Also, do you know what 'paraphrasing' is? I'm sorry that I didn't remember the lines line-by-line and paraphrase what happened.
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YOU CANT BE PARAPHRASING WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BAD WRITING MF
Also, do you know what 'paraphrasing' is? I'm sorry that I didn't remember the lines line-by-line and paraphrase what happened.
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Here are the kills, aka definitely a display of GODlikE liGHtSaBER SKiLls and totally not a force sensitive scavenger scrapping by
Totally on par with Kylo:
They definitely NEVER make sure to explicitly emphasize the difference in skill level with the editing, shot composition and choreography:
Ofc the film is framed initially for the viewer to not trust Holdo as it's from Poe's perspective. However, the "Holdo should've listened to Poe" arguments make zero sense, the moment Leia shoots Poe is when it clicks for the audience. Poe agrees as he wakes up and Leia explains Holdo's motives. Makes no sense to continue arguing that Poe deserved to be let in on the plan anyway. It's like the people who still think Rey's parents are kenobis or skywalkers. The characters have moved past their block, but some of the audience hasn't.
I know there are loads of fans that love TLJ, and I know some even hold it in the same regard as Empire, but I won't lie and say I understand why.I am curious, do you at least see why there are a lot of fans who hold TLJ with the same esteem as ESB. Even if you disagree with them, do you get what it is these fans see?
One example could be Kylo's helmet. Everyone knows Vader by his helmet. So in wanting to go "lol fuck your assumptions, this is n3w Star Wars", Rian has Ben break his helmet so he doesn't follow the same trope.
Kylo breaking his helmet as a result of his worldview being shattered makes perfect sense. It's not "let's subvert expectations by getting rid of the mask." Do you know how ridiculous it would be for Kylo to still be Vader lite after this metaphorical and literal roast?One example could be Kylo's helmet. Everyone knows Vader by his helmet. So in wanting to go "lol fuck your assumptions, this is n3w Star Wars", Rian has Ben break his helmet so he doesn't follow the same trope.
See that's the thing though. All they would have had to do is take out the line where Snoke says take that ridiculous mask off.
Kylo could still get roasted, his world view could still be changed, and he'd still get to keep the one thing that we as viewers have grown to attribute with the character.
but how would that be an improvement?See that's the thing though. All they would have had to do is take out the line where Snoke says take that ridiculous mask off.
Kylo could still get roasted, his world view could still be changed, and he'd still get to keep the one thing that we as viewers have grown to attribute with the character.
But the mask *is* ridiculous, particularly when he's modeling his look after a man who needed an iron lung n mask to breathe. Kylo's mask is a facade. He doesn't need it for any practical reason. Dude is a wannabe who deserved the dressing down. Also, an actor as quality as Adam Driver you want to see his face. You don't want him covered up in a mask the whole movie.
There is far more to it than that. Don't let the fact that those people exist in the fandom make you think that's the only way you could dislike the movie.It's a combination of two groups of fans. The first group is those who had their own predetermined head cannon. To them, anything that happened that didn't match up with what was in their heads was going to be trash.
The second group is sexists.
This is absurd. More people than not expected Kylo to not keep his mask.. He didn't even have it on at the end of TFA and appeared to have left it behind. The consensus on GAF and here was that he would probably not have his mask or use it much in TLJ.I know there are loads of fans that love TLJ, and I know some even hold it in the same regard as Empire, but I won't lie and say I understand why.
TLJ is a drastic departure from what we've seen in the past, and I think that's what people like, it's different. But in my mind it's a clunky, poorly told short story that can't hold a candle to the OT.
One example could be Kylo's helmet. Everyone knows Vader by his helmet. So in wanting to go "lol fuck your assumptions, this is n3w Star Wars", Rian has Ben break his helmet so he doesn't follow the same trope.
I wish they would have gone a different route with Luke. I wanted to see him kick some ass.
As long as you don't like GT the best or the naruto filler arcs we're coolLast Jedi to me felt like it had a different storytelling sensibility than the other Star Wars movies, one I associate with (good) Japanese media - I think of it as "Anime Star Wars." Media that change things up like that tend to be divisive, it's unfortunate that got tangled up with political tribalism. Personally I enjoyed it a lot, btw I also like the prequel trilogy, in general I tend to be drawn to the "weird/black sheep" installments of popular series.
Saying "but he looked cool in it" is not a good enough reason for him to keep the mask when the movie provides very compelling narrative reasons for his character to destroy it.
I continue to be amazed by the number of people online who think RJ literally set out to subvert SW and fuck with fans. Like every writing decision he made was motivated by this.
Stuff looking cool is the primary reason for most things in Star Wars, they then try to come up with some compelling explanation afterwards. It's the reason Jedi fight with laser swords, Vader wears a cape and Samurai type mask, and everyone wears cloaks. It's science fantasy.
This same mentally carries over to TLJ. If you watched the BTS doc then you know Rian wasn't thinking of some practical reason for the ski speeders on Crait to exist. He just wanted something that kicked up Red Dirt/Salt as it went because it looked cool. It's also the same reason the Resistance bombers look the way they do.
Putting something in just because it looks cool is fine as long as you come up with a compelling enough reason after.
Kylo breaking his helmet as a result of his worldview being shattered makes perfect sense. It's not "let's subvert expectations by getting rid of the mask." Do you know how ridiculous it would be for Kylo to still be Vader lite after this metaphorical and literal roast?
There is far more to it than that. Don't let the fact that those people exist in the fandom make you think that's the only way you could dislike the movie.
Dude that isn't what I said and you know it. I said keeping the mask on because it looks cool isn't a good enough reason when the movie provides much more compelling reasons to rid of it. I never once said in my post that things shouldn't exist in SW for the coolness factor alone.
This discussion all started because Charcoal actually believes RJ got rid of Kylo's mask because he wanted to write a hur hur this is new SW. Like come on man.
It's too bad you can't just remove the mask for important scenes, then put it back on.That's the real reason the mask was destroyed. And, the "ridiculous" line makes no sense. This is STAR WARS, everyone wears masks and robes. Snoke is calling Ren's mask ridiculous while surrounded by Red Masked guards in a ship full of masked, faceless soldiers berating a man whose a titled "Master" of a knighthood of masked dudes, while dressed in a golden bathrobe.
The mask was tossed because Ren needed to do some serious acting next to Daisy, he needed to appear sympathetic. That could never be accomplished with him wearing his mask. The campfire touch scene would look ridiculous. So, the mask was tossed.
That said, I wouldn't mind if JJ brought it back. Shit is way too cool to be used for one movie and we don't have to pretend Ren ain't evil now.
It's too bad you can't just remove the mask for important scenes, then put it back on.
They should have done that in TFA
Why does he no longer need to be sympathetic and needs to be menacing?That couldn't work with TLJ because every scene after the opening with him requires him to be unmasked. He's basically just sitting around skyping with Rey the whole movie. That necessitates him being unmasked, especially since we want to believe he can be turned. Really the only time it would make sense to have his mask on is the attack on Crait, it would make even more sense for him to wear it against Luke. But, we the audience want to see every expression on his face when that confrontation occurs so it wouldn't have been practical then either.
I do think they can return to TFA approach in Ep. 8 since he doesn't need to appear sympathetic anymore, but needs to be a menacing foe. He can then remove it for important emotional scenes.
They.. Literally could have just had him keep the mask off for those scenes and keep it on for action scenes or what have you. It's not like he keeps the damn thing on when he's in his quarters reading.That couldn't work with TLJ because every scene after the opening with him requires him to be unmasked. He's basically just sitting around skyping with Rey the whole movie. That necessitates him being unmasked, especially since we want to believe he can be turned. Really the only time it would make sense to have his mask on is the attack on Crait, it would make even more sense for him to wear it against Luke. But, we the audience want to see every expression on his face when that confrontation occurs so it wouldn't have been practical then either.
I do think they can return to TFA approach in Ep. 8 since he doesn't need to appear sympathetic anymore, but needs to be a menacing foe. He can then remove it for important emotional scenes.
See, this is what my post was about. "Why can't these people whose job is to critique films and the people whose job is to make them see why they're actually wrong?" The people who are the most eager to accuse films of bad writing are the ones who tend to understand it the least. Writing is a discipline not a catch all term for things that didn't sit well with you.I have the opposite issue. Watching it, the writing seemed so bad and the movie bored me. Few movies had me thinking: "Why is this movie still going" like this one did.
I can't figure out why critics seem to think the movie has good writing. Some of the concepts the movie had sound good in the abstract. The idea that Luke's victory in RoTJ wasn't a magic cure-all, that crazy last-ditch plans don't always work, etc. But the execution was horrible; everything the movie did, it just did it without concern to a cohesive, believable narrative, while the overall dialogue and scenes tended to be boring.
Let's see: Dialogue is awkward and often out of place. People say things that seem be for the sake of advancing the plot or themes, rather than due to personality. For example: Flynn and Rose meet at the escape pods. After being stunned by Rose, they began talking and spontaneously begin plotting how to take down the 1st order's shields. A janitor and a mechanic. It came pretty much out of nowhere.
That's not how the conversation went and it sets up Rose as a character but okayDuring the Casino Bight section Rose and Flynn have the following interaction:
Flynn: I like the Casino. It's bright and pretty!
Rose: Casino is bad!
Flynn: Why is Casino bad?
Rose: They're all arms dealers! All of them! They enslaved by family!
The dialogue is cheesy, sure, but nothing out of place in a Star Wars film. Star Wars is a hammy series by design. You could pick out lines like that from any of the series.The whole Casino Bight section was rather hamfisted in it's writing. Anyways, at the end of their 'story arc,' you have Rose saving Flynn with the ridiculous line: "We're going to win by saving those we love." Where did this line come from? It came out of nowhere, and on top of that was cheesy to boot.
The entire thing with Rey and Kylo isn't them become frenemies via force-Skype. It's a trap that plays on both their insecurities. They learn about each other and each one sees the other as someone like them that they might be able to help out and gain an ally. Both are wrong.There's Rey and Kylo who pretty much become frenemies after a couple of skype calls. Reason? Can can feel Kylo is conflicted. Oh me of my.
Rey then goes straight into the 1st Order base unprepared, because she's Rey and knows she'll get away with it.
You can't articulate why the writing is bad because you don't actually understand what writing is. I really don't mean this as a slight, nor am I trying to paint myself as some screenwriting genius. But what you're claiming is bad writing is a combination of things like dialogue or humor you don't like and parts where you weren't paying attention or thought the plot was stupid.Anyways, as I'm not a literature major, describing what exactly constitutes bad writing to me is difficult. But, the jokes feel flat (What makes a joke good?! How do you describe a good joke as opposed to a bad one?) Characters felt flat and unbelievable, Dialogue was uninteresting (Holdo's lines were like nails on a chalk-board) and the overall plot was lacking. (The characters were all complete morons!)
Well said.A movie can be well written and fall flat for you. It happens all the time. Everyone had their own opinions and obviously many fans don't like where TLJ took the series or how it was presented. Hell, I have of that plenty of my own complaints about the story! But none of those things involve the writing. The writing is a well-oiled machine and serves the themes and plot. Everything ties together to deliver the messages and story that Johnson set out to tell. That's why critics and industry members like it.
It's disturbing to me how many people agreed with Poe. We weren't supposed to agree with Poe (his not so subtle "not what I expected").
Well said.
I feel one of the most important things a person should learn if they want to critique something is to recognise that just because you disliked something doesn't mean it's automatically bad.
Well... I guess our defense team forgets this shit show. Our hope, while tons of fucking persuasion shits were standing there, absolutely wanted to kill his own nephew. Even he was an rookie, he was not that person. Because the force and Jedi were not taught to him this way. It's one of the stupidest scenarios for a teacher. Because a damn teacher doesn't want to kill his own student no matter what.
Must be a psycho or a screwed up character to be in this situation. And... We know the answer.
It might be that most people were supposed to agree with Poe until Holdo reveals that she does indeed have a plan so that expectations can once again be subverted. Rian Johnson seems to get a real kick out of doing that. Some would have noticed that the movie wants to present Poe as a hothead before that.
I always thought they should of gone another way with Ren's turn. I didn't buy Luke's betrayal, perhaps Ben should of had a sister who was killed in some tragic way I don't know. I know people change over time but considering how Luke refused to kill Vader, despite the terrible crap he did I couldn't believe in this.
can't say i see the "anime" in TLJLast Jedi to me felt like it had a different storytelling sensibility than the other Star Wars movies, one I associate with (good) Japanese media - I think of it as "Anime Star Wars." Media that change things up like that tend to be divisive, it's unfortunate that got tangled up with political tribalism. Personally I enjoyed it a lot, btw I also like the prequel trilogy, in general I tend to be drawn to the "weird/black sheep" installments of popular series.
That's just movie storytelling, not "subverting expectations". Sometimes you have to hide things from the audience by limiting their perspective, both visually and narratively.
can't say i see the "anime" in TLJ
imho the movie just got caught in wanting to subvert clichè, tropes and expectations without realizing that said tropes are so ever-lasting because they work
also,considering that this was supposed to be a trilogy, giving the second movie in the hands of a different guy with complete power over the story was not a great call.
I don't think anything was hidden. The movie was pretty blatantly presenting Poe as a careless hothead from the start.
Thos is also true, and being able to express oneself and actually critique something beyond "it was a POS" or "it's bad because it's stupid" or "you could cut out the b plot with no issues to the main story".Similarly just because you like something doesn't mean it's automatically good.
He refused to kill Vader after nearly killing him in bloodlust.. I know people change over time but considering how Luke refused to kill Vader, despite the terrible crap he did I couldn't believe in this.
I know what you were saying and agree I was providing further clarification and support for if JJ wants to bring back the mask. It wouldn't have worked in TLJ, but it could probably work in Ep. 8 where Kylo is the main villain now.
Nah JJ isn't a hack. He's got a lot of respect for what Johnson did with the series.Time will reveal it was trash all along.
Especially when JJ retcons it to hell with IX.
Calling it now.
Nah JJ isn't a hack.He's got a lot of respect for what Johnson did with the series.