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The release date is now December 15, 2017.
The Official Synopsis from Star Wars.com
“In Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in U.S. theaters on December 15, 2017.”
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
We'll have to agree to disagree here, Broheim.
Rogue One, as far as complete film making goes, is the best film in the Star Wars Galaxy.
Impeccable casting, direction, set design, story, VFX, battles, score (yes, the best score since The Phantom Menace, which IMO is William's best work) and third act.
The third act in Rogue One was unbelievably awesome. The last five minutes were absolutely epic.
Episode VIII just didn't know when to end, kind of like Revenge of the Sith.
I rewatched rogue one and I off base in my hate. I agree with you there.i do remember this series IS child friendly and that might get in the way of things. The dialogue of kylo ren just seems uninspired and not creative - I connected more with Ian and Hayden’s back and forth more so and for various reasons I guess. I think another thing is the score.. it just seemed clunky and trying tooo hard to sound like star wars of past and instead I creating a new atmosphere. The movie felt way to long
People also said it was way darker and I didn’t get that vibe at all -shrugs- rogue one nailed that vibe [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
isnt that true with almost all movies? Superheroes, Action movies, Sci-Fi etc. you must just accept plot line holes, suspend believability, plot twists that make no sense. That's just going to the movies in 2017.
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
isnt that true with almost all movies? Superheroes, Action movies, Sci-Fi etc. you must just accept plot line holes, suspend believability, plot twists that make no sense. That's just going to the movies in 2017.
I think it depends on the style.
Marvel films want us to believe that their stories are happening in the world at large, today. Unlike many people, I have issue with that in certain films.
DC films aren't happening in the real world today. They may take some elements but for the most part, it's a Comic Book world. That may be why people don't like them as much as Marvel but who the hell knows?
Star Wars had set a decent set of ground rules in The Original Trilogy. Rogue One followed those rules. The prequels kind of expanded upon those (The Rule of Two, Midichlorians, Virgin Births, etc.) but it wasn't too crazy.
The Force Awakens mostly stayed within those confines but eliminated The Sith and expanded upon the Empire's weaponry.
The Last Jedi? Holy moly.
But after today's discussion, I'm looking forward to seeing it again at 1:45 PST in a completely different theater. Hopefully the experience will be better. [Reply]
I was under the assumption that Yoda knew that Rey took the books. That's why he summoned the lightning to catch fire to the tree, bc he knew they were gone. The tree was simply to harbour the books. Luke, on the other hand, did not know. That's why Yoda was sort of cackling at Luke when he yelled at him about the Jedi books being in there.
You might be right that Yoda knew the books were gone. [Reply]
I thought there were a couple things I knew fans would hate but I'm surprised the reaction to the film across the Internet is quite this negative.
Spoiler!
I thought the first third of the film felt off at times because they tried to cram too much humor in weird places. And I knew Leia pulling a Star Lord would go over horribly. That was a weird scene. Probably should have just killed her off there.
That said, I thought the Kylo/Rey plot was really great. It's what held the movie together. And the final battle with Luke was awesome. There were a lot of great epic moments and it was an entertaining film. It's funny though, I don't think you can make a Star Wars film everyone will be happy with. You have to hit upon the nostalgia without overdoing it. Really tough to do. I do agree the final scene of the movie felt like something that could have ended the next film.
Originally Posted by tk13:
I thought there were a couple things I knew fans would hate but I'm surprised the reaction to the film across the Internet is quite this negative.
Spoiler!
I thought the first third of the film felt off at times because they tried to cram too much humor in weird places. And I knew Leia pulling a Star Lord would go over horribly. That was a weird scene. Probably should have just killed her off there.
That said, I thought the Kylo/Rey plot was really great. It's what held the movie together. And the final battle with Luke was awesome. There were a lot of great epic moments and it was an entertaining film. It's funny though, I don't think you can make a Star Wars film everyone will be happy with. You have to hit upon the nostalgia without overdoing it. Really tough to do. I do agree the final scene of the movie felt like something that could have ended the next film.
Who knew making a film which is pretty much a giant middle finger to hardcore fan's would piss off Fanboys.
I'ts been almost 24 hours and I'm still angry about this movie.
I haven't seen it yet, and will probably wait a week or two to go. After seeing reactions like this, my expectations will be so low I'll probably really enjoy it. [Reply]
