Star Wars Episode VIII SPOILERS thread

[DaneMcCloud]

For all things Episode VIII related info including spoilers.

The release date is now December 15, 2017.

The Official Synopsis from Star Wars.com

“In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in U.S. theaters on December 15, 2017.”









New footage in Japanese Trailer

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by Superturtle

Holy shit. There's a solid 50 post stretch of nothing but bitching. Was it really that bad?

I enjoyed it but I can see how there are items in the story that; A) made no sense other than to create a plot line, and / or B) were either ballsy or a cheap cop out depending on your point of view, both of which would be correct.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Yep, same here. Packed room at Arclight Hollywood, people dressed up, hooping and hollerin' when the Lucasfilm logo splashed the screen.

Little to no reaction during the film and at the end?

Silence.

About 20% of the adults in the audience was in costume. There was some group/club there giving out light-sabers to its members. Lucasfilm comes on loud roar. They cheered and clapped loudly when Snoke was killed. I didn't. My wife slapped me with a whats up, I told her he's not turned to the good side, just watch.

There was just polite applause at the end. The club members were hanging out in the lobby after the movie and they were not happy.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

They already have him as director for the finale of the trilogy?

Abrams is directing IX and he’s writing it with Chris Terrio (who wrote “Argo”).

I don’t even understand why there even needs to be an Episode IX. This film wrapped everything up, well, if you wanted to see the heroes of the original trilogy

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unhappy and dead

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The Rebellion and Resistance is gone. 20 people, minus Princess Leia can’t destroy the First Order. Even their allies in the Outer Rim abandoned them.

What’s the point?

Rian Johnson is writing and directing a new trilogy, set in a different part of the galaxy, with all new characters.

That ought to turn out well.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

I enjoyed it but I can see how there are items in the story that; A) made no sense other than to create a plot line, and / or B) were either ballsy or a cheap cop out depending on your point of view, both of which would be correct.

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How answer why does Yoda appear to be in the flesh, then use
Force powers to destroy the tree and the Journal of the Whills, then I guess, disappear into the Force again?

Out of all the dumb sequences, that might have been the worst

[InChiefsHeaven]

I thought it was long and there was some kinda weird stuff in it, and some lazy stuff. But on the whole, I enjoyed the hell out of it. I like the de-Luke-ification of it, and the fact that we are going to move forward with Rey and Kylo.

I know people hate me for this, but Rouge One, while awesome to look at and enjoyable to me was largely fan service and was a story that didn't need to be told. This film at least is breaking away from the "look at all the Star Wars stuff you know and love" of the last...well, all of them. I found myself smiling a lot in this, and I really like the momentary team up of Kylo and Rey, but I knew that wasn't going to last and it will lead us into the next movie quite nicely.

Flame away, but I thought this was the best of the "modern iterations" of Star Wars. I'm actually looking forward to the next installment.

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

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How answer why does Yoda appear to be in the flesh, then use
Force powers to destroy the tree and the Journal of the Whills, then I guess, disappear into the Force again?

Out of all the dumb sequences, that might have been the worst

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Laura Dern's character (I forget her name) could said to Poe; "Look we're heading to an old Rebel base. We want to get close enough so we can cloak the transport ships. Just stay cool and we'll get through this.". But no, she went all cryptic and quiet about the plan.

And Rey's parents being nobodies?!?! That's either lazy writing or ballsy as all crap. And both sides of that argument are right.

Yoda's force ghost, nice fan treatment but is there some sort of rules for force ghosts? Can they appear at will or only when the plot demands exposition?

[fairladyZ]

As hyped as I was about this movie. After sleeping on it and reading your guys points as well....... I don't like it.

It was an OK movie. And I'm sure giving Rian his own trilogy where he can do what he wants I'm sure will work. But he ****ed up this story. Point blank. If he wanted to add all these different force powers and other shit he should have saved it for his trilogy. The story was slow and clunky, people appear and disappear with no explanation. Just hey throw this here and do that there then leave.

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I did not like Yoda appearing. I felt his humor was forced and he was cryptic and no explanation. The benicio del torro charcater just was outta there after he made his deal. Absolutely pointless other than to get them on the ship to fail. I don't like the ark of kylo. I ultimately like where they got him to but not how they got him there. I feel they are setting him up to be more Vader. With his list for power and ruling. I feel that was the ultimate goal of this film was to make kylo more Vader but don't like how they did it. Killing snoke was pointless. I dunno just bad overall in my eyes

[InChiefsHeaven]

Originally Posted by fairladyZ

As hyped as I was about this movie. After sleeping on it and reading your guys points as well....... I don't like it.

It was an OK movie. And I'm sure giving Rian his own trilogy where he can do what he wants I'm sure will work. But he ****ed up this story. Point blank. If he wanted to add all these different force powers and other shit he should have saved it for his trilogy. The story was slow and clunky, people appear and disappear with no explanation. Just hey throw this here and do that there then leave.

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I agree that there seemed to be too much going on and all the jumping around got tiresome, and as I said before, made for a long movie...maybe too long.

But I did like it enough to feel positive about it being more original than TFA and way better than the prequels, which are largely ignored and forgotten...that's a good thing by the way.

I'll have to see it again of course, but I think largely this one gets a thumbs up from me.

[Tribal Warfare]

Now I've had time to process this

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With Fishers death they should've killed her off when the control room was destroyed instead of surviving 0 Kelvin in space.

The Ben and Rey's Force connection wasn't ever explained.

Of course Rey went Super Sayian meaning out she mastered the force out of nowhere.

Lastly, Johnson made Luke a weak minded bitch and not showing his full mastery of the Force outside of one scene

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

Now I've had time to process this

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The Ben and Rey's Force connection wasn't ever explained

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Snoke said that he connected them through The Force.

And if he was so powerful, why didn't he sense that Kylo was going to kill him?

I swear, these Star Wars villains get dumber with each outing.

[KC_Lee]

Regarding Capt. Phasma...

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Good to see that her character development begins and ends with "That tall badass chick from Game of Thrones in a shiny storm trooper suit" and nothing else.

[Jerm]

After sleeping on it I’m still completely torn on it and how I feel....there are things I really liked but A LOT of moments/decisions that I absolutely LOATHE.

Def. need to see it again....

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

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Snoke said that he connected them through The Force.

And if he was so powerful, why didn't he sense that Kylo was going to kill him?

I swear, these Star Wars villains get dumber with each outing.

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Snoke unable to foresee Ben's true intentions and being unable to stop the force push of the lightsaber was bullshit. I truly thought Snoke was going to regenerate his lower half of his body , and pummel Ben and Rey and carbonite their asses.

[RINGLEADER]

Well

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the opening dialogue between Poe and Hux

set the tone for the film - WTF was that anyway?

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

Well

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the opening dialogue between Poe and Hux

set the tone for the film - WTF was that anyway?

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It seemed like a callback to the Han Solo riff in ROTJ,when he was flying the stolen Imperial shuttle, in an attempt to land on Endor.

But yeah, what a silly way to open the film.