Let's just talk about Star Wars forever

[eat_it_vid_boi]

palpatine is a PAWG (pale ass wizard guy)

[boojiboy7]

It’s amazing how much the movie just undercuts its own stakes all the time.

No stakes forever.

[cylindrome]

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

[a_new_duck]

the true ultimate power of friendship

this is my jam

[Drem]

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.

[u_u]

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

[u_u]

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

[Mikey]

The new sequels are the absolute worst because:
I still have no idea who the first order really is, where they came from, what their goals are, what their relation to the empire is, how and why the resistance isn’t just called “the republic”.
Then the characters just dont make sense, dont carve out unique parts of a team, dont have a dynamic and dont stand out from the background. 8 just has sooo much nonsense. Throwing Luke away on Kylo, the man who stared down Vader and the Emperor totally on his convictions and won with the power of love and friendship alone.
I cant even tell if the main cast likes each other in 7-8.
Everything one is just RUNNING AND RUNNING AND RUNNING AND RUNNING. No one has time to just talk and form relationships. The original trilogy team formed a dynamic during down time or when they got stuck or during long space ship journeys, not while dodging lasers.
And I KNOW other media exists that “explains” some of this stuff but I just don’t care.

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.

[Father.Torque]

Going to see this today with normie family, very excited to guffaw loudly in the theater and embarrass them all

[mathcat]

[daphaknee]

force pregnancy doesnt have a great ring to it

[sleepysmiles]

I just fuckin realized kylo ren’s last piece of dialogue in the whole movie is “ow”

[Drem]

Kylo Ren faded away after this. His force ghost doesn’t appear at the end of the movie. Guess where he went.

[shrug]

it’s possible he just hadn’t made it through Force Ghost Intake yet

I understand the paperwork can be a nightmare

[boojiboy7]

Papers, Please, but for processing requests to become a Force Ghost.

[AutomaticTiger]

“This is your third trip through here Mister Maul. I’m beginning to think you just aren’t that commited to this whole ‘being dead’ business, and I’m not sure you need us to approve this application since you seem to very much have the situation in hand on your own. Next please”.

“Mr 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. I’m just an officer of the afterlife, I’m not here to judge”.

“Mr Yoda lighting is extra and…oh…I see you did do all the necessary paperwork for it. Go right ahead”.

[Father.Torque]

I saw the blockbuster movie.

Nothing can be said about this that hasn’t 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 it’s 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 can’t think of one.

[Drem]

Man, seriously. Going from “we should value every single person and not needlessly sacrifice ourselves and each other” to C3P0 saying he doesn’t want his mind wiped and Rey looking at him and saying “But do we have any other way” 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.

[vikram]

(it appears JJ will never match the first Star Trek reboot, his tepid personal triumph)

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 didn’t really care about its fidelity to the franchise)

[u_u]

Nothing can be said about this that hasn’t already been said,

beyond pointing out the parts of tros that make it just, like, a bad movie, i don’t think i’ve read a single take by someone who isn’t 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