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Star Wars The Last Jedi Episode 8 thread: this thread sucks, you should avoid it even after you've seen the movie (1 Viewer)
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Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
The point being that the practice was not widely adopted even after having been shown effective. Why do you suppose that is?
Capella
Footballguy
No I don't. I figured once they moved 9 back to December they would do the same with Solo. Maybe they don't want Solo to taint/associate the December thing they got going on.
Capella
Footballguy
Rogue One
Empire
Force Awakens
Last Jedi
New Hope
Return of the Jedi
Sith
Clones
Whatever episode 1 was called
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Dragons
Delusions of Grandeur
In a universe where semisentient astromech droids can fly a light-capable starshipmwith no humans on board, I can't imagine why it wasn't widey adopted...or even just hyperspeed munitions.
Capella
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
that was the original date but was changed a while ago to December. JJ fought with Disney on TFA to get the latest date possible so he might have affected 9 as well when he accepted the directorial duties.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
I rank Phantom Menace very low, like most do, and yet I have to acknowledge that it contains two of my favorite moments in the entire 9 movie collection.
1) The scene in the hanger when the door opens, Qui Gon and Obi toss their capes and Maul displays the two sided saber for the first time. Near perfect music and tension.
2) The scene where Qui Gon is locked in the room fighting Maul and Obi can't get to him. McGregor does his best acting in his 3 movies in that one scene.
Ironically, both of these scenes had no dialogue for Lucas to screw up
1) The scene in the hanger when the door opens, Qui Gon and Obi toss their capes and Maul displays the two sided saber for the first time. Near perfect music and tension.
2) The scene where Qui Gon is locked in the room fighting Maul and Obi can't get to him. McGregor does his best acting in his 3 movies in that one scene.
Ironically, both of these scenes had no dialogue for Lucas to screw up
Politician Spock
Footballguy
Let me know when a destroyer, battleship, enemy base, carrier, etc.... has the power to destroy an entire planet.
If they could, I think a suicide mission might be better option than letting them get a shot off.
Politician Spock
Footballguy
Harrison Ford is a great actor. ANH would have sucked balls if Solo was played by someone else.
need2know
Footballguy
I really loved the end of phantom menaces saber fight. The fight ends poorly with mauls dumb death but 95 percent of it is great. Too bad the story was garbageI rank Phantom Menace very low, like most do, and yet I have to acknowledge that it contains two of my favorite moments in the entire 9 movie collection.
1) The scene in the hanger when the door opens, Qui Gon and Obi toss their capes and Maul displays the two sided saber for the first time. Near perfect music and tension.
2) The scene where Qui Gon is locked in the room fighting Maul and Obi can't get to him. McGregor does his best acting in his 3 movies in that one scene.
Ironically, both of these scenes had no dialogue for Lucas to screw up
Dragons
Delusions of Grandeur
Thunderlips
Footballguy
Maybe. In the original movie...there were no Rebel capital ships in the area to test this theory out.Politician Spock said:
2Squirrels1Nut
Footballguy
Because if there are two such incidents in a five year span Galactic Insurance cancels you and that's even worse than the First Order.
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Tom Servo
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tommyboy
Footballguy
I saw it a fifth time last night. Still can't get over the light speed kamikaze scene.
I did pay close attention to Luke's feet in the kylo face off. He doesn't make any foot prints. It's pretty subtle though something you'll be able to see more clearly on a DVD where you can slow motion it.
Other than some of the cheesy dialogue, I still think this is a great movie. It's in my top 3 better than rogue and TFA not as good as 4 and 5. I am very curious which direction they go in nine.
I did pay close attention to Luke's feet in the kylo face off. He doesn't make any foot prints. It's pretty subtle though something you'll be able to see more clearly on a DVD where you can slow motion it.
Other than some of the cheesy dialogue, I still think this is a great movie. It's in my top 3 better than rogue and TFA not as good as 4 and 5. I am very curious which direction they go in nine.
I liked it a lot more than TFA. Much more of the action that was missing from episode 8. I thought things were pointing towards Kylo redeeming himself, him defeating Snoke and the order in the next film, then banging Rey to create a super Jedi but I’m glad I was wrong because that would have been predictable and formulaic.
If they don’t show how Han saved Chewie to incur the blood debt then the film is a complete failure.
Brothers love asian chicks and thick chicks. Rose is perfect for him.
Maybe Finn isn't a shallow ####.
Politician Spock
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
The following is likely due to the holiday season but it is still pretty good news.
*The box office receipts for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for TLJ were all individually higher than the same days on the previous week.
TLA is at $934m now and should easily crack $1b this weekend world wide, and that is still with out China opening yet who by themselves should provide between $120 to $130m to the total.
$2 billion is likely off the table but a very healthy $1.5b is still possible.
*The box office receipts for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for TLJ were all individually higher than the same days on the previous week.
TLA is at $934m now and should easily crack $1b this weekend world wide, and that is still with out China opening yet who by themselves should provide between $120 to $130m to the total.
$2 billion is likely off the table but a very healthy $1.5b is still possible.
bagger
Footballguy
Capella
Footballguy
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Last-minute change to latest screenings of Star Wars:
Baron Davis stays behind with Holdo. They bone on the console as they crash into the bad guy ship
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Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
"Baron Davis as himself."
Billy Bats
Footballguy
I won’t say I hate it, but I wasn’t thrilled. Seen a 2nd showing today. I’m convinced the first ten minutes set a bad tone for me. First with Poe’s crank yankers bit. And then it was cemented by Luke tossing the saber. Johnson shows an incredible overhead of the island, with building dramatic music, Rey climbing the hill to meet Luke; it called for something so powerful with the first words Luke had spoken in 40 years. And I get another ####### joke.
That was just a bad mood to be set into, imo. I feel like I never recovered from those two scenes. 
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Quite a world we live in when you can be called a dork loser for NOT liking a Star Wars movie.
Softballguy
Footballguy
This is exactly what happened to me. The first time seeing it I was put off right from the start.I won’t say I hate it, but I wasn’t thrilled. Seen a 2nd showing today. I’m convinced the first ten minutes set a bad tone for me. First with Poe’s crank yankers bit. And then it was cemented by Luke tossing the saber. Johnson shows an incredible overhead of the island, with building dramatic music, Rey climbing the hill to meet Luke; it called for something so powerful with the first words Luke had spoken in 40 years. And I get another ####### joke.
Saw it again yesterday and liked it much more. Still lots of pretty major problems, but it's a fun movie with lots to enjoy. I gave it a 3 or 4 out of 10 after the first viewing. I'd give it a 6 or 7 now and put it above the prequels and probably TFA, still behind R1 and the original trilogy.
bagger
Footballguy
I actually thought the scene with Luke was great for that very reason. Here is all of this anticipation, not just for us but for Rey as well to learn from this powerful Jedi. She gets to luke and he is like yeah f this.I won’t say I hate it, but I wasn’t thrilled. Seen a 2nd showing today. I’m convinced the first ten minutes set a bad tone for me. First with Poe’s crank yankers bit. And then it was cemented by Luke tossing the saber. Johnson shows an incredible overhead of the island, with building dramatic music, Rey climbing the hill to meet Luke; it called for something so powerful with the first words Luke had spoken in 40 years. And I get another ####### joke.
I thought it was similar in many respects to Luke’s own journey looking to find the great yoda and finding some deranged Kermit the frog / missy piggy love child living in a swamp.
Dedfin
Footballguy
I hope you will be okay gbBilly Bats said:I won’t say I hate it, but I wasn’t thrilled. Seen a 2nd showing today. I’m convinced the first ten minutes set a bad tone for me. First with Poe’s crank yankers bit. And then it was cemented by Luke tossing the saber. Johnson shows an incredible overhead of the island, with building dramatic music, Rey climbing the hill to meet Luke; it called for something so powerful with the first words Luke had spoken in 40 years. And I get another ####### joke.
Billy Bats
Footballguy
Appreciate that POV, just didn’t work for me. Like I said, especially after Poe’s act it just bothered me overall. I would’ve even appreciated Poe’s joke had he not come right back and ruin Luke’s introduction back to the story with another joke.bagger said:
And he did what he could to separate his SW movie from what we know, yet in this instance we’re supposed to appreciate the similarity with ESB? I thought we killed the past.
The Future Champs
Footballguy
Are you kidding me? They’re going to milk that for everything it’s worth. Just like the whole franchise has been ridiculously over done. I can’t believe I paid good $ to see another episode of this crap.
The Future Champs
Footballguy
Poe leads a mutiny, fails miserably, the captain’s reaction is that he’s an adorable flyboy? Bombers in space? That whole plot line about getting the hacker on the casino planet and sneaking aboard the enemy ship was a waste of time. Poor Snoke, we barely knew him. That fight against the red suited bad guys was horribly choreographed; it should have had a soundtrack of Danananananana BATMAN KERPOW! BAM! Benicio Del Toro didn’t need to be in the film for any reason. That dark hole on the island was a great big waste of time, after a kinda cool lead in. Who gives a #### who Rey’s parents were? And the reveal on that uninteresting question was pathetic. At least she’s not part of the increasingly dysfunctional Skywalker family,
The Future Champs
Footballguy
I did like the shot of Luke facing down the Empire, while one of the AT-ATs dipped its head like an impatient and somewhat angry animal.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Lotta "childhoods" need to be pieced back together in here.
I’m not kidding you but I don’t know what they have planned. I’m not scouring the net for leaked scripts.
In all seriousness all of this stuck out to me as well. The biggest problem now is it’s not being helmed by Lucas. Yeah he’s technically a lousy director in most regards but he weaves a great multi film space opera arc. The new incarnation of the series just doesn’t have the same feeling. One you can’t quite put your finger on but you can tell it’s missing.
People have been talking a lot of crap for a long time about the prequels but I always found them entertaining. Yes the acting and dialogue is often ridiculous but it’s not what SW is about. It’s just supposed to be fun.
This current trilogy tarted our taking itself too seriously and haphazardly injecting the amusing and campy bits. It’s supposed to be the other way around. SW is pure camp with just enough serious tone to keep us emotionally involved.
Despite all the faults you pointed out there is overall one big thing that stood out to me.
That the Yoda puppet in this movie looked so much worse than the original from 40 years ago. That’s innescusable.
But I’m drunk so what do I know.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
I too was turned off by the sitcom humor. Felt a little spaceballs-ish.
Ill live though.
Ill live though.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Agreed.
After guardians it seems directors realized they could inject comedy into space operas. Then went overboard.
