Happy 5 Year Anniversary to the universally beloved, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"
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I didn't love it. Watched it once and haven't gone back.
I really, really enjoy the world-building in Star Wars. I like exploring new planets along with the characters. This film had virtually none of that. Didn't most of it take place indoors or on ships? It felt claustrophobic.
I remember some of the character interactions being great and that was probably my favorite part of it.
I really, really enjoy the world-building in Star Wars. I like exploring new planets along with the characters. This film had virtually none of that. Didn't most of it take place indoors or on ships? It felt claustrophobic.
I remember some of the character interactions being great and that was probably my favorite part of it.
Enjoyed it! Overall, I continue to think it is a top 5 Star Wars film. I still love the little meta touches, the winks and nods, the complex character development, and just the overall approach of turning some story bits on their head in a sense, but doing it in a way that is also quite faithful to the franchise.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that Rian delivered a film that was in some ways quite unexpected. I love that about it.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that Rian delivered a film that was in some ways quite unexpected. I love that about it.
I remember having a couple qualms with it after I first saw it (Luke didn't 'have' to die and neither did Ackbar) but I overall loved it. And I'm still utterly baffled why no one else likes Canto Bight as much as me. I was thrilled to see some of those aliens show back up in Andor, of all places.
We're talking about Star Wars here, I think you misread that title as "Jurassic World."
We're talking about Star Wars here, I think you misread that title as "Jurassic World."
While this movie was divisive, i think all of us can agree it was easily the best disney star wars movie and also probably the third best star wars content ever made at the very least
A 7/10 film with discourse that it doesnt deserve (the overly defensive praise and the alt right wing hate)
Definitely the best of the ST
Definitely the best of the ST
The light speed Kamikaze is one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema. It sounds incredible. I play it over and over on our home theater. I remember the theater gasping during this scene on opening night. Hands down the GOAT Star Wars movie. So damn good.
Honestly, i loved everything in the movie... except i absolutely loath all the casino planet shit as being prequel trilogy bad. God that shit was embarrassing. Everything else?? Super sick
I thought it was crap and complete hogwash. But I'm glad you guys can find enjoyment from it.
Seems we all agree the follow up is a turd though
Seems we all agree the follow up is a turd though
The only reason it's not the best Star Wars movie is because every sequel trilogy movie lives in the shadows of the originals, and that makes it hard to put them on the same category.
So third best after Empire and Star Wars.
So third best after Empire and Star Wars.
This is my problem with it. It's really half great movie and half embarrassingly terrible movie. The gulf in quality between the A plot and B plot gives me whiplash.
I think you're a lot of people, drowned out by the purple-hair-Holdo contingent.
It's been 5 years. Let the hate go.
It's not a perfect movie, but god damn am I tired of hearing people cry about this and the trilogy as a whole.
It's not a perfect movie, but god damn am I tired of hearing people cry about this and the trilogy as a whole.
If you don't want to hear criticism, you could always block these threads.
Criticism is all good but approximately 200% of all film threads on here turn into whining about the star-wars squeals. I would have to block every thread on here to be safe.
Funny that you went directly to that small part, when there was a million things going on in those scenes....Yeah, you're not being serious.
What gives that away is the fact that you mentioned the Genosis stadium scene, which basically exists to awkwardly sexualize Natalie Portman by having her shirt magically and perfectly ripped into a crop top, as being better than anything in TLJ.
You saying this is better than anything in TLJ is exactly why I can't take "Attack of the Clones > The Last Jedi" takes seriously.
I never said that TLJ didn't have any decent moments. But AotC is definitely a more entertaining film.
It is a worse film on literally every possible metric. Writing, direction, acting, its treatment of women.
I want nothing to do with this trail. Rise of Skywalker is among the worst big budget franchise film's I've ever seen.
I love how the poll is a social experiment if people would be more likely to click the first or second option, questioning the validity of "fair polling" as even with different answers, people might still be slightly "inclined" to push the first option more often than the rest because a 87:13 split is barely achievable even with normal poll questions. ... There are studies into this, arent there?
It was brave and exactly what the trilogy needed after the playing-it-safe Force Awakens. It's a shame Rise of Skywalker completely walked it all back.
Good with flaws like most SW movies.
Probably gonna rewatch the trilogy once we have a new SW movie but until then I let it rest.
Andor is the best thing that could've happened to SW though and hopefully it's gonna inspire the next generation of SW content.
Probably gonna rewatch the trilogy once we have a new SW movie but until then I let it rest.
Andor is the best thing that could've happened to SW though and hopefully it's gonna inspire the next generation of SW content.
Luke/Rey/Yoda/Kylo was good.
Throne room was good.
holdo manouevre was awesome
Canto blight was phantom menace 'we need a showy bit' bad.
entire drip drip chase scene was bad and dragged on.
the good and the bad are both cut from the same cloth war mongering was clumsily done
Leia Poppins was audible groan
overall fine. TFA was too much of a retread but had some fuzzy moments; the last movie (honestly can't remember the name anymore) I don't recall any redeeming features. Felt like TFA turned up to 11
Throne room was good.
holdo manouevre was awesome
Canto blight was phantom menace 'we need a showy bit' bad.
entire drip drip chase scene was bad and dragged on.
the good and the bad are both cut from the same cloth war mongering was clumsily done
Leia Poppins was audible groan
overall fine. TFA was too much of a retread but had some fuzzy moments; the last movie (honestly can't remember the name anymore) I don't recall any redeeming features. Felt like TFA turned up to 11
I thought it was just ok at the theatre but a rewatch a couple years later made me realise it's the best Star Wars movie.
Pretty much. I don't even hate TLJ entirely, but the rabid fans take every form of critcism as a personal attack on them and Johnson.
When you challenge how the movie mistreats its non-white characters and female characters, they will barrage at you "You're just pRoJeCTiNG" "mEdIA ilLiteRate" et cetra.
I liked it for how KOTOR 2 it was, not so much when it spent too much time lingering on the casino planet subplot.
Definitely the best of the ST and a good movie overall. It didn't quite stick the landing for me, I feel like there's a way to make the whole ship chase feel more interesting and they didn't manage to land it and a lot of the humour was bad, but I don't think that last complaint is unique to TLJ. The other ST movies are also filled with terrible humour and nothing in TLJ is as bad as Han Solo going "hah is there a trash compactor somewhere we can dump her in?!"
But the Luke stuff is fantastic and in general the attempt to move SW forward in a lot of interesting ways rather than just retreading the OT ground again and again was very good.
But the Luke stuff is fantastic and in general the attempt to move SW forward in a lot of interesting ways rather than just retreading the OT ground again and again was very good.
