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Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Tbh I really like the shots of Luke facing all the AT-ATs and getting shot the gently caress up while Kylo Ren angrily shouting for more. That and salt guy are good.

But I was also really ready for the movie to be over.

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StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Kill All Cops posted:

i like rogue one

i am onewiththeforceandtheforceiswithme

yeah i like the monk dude making the force less about being a superman and more about being in touch with some sort of bizzare pantheistic deity

BaconCopter
Feb 13, 2008

:coolfish:

:coolfish:
The Last Jedi stands as the most disappointing movie I've ever seen in a theater.

Leia getting blasted into space by an anonymous TIE pilot? Nope, space princess Harry Potter bullshit.

Warp kill looked really cool, but the lady who had already decided to go down with the ship waits to do it until virtually the entirety of the Rebels have been killed.

The entire casino/heist scenes were completely useless to the overall plot of the movie.

Rose is a truly awful character and detracts from every scene she is in.

Maybe the new one makes up for it? Don't care, can't get myself to watch it after TLJ's derivative dribble. I'm sure it's just as bad, if not worse.

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

Roth posted:

Tbh I really like the shots of Luke facing all the AT-ATs and getting shot the gently caress up while Kylo Ren angrily shouting for more. That and salt guy are good.

But I was also really ready for the movie to be over.

The salt guy was the one moment in TLJ I really liked. Just some dumbass tasting the ground for no reason and shouting “it’s salt!!” It’s like the good corny moments in the prequels

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

BaconCopter posted:

Leia getting blasted into space by an anonymous TIE pilot? Nope, space princess Harry Potter bullshit.

this actually owns

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

TLJ did a lot of really dumb bullshit for really dumb reasons and I had a fairly negative impression of it for a little while after seeing it because those parts stuck out so much. Leia getting spaced and the casino sequence and dumb muppet Yoda being great examples.

But I've rewatched it and over time I've come to appreciate a lot of the good stuff it did, too, to the point where I almost agree with the OP. I'd say it's about tied for fourth place with episode 3 for me.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://i.imgur.com/PTimVa7.mp4

Roth
Jul 9, 2016


Nerds got really mad about a cool looking scene like this and who broom kid was related to, so maybe Rise of Skywalker was just the movie Star Wars fans deserved

zoux
Apr 28, 2006


People are irl mad about one of the most striking visual scenes in the whole ennead because of tactical realism

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013





zoux posted:

People are irl mad about one of the most striking visual scenes in the whole ennead because of tactical realism

but why purple hair prom dress lady make spaceships go boom explain movie EXPLAIN

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
hello zoux

https://i.imgur.com/y1Zt6ax.mp4

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

SJWs win again I'm sorry to say

PeterWeller
Apr 21, 2003

I told you that story so I could tell you this one.

It's the best shot and best acted Star Wars. It cheekily steals from all this stuff that stole from Star Wars. It's an incredibly good duck whistle for rooting out chuds.

It's easily the third-best Star Wars.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006


“Hello there”

Also I rewatched ANH for the first time in ages over Xmas and I dunno if it was just the special edition pissing me off but I gotta say: TLJ is the second best SW movie

Also also imo Adam Driver’s “please” to Rey in the throne room aftermath is perhaps the best line reading in Star wars

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013


when i was watching this part in theaters my reaction was wait what the heck are they actually doing this but looking back its actually pretty cool

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013





cuntman.net posted:

when i was watching this part in theaters my reaction was wait what the heck are they actually doing this but looking back its actually pretty cool

I squealed like a small child when they ganked Snoke because I had him pegged from the start as a shallow pointless Palatine clone mystery box that JJ Abrams gave no thought to other than "we need a new Palpatine or something". So it was great seeing him get tooled by the real villain of the trilogy out of nowhere.


Shame we never got the conclusion of that narrative arc, but I'm cool with that.

Gnome de plume
Sep 5, 2006

Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.
I've only watched it a couple of times and choose to preserve it in my memory that way as something that was pretty ok

BaconCopter
Feb 13, 2008

:coolfish:

:coolfish:
The Kylo & Rey fight scene was pretty solid as was the Kylo vs Luke one. Out of all the typical complaints I have about TLJ Luke dying or whatever from force telesharting isn't one of them.

The warp kill looked really loving awesome, it's really too bad about every single other aspect of the scene.

It is pretty rad that so many people seemed to get a lot of enjoyment out of the flick! It totally ruined any desire for me to see another Star Wars in theaters. I didn't even buy my own ticket :shrug: really just left wanting my time and the EU back.

And I like most of the MCU. Hell, I like Samurai Cop and all of the bad Tremors more than TLJ.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Inverted Offensive Battle: Acupuncture Attacks Convert To 3D Penetration Tactics Taking Advantage of Deep Battle Opportunities
Third-best is probably correct, yeah. The only thing that's actually bad in it is space-Leia. Canto Bight is goofy but it is teaching a new generation of children that we must eat the rich, and that's a good thing.

Tiberius Christ
Mar 4, 2009

finally some last jedi positivity, i like rose and feel bad she got snubbed in rise of skywalker and rian johnson is a talented writer that got all his plot points cucked by jj

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat

nine-gear crow posted:

Snoke...shallow pointless Palatine clone

Yeah about that

Prince Myshkin
Jun 17, 2018
ROTS is the third-best Star Wars but TLJ and ROTJ duke it out for fourth in my personal ranking.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013





C-Euro posted:

Yeah about that

Don't tell people about the Snoke jars :ssh:

Gnome de plume
Sep 5, 2006

Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.
Turns out it was all


















Snoke and mirrors

Hitlersaurus Christ
Oct 14, 2005

The Last Jedi is definitely in my top 4 and honestly from a filmmaking standpoint up there near Empire, but that Leia scene man... Yeesh.

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
Agreed, after the Lucas Star Wars and the Ewok Star Wars comes The Last Jedi Star Wars.

McCloud
Oct 27, 2005

zoux posted:

People are irl mad about one of the most striking visual scenes in the whole ennead because of tactical realism

It's me, I'm the nerd mad about that scene

ANIME AKBAR
Jan 25, 2007

afu~
The dark side hole scenes were where my interest peaked in the entire trilogy. It looked like we were finally going to get some new force-lore. But nope, then then someone slapped the writers and told them to put in more superpowers instead.

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.



for all tljs faults i still loving love this

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


nine-gear crow posted:

but why purple hair prom dress lady make spaceships go boom explain movie EXPLAIN

PURPLE HAIR!!!! GODDAMN!!!! SJWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOMEN CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


PeterWeller posted:

It's the best shot and best acted Star Wars. It cheekily steals from all this stuff that stole from Star Wars. It's an incredibly good duck whistle for rooting out chuds.

It's easily the third-best Star Wars.

tbqh im not gonna lie, i like it over rotj

ANIME AKBAR
Jan 25, 2007

afu~
Wait how could anybody dislike the lightspeed ramming scene, explain

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


holy gently caress, my ranking is

ANH > ESB > TLJ > ROTJ > ROTS > TFA > TROS > DONT REMEMBER TPM = NEVER REALLY SAW AOTC

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


ANIME AKBAR posted:

Wait how could anybody dislike the lightspeed ramming scene, explain

"purple haired sjw did it"

Jose Oquendo
Jun 20, 2004

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

Pollyanna posted:

holy gently caress, my ranking is

ANH > ESB > TLJ > ROTJ > ROTS > TFA > TROS > DONT REMEMBER TPM = NEVER REALLY SAW AOTC

ROTS and AOTC are loving dog rear end ugly films so I put them lower. TPM, for all its faults, looks really good and it has a certain amount of heart to it. Like, George actually did try, he just failed. The Disney films are all soul-less cash grabs that were written by a committee in an attempt to appeal to every last human being on Earth.

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zya0yW129ss

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


I like 1/2~3/4 of return of the jedi

jabbas palace is alright

Luke’s B plot after jabba is really good

space battle over Endor is alright

Endor itself suuuuuuuucks I hated it

c3po being hosed with was funny

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


I liked about 3/4 of tlj, besides:

- canto bight is a good set piece but isn’t well integrated into the rest of the plot
- the slow chase is boring and frustrating
- the last 30~45 minutes are disney frantically trying to deny progress in Star Wars so they can sell more poo poo

crait is really cool except for the thematic backtracking the movie does

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

McCloud posted:

It's me, I'm the nerd mad about that scene

:hai:

ANIME AKBAR posted:

Wait how could anybody dislike the lightspeed ramming scene, explain

It upends the whole setting lol. It’s WWII battleships and airplanes and samurai sword fighting and cowboy outlaws but in space with lasers because all that poo poo is cool, but then they try to introduce realism to a series absolutely not designed around it. If you can just strap a hyperdrive to an asteroid and fling it at your enemy why bother with star destroyers and poo poo. People complained about TROS kinda lamely saying “oh that was one in a million, we can’t do it again” but if they didn’t do that then the audience would just be asking “okay why don’t they just fling another ship at the Emperor from half a galaxy away”

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Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
It's basically like when a main character dies in some kind of supernatural series but then gets resurrected. Like yeah maybe it's dramatic but congrats now you've essentially made death a non-issue in your series and the next time someone dies you're gonna have to explain why they can't resurrect that one too.

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