Episode IIIIIIII: The Lost Jedi

[emo_snal]

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   So I saw Star Wars Episode VIII yesterday. It's number eight right? I feel like it's becoming very confusing trying to accurately refer to the movies. In discussion after the movie with my friends we kept saying "but now the last one, well not the last one, the prequel to this, but not the prequels, just the one that comes

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[wpadmirer]

I read this mostly because I have no interest at all in the movies. I saw the first three - WAY back in the beginning. Then I saw the first prequel, and I was done with the series. No interest in going back at all.

Give me comic book movies for the mindless fun.

[emo_snal]

The three prequels were SO BAD! But once they fired George Lucas the subsequent movies have been pretty good. Well I think Episode VII they were trying to make it LIKE a comic book movie and I for one happen to loathe comic book movies -- in particular I was tihnking this is evident in how in the original series many imperial officers had lines and were not-completely-evil characters, but in VII and VIII actions on the imperial side are only done by two or three graduitously unique looking characters and everyone else just says "yes sir" or similarly robotic short lines. That might seem quibbling but it's the difference between the enemy empire feeling like a real political unit and the "bad guys" seemingly boiled down to literally a few specific bad guys a la comic book villianry

[pavel_lishin]

I think my biggest kvetch is Leia's sudden use of the Force. I expected her to just fling the locator beacon (useless in the end anyway, as I recall? or did Rey actually use it to find their Salty Hoth?) towards the bridge, not fly through space.

And I've just started to assume that there are underlying reasons, never explained but valid, for why they can't use hyperdrive offensively, or why bombing runs are even a thing. I know, I know - Lucas based the original trilogy on WWII films, and this is a big homage to them, so they have to do it, but still.

[emo_snal]

Yeah if you can hyperspace into things and destroy them a hyperspace railgun sort of thing would be more effective than any weapon we've yet seen really, which is why it must clearly be for some reason impossible!

And yeah Leia floating back to the ship was a bit of a stretch.

[pundigrion]

I really liked it! That said, it basically had no coherent plot at all, but that was the case with the originals too, ditto for the humour. (Nerfherder!)

It was super pretty and had lots of space battles and lightsabers and droids and really this is mostly all I ask for.

Now then, I too took exception with the whole floating through space bit and random calling of Grandma Goggles. I didn't like Grandma in the last one either though. But what bugged me the very most? Rose shoving Fin out of the way of SAVING THEM ALL and then declaring her love for him?! What?! You've only known him for like what, two days?