Star Wars Episode VIII

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    It was ok. I think.

    Problem for me was I didn't eat all day then sped-drank two ciders and had a joint before I got in, then drank two more ciders whilst in there, went for three very long and bladder-destroying toilet sessions and raised my partner's significant capacity for ire.

    One of the main characters had terrible CGI and there was quite a lot of unnecessary shop-horning of second-tier characters in, but what the hey, it's star wars and much more in line with the original trilogy, so all good here.

    Agree with the points made above about who should've died and who shouldn't, but I'm not going to lie - I whooped internally when Leia did that ridiculous thing and during the bombing run and ... yeah, it was fun.

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    What I REALLY liked was the return to ridiculo-tech - the idea of WW2-era physics at play on inter-stellar capacity space ships and stuff... I mean - a bombing run? Ships being out of reach of .. why? It's space ffs, not much out there to stop projectiles! :)

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    • Oh, and whilst there was one too many attempts at humour, perhaps, I loved that interaction between Finn and Hux :)detritus
    • *shoe-horning, obviously... although with the obvious underpinning commercial reasons for their inclusion, perhaps shop-horning's not far off...detritus
    • lol @ridiculo-tech... I agree with you on thisOBBTKN
    • AT-ATs are the best example of this... all that antigrav and they build clumsy slow walkers. Didn't care when little though ha.fadein11
    • I agree with you on these. To be fair one of those characters having terrible CG was due to ... well timing!mugwart
    • I'm guessing it was all CG those parts or he/r make up artist needs more training!mugwart
    • and I liked Finn in this film.mugwart
    • ach't, I meant 'Poe and Hux' not Finn!detritus
    • the Poe & Hux comedy routine was ill timed, what was needed was tension for that opening sceneBluejam
    • ahr forgot about that bit. I liked that bit as well.mugwart
    • LOL at detritus trying to hit Star Wars like he's 18 again with the cider and doobie.microkorg
    • I've always drank and smoked for the cinema — the older I get the harder I find it to sit still for 2-odd hours staring at a screen.detritus
    • ..he says, staring at a different screen for 8 hours a day...detritus
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