILERS HERE))))
WAS THE REST OF THE MOVIE AFTER THE HOLE REY'S WEIRD DAYDREAM???
WHY all the plot twists that basically just piss on fan theory??
Maybe Luke is just afraid of heights and that's why he thinks the hole is evil?
Maybe drinking green Snuffalufagus milk has made him senile or really weak??
Maybe if Luke just said to Kylo "sorry, dude, I was just stroking my light saber and it went off, you can go back to sleep" think of all the deaths that could have been avoided???
What WAS Yoda trying to say??? I'm dead and incoherent, WHEEE!
Did we REALLY need Snoke to monologue until Kylo finds some balls? STILL an emo loser! And the shirtless scene??? Put the helmet back on and I'll think about it, honey
Why Phasma...What is the point of her?? Perpetually shiny loser? Is she Snoke's concubine??....I can't imagine any other reason to keep her useless rear around??? Does the shiny suit chafe her boobs??
Were the AT-AT drivers drunk or blind??
Why did Leia think they have what they need to restart a rebellion?? They put out a distress call and *crickets*
Maybe after losing the 34th villain and 90th ship, maybe both sides eventually say "this is kind of pointless, the only winning move is not to play..."
Maybe Kylo just needs to smoke some space weed and stop being a tool for thirty seconds??
WHO THE HELL IS SNOKE AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?????
If the next film opens with the revelation that TLJ was just a daydream, the franchise could be saved.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
OK, so Wishy actually had a good idea here.
If the next film opens with the revelation that TLJ was just a daydream, the franchise could be saved.
If you say so. lol
That was a worn out trope before I was born.
Keep churning out the crap though, Disney (and Marvel and DC and everybody else). Tons of great material for great channels on YouTube.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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