Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, December 15, 2017) Movie • Page 169

I loved Hux.

 

Me too, obviously. Why would people want it to go exactly the way they thought it would? Is being right on the internet, being able to say "ha ha I told you so!," really worth foregoing a satisfying and surprising experience? Really?

 

I dont doubt this. Conversely, I have to wonder why it didnt happen to TFA also though.

 

Rey
Kylo
Finn
Poe
Leia
Luke
Rose
Snoke
Holdo
Phasma
Hux
DJ
Chewy
BB8
R2
3P0

Look I agree that Holdo, Phasma and DJ were dissapointing but Id love to see somebody make a movie where this many characters in one movie gets enough screen time to please everybody equally. The reason they got those great actors is because they want great actors bring something special to a small role, not to take the spotlight form the main cahracters. Not saying this movie was executed perfectly but Rian had to juggle so many spinning plates and he hit what mattered.

 

This movie really did not feel like 2 and a half hours. In a good way.

 

Just a quick thought: the enormity of Snoke's destroyer was really awesome in the same way that the downed destroyer on Jakku was cool. Speaking of Jakku:
"everyone's from somewhere."
"I'm from Jakku."
"okay yeah, that's nowhere."

 

Because when little boys take out their anger online this is what happens ...

 

Her parents don’t matter. It would be a disservice to Rey at this point to make them a focus of the next movie.

Rey has been without them for roughly 15(?) years. She has survived and out grown needing them. Emotionally, she hadn’t let go yet, which makes total sense. I think she grieved that truth here and will not look for them or try to find out their names or anything. I’m open to them not following that, but based on the movie, they are dead and buried in Jakku somewhere and that is that.

Let the past die.

 

It seemed apparent that Luke wasn't really on Crait when he showed up with his old hair/beard and left no footprints but I liked that the only thing he really touched was Leia in the whole sequence. Showing their bond as twins through the Force :)

 

Tickets sold at my theatre for non Last Jedi Movies: 95

Tickets sold for Last Jedi: 1825

 

Ill admit my disappointment with the character was from my expectation and reading her character in the book Leia:POA. I was really excited for her quirkiness and she was kind of bland to me by contrast. Did love the sacrifice and her moment with Leia, which her line about Leia "teaching her" was a nod to the book as well.

 

Who were the dumb 95?

 

I, for one, am very worried about Rian Johnson's career now.

 

It's okay to have differing opinions.

 

I haven't read that one yet, but plan to.

 

There's obvious reason why we shouldn't care toooooo much about Holdo and Phasma, but I think this movie sets up a very interesting arc in ep XI for a power struggle between Kylo Ren and Hux. Also, I thought Gleeson was a riot.

 

I was a bit worried about his career, because I want him to go back and make some more smaller original films like Looper instead of getting caught in the blockbuster machine forever. But he's only directing the first of his trilogy, so hopefully after that he goes and makes something original again.

 

It was how I felt about Blade Runner 2049 too

 

95 people probably went to see Fernando obviously

 

I am saving this post for the next film. You may well be right, but that scene seemed way too stunted to be entirely taken at face value. Still something there I think. We'll see

 

It is. And it's also ok for me to laugh at ones I think are ridiculous. "Time to get new writers" is one of the funniest "opinions" about a movie that we already know isn't writing the third. "Time to get new writers" is just so ridiculously over the top.

I mean, come on that nuclear take is just hilarious.

 

Briefly off-topic but hey, I just realized: now that the Star Wars hype is dying down, we can all collectively turn our focus toward getting ready for Black Panther.

ONLY TWO MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!

 

I went with 10 other people and not one of them could even tell me the name of Laura Dern's character and all of us agreed we didn't understand her motivations or care about her character.


I love Laura Dern and she's incredible and needs to be in everything but I didn't like her character at all

 

But it wasn’t only that scene. Remember what she learned in the cave. Look at the bigger picture...


and let the past die

 

(I am very glad Colin Trevorrow isn't doing the third now, and I was already really glad.)