OT: Star Wars The Last Jedi

OT: Star Wars The Last Jedi Dec 19, 2017 12:53:06 GMT

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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 19, 2017 12:53:06 GMT

Dec 18, 2017 23:07:46 GMT @johnthehumble said:

Dec 18, 2017 19:18:34 GMT Rey Kahuka said:

No way TFA had this much comedy. Hux is an absolute clown. Luke is a clown. The Rose character is mentally handicapped. Del Toro's character talks like Roger Rabbit. The story doesn't even make sense. I've gone into detail on the TLJ thread on the Star Wars board so I'm not going to get into spoilers here. TFA wasn't that great either, but TLJ cranks the forced humor to a whole new level and ruins a beloved character to boot.

I also need to take you to task over this comment:
Rogue One is arguably the best overall film in the Star Wars saga. There are emotional stakes and every central character pays the ultimate price. There were zero emotional stakes in this movie. It was all comedy.

I agree with you that TLJ wasn't good; maybe I'm not as harsh as you since I gave it a 6 out of 10, and you sound like you're giving it a 1 or 2. But I wouldn't have a problem lowering the score a bit more, to a 5, maybe. And yes, I absolutely loved Rogue One. That was a poignant, beautiful movie with true character development and true emotion, and in a movie, R1, that also had good action and suspense, and tied up perfectly with Episode IV, actually giving to Episode IV more substance, by the means of realizing how many sacrifices the Resistance had to make to even get to the initial scene of Episode IV.

But the one point I don't agree with you, is that I found this movie TLJ pretty humorless. I don't really mind the Star Wars brand of humor (I actually like it), as in Hans Solo's snide remarks, R2D2, Chewbacca, and so forth. This movie? When they tried, it seemed phony and not funny. The movie actually felt too somber to me and without the Star Wars humor trademark. So I don't think they "cranked" the humor; I don't think it was all comedy; I think they just weren't good about it.

I see where you're coming from. In a way I think you're being even more harsh than I am regarding the humor. I thought some of it connected, it was just too forced, all the time. The movie did a few interesting things too, I wouldn't give it a 1. But I'd probably say 3 and I honestly don't ever need to watch it again.