without a doubt. I couldn’t stop laughing about one of the weird happy little noises he makes. I probably looked a little insane
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He was alright, but man, the playing the brain death of C3PO, one of the two characters tow actually be around for most of what happened in this saga, for laughs sure said a lot about this whole thing.
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That “OH ACTUALLY I CAN THINK OF SOMETHING ELS --” joke was super fucking dark and of course no one sold it
How did that make it into a kid’s movie
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I’ll admit that someone with a grandfather and now a father suffering from what is probably Alzheimer’s (and yay, guess who is next in line there), seeing an old dude get his memory erased as a joke hit kinda hard in the “oh fuck off” zone.
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but it’s okay R2 restores his memory later haha lol
no stakes
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Infinite no stakes.
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the fun thing about no stakes ‘no one’s ever really gone’ style movies is that when someone actually, you know, is really gone, you get to either see them fade away into the force as their clothes collapse around where their bodies once were, as they turn into Naked Ghosts or see the flesh get blasted off of their face and their skeleton obliterated by the true ultimate power of Friendship
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Happy Life Day.
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palpatine is a PAWG (pale ass wizard guy)
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It’s amazing how much the movie just undercuts its own stakes all the time.
No stakes forever.
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points of view are very important in star wars, perhaps even as important as making sure you have the high ground
how do you think ben won so many of those pivotal duels
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this is my jam
The Rise of Skywalker’s greatest sin is somehow making me feel bad for C3P0.
I had assumed people saying TROS spits on The Last Jedi was hyperbole about the difference in storytelling sensibilities, but wow- intentional or not it was kind of breathtaking just how often and brazen TROS was about directly referencing core messages and themes from TLJ and saying going the opposite direction is actually a better idea.
I ended up watching The Last Jedi before going to go watch Rise of Skywalker and realized the reason TLJ is so much better is because it’s actually about Bigger Luke.
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i have decided that TROS is about coming to terms with white privilege and realizing that every advantage you have going for you is guiding you towards a path of continuing cycles of exploitation despite your own convictions that you are a good person
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Planning my next brain dump on the topic of how obi wan, han solo, and finn are the true heroes of each trilogy, as the competent self-made survivors forced to deal with the whims and impulses of a chaotically unstable dynasty
Please look forward to it
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Co-signed
But I think of all the new batch of movies Solo might actually be my favorite? I think it does the best job of feeling like part of a universe and letting some blanks exist for the viewer’s mind to fill.
Other than that, a decent enough romp I guess.
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Going to see this today with normie family, very excited to guffaw loudly in the theater and embarrass them all
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force pregnancy doesnt have a great ring to it
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I just fuckin realized kylo ren’s last piece of dialogue in the whole movie is “ow”
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