Star Wars Episode VIII
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- fadein110
"But it's a kids film"
- prophetone5
Just saw it... ‘that’ scene with Laura Dern might be the most badass, coolest thing to happen in all the films. Gawdamm!
- that silence, then...
the sound design in this scene alone got me. turn it up to 11!jaylarson
- that silence, then...
- thumb_screws2
I really dug it. I like where it’s going. Really want to watch it again.
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The silence hyperspace smash, fark that was amazing.
The snoke room fight scene was beautiful.
Ghost Luke v Kylie reminded me of the maul v keno I fight in rebels.
- Kylie like in Kylie Minogue?!?!?!oey
- Except Luke and Kylo didnt actually fight. There was no lightsaber fights in this movie.CygnusZero4
- Kylie Minogue/ kylo ren I get them mixed up.thumb_screws
- Where is this franchise going?antonyjwhite
- Luke died?ok_not_ok
- Kylie Jenner SoloHayoth
- Watched it again and liked it much more the second time.thumb_screws
- fadein111
I'm going in. Please be good.
- It will be better than you fearspl33nidoru
- it was a mess of a film but with some v.encouraging attributes. A good few attempts at originality. Need to see again, a lot to take in. Something quitefadein11
- refreshing about it's shambolic nature. Some serious faults though but I would still rate it considerably higher than Force Awakens.fadein11
- lol @ downvote for not automatically liking it.fadein11
- kona7
My son and I just got back from the 3D imax showing.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and at times felt like a kid again.
Bonus points for making me exclaim "NO WAY" more than 3 times.
- the best part of the film was the fact I could take my son to see a star wars film!mugwart
- Totally agreekona
- sweet!
can't wait to see it. I've been avoiding all trailers and any information on the last few episodes and it's way better going to see them knowing nothingMiguex - No way? At the tittie milk scene? The 3 lessons scene or the island care takers?Hayoth
- lol Hayoth. My son gave me the most puzzling look and I said "It's like cow milk" and he just goes "oh, it was milk." fuck me he's 8. How does he know this stufkona
- ^ hahaha blame netflix!mugwart
- ArmandoEstrada2
**SPOILER**
So Poe got 90% of the rebels killed and he's still hanging around?
- The girls liked him and let him off. Ludicrous.fadein11
- lol armandokona
- Yeah this bugged me too.thumb_screws
- kona0
fan theory / spoiler
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ok. so it's obvious kylo and rey are brother and sister correct?luke said he was training a few kids to be jedi and ben was one of them. when luke confronted ben, ben brought his hut down on luke, and thinking luke had turned (or the jedi were bad) burned the place down, stole the millenium falcon, and headed off to jakku to drop off his sister whom he wanted as far away from the jedi and/or siths as possible. it explains why the falcon was on jakku and helps explain why ben has a pretty obvious soft spot for her.
then, ben took the remaining jedis in training to the dark side. snoke knows ben and rey are brother and sister and it's why he could connect the two of them maybe? also why ben killed snoke to save his sister and try to get her to join his side. I think ben wanted to kill snoke anyways because he was a big bully and this was just icing on the cake.
the guards they fought were the other jedi ben took from training which is why they fought so well.
all of this leads up to the inevitable.... "Rey... I AM your brother" but it will sound like this
right?
- oh comon youtube.
@0:57kona - nahhsince1979
- too easy?kona
- In the flashback of Rey being sold, she was only about 5 years old and had lived on that junk planet her whole life I think.PhanLo
- I hope they are not related. I reckon Rey will be used to move the story away from the skywalkers.thumb_screws
- I think Rey will have an origin more like Anakin/Vader, come from nothing.thumb_screws
- ...but then kylo mentiond her parents were drunks and gamblers. Could be a dig at Han if they are bro & sis?thumb_screws
- I want Kylo and Rey to have steamy sex and then battle when he refuses to turnsince1979
- Or maybe she turns bad for the sex but then realizes her mistake but gets preggosince1979
- If she goes bad for the sex and gets Preggo, then goes back to good. Has a mini kylo Rey, does this make mini kylo Rey inherently dark side?thumb_screws
- he becomes jarjarsince1979
- When she asks the mirror to show her parents and it shows her, I thought of Anakin and the way he was conceived, but it's probably not that.sofakingback
- So if they're brother and sister, Leia and Han just sort of forgot they had Rey?ETM
- Han’s love child? He probably has a few dotted around the galaxy.thumb_screws
- Doubt it. Nobody seems to recognize Rey.pango
- Vulcan Mind-Wipedkona
- Luke is gayi_was
- Agreed.since1979
- If not gay then asexual.since1979
- Even if she was Han's love child, Leia has the Skywalker genes, not Han.ETM
- oh comon youtube.
- sofakingback0
Finally got out to see it.
***SPOILERS***
I really liked it for it's entertainment factor and because I love the series. Tons of beautiful shots and the action scenes were bad-ass, I demolished my popcorn on the first fight scene! lol. That Poe attack was fire!
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As for the story, mmmmm... it's ok. I feel like whats holding it back is the fact that there's an expectation that things will follow the previous events... like Rey and Kylo being related. Why not just make her someone else's kid and just leave it at that?
When the series decides to go in it's own direction and break away from the other movies, then the story will be compelling.
Don't get me wrong, it should still be grounded in the canon timeline, but theres no need to re-live the "I am your father" moments. I think Rogue One did this really well, they stayed with in their parameters and made a completely new story.
Also, there's just some weird stuff going on. Who the fuck was Snoke??? and why was he even around??? Was he just hangin out waiting for the Emperor to fail so he can make his move??? Is it safe to say there's a bunch of Sith Lords out there just waiting for their turn?
What the hell was up with Leia in space?
I don't know, some stuff I'm just ignoring lol.
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"Favorite Scene"
I gotta say it's Luke fighting Kylo, I think they did that right. Technically Luke would be a sharp as fuck mentally and that was the way to bring him into the action.Although, bringing that Swing out of the water and giving us a last glimpse of fighter pilot Luke would have been dope too.
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"Coulda Been Epic Scene"
The throne room scene was awesome and I absolutely love way they killed Snoke, dope, dope, dope.But I think there was a miss in the red guards. They looked way cooler before, the weapons were meh and the fight sequence wasn't as good as it could have been. That could have been Jedi movie history right there, both Jedi and Sith ripping through red guards in super dope choreographed fighting. instead it's just a cool scene. (I know I'm asking way too much, it was damn good)
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"Wow Scene"
When the ambassador did a kamikaze into the fleet. God damn what a fuckin move! Beautifully done. Legend.----
Anyway, great flick. They better not be brother and sister.
P.S. Whats gonna happen with Leia?
- Luke and Kylo didnt fight. Luke just stood there and dodged him.CygnusZero4
- There was no lightsaber fights in this movie.CygnusZero4
- There were no light saber fights in any of the 3 originals either!monospaced
- I know, that's what made it dope. Just like a master allowing you to defeat yourself instead of attacking you. it's perfect.sofakingback
- sofakingback0
Also, what was the point of Finn’s meeting of Rose and side mission? It lead to nothing right???
It felt like there were a lot of these moments... I just watched it so I’m trying to think if I missed something there... the force sensative kid in the end? Thats the reason?
- the point was failuresince1979
- hmm... kinda lame.sofakingback
- yeah failure. over and over. the rebelion whittled down to a handful of people... leading us to ep IX.inteliboy
- Not everyones a winner, dudesince1979
- It was realistic. Sometimes life is pointless.yuekit
- well, thats all fine. But when they force it into the story like that it's just odd.
You're on the run, can't escape but you have squeeze in a side mission???sofakingback - Escape undetected. Have an adventure that has nothing to do with the story... just to echo what Yoda said already made clear? mmmmm... ok.sofakingback
- Fanboys always talk about Empire being great. Did they just go for that mood? So the next one can have woks again?PhanLo
- it felt nothing like Empire, a SW film like Empire won't ever happen on Disney's watch.fadein11
- It's point was to remind us all that meat-eating rich people are bad (and also to set up broom boy Jedi for Johnson's new batch of movies)MondoMorphic
- inteliboy0
The fact there is so much debate means at the very least it's an interesting film.
As I watched it I was 0_0 the entire time. But then you read the criticisms and they are kind of true. So I guess the lesson is you can enjoy the shit out of something even though it's flawed. Something that a lot of online Star Wars fanboys can't seem to grasp.
- I like lots of flawed movies. I view so few movies as perfect. Fargo being a movie I think is pretty perfect. But this just goes against star wars lore!CygnusZero4
- Rian took way too many liberties with this.CygnusZero4
- the flaws were a little extreme at times to enjoy the shit out of it. 6.5/10fadein11
- But I rate Force Awakens 4/10 for reference point.fadein11
- sofakingback-2
- ahem, timelinesince1979
- lol, you got it.sofakingback
- so funny.since1979
- this guy makes good hitler vidssince1979
- watch the transformers one where he kills himselfsince1979
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- section_0140
Saw it over the weekend. Enjoyed it as much as I've enjoyed any Star Wars movie. Which is to say, I really liked it.
That said, I was ready to leave before it was over. Felt unnecessarily long to me. It could have been under two hours, and still had every important part of the story.
- Lop off all that Finn/Rose BS and presto, problem solved.MondoMorphic
- i'm cool with a 4 hour star wars movie. have an intermission like days of yorejaylarson
- ernexbcn0
It sucked!
- Noggin0
LIked, not loved.
Felt like there were some Lucas-prequel moments of cheese (kids in the stables etc).
Way too much crammed in and agree on the Finn/Rose side story was just to keep Finn part of the movie.
- The whole casino segment reeked of prequel. The cops, the bad parking gag, the riding of the beasts...ETM
- BK0
Why not just lightspeed your ship into the mother ship as move 1? An effective technique!
- also they've mastered worm holes but not remote control or auto pilot? or just leave a droid on there, why the human sacrifice?_niko
- The answer to everything in the Star Wars universe is crashing something into something or finding a critical weakness.BK
- Well to be fair, the idea to turn around and hyperspace ram the ship would likely not have occurred to an auto pilot program or a droid.ETM
- Lol but the droid could have been programmed to turn around and hyperspace the ultra-super-mega star destroyer #2futurefood
- yeah exactly_niko
- futurefood-1
Just saw it last night. I'm done with star wars
- Quitter!BK
- Movie was good. I just feel like they didn't give proper closure to the Luke saga. Plus Poe is a reckless cunt which led to the needless deaths of many rebelsfuturefood
- Someone else here mentioned same thing about Poe lol. But as the filmmaker said through kylo, kill the past...futurefood
- I honestly don't care to see episode IX, at least not in theatresfuturefood
- OBBTKN0
My daugther saw it yesterday, and she told me it was that she most liked from the saga... i'm not into SW, and usually wait until they're in torrent, it seems i'm going to do the same this time too
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- Vaguely tedious story, bro.face_melter