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My initial experience was I hated the Leia scene, the Finn Rose stuff, the casino, and pretty much every scene focused on the resistance. I’m really not sure any of that is changing. I was fine with the rest of it for the most part. It looked incredible and there were some fun moments, but the bad was really bad. My wife has seen it a 2nd time now and enjoyed it a lot more. I listened to a few podcasts this week with some people I respect and they had a completely different take than I did. Some people consider it a fresh take and a way to push it forward. I don’t think my issues were with them changing or “killing the past” My issue was there was a whole storyline that wasn’t good or needed. I am excited to see it again though, and sincerely hope I like it better. I’m not one saying the franchise has been ruined or anything like that. I just didn’t like a big part of it the first time around. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Predictable? Really? Almost every hater review I've read, including yours, hates the movie because it didn't play out the way they/you wanted or thought it would. You predicted snoke dying? You predicted reys parents reveal? You predicted leia's salvation?
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#2541 |
Bring it on Ahab!
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#2542 |
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Finally got around to watching this. I didn't think it was horrible, I didn't think it was great. It does have a Star Wars feel to it with recurring characters, settings, and situations that call back to previous situations. Combining the two movies released in the new trilogy now I feel like they are dragging out an origin story for the new characters that fits in such a way as to allow the old characters to step out of the limelight. I'm not saying that this is good or bad in and of itself - it does seem do be necessary to push the franchise forward. But now we have the death of Han Solo as a plot device, the death (?) of Luke as a plot device, and the death of Carrie Fisher as a hurdle to overcome if the franchise continues along that road.
I will nitpick one point: I think Luke should have actually showed up to do battle with Kylo in the way that Obi Wan did against Vader. A long drawn out battle filled with one liners that both showed the conflict between them and showed a possible resolution to that conflict. But then Kylo refuses and Luke decides to allow the death stroke turning himself into a force ghost. Followed by the same scene of him sitting on those rocks in force ghost mode as he slowly disincorporates. If the anthology films can keep up the quality of Rogue One then I'll be fine with those better movies doing the hard work of supporting the franchise while these fluffier movies carry on. |
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#2543 |
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What's up with Snoke? He looks like a "TRUTH" commercial about tobacco use and he had dip in his left cheek for centuries.
I don't buy into the Snoke character I mean I think he was stupid and Darth Vader killed the Emperor in the Return of the Jedi so I don't get where this guy came in the story.
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#2544 |
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I went "dark" on TLJ several months ago, meaning, I read no articles, and watched no trailers since the original trailer.
I wanted to go into it with zero expectations. During the film, i caught myself grinning like a 10 year old a few times, and overall, enjoyed the film. The only bones to pick.....if I'm going to nitpick: Snoke seemed a pointless plotline (but I'm not convinced that is truly over) I thought the casino scene had a lot more potential, and after the phantom-debacle, it brought memories of it with tad bit more CGI than I would have preferred. Luke......I would have liked to have seen a bad-ass Luke...but they didnt make MY movie (and I'm ok with that). But much like Snoke.....I'm not convinced we've seen the end of Luke....and I think Hamil is playing up this riff with the director a little more than he should (so maybe he's trolling us a bit??) either way - a fun experience. Rogue one and empire remain my two favorites.
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#2545 |
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Do it to give yourself time to get over the preconceived notions of what you think a Star Wars movie "should" be. That's how I felt about seeing it again after the second viewing.
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a movie called Wolf Warrior 2 had made $800 million this year. D
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poor Hamill . Pretty much disowned this shit fest . Calls it an "alternative " universe lol. Good way to save face Mark. God this film sucked so much haha
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Firstly, it suffers from franchisitis, where it spends as much time setting up future tropes rather than building characters and story and ends up bloated. There was a LOT of scenes and even some story threads that were ultimately filler and had no real important consequence to the plot, bloating the run time while not making it more epic at all. Luke's character was retconned into a coward, which is bullshit. He's a whiny baby, but not a coward. Tops it off with a rather unimpressive death, and I haven't seen a beloved character shit on that bad since Marvel made Captain America a Nazi. I won't criticize Rey too much, as she's your basic generic 'chosen one' access point character. She's this movie's Keanu Reeves. Uninspiring, but typical. Snoak was WORTHLESS. I like Boyega as Finn, but they continue to write the character a buffoonish idiot. Ren is the wrong kind of hateable. I don't love to hate him. I think he's rather pathetic. Most annoying is that the first half of the film is a disjointed snore. I don't hate the premise of this movie. I disliked the execution of it. I'm not sure any of these things will be less true if I watch it again. It was a bloated movie with a handful of good scenes, precious few interesting characters, and a lot of fan service. I'm glad people enjoy it. It's just a movie. I"m not trying to convince anyone, but I don't think a 2nd viewing is going to drastically alter my view of it. Last edited by WhiteWhale; 12-23-2017 at 10:52 AM.. |
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