I tried remaining spoiler free as well. I caught a few spoilers, but nothing in context. I enjoyed the movie immensely and caught, I felt, almost everything. I did miss the Royal Cameos and Tom Hardy, though. I've been a fan since the 90s, and will continue to be so for the rest of my life. I thought this hit the chords as a SW flick on every level. It had humor, it had stakes, it felt like a SW movie to me, a lot more than TFA did. I mean, the biggest fault of TFA was that it was too much like ANH. Now, we get a new SW movie that is unexpected in every way yet still manages to feel like a SW movie in every sense... and fans don't want that either? I had one friend who criticized it by calling it too much like an 80's movie and a Flash Gordon movie. But that's what it's supposed to be! SW is an early 80s franchise, which Lucas created to evoke Flash Gordon serials. Literally, the biggest compliment you can give to a SW movie is to compare it to Flash Gordon! However, I was confused by the kid at the end. I mean, I got that he's kinda meant to represent the "child in all of us" but I feel like it could have been a lot better done.
For me, TLJ may just be a contender with ESB for my favorite SW movie. Anybody who is still saying it's a rehash of ESB hasn't watched the film
That and his beard was missing gray hair.
You'll also notice (and this had to be pointed out to me) that he doesn't make footprints in the salt crust on Crait. What tipped me off was the Skywalker saber magically repaired.
Was anyone else irritated that Luke referred to a lightsaber as a "laser sword"?
Was this just Rian trying to provoke and unbalance the fandom?
I think it was supposed to be Luke being purposely flippant to Rey.
So who's making Rose's Resistance ring? That was pretty cool.. kind of reminiscent of WWII era spy gear
Definitely on my list of wants from this movie.
I’ve been watching lots of reviews online and on YouTube and the one thing I can’t figure out is the negative ‘Leia Poppins’ mentions.
Last time I checked:
- Mary Poppins is awesome
- Everyone loves Mary Poppins
- Being compared to Mary Poppins is a compliment and an honor
Like people should be saying “When Leia did her Force-fly in space back to the ship that was awesome ! Just like Mary Poppins !!”
I'm convinced that Mary Poppins wouldn't even be brought up if GotG2 hadn't made her culturally relevant.
If setting an abandoned cruiser to jump to lightspeed though an enemy ship can cause so much damage, what is stopping the Rebels from rigging up remote control capital ships and just jumping them through the Death Stars or other enemy Capital ships? I'm having a hard time accepting how easy this was, unless the Mega Star Destroyer in TLJ had it's shields down, it worked far to easily IMO. I'm afraid the writers might not have thought about the implications this creates.
Because that would be terrorism, and the Resistance wants to be seen as a legitimate counter offensive and not just a bunch of angry rebel rousers plowing their vehicles into crowds like some ISIS goon.
I have a theory, based on the fact that life = the Force. In ESB, Yoda said that life creates the Force, and helps it grow, right? So, it'd make sense that more life = more Force to draw from.
Take, for example, the top pic. Ben can't fully form a corporeal Force Ghost because the planet Hoth has barely any life besides a few permafrost sucking carnivores and herbivores.
But he can on Dagobah, because the entire planet is so full of life!
He can't form a body AT ALL on the Death Star because it's all durasteel. There's no life at all for Ben to draw the Force from except a couple thousand troops.
Yoda and Luke thus can perform great feats of the Force on Ach-To because the planet is SO in tune with the Force.
This is further supported by the Mortis Arc from TCW, where Qui-Gon, despite never finishing the training to become a Force Ghost, is able to become one because it's a conduit of the Force.
I'm not bummed about Rey's parents, it's nice to know though.
I doubt that yarn Kylo spun was really Rey's parents. Kylo was doing what all Dark Siders do best: being deceitful and lying to get what he wanted... an apprentice as powerful as Rey.
And BTW, this movie did have another death star. Sure, it was smaller and sat on the ground, but it was yet, another death star
I'm confused about this, actually. Finn describes it as a miniaturized piece of Death Star technology... but then is it fueled by kyber crystals? If so, why is the color of the beam not green like other kyber fueled super laser weaponry?