Kylo Ren faded away after this. His force ghost doesnāt appear at the end of the movie. Guess where he went.
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itās possible he just hadnāt made it through Force Ghost Intake yet
I understand the paperwork can be a nightmare
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Papers, Please, but for processing requests to become a Force Ghost.
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āThis is your third trip through here Mister Maul. Iām beginning to think you just arenāt that commited to this whole ābeing deadā business, and Iām not sure you need us to approve this application since you seem to very much have the situation in hand on your own. Next pleaseā.
āMr Skywalker we had a bit of trouble with your photo. It appears you have given us two, and one appears to be much younger than the other one. Please, choose one or the other. Iām just an officer of the afterlife, Iām not here to judgeā.
āMr Yoda lighting is extra andā¦ohā¦I see you did do all the necessary paperwork for it. Go right aheadā.
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I saw the blockbuster movie.
Nothing can be said about this that hasnāt already been said, which will always be the condition we are in now that the critical faculties of seven billion people are immediately focused on a single shallow pop-object once a month.
Taken on its own merits as an action-adventure movie it was a below average effort (it appears JJ will never match the first Star Trek reboot, his tepid personal triumph). As a capstone to a nonalogy and a successor to The Last Jedi it was an active petulant foot-stomping insult. Maybe itās artistic genius that the movie itself has the exact same attitude as first-impression Kylo Ren. But I doubt it.
Has there ever been a movie with this high a ratio of budget : fear of its own fans? I canāt think of one.
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Man, seriously. Going from āwe should value every single person and not needlessly sacrifice ourselves and each otherā to C3P0 saying he doesnāt want his mind wiped and Rey looking at him and saying āBut do we have any other wayā was incredible. Followed up by all the jokes at his expense afterward, including a sudden realization that there may have been another way but no one actually cared, and everyone verbally referring to him as an annoyance afterward.
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i so agree. the end gets a little muddy/whatever but damn, that opening. I love that flick (disclosure I am also not a huge star trek fan so didnāt really care about its fidelity to the franchise)
beyond pointing out the parts of tros that make it just, like, a bad movie, i donāt think iāve read a single take by someone who isnāt me that is even in the same orbit of my impressions of the movie, so i have to disagree with this
also, more generally, i will never run out of things to say about any star wars movie
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yeah that part of Cubesā critique is very reminiscent of one of my least favourite recurring themes on chapo, which puts way too much focus on keeping up with broad English language pop culture objects and can of course only lead to a position of total cynical exhaustion. and I can see how if youāre a media class millennial in Brooklyn youād be led to that position and have to confront it professionally, butā¦ thereās so much else that any of the rest of us could do instead
I was deeply relieved that my partner has mostly the same opinion of the movie that I do and weāve been able to yell at each other about it for the last 4 days
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this movie was so frustrating it has me wanting to play the dumb new star war game just to engage with an average-to-good star war thing. and to build a lightsaber or whateverā¦
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9 months later, a fully grown adam driver climbs out of rey
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But you will post it here, and then it will have been said, along with all the other things.
I watched the first 3 episodes of The Mandalorian after i got home from the theater and had a much better time with them
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god on the season finale of the mandalorian there is an extended bit with jason sudekis and adam pally as stormtroopers that is literally just a big budget version of the ancient internet COPS parody TROOPS
show is so fun
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Luckily we came home from Episode 9 and for whatever reason decided to watch Under the Skin and the indelible imagery of that movie has almost completely overwritten the Star War from my brain
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baby yoda is all nika has been able to talk about for the last 2 days
weird trick of my deteriorating memory
when i was a kid and the special editions came out ājedi rocksā scanned like modern rock song to me just because it was new
but it basically is just aliens doing an ike and tina turner song at a las vegas review
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