Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Dec. 22nd, 2017 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightWent to see The Last Jedi last night.
Really enjoyed it.
Slight spoilers behind cut.
Okay, it was maybe a little long and I have no idea what they're going to do about Princess Leia in the final movie, given that she's still alive at the end of this one, but other than that, I thought it was great and I don't really understand the backlash. I've heard one exists, but am not interested enough to do a lot of searching to discover the reasons for it.
However, I did read this article on Vox, which not only analyses the various complaints about the movie in what seems to me a pretty even-handed way, but also illustrates many of the reasons why I like it (and, incidentally, if not entirely relevantly to this post, explains why I prefer the LotR movies to the books).
Speaking of LotR, I was on my own on Tuesday evening for the last time before Christmas and took it into my head to watch the extended version of the final Hobbit movie. What a disappointment. Nothing else of any interest at all. Just lots and lots of extra fighting.
Really enjoyed it.
Slight spoilers behind cut.
Okay, it was maybe a little long and I have no idea what they're going to do about Princess Leia in the final movie, given that she's still alive at the end of this one, but other than that, I thought it was great and I don't really understand the backlash. I've heard one exists, but am not interested enough to do a lot of searching to discover the reasons for it.
However, I did read this article on Vox, which not only analyses the various complaints about the movie in what seems to me a pretty even-handed way, but also illustrates many of the reasons why I like it (and, incidentally, if not entirely relevantly to this post, explains why I prefer the LotR movies to the books).
Speaking of LotR, I was on my own on Tuesday evening for the last time before Christmas and took it into my head to watch the extended version of the final Hobbit movie. What a disappointment. Nothing else of any interest at all. Just lots and lots of extra fighting.
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Date: 2017-12-22 10:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's a very good description. I also can cope with the porgs after knowing the reason for them - though am a bit disgusted to realise this was actually filmed during the breeding season. They should have waited, to minimise the disruption. Puffins would all have been gone by the end of July. :(
As someone pointed out, few people seem to hate Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans.
This does appear to be the case, and I don't really understand it - especially if much of it derives from a belief that the film is disrespectful to Jedi tradition (which was basically made up as it went along by George Lucas and others - and in fact made some kind of sense to me in this film for the first time ever). Anyway, my son-in-law is a huge Star Wars fan and he really liked it.
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Date: 2017-12-22 10:38 pm (UTC)damn kids today think you can ruin Star Wars even though they never saw The Phantom Menace in theatres grumble grumble get off my lawn
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Date: 2017-12-22 10:55 pm (UTC)Heh! And midichlorians? What on earth are those? I've forgotten.
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Date: 2017-12-22 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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