Red Mosquito

stip wrote:

Let's all laugh at Rangers wrote:Yeah I meant the kid at the end, I think it's young Rey?

On the couple of pages since:

In TESB, Yoda tells Luke about how the force is in everyone, this is nothing new.

In one segment of the film, where wealth comes from and the arms trade is mentioned in about 30 seconds each, making it a combined minute give or take. It makes a good point without dominating the film with it.

That's definitely not young Rey. It's the kid we meet in the Canto Bight sequence. They're also telling the story of Luke facing down The First Order (the makeshift toys are arrayed like the Walkers that were shooting at him) so it is happening chronologically after the primary events of TLJ

Anders wrote:

stip wrote:

Anders wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Really enjoyed this read. Stip I think you will too

https://filmcrithulk.blog/2017/12/15/th ... star-wars/

Funny. I disagree with every conclusion in that article, apart from what it said about JJ.

where do you disagree?

Everything apart from the JJ bit. The list in short words:
1. The writer knows the Johnson's so is biased. Wouldn't say anything if she/he didn't love it. Now can't stop talking about how much she/he loves it.
2. The writer thought TFA was hollow and didn't like it very much. Goes on to explain how JJ works, and shares some interesting insight into his process, that makes a lot of sense. Then the writer says that TLJ throws all the questions from TFA off a cliff, and in a way that's really funny and really important, and just great.
3. Talks about filmmaking in general, says that TLJ has great build up and great payoff. Points to the Poe vs Laura Dern arc. Seems to love the silent cut. Says Luke and Mark Hamill are perfect in the movie. Says this arc is the most important in the movie, because it shows the acceptance of and learning from failure.
4. Goes to the Skywalker-issue, and how Disney is turning it into the whole everyone can be a Jedi thinking. She/he thinks the Rey reveal is perfect with no parents. There's basically nothing special about being a Skywalker.
5. Monte Carlo planet: is the most thematically important because it’s where the entire Skywalker point made above comes into focus. No, not just in the clear criticism of high society and war profiteering, but deeper within the sights of nameless young children who are put under the thumb of the world. And who, within them so innately carry the understanding of the horrors of that world, and thus so tangibly know the simple, inescapable ways for it to be better. And so, within that simple, final speech about what really matters in this big old universe that we share, it’s not about Skywalkers or whose bloodline is most powerful or whose dad can beat up your dad… it’s about that equally simple, final image. The force belongs to everyone.

Anders wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:I’d like me you like the music, here’s some educated high minded shit to wrap your head around and break out the dictionary for

Williams is fantastic. He does a really great job in this film as always.

durdencommatyler wrote:I'm a fan of midichlorians. I like the idea that some hippy, new age, Jedi, trying to make a name for himself, was out there trying to use pseudo-science to help explain or quantify the fantastic. He was kinda wrong and a big misguided. But he was really just the Star Wars universe's Egon Spengler.

Strat wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I'm a fan of midichlorians. I like the idea that some hippy, new age, Jedi, trying to make a name for himself, was out there trying to use pseudo-science to help explain or quantify the fantastic. He was kinda wrong and a big misguided. But he was really just the Star Wars universe's Egon Spengler.

DO, RAY REY, EGON!

LetMeSleep wrote:

Strat wrote:IM not so confused about the force and im not sure why people are confused/up in arms about the presentation of the force over the course of all the films.

Its a life force, it binds the universe together, we are all a part of it. Its like real life. Its a common story.

Some people are more tuned into it than others but its still there. Whether you believe in God, Buddha, science, or whatever....we are all connected by a a strange force and system that people are unable to actually comprehend.

The Skywalkers were the focus of the films. There have been powerful jedi that have not been part of the skywalker clan. Even if you aren't a jedi, the force is still there, maybe you haven't tapped into it, maybe you have a little and all that has brought you was closer to a loved one instead of being able to float through space.

Maybe one has just become concious of their thoughts, maybe you have become spiritually enlightened.

A life force. Binds us. Flows through all of us.

Its God, really. Fuck midicholrians.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Strat wrote:IM not so confused about the force and im not sure why people are confused/up in arms about the presentation of the force over the course of all the films.

Its a life force, it binds the universe together, we are all a part of it. Its like real life. Its a common story.

Some people are more tuned into it than others but its still there. Whether you believe in God, Buddha, science, or whatever....we are all connected by a a strange force and system that people are unable to actually comprehend.

The Skywalkers were the focus of the films. There have been powerful jedi that have not been part of the skywalker clan. Even if you aren't a jedi, the force is still there, maybe you haven't tapped into it, maybe you have a little and all that has brought you was closer to a loved one instead of being able to float through space.

Maybe one has just become concious of their thoughts, maybe you have become spiritually enlightened.

A life force. Binds us. Flows through all of us.

Its God, really. Fuck midicholrians.

Good post. I agree with you. Are some people just not looking pay the Skywalker thing on this? Because if you watched the prequels you should easily remember that there were a shit load of Jedi not named Skywalker before Order 66 was executed.