LoathedVermin72 wrote:This movie was a mixed bag. I liked some of the goofy stuff in the first half (Luke drinking green milk from an alien tit, sad porg face, etc.), and the Snoke death was pretty shocking, but they course-correct everything in the final act, which is a dull flurry of safe, bland choices.
Adam Driver, though. Holy shit. He is stellar. And he is endlessly compelling in this role. I could watch him all day. His physicality, his delivery - just spellbinding. And he seethed so much brooding sexuality that it made it all the more disappointing when Rey didn’t go with him in that crucial moment. What a letdown.
Also, Benicio Del Toro. Oh my god. He lights up the screen every second he’s on it. Too bad he’s paired with Boyega and that GODAWFUL Rose girl. Yikes. They are both so bad. As is Laura Dern in her curtain and horrific purple hair.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to wheel Carrie Fisher out of her nursing home and prop her up so she could wheeze her way through her lines ought to be ashamed of themself.
Isaac is kinda wasted. Most of the Luke stuff is a bore. And, again, the whole final act lands with a wet thud.
Overall: Meh. Better than TFA, but worse than any other SW movie.
Here you go, dime
Thanks. I do remember reading that now that I see it.
it was a character driven post lacking in any truly memorable cinematic sequences, and thus, ultimately forgettable.
Hes definitely lost his edge. I’m hoping for a return to his former piss and vinegar glory soon.
He's just appeasing the fans now. Cashing in on the empire he's built.
Cue lots of ‘rising from the ashes of’ and ‘return to form’ hyperbole quotes upon his return
Wow. My housemate is an editor. He just ‘fixed’ The Last Jedi. Have Finn and Rose in the prison and DJ overhearing them and saying ‘i can get you out of here’ and leaving the cell door open and then cut to the shot of the ship flying off Canto Bight. We lose all the unnecessary horse chase bit and the audience can just fill in the rest. If he can walk out of the cell so easily of course he can get them off there. Then later we see he wants payment anyways.
dimejinky99 wrote:Wow. My housemate is an editor. He just ‘fixed’ The Last Jedi. Have Finn and Rose in the prison and DJ overhearing them and saying ‘i can get you out of here’ and leaving the cell door open and then cut to the shot of the ship flying off Canto Bight. We lose all the unnecessary horse chase bit and the audience can just fill in the rest. If he can walk out of the cell so easily of course he can get them off there. Then later we see he wants payment anyways.
This is perfect I reckon.
they had to explore the grotesqueness and oppression of the rich on the poor on that planet a bit to give the scene of the broom kid at the end more weight.
dimejinky99 wrote:Wow. My housemate is an editor. He just ‘fixed’ The Last Jedi. Have Finn and Rose in the prison and DJ overhearing them and saying ‘i can get you out of here’ and leaving the cell door open and then cut to the shot of the ship flying off Canto Bight. We lose all the unnecessary horse chase bit and the audience can just fill in the rest. If he can walk out of the cell so easily of course he can get them off there. Then later we see he wants payment anyways.
This is perfect I reckon.
they had to explore the grotesqueness and oppression of the rich on the poor on that planet a bit to give the scene of the broom kid at the end more weight.
That sequence and the end scene are both unnecessary. This film should end with that shot of the falcon zooming out through hyperspace
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I really hated that end scene. Putting that into a movie funneling profits to the all-powerful Disney™ imagination-suck felt so hollow and gross.
My thing is that scene is how you end the trilogy. In pure money making terms that’s your door open to the Future. To put it in the middle act? It is the most JJ abrams shot in all film history. Along speilberg but in his own way. I have a sneaky suspicion we’ll find out he directed that and wrote that scene.
Bizarre. But a bizzare that I think will make sense in time once we have 9.
Have to go out.
Thanks for a deadly load of thoughts and ideas and revelations you all gave and sorry for being always sh!t bombing this thread. Star Wars is the world to me. Hope you all have a great night and new year. Good luck and may the force be with you.
