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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #100 on: December 23, 2017, 08:58:47 AM »
puni's ideal sci fi movie: basically just watching an elon musk documentary and never leaving the solar system

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« Reply #101 on: December 23, 2017, 08:56:22 PM »
Alright, so I finally saw it today and am caught up on this thread. I have many opinions on gravity, hyperspace travel, family origins, space war tactics and others. I will get to them eventually when I have more time.

HOWEVER one thing that hasn’t been brought up yet is BB8. Now in TFO he can do some stuff. In this movie tho he literally can do anything. Fix a leaky circuit? Sure, let me just create 6 robot fingers to stop circuits from sparking? Then just slam my head into the panel for missiles to fire?

Let me steal a random ship and fly it? Let me roll on into an AT-ST and drive it? Let me have a casino chip cannon with a 100 chip clip? Let me roll around in a rectangle droid shell at full speed and ram into any and everything and be fine?

BB8 is awesome and all but if he can do all that just create a rough ridin' army of them and let them kamikaze any unwanted ship with hyperdrive down to a millimeter precision. eff drones, just create the do-it-all BB8.

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #102 on: December 23, 2017, 11:01:32 PM »
R2 did all that stuff too

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« Reply #103 on: December 23, 2017, 11:16:41 PM »
Uhh excuse me?

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« Reply #104 on: December 23, 2017, 11:17:15 PM »
I’ve known all along you aren’t the “thinking” type but that comment just cements it

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #105 on: December 25, 2017, 12:33:05 AM »
Alright, so I finally saw it today and am caught up on this thread. I have many opinions on gravity, hyperspace travel, family origins, space war tactics and others. I will get to them eventually when I have more time.

HOWEVER one thing that hasn’t been brought up yet is BB8. Now in TFO he can do some stuff. In this movie tho he literally can do anything. Fix a leaky circuit? Sure, let me just create 6 robot fingers to stop circuits from sparking? Then just slam my head into the panel for missiles to fire?

Let me steal a random ship and fly it? Let me roll on into an AT-ST and drive it? Let me have a casino chip cannon with a 100 chip clip? Let me roll around in a rectangle droid shell at full speed and ram into any and everything and be fine?

BB8 is awesome and all but if he can do all that just create a rough ridin' army of them and let them kamikaze any unwanted ship with hyperdrive down to a millimeter precision. eff drones, just create the do-it-all BB8.
Would watch alternate universe, Disney short of BB-8 attacking a planet held up by by First Order BB-8s

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #106 on: December 26, 2017, 10:12:36 AM »
I finally got around to seeing this over the weekend and honestly it was a bit of a disappointment.  I left the theater thinking "WTF did I just watch", pretty much the same feeling I had trudging out of the theater after Phantom Menace.

Luke milked a space cow.
Leia floating through space was ridiculous.
Hux looked like 90's era Denis Leary which in hindsight would be pretty awesome.
I liked Benicio's character
Highly advanced space bombers actually make bombing runs just like an old B-25
I'm with puni on the arcing space cannon shots.  It looked cool though?

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #107 on: December 26, 2017, 10:28:34 AM »
so there are "jedis" with magical powers and crap? faster than light travel? gravity on ships? air doesn't escape the holds when the door is open? wtf. no thanks. my brain can't make sense of that and I'm going to pass.

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« Reply #108 on: December 26, 2017, 08:45:29 PM »
so there are "jedis" with magical powers and crap? faster than light travel? gravity on ships? air doesn't escape the holds when the door is open? wtf. no thanks. my brain can't make sense of that and I'm going to pass.

listen there is some kind of energy field that holds in the atmospheric pressure

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #109 on: December 26, 2017, 08:52:22 PM »
that energy also bends cannon balls and bombs and warp drive kamikaze runs idiot

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #110 on: December 26, 2017, 09:09:42 PM »
The planet they were running to had gravity that bent the cannonball arcs!

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #111 on: December 26, 2017, 09:37:15 PM »
The planet they were running to had gravity that bent the cannonball arcs!

good point scientist rusty. let's keep the faith alive for this thing and not be idiots who can't deal.

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« Reply #112 on: December 27, 2017, 12:14:40 AM »
that energy also bends cannon balls and bombs and warp drive kamikaze runs idiot

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #113 on: December 28, 2017, 11:28:19 AM »
Awful

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« Reply #114 on: December 28, 2017, 11:36:56 AM »
I saw this again last night with my daughter at the IMAX.  This movie did not improve with a second viewing.  I think she dislikes it more than I do. 

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #115 on: December 28, 2017, 03:49:57 PM »
I somewhat enjoyed the first screening. Now mrs kcfd wants to go and I am dreading it. Don’t know if I can sit through 2 hours of slow motion space chase again


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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #116 on: December 28, 2017, 06:11:20 PM »
I somewhat enjoyed the first screening. Now mrs kcfd wants to go and I am dreading it. Don’t know if I can sit through 2 hours of slow motion space chase again


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These are my throughta exactly. My kids want to see it but that middle 90 minutes or so is just so stupid and slow.
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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #117 on: December 28, 2017, 06:28:30 PM »
sd hot takes:

poe should probably be shoved out an air lock (with no energy field or whatever) for trying to take over the ship and by doing so basically almost getting everyone killed. I like poe tho so maybe not. also I was very sad when his whip got exploded by kylo ren's elite fighter piloting. his initial scene where he was super hero badass was probably my favorite scene no matter how ridiculous it was.

r2d2 and c3p0 are now just like crappy side actor people who suck. feel bad for them.

kylo ren is a good actor. I like him as a character as well. I'm excited for him eventually saving the day. also super hot with no shirt which I'm glad they found a way to include. he was way more emo last movie and sucked.

rey is great. her actress is probably the best actress of all of the people.

finn is an unbelievable fuckup. get it together finn. good grief.

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #118 on: December 28, 2017, 06:32:19 PM »
Who is ren SD?

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #119 on: December 28, 2017, 07:37:17 PM »
I really don't understand what value Finn and Rose added in general

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« Reply #120 on: December 29, 2017, 09:12:54 AM »
I really don't understand what value Finn and Rose added in general
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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #121 on: December 31, 2017, 07:03:10 PM »
A top three Star Wars movie.  (ESB and Rogue One.)

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« Reply #122 on: December 31, 2017, 09:57:27 PM »
I saw it twice. I liked it both times.

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #123 on: January 03, 2018, 05:36:27 PM »
Saw it recently and it is my fav Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.  Rogue One is up there too.

I liked the humor.  I liked that Rey's parents are nobodies.  That could change in the last movie but I think it's a great part of the plot.  Between that, Luke's talk on the force, and the kid at the end, I think they are trying to make the force accessible to anybody.  I like that.  I thought the plot was pretty good minus a few holes.  I'm enjoying how each one of the new movies is a death of the original protagonists.

Negatives: As his been covered here, the tracking was poorly explained.  Should have just used Leia's beacon.  Leia's space flight was weak.  Luke milking the creatures was a little weird and unnecessary.  Benicio ratting on them was fine but why weren't the baddies going to check for cloaked ships?  Also, why wasn't Dern going to hyperdrive that space ship into them the whole time?  She's basically committing suicide either way.

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Re: The Last Jedi discusso WITH SPOILERS
« Reply #124 on: January 04, 2018, 03:16:09 PM »
maybe the bombs are electromagnets?  When the button was pushed they release and go to the largest metal object?  Don't know but also could explain the curve/arching bombs?  Probably not just me brainstorming here.