Red Mosquito

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The heroes seem to be gaining the upper hand until Darth Juul manages to flip the switch on the car wash control panel from 'REGULAR' to 'PREMIUM.'

dimejinky99 wrote:Don’t try tell me those aren’t two second accounts

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the kiss was dumb and not needed

This totally shit on the Last Jedi

@SkitchP wrote:

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the kiss was dumb and not needed

This totally shit on the Last Jedi

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1) This movie is trash.
2) They overreacted to the Last Jedi reaction and took a cowardly approach to the story by shitting all over Rian Johnson’s choices.
3) Rian Johnson shouldn’t have been allowed to make the movie he did. They had to force two movies worth of plot into Rise.
4) I love Last Jedi and it will be the lasting positive memory I have of this franchise. Along with Rogue One and Solo, I really thought we were in store for a truly great series of films for the next decade. Throw that out the window.
5) Kylo is responsible for millions of deaths, killed his father, and tried to kill his mom. Hey, let’s make out.
6) I reserve the right to change my mind on all of this after I see Rise a second time tomorrow night.

@SkitchP wrote:I may bother with more thoughts tomorrow, but the beginning was a jumbled mess. And perhaps because of lowered expectations, overall I thought it recovered to being mostly solid.


The Last Jedi and Rogue One are both leaps and bounds better

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Why is there a chimpanzee in the Knights of Ren?

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My favorite part of the movie was seeing Wicket.

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Why are we still using spoiler tags?

tree_ wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tree_ wrote:It's cool to not like SW now and for good reasons. Disney usurped a beloved property, thinking they could purchase nostalgia and spoon feed it to the masses. Well, "can't buy me love". There's no good or original idea in these films. Just recycled shit.

This isn't true.

Can you name any?

dimejinky99 wrote:Second viewing. Even better. We’re gonna have so much to Go ploughing through and dissect.

Fuck anyone saying this throws Rian or last Jedi under a bus.

It totally honours that film and is born of it. Completely. In the best way possible.

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And don’t get me started on Rey’s golden “Let’s Make A Design Decision Solely To Sell More Toys” lightsaber. (Though I recognize this whole franchise was basically created to sell toys, many of which are currently filling all manner of shelves, bins and floor space in my house.)

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dimejinky99 wrote:Second viewing. Even better. We’re gonna have so much to Go ploughing through and dissect.

Fuck anyone saying this throws Rian or last Jedi under a bus.

It totally honours that film and is born of it. Completely. In the best way possible.

Please expand on this because I would love to share your opinion (I currently don’t).

But having the people in charge of Star Wars’ legacy acknowledging their own inability to move forward is a sad way for the story to end. Even as The Rise of Skywalker’s characters claim their ultimate triumph, the film feels clumsy, hurried, and above all, like an admission of creative defeat.