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This may be stupid but wouldn't it be cool if they used an Earl of Sandwich-type character (a person in full gentleman/dandy clothes with a giant mascot sandwich head) as a Jedi Master or a Sith Lord? :)
 
My company bought the entire IT staff tickets for the the opening day showing, so I'll be there. My wife and I are seeing it in 3D IMAX the next day too.
 
Ok, bought my ticket for 10:45pm showing on Friday night. Small town so figured there would still be tickets left. Thought it was funny that there's only one other movie being showing that day besides Star Wars because they are using up all the theaters for TLJ. :P
 
R1600Turbo
Thought it was funny that there's only one other movie being showing that day besides Star Wars because they are using up all the theaters for TLJ.
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Theatres are contractually required by Disney to show TLJ on their biggest screens, non-stop for a month, or risk having to pay 70% of ticket price to Disney, instead of the already steep 65%... it's a somewhat risky proposition for some theatres that are already struggling to make money. How much of the cinema do you give over to a title that might mean you only breakeven...
 
Just saw TLJ, it's a bit late over here so I won't say much.
I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be. It started off alright, then felt like barely anything was happening (especially during that segment with Finn and Rose in that wealthy city), then there was too much going on towards the end.

Snoke was a waste of a good character, just like Darth Maul in TPM. And there was a bit too much humour for my taste. I'm fine with some humour, but it did feel a bit cheesy at some points.

The film as a whole felt rushed at some points but too long at others. It was enjoyable but I'd say that it was worse than all the other sequels. At least the porgs weren't as annoying as I thought they would be (though I found Rose to be quite annoying).

Also, puppet Yoda as a force ghost was a nice touch.
 
Hopefully going to beg my folks to see it on Sunday. I hate having to wait the couple fays after release when everyone on Youtube is doing review videos, with spoilers, of course.

Read through a few spoiler tags on this page that didn't give anything major away. :cheers: Seems alot of folks have mixed reviews.

I'll just have to wait and see.
 
I went to watch TLJ today.

Spoiler-Free: Found it 100x better than TFA, TLJ solved a lot of issues I had with TFA. While TLJ still had a lot of borrowed stuff from Episode V, it was much more transformative from its source material making it seem much more new and unique and not something I could've skipped because I've seen it before. Ray still leaked out moments of Mary Sue but minus the ending, were a lot easier to swallow and they did retcon a little bit of the bad Mary Sue moments from TFA.

Now as a fan of the prequels and actually prefer it over the original trilogy, this could be a bias of liking it since there were moments of nothing happening but talking like in the prequels which I'm perfectly fine with but I know people don't like it.

I do like what's going on with Luke and why he wants to destroy the Jedi, if you think about it, he wants to finish it completely since the cycle would just repeat itself like it has now.

Kylo Ren is the most massive improvement, he really separated himself from Darth Vader here, started off by taking off the mask permanently, and kind of like Luke wants it all the end, the Jedi, the Sith, the past. Killing Snoke really initiated that, there is no more Sith, Kylo Ren wants to rule on his own and wants to go after the Jedi. It would be exciting to see the end, the Light Side and the Dark Side both end and we all end up with Grey.

Again, Finn would have to be my favourite character, I kinda like how he keeps coming back to place the bertayed. They also did a lot more with the metal storm trooper and it seems this isn't the end of it either. I will say Finn and Kylo Ren have proven to be much more interesting characters to watch than Rey.

BB-8 gets a lot of screentime although, I feel like it's now really OP but eh minor complaint it's cute but I really don't get why we need an edgy evil BB-8
 
Watched it last night...

The start of the movie put me off a bit. Way too many attempts at humor that didn't sit right with me. That goes with some of the humor during the rest of the movie but some of them were actually funny. It didn't really pick up for me until right around the Snoke killing battle scene (which was great) and then after that I feel there was less "fluff". Overall on initial impressions, I would give it a 7/10. I may go see it again in IMAX in a couple weeks.
 
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i've never been as conflicted about a movie as i was walking out of this one. need to see it at least one more time (or two) to gather my thoughts
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I had the same reaction. There were some really good stuff in the movie and some not so good stuff. Another viewing or two might clear some of that up.
 
My biggest complaint about the movie is that it seems like in many of the scenes the writers wrote themselves into a corner and needed to use deus ex machina to get them out of it. Also many of the things built up by the previous movie seem to have turned out to be no big deal.

It wasn't a bad movie, but it didn't feel like a traditional Star Wars story. I get wanting to branch off, but I think most audiences like the familiarity that came with the previous movies.
 
Wow, they managed to make a Star Wars film that’s almost as bad as Ep II, not impressed really. Some parts good(ish) but barely any of it feels like a Star Wars film. Feels like Disney\Marvel Hybrid film set in the SW universe. Too much ‘humour’ (aka cheesiness) and ‘cuteness’.
 
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Not really. Considering all the complaining about how similar TFA was to ANH. "It's just a copy of the original...blah...blah..."
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Yeah, I'm one of those.

I just don't think there is any point into watching TFA, it hardly does anything new or transformative. Especially since what it did was worse than in A New Hope. The Last Jedi went into new territory while being more transformative when using old material, which made stand out on its own and is something you can watch again to get the context of the story unlike TFA, as the only thing you'd be missing is the conflicted Storm Trooper angle. Just watch ANH and picture Luke as a girl, there done.

Granted The Last Jedi couldn't solve all the problems with TFA, they toned down Rey being a Mary Sure but it was still there, and they couldn't really fix how irrelevant TFA made the original trilogy feel redundant. Almost everything done in the original trilogy was invalidated, a bigger death star was built anyway, more people and planets died and Luke somehow became nothing more than a myth even though there was only a 30 year time skip. Say what you want about the prequels and how they ruined some of the characters, at least they didn't go repeat the exact same plot making the original trilogy invalidated.

I will agree that there was a little too much humour in The Last Jedi although not enough to ruin it for me.

I know I said initially that at least TFA was better than Ep II yeah that's changed for me :lol:
 
R1600Turbo
Man I hate that term...
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I don't know how else to describe Reys character though :lol:. She's the Kirito of Star Wars just without the trying too hard to be edgy part. She hasn't gone through any sort of development in these 2 movies, she's been the same from the start with the only things she did wrong was saying the Force was a floating power and being tempted by the Dark Side which all happened in The Last Jedi and didn't exactly matter too much. Everything else going wrong is because of the other characters and she often corrects them herself.

The Last Jedi pretty much retcon an excuse for Kylo Ren on why he lost to Rey in TFA because it made Kylo Ren look like a joke.

Now it is possible to make a really OP, mostly correct character enjoyable (at least to me), but if Rey is meant to be this character she needed to be written differently instead of going through the Hero's journery, and if she was meant to be written to be a Hero's journey protagonist, she needs to be able to get things wrong and learn from her mistakes as apart of that journey. Probably it's just me though, since a lot of people like her, like you said, each to our own. I just can't find her interesting.
 
So I've seen it twice now aaaand...

The casino planet stuff is so cringe worthy and a total waste of time. How can we have time to find out Rose likes horses a whole lot and she's so in touch with nature and had a rough childhood and [insert other irrelevancy here]

We're two movies in and understand more about this, pretty much pointless, side character than Rey. I also don't mind if Rey is not related to any other existing characters. I welcome it even, but at least make it clear rather than leaving the exposition to the ONE character we shouldn't trust.

The Luke stuff is fantastic though, Mark is a treasure.

I'm firmly in the 7/10 camp. The film is dragged down by Marvel quip pandering and awkwardly timed banter.

Episode 9 better have the BB-8 Vs evil BB-8 battle we were teased... :D
 

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