Upon second viewing I can say these things about the film. It is very pretty. Driver is the best part about these films. That milks is green but its def in that zesty got more blue than yellow quality to it. The thing feels kinda hollow. I would agree with others that it has many big interesting ideas that it doesn't flesh out, and I'm not really sure what to do with the whole plot angle of "the bad guys will always win because good is dumb" that Poe is the embodiment of. It was okay. Not offensive in the way the prequels often were, but certainly not as tightly wound and strong as the original installments or even RO.
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 18:51 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:
She doesn't want to be an alpha and is more selfish than driver until he wants to elope.
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 19:20 |
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His bold, desperate offer of marriage just betrays his weakness, remember that Kylo is the emotionally turbulent and indecisive one, not Rey. He has to pour cold water on his face and slap his face every time he has to do something tough. Rey just knows she's destined for greater (and the revelation that this isn't a genetic destiny upset her emotionally, but didn't deter her a bit) and the idea that she needs him to do it is ridiculous. Like Luke says, "this is not going to go how you think it will."
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 19:30 |
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I saw it again, and liked it even more this time. Driver and Ridley are both fantastic, the whole encounter with Snoke and the fight afterwards are wonderful.
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 23:15 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Rey just knows she's destined for greater This isn't true and the character flaw the movie focuses on. She still wears her child hood hair buns so her parents will remember her. She just wants to go home, and her original quest is to get Luke back to the resistance, not for her to do anything other than maybe train in the force. When he says he won't go, she thinks she can turn Kylo to lead the resistance. It's not until after this that she realizes these men are fragile fuckbois and she decides she'll do it herself, which is why she steals the Jedi texts. I'm guessing ix would've been training with leia but now who knows.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 08:38 |
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Leia teaching Rey her unholy Satan Magicks would've been good - the trick Leia pulls is more frightening than anything any other "force sensitive" type does in any of the movies.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 09:11 |
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OMG, Leia is Darth Plageus!
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 09:26 |
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bushisms.txt posted:This isn't true and the character flaw the movie focuses on. She still wears her child hood hair buns so her parents will remember her. She just wants to go home, and her original quest is to get Luke back to the resistance, not for her to do anything other than maybe train in the force. When he says he won't go, she thinks she can turn Kylo to lead the resistance. It's not until after this that she realizes these men are fragile fuckbois and she decides she'll do it herself, which is why she steals the Jedi texts. I'm guessing ix would've been training with leia but now who knows. kylo ren is trying super duper hard to do something with his life while rey kinda just plays a brutish enforcer for leia's personal cartel
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 09:36 |
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Wild Horses posted:rey kinda just plays a brutish enforcer for leia's personal cartel The Galaxy is probably full of people like this, who are barely aware or not at all of their force sensitivity and use those advantages just to kill.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 11:54 |
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god i want rey to turn into a dark side badass next movie. yes i know this will not happen.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 13:48 |
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an skeleton posted:god i want rey to turn into a dark side badass next movie. yes i know this will not happen. The whole time they were force facetiming I kept hoping that was what the sith connection of two looked like. I hope in the end, Luke's statement doesn't include her. But then again Vader had to talk using holograms, so whatever.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 14:52 |
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Rey has nothing really to avenge at the point which makes he somewhat questionable as a dark side hero. Imho.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 14:57 |
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rey is sadly a cardboard cutout so they can't do anything with her character.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 15:09 |
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Corky Romanovsky posted:OMG, Leia is Darth Plageus! You can't spell PLAGUEIS without LEIA
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 15:15 |
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an skeleton posted:god i want rey to turn into a dark side badass next movie. yes i know this will not happen. There's effectively no difference between a "dark side" Rey and the Rey we have right now.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 15:43 |
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homullus posted:You can't spell PLAGUEIS without LEIA Oh poo poo. What if the whole OT was a long con by Palpatine's sensei?!
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 16:02 |
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General Dog posted:There's effectively no difference between a "dark side" Rey and the Rey we have right now. Rey is "beyond good and evil", as it were.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 17:45 |
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The Notorious ZSB posted:Driver is the best part about these films. drat straight. His performance just grabbed me and made me give a gently caress when I thought I had none left. Say, Is reincarnation a thing in Star Wars? Ema Nymton fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jan 17, 2018 |
# ? Jan 17, 2018 19:14 |
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General Dog posted:There's effectively no difference between a "dark side" Rey and the Rey we have right now. A "Dark side Rey" would have sucker-lightsabered Kylo in the throne room and proclaimed herself Empress of the First Order, no?
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 19:15 |
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ecureuilmatrix posted:A "Dark side Rey" would have sucker-lightsabered Kylo in the throne room and proclaimed herself Empress of the First Order, no? The Dark Side doesn't automatically make you a facist totalitarian. It's not a political ideology.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 21:21 |
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ecureuilmatrix posted:A "Dark side Rey" would have sucker-lightsabered Kylo in the throne room and proclaimed herself Empress of the First Order, no? Rey didn't want to be Empress of the First Order, just like Anakin didn't want to be Emperor--he wanted Padme to be Emperor And Rey certainly didn't want to kill Kylo
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 21:38 |
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Waffles Inc. posted:Rey didn't want to be Empress of the First Order, just like Anakin didn't want to be Emperor--he wanted Padme to be Emperor Anakin ended up killing the person he wanted to stop from dying, though. It's basically the Dark Side's Thing. I mean, even Sidious couldn't stop himself from dying.* *In the story, I'm sure he came back to life in the EU or something.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 21:41 |
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Hodgepodge posted:Anakin ended up killing the person he wanted to stop from dying, though. It's basically the Dark Side's Thing. Padme killed herself tho
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 22:26 |
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Hodgepodge posted:Anakin ended up killing the person he wanted to stop from dying, though. It's basically the Dark Side's Thing. Sidiouus
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 22:32 |
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I actually meant to write Plagueis, but it still works.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 00:36 |
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Ema Nymton posted:drat straight. His performance just grabbed me and made me give a gently caress when I thought I had none left. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 01:48 |
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Rey looks so fuckin high.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 03:37 |
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Hodgepodge posted:Anakin ended up killing the person he wanted to stop from dying, though. It's basically the Dark Side's Thing. Yep, that's Transfer Essence. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Transfer_essence It's basically possession. Sometimes possessing a cloned body, or possessing another person. At some point, Palpatine even tries to possess one of Leia and Han's babies, but is stopped. I really don't expect that to be used in the next film... but it's not impossible.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 03:55 |
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Expectation: subverted expectations Status: subverted
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 04:19 |
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General Dog posted:The Dark Side doesn't automatically make you a facist totalitarian. It's not a political ideology. You here anti-semites say the same thing. And yet, the two seem so strongly correlated that it makes one wonder....
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 16:46 |
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CountFosco posted:You here anti-semites say the same thing. And yet, the two seem so strongly correlated that it makes one wonder.... This is insanely stupid in multiple ways.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 17:17 |
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CountFosco posted:You here anti-semites say the same thing. And yet, the two seem so strongly correlated that it makes one wonder.... lmfao
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 17:47 |
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Israel is an apartheid state, OP
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 17:49 |
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Just saw it for the first time Quick thoughts: -The "Leia gets blown up but OH WAIT SHE'S SOMEHOW FLOATING BACK TO THE SHIP" moment was dumb -CGI on the bird things was bad -Hamill's performance improved as the movie progressed - started out as "effeminate grumpy old guy" but ended strong -Why the gently caress do black characters always end up with Asian characters in movies? It's annoying. It's like Rey and Finn's connection from Force Awakens never happened. Overall I enjoyed it.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:19 |
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EugeneJ posted:-Why the gently caress do black characters always end up with Asian characters in movies? It's annoying. It's like Rey and Finn's connection from Force Awakens never happened. It's because for all it's self-aggrandizing, Hollywood is still unbelievably racist and sexist.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:26 |
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It what way was Luke effeminate.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:26 |
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Grown man drinking milk? I dunno, no one should drink milk. As delicious as it is, it's really unhealthy.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:28 |
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EugeneJ posted:-Why the gently caress do black characters always end up with Asian characters in movies? It's annoying. It's like Rey and Finn's connection from Force Awakens never happened. Finn wanting to make sure Rey is alright kicks off his entire plotline. Also I'm not sure if we're supposed to view Finn and Rose as an item. Rose kisses him, but it strikes me more as her getting caught up in the moment. Finn certainly doesn't seem romantically interested in her. Honestly Finn doesn't really come across as a sexual being at all in these movies; emotionally he's kind of like a big ten year old.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:29 |
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euphronius posted:It what way was Luke effeminate. Gonna need some proof he wasn't or this cut's getting even shorter.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:29 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 01:38 |
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Finn's pretty much the SW equivalent of Cloud from Final Fantasy. Storm Trooper-reject changes sides and becomes a skilled hero for the resistance. Also juggles two potential love interests, one being the magical last of her kind and the other being a humble girl next door working in the resistance. Finally his adventure leads to overcoming his greatest adversary in hand to hand combat with an assist from his friends.
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