If Rian Johnson says the sky is blue, the correct answer is fuck you Rian Johnson.

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1043281I remember seeing a lot of racist stuff on the internet about Boyega when TFA came out. Dunno if it was directed at him via social media.

True. People were shitty about Boyega before TFA, when they should have been shitty after they saw his lame performance.

I has assumed Anakin and Padme were cast badly to make the cheese whiny ham duo of Hammil and Fisher look good by comparison, but after Boyega and Ridley, its an overkill of bad acting that apparently defines Star Wars. It's not like there aren't talented young actors available.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1045838I has assumed Anakin and Padme were cast badly to make the cheese whiny ham duo of Hammil and Fisher look good by comparison, but after Boyega and Ridley, its an overkill of bad acting that apparently defines Star Wars. It's not like there aren't talented young actors available.

There's a certain amount of ham and cheese that goes along with epic space opera. The OT at least wasn't as stilted as the prequels. The dialoge and acting are really the worst out of the whole series.
But, as the previous article points out, and I agree with, on the sequels-

QuoteThe drama is forced, but worse, it's completely unearned.

I blame Orci and Kurtzman, the writing geniuses who gave us Transformers, Star Trek, and then Force Awakens.

I finally "saw" The Last Jedi on Netflix last night. "Saw" because I tuned out halfway through. Lame jokes from the start: Hello? Can you hear me now?" Really?  The slapstick humor with Finn. "Wipe that worried face away" to 3po. Dunno, seems too self conscious.

And holdo with the dyed purple hair...maybe im reading  too much into that.

Im going to give it another watch, but those things alone sort of predisposed  me not to like it. Nevermind what they did to Luke, which is so out of character.

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;1046606I finally "saw" The Last Jedi on Netflix last night. "Saw" because I tuned out halfway through. Lame jokes from the start: Hello? Can you hear me now?" Really?  The slapstick humor with Finn. "Wipe that worried face away" to 3po. Dunno, seems too self conscious.

And holdo with the dyed purple hair...maybe im reading  too much into that.

Im going to give it another watch, but those things alone sort of predisposed  me not to like it. Nevermind what they did to Luke, which is so out of character.

Holdo is, and I shit you not, a purple haired lesbian socialist who is Force Sensitive. Confirmed by both Laura Dern and Rian Johnson.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1046641Holdo is, and I shit you not, a purple haired lesbian socialist who is Force Sensitive. Confirmed by both Laura Dern and Rian Johnson.

Of all the fucked up things to put into Star Wars....


OK, its official. I want them to stop continuing the trilogies and just concentrate on the side stories set in the Star Wars universe.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1046641Holdo is, and I shit you not, a purple haired lesbian socialist who is Force Sensitive. Confirmed by both Laura Dern and Rian Johnson.

she gay pls clap

I noticed this on Netflix the other day. I'm considering watching it since it won't cost me any additional money I haven't already spent on my account, but I'm worried the cost might still be too high...

Quote from: HappyDaze;1046684I noticed this on Netflix the other day. I'm considering watching it since it won't cost me any additional money I haven't already spent on my account, but I'm worried the cost might still be too high...

You have better things to do with two hours. Like organizing your socks by type, wear and color.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1046709You have better things to do with two hours. Like organizing your socks by type, wear and color.

I should have listened. I watched TLJ and I didn't like it. There really was too much bad humor (badly timed, badly delivered, badly conceived), and the action scenes were even rather dull to me--Snoke's red-suited protectors sure didn't seem like they knew how to fight together at all. Even the characters that I found somewhat likable during E7 (mainly Fin) didn't live up to the meager hopes I held out for them. 2.5 hours and I got nothing from it.

I saw  it again last night and did not dislike it as much. I still hate the humor the most, and I hated how they turned the canto bight mission into a waste  of  time   (and Luke). Like a video  i saw,  all the "gotchas" as a group feel so forced. Holdo having pink hair is still way too stupid given how she interacts with Poe and then that weak ass "I like him" which did not feel genuine at all.

I still think its better than the prequels, particularly when it comes to the acting, though the fights are super lame  in comparison.

If there are more movies after this trilogy, Disney should set them far from the OT. Just stop messing  with that storyline .

I am seriously considering reposting my review at this point.

Just saw Last Jedi on Netflix.

Bleh. I would sum it up with Tone Deaf.

The space battle at the beginning, I was still wondering who these people were (The Resistance, the Last Order) and why they were fighting. I'm sure the EU stuff goes into it, but I'm not a fan of EU, and the movies should stand on their own, especially an important point like the stakes of the whole damn thing.

The drama was so overblown. For example, I laughed out loud when Rey and Kylo were playing force-tug-of-war over the lightsaber. Like, the scene felt done, but they had to add in some extra glitzy special effects scene that I found totally unnecessary.
The Casino planet was fine, except they interrupted a chase to go there. Either resolve the chase, or do a different setup. (like hiding from the FO fleet) Interrupting the chase deflated the sense of urgency.
The most dissapointing thing is the movie doesn't take it's own advice. Like I said earlier, it would have been great if Kylo and Rey had left both the FO and the Resistance. Really and truly left it all behind and started anew. But they didn't have the balls to try something like that, and fell right back into copying the original trilogy. Now they're the Rebellion... again...

The sequels remain my least favorite of the series at this point, and TLJ didn't change my opinion.

Just went through my second Netflix showing too...or at least tried. There was just too much stupid, too much lousy storytelling. I too don't understand what beef the Resistance has with the Order. They seem to be dicks, and that's about it.

And seriously, wtfbbq was up with those "space bombers"? That's just the stupidest thing ever...god forbid the target ship like, move out of the way even if "dropping bombs in space" made any sort of sense, the thing does have engines for some damn reason.

Then we go back to the Mary Poppins thing...not just stupid, but lousy story telling. I mean, if Jedi had some sort of rep for flying through space, maybe?

But, yeah, all the idiocy might, maybe, be worth overlooking if Kylo and Mary Sue had decided to join forces...but apparently being in the Resistance means being a dick all the way.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1046641Holdo is, and I shit you not, a purple haired lesbian socialist who is Force Sensitive. Confirmed by both Laura Dern and Rian Johnson.

Dumbledored!

Just wait for the reveal that Poe "always was gay" in Ep. 9.

Found these videos today and found them interesting.


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