Star Wars: The Last Jedi

[Sir Slash]

I would eat a porg before I would suck a giant seal tit. That WAS a tit, right? Please GOD let it have been a tit! Of course, Luke was on that island a very long time....

[mirth]

He grew up on blue "milk"

[mirth]

https://twitter.com/AngryJoeShow/status/942985473676496896

[BanzaiCat]

Oh, great. Might have to skip that last one.  :(

[mirth]

http://www.newsweek.com/save-star-wars-angry-fans-petition-have-last-jedi-abandoned-and-remade-752222

[JudgeDredd]

^
ffs 

I'm going to see it again tonight.  >:D

[mirth]

It's interesting to note the huge disparity between the critic and audience ratings for Last Jedi

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_last_jedi

[Sir Slash]

No worries. Now that Disney owns everything, they can have Doc Strange use the Time Stone to go back and remake all the shitty movies.  O0

[mirth]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/movies/the-last-jedi-fans-critics.html

[JasonPratt]

He grew up on blue "milk"

My feelings bounced around on that one. I kind of appreciated the callback to the blue milk from the original SW (now Ep4), but it was so intentionally off-putting, but so was Yoda after his years of depressed solitude, so I got that idea, too, but then the overall thrust of the movie's theme seemed to be OLD STAR WARS SUX KILL IT LET IT DIE ACCEPT OUR HAND FOR THE GLORIOUS FUTURE WE WILL BUILD TOGETHER... And in that context, I have trouble appreciating the gag as intended to have any positive value.  :-\

[JasonPratt]

Red Letter Media eschews the usual framing device for Half in the Bag and goes straight to the surprisingly nuanced review.

Short version: it's a beautiful mess like Homer Simpson's makeup shotgun. "But Homer, you set it on whore!"

(I realize they're being metaphorical, but the metaphor seems a bit broken: aesthetically it wasn't a mess.)

[JasonPratt]

Haven't seen it yet - but did we all come out of the original trilogy going OMG that was aaamaaazing or did we bitch and moan like we're doing now but it's faded away in glorious rose tinted loveliness

I came out of the original trilogy going OMG that was aamaaazing -- with some caveats (Ewoks? sigh). One of those caveats was young me being a little disappointed that ESB was so different, and not in a way I was comfortable with.

But even then I respected ESB. Young-teen me (tween?) might not have been able to articulate why, but old geek me can articulate it: the film respected what it was deconstructing and transgressing expectations about; and it respected me / the audience; and it was competent in differentiating its plot. Also, it introduced a number of genuinely new things that turned out to be worth introducing.

None of those seem true, to me, about TLJ.

As a further comparison, I am fully and sometimes painfully aware of shortcomings in the prequel trilogy. But I have never hated them; I have always respected them (overall, I mean it's hard to respect Jar Jar); and I have gladly rewatched them all, many times, and of my own free will.

The same is true for R1 and Ep7, although naturally to a lesser extent on rewatches since those are much newer films.

I cannot imagine intentionally watching TLJ again, except as a means to something else (e.g. spending time with the nieces, or as a plot bridge once Ep9 has come out and proven its own worth.) I can't even imagine buying it for my collection.

[BanzaiCat]

I watched a bit of RLM's Last Jedi "nerd crew podcast" video. It took me a few seconds before I realized they were trashing it. Subtle, those guys.

[GDS_Starfury]

do any of you people know how to just have fun and enjoy something without nitpicking it to pieces?

[BanzaiCat]

do any of you people know how to just have fun and enjoy something without nitpicking it to pieces?

Only by keeping it to 10 words or less.