Star Wars Episode the Last
We finally got around to watching Episode Whatever Most Recent tonight, and -- this is probably the best thing about not really being associated with Star Wars-y parts of the internet anymore -- I really enjoyed it, much more than the last one and about as much as The Force Awakens. It wasn't grand cinema, but it was fun and exciting and beautiful, and emotionally satisfying.
I do have to share Orion's crack theory about the last third of the movie, namely that Kylo Ren never actually had any kind of a come-to-Jedi moment, and everything he did and said after Leia making telepathic contact with him was actually Leia force-puppeting his body.
Thanks for making it weird, dude.
I got genuinely emotional over an awful lot of things in the back half of the movie: not really Leia's weirdly anticlimactic death (at this point it feels like we already said goodbye a long time ago) so much as all the cameos from the old characters, the scene where all the reinforcements show up, Kylo Ren and Rey lightsabering up together (I guess it's okay to kill as many people as you want without going darkside as long as they're not Palpatine ...), and Rey burying the lightsabers and calling herself a Skywalker at the end. From what I'd caught of the fringes of dissatisfaction on the internet, I wasn't expecting this to feel as Star Wars-y as it did, but ... it did though; I felt like it nailed the feeling of the old movies better than almost any of the post-1980s movies have managed to do. It felt just right -- simultaneously hopeful and tragic, epic and down to earth, a little bit incoherent and bonkers. I liked the way it came full circle back to Tattooine at the end, where it all began.
I really wish we'd seen Han with Luke and Leia at the end. That's the only thing I would have wanted that I didn't get.
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I do have to share Orion's crack theory about the last third of the movie, namely that Kylo Ren never actually had any kind of a come-to-Jedi moment, and everything he did and said after Leia making telepathic contact with him was actually Leia force-puppeting his body.
Thanks for making it weird, dude.
I got genuinely emotional over an awful lot of things in the back half of the movie: not really Leia's weirdly anticlimactic death (at this point it feels like we already said goodbye a long time ago) so much as all the cameos from the old characters, the scene where all the reinforcements show up, Kylo Ren and Rey lightsabering up together (I guess it's okay to kill as many people as you want without going darkside as long as they're not Palpatine ...), and Rey burying the lightsabers and calling herself a Skywalker at the end. From what I'd caught of the fringes of dissatisfaction on the internet, I wasn't expecting this to feel as Star Wars-y as it did, but ... it did though; I felt like it nailed the feeling of the old movies better than almost any of the post-1980s movies have managed to do. It felt just right -- simultaneously hopeful and tragic, epic and down to earth, a little bit incoherent and bonkers. I liked the way it came full circle back to Tattooine at the end, where it all began.
I really wish we'd seen Han with Luke and Leia at the end. That's the only thing I would have wanted that I didn't get.
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