TheDavisBros
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Well I guess this movie just isnt for everyone.I cried during that as well. It made me weep for the forty years of personal investment I put into Star Wars being destroyed before my very eyes.
Well I guess this movie just isnt for everyone.I cried during that as well. It made me weep for the forty years of personal investment I put into Star Wars being destroyed before my very eyes.
Sure, I'll respond. Yes, the galactic seat of government is destroyed, but that doesn't mean the entire New Republic has been destroyed. That would be to say blowing up Washington DC would be to destroy the entire United States. It doesn't. Just because the First Order has managed to take over a bunch of resource rich backwaters on the ass end of space doesn't mean they've toppled the Republic and now rule the galaxy. The heart of the Galaxy is still alive and free from the tyranny of the First Order. The First Order hasn't destroyed the New Republic. To do so, they'd have to see to destroy half the galaxy.
Why the First Order doesn't do that strategy, I don't know. Like I said, there are plenty of the same logic errors in the OT. Why didn't the Empire do that while chasing the Falcon? Why didn't anybody look out a window and say, "Hey, there's that ship we've been chasing on the back of the conning tower!" Why didn't the Empire blockade the entirety of Hoth, or why didn't the Rebellion fly off in the opposite direction of the Star Destroyers, EU explanations not withstanding.
Space ships in SW don't work like space ships in reality. This has been evident since day 1. They don't need to take off and land in linear positions. They can move freely between space and atmospheres.
As for the Wook, I'm done feeding the troll.
If someone likes a film you shouldn't tell them that they didn't. I'm like 15, and I'm looking at adults acting like grade school children insulting each over a piece of fiction! The main reason I loved ep 8 is because I actually cried when Luke was walking out to face Kylo on Crait! That was so moving and beautiful to me. Cant we let some people like the movie and some people not?
I believe those are called charter arcs. (ever heard of the hero's journey?) Also fat faced really? is that necessaryFinn the guy who escaped the Empire only to keep going back there over and over again , Rose the fat faced janitor that somehow becomes a domestic terrorist and destroys Vegas while shooting at cops and trespassing.
I did struggle with this, myself but in the end I thinks it's about how things can being more complex then what they seem (maybe like this movie ; ) and sometimes you don't know everythingHoldo and Leia 2 military leaders that wont share a plan that everyone needs to know about with their best pilot.
Isnt the sooo Star Wars!The Dreadnought, a ship with simplest of vulnerabilities that apparently is slow unmaneuverable and missing any type of adequate self defense.
Boba fett is the same (I don't like boba fett or phasma)Captain Phasma, relatively low rank for such an important character, who dies so easily and quickly with little back story,
@The Wook
You didn't like Empire when it came out?
I walked out of the cinema with my love for Star Wars firmly cemented in place.
If it took you time to realise that Empire was good, you do seem way too harsh on others.
How would the current you have talked to the post Empire you?
I believe those are called charter arcs. (ever heard of the hero's journey?) Also fat faced really? is that necessary
Boba fett is the same (I don't like boba fett or phasma)
It's about time we see people that look like regular people in Hollywood instead of glammed up, perfect barbie and ken dolls!If the face fits wear it, I'd also say that I think Ren looks like a live action version of butt-head from beavis and butt-head. Apparently one of the reasons TLJ did so poor in China was the actors weren't attractive. My chinese co-worker says that both Rose and Finn have unattractive wide noses, that chineses people dislike. Purple haired long neck Kamino/human hybrid looking Admiral Holdo looks like some underemployed over educated baker or cat sitter in a university town
Well I guess this movie just isnt for everyone.
I consider it more like Vichy France. Yes, the government is overthrown, and there's no standing official military to take on the First Order, but that doesn't mean France is destroyed any more than it means that the defiance that lives within the French people is gone.The government was destroyed and their fleet significantly reduced. And more to the point where are they? If they are capable of fighting, then where are their ships and fleets? Are they waiting for a rag-tag group of resistance fighters to save them? We don't see them anywhere, except the part where they get blowed up. Which, BTW, did happen in the inner rim...that's where the Hosnian system was. So they aren't really free from the FO's tyranny. And I hate to break it to you, but the outer part of any galaxy is actually larger than the inner part and it's on the outside. The FO rules over half of the galaxy, and has the remnants of the New Republic surrounded.
Then I guess ESB is poorly written too.They didn't send a SD because the chase was terribly written.
Seen it 3 times. I saw it the Monday after opening weekend (earliest I could get a ticket), then Christmas Day, then again New Years day.Just wondering, how many times have you guys seen TLJ?
Oh those damn millennials just ruin everything, don't they. :facepalmNo, it isn't intended for people who sat in the theater in 1977 and watched the original Star Wars. It's meant for millennials. Pass.
It's about time we see people that look like regular people in Hollywood instead of glammed up, perfect barbie and ken dolls!
Then I guess ESB is poorly written too.
I don't see how that makes a difference?Why are you so hung up on that? Empire is not ONE CONTINUOUS chase. After Hoth there are SDs and TIEs chasing the Falcon from all directoons, not tied to the Executor. Then the Falcon hides in the asteroid field and the chase is over. The moment they come out they are spotted and are about to be captured. The only thing I was scratching my head about too is that nobody saw the ship from a window. But the entire movie’s plot is not based on that.
The Empire approaches Hoth in formation over one spot, and they seem to stay in that formation the entire battle.Regarding the Hoth escape, the planet was blockaded but they cut a hole in that with disabling a SD with the ion cannon.
Maybe it’s an average American thing.I don't see how that makes a difference?
Funny you call me out on attention spam. They arrive like that yes. Then Vader tells the following to Piett:The Empire approaches Hoth in formation over one spot, and they seem to stay in that formation the entire battle.