The Last Jedi Reaction thread [SPOILERS galore!]

[grep]

Leia Force Ghost. I'm calling it now.

[Principled Man]

.... the recent announcement that she will appear in Episode IX as Leia Organa, via unused footage shot during the making of The Force Awakens.

 

Great news. I'm guessing that it's been difficult for them to write Leia into the story, given the few bits of footage they have.

[treeduck]

[Rushman14]

from the comic. So good.

 

[Derek19]

When I saw this in 3-D in theatres, I liked it a lot, and thought it's really good. I've felt of not grading by comparing the other episodes, and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story". Edited April 21, 2019 by Derek19

[JohnnyBlaze]

^ Actually now that I think about it R1 and 6 are kind of a tie for me

 

They’re the two that’d be the closest (points-wise, if there were such a scale)...maybe like an A- and B+ respectively. Empire would certainly be an A+ and A New Hope an A. So maybe like this:

 

Empire: A+

New Hope: A

Return: A-

Rogue One: B+

Force Awakens: B

Last Jedi: B-

Revenge: D+

Clones: D

Phantom: F dammit!!!

 

I was too generous. Now, I’d give Last Jedi a D+. Heaps of annoyances and things that led nowhere, not to mention too many characters that I don’t care about.

[thesweetscience]

The plot to this mess was totally unfucking believable: we're to accept the fact that OTHER bad guy space ships (One Republic or The New Order or Fallout Vader, whatever the hell they're called) couldn't jump in front of the rebels and finish them off? Really? The entire plot was laughably contrived and much of what followed was equally as foolish and boring.

 

The whole casino trip was DUMB, oh and they just happen to run into a super thief/codebreaker in jail...right. None of that had to happen if the ultimate end game they had in mind was the fight scenes on Snoke's ship. None of that wasted time was necessary nor was it very interesting.

 

Why exactly is Kylo Ren evil? Why? His character makes zero sense. Perhaps the thing between he and Luke was a more formative experience but did they elaborate on it? Hell no. It's all vague and up to second guessing. There has to be a Vader stand in so I guess he'll do. Did Han beat him as a child or get drunk and slap Leia around? I suspect we'll never know exactly why he's the bad guy.

 

Rey...apparently she's a Jedi Master now even after telling Luke, all teary eyed, that she's afraid of what's inside of her. Guess 3 quick lessons is all it takes to become a powerful Master. Dumb. But hey, she had to get on that ship and fight Ren by the end of the movie and set up the next film so why not. Yawn.

 

Leia...holy balls! Who needs Luke Skywalker when the Princess can go all Force Mary Poppins and fly through space like that. The worst part of that is that we've NEVER seen any indication that she has that kind of control with the Force. We were always told she had it but she's never displayed it like that before. Plus it was kinda comical and not in the goofy, predictable, groan inducing comical way the rest of the move tried to be.

 

Snoke...just who the hell is this guy? Where did he come from? How did he get to become leader of One Republic? Doesn't matter now I guess. Oh well.

 

There were a few good parts like Laura Dern's sacrifice which was pretty cool, Luke's mind f**k on everyone at the end...though I was hoping for an epic light saber duel between he and Ren.

 

I did not like this movie at all. Bloated, entirely too long, too many characters doing mostly boring, nonsensical and stupid things to fit the plot. It could be that I'm expecting too much from a silly Star Wars movie or it could be that these movies are the same but I'm 47 now rather than 7 or 10 or 13. Probably a mixture of the two.

I finally got around to watching this movie and I could not agree with this post more.

 

A really bad plot with really bad dialogue and maybe 1 or 2 "that was cool" moments book ended by a bunch of shit that didn't make sense played out by characters who don't make sense.

 

The franchise for me will always be episodes 4, 5 and 6. I am going to pretend the rest does not exist. *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Except Rogue One. That was pretty good.

[chemistry1973]

Oh it was dogshit on every level.

[chemistry1973]

“eia...holy balls! Who needs Luke Skywalker when the Princess can go all Force Mary Poppins and fly through space like that. The worst part of that is that we've NEVER seen any indication that she has that kind of control with the Force. We were always told she had it but she's never displayed it like that before. Plus it was kinda comical and not in the goofy, predictable, groan inducing comical way the rest of the move tried to be.”

 

Shit who needs an xwing fighter. Just send a bunch of Jedi flying into space!