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ParanoidObsessive 06/04/18 3:08:19 AM #35: | Okay, I caved. From last topic: ParanoidObsessive posted... The Wave Master posted...PO if you have seen The Last Jedi I would be interested to hear your opinions So, commentary now that I've seen it: I kind of still think that most of the backlash is manchildren being manchildren, but I can also see the flaws in it. The main problem with the movie seems to be that it's uneven as fuck (a flaw it shares with Return of the Jedi). Most of the Rey scenes with Luke I actually kind of liked, and the Snoke/Rey scenes were pretty good (but also somewhat derivative... though Ren's unearned turn - whoops, surprise! Still Dark Side, tee hee! moment, which I really liked), and I liked the Luke/Ren stuff at the end... but most of the Finn scenes feel like they have the grim taint of the prequels on them, and that is very, very bad. The overall tone of the movie feels off, but I kind of feel like that's entirely due to the fact that it's 2018, not 1977. If anything, there were parallels in there to how the Marvel movies are structured (and the problem is that it works better in those, less so in this, especially if you're expecting a different tone going in). I think a lot of the backlash comes from Luke being a bitter old fuck, but not only do I kind of think that was almost inevitably where the story HAD to go, I find it far more interesting and worthwhile than if Luke was just Yoda 2.0. I'm also not a huge fan of some of the casting (Laura Dern and Benicio del Toro springing to mind - though it's hard to say if my issues with them are more their own acting or how they were directed, and Carrie Fisher combines the same problem with feeling way too old), but nothing was so hugely jarring that it pulled me out completely, and I think Rey/Finn/Poe/Kylo are all well-casted for the roles they're playing, which helps immensely. Oh, and Phasma was completely wasted, but then again, it feels like her reason for existing is to be completely wasted, so that's nothing new. In the end, it's not the worst Star Wars movie I've ever seen, but it's also admittedly nowhere near the best. Middle of the road, maybe. #5 or #6 out of 10, probably. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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