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The red salt on Crait and how it created almost a visceral reaction. The throne room scene had some spectacular visuals. And I guess you can't really call the kamikazee charge 'cinematography' (I don't know, can you?) but I think that was arguably the most striking visual/audio moment of the entire Star Wars history. The silence before the explosion and the breakup was awesome. The shots on/around/over Ahch-To wasn't quite Peter Jackson or anything but it was pretty damn impressive in a lot of ways. I mean, it's hard to say where CGI starts and where cinematography begins so there are some tough lines to draw, but one thing I'll give him credit for is that Johnson made a visually beautiful movie. Didn't care for the storytelling but I guess I'm not sure what you wanted if you didn't find a fair number of creative camera/lighting tricks. Did you need more JJ Abrams lens flairs to be satisfied?
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While the throne room was a lovely red with red people and red-robed shit head the moment never felt as intense as all that red was wanting me to feel. Maybe it is because I felt no connection to the characters at all or because it was a fairly anticlimactic fight sequence. The most powerful person in the room (arguably) was killed first... so clearly, the underlings with no faces are going to topple easily and we will get our "will she moment" that we all knew the answer to before he asked. The entire casino side story was a visual cluster****, and not in a cool way like Fifth Element. When this comes to Disney streaming I will watch it again. I will admit that my disappointment in the plot(s) possibly has warped all memory of the film now.
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And wasn't it too damn long to begin with? So why not take a lot of that information; genuinely interesting stuff that could've made for a far better story, and put it in this move. And then make the latter half plus a little more to finish up the 3rd movie? Johnson knew he didn't have the helm for the 3rd movie so he told a half-story in this one so he could get as much in as possible. In so doing, he took what could've been a genuinely interesting story if told over two parts, gutted it and made it a pretty shallow shell.
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But as the 'bombers' started and other inexplicable events took place, I got that creeping "oh no...this move might actually not be very good" feeling. It didn't keep me from being impressed by the visuals, though. Ultimately I think you were probably just pissed off enough at the story to blow past some of the scenery. Or maybe I just liked the IMAX more and would've been disappointed on a regular screen. Who knows?
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Already at 1.1.
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Kathleen Kennedy shit all over the beloved characters of Han, Luke & Leia. They've been reduced to losers and fodder for a "new generation", which consists of uninteresting characters, retreads and a Mary Sue. |
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They had 30 years of peace post Jedi.
Han was brilliant in TFA, setting Rey off on her quest, Leia's leadership resulted in the destruction of Starkiller base and the saving of the Resistance, and Luke saved eveyone's ass at the end of the film. They don't feel like losers to me. They'd be losers if The First Order ruled the galaxy, but that hasn't happened yet. The galaxy got complacent, a few planets got blown up and a new menace is threatening freedom, but it appears our classic heroes have set the new ones up to combat it in IX. They're still heroes. Flawed, but heroes. There'd be zero ****ing drama if they were perfect.
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The Battle of Jakku was a few years after Endor. The First Order and Snoke had his hands on Kylo Ren as a teenager. You're not providing any facts. Quote:
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There's no Han Solo in this bunch. There's no Luke Skywalker in this bunch. Darth Vader and The Emperor were a million times more charismatic and cool than Snoke and emo Kylo Ren. There isn't anyone even the equivalent of a Boba Fett in this trilogy, let alone, someone as cool as Lando Calrissian. It's a complete and utter Epic Fail. |
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