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» *** The Official STAR WARS EPISODE VIII: THE LAST JEDI Thread ***
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post 1537717971 12-16-2017, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted By Poppingtags
Answers are in bold. People bitched and moaned about the force awakens being too close of a remake of ANH, and now that we get something new and refreshing, people bitch that it's too different.
A lot of your critique of my points comes from "You didn't care in the original trilogy so why do you care now?". You have to understand that the lore of star wars wasn't even remotely in the same realm during the OT that it is now. We are talking 7 movies, 100's of animated tv episodes, dozens of novels, dozens of video games. I didn't care about force ghosts in ESB because the force was still very mysterious and unfleshed out. At this point the force is very fleshed out and there is a clear prescedent for what is and isn't possible.

Killing snoke took zero balls. You're retarded if you think it was ANYTHING less than a cop out. I'd allow your point about Reys parents except that they made SUCH a big deal about it in 7. It's clear they wrote themselves into a corner they couldn't be bothered to work themselves out of.

To your point about Anakin you can just stfu. Anakin phucking skywalker? the phucking chosen one?OF COURSE HE WAS OVERPOWERED, he was literally created by the force. BUT EVEN ANAKIN NEEDED TO BE PHUCKING TRAINED TO USE HIS POWERS. THATS THE PHUCKING DIFFERENCE YOU TOOLRei has recieved zero training but is already stronger than the previous GOAT Anakin. Why? Absolutely no phucking reason given as to why she is so absurdly powerful

Anakin was defeated several phucking times. Dooku cut off his hand, Obi-wan murked him, even phucking luke beat his ass in ROJ. Rei? Never phucking beaten by anyone, literally never suffers for her choices. She is a mary sue, there is no denying it at this point
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Originally Posted By PaddleBunt
A lot of your critique of my points comes from "You didn't care in the original trilogy so why do you care now?". You have to understand that the lore of star wars wasn't even remotely in the same realm during the OT that it is now. We are talking 7 movies, 100's of animated tv episodes, dozens of novels, dozens of video games. I didn't care about force ghosts in ESB because the force was still very mysterious and unfleshed out. At this point the force is very fleshed out and there is a clear prescedent for what is and isn't possible.

Killing snoke took zero balls. You're retarded if you think it was ANYTHING less than a cop out. I'd allow your point about Reys parents except that they made SUCH a big deal about it in 7. It's clear they wrote themselves into a corner they couldn't be bothered to work themselves out of.

To your point about Anakin you can just stfu. Anakin phucking skywalker? the phucking chosen one?OF COURSE HE WAS OVERPOWERED, he was literally created by the force. BUT EVEN ANAKIN NEEDED TO BE PHUCKING TRAINED TO USE HIS POWERS. THATS THE PHUCKING DIFFERENCE YOU TOOLRei has recieved zero training but is already stronger than the previous GOAT Anakin. Why? Absolutely no phucking reason given as to why she is so absurdly powerful

Anakin was defeated several phucking times. Dooku cut off his hand, Obi-wan murked him, even phucking luke beat his ass in ROJ. Rei? Never phucking beaten by anyone, literally never suffers for her choices. She is a mary sue, there is no denying it at this point
I agree with your training point, but what has she done that makes her ‘more powerful’ than Anakin?

That’s actually my problem with the movie, it’s no longer about defeating an unstoppable all powerful evil, they just killed and **** all over the Jedi/Sith lore.

Oh and who the **** is Snoke again? Where did he even come from? Why is trained in the dark side or know about the Sith? Oh wait no explanation and they killed him.
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Anyone can be a powerful jedi. No training needed.

Why not ask all stormtroopers to be jedi and carry lightsabers?

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Originally Posted By Poppingtags
Answers are in bold. People bitched and moaned about the force awakens being too close of a remake of ANH, and now that we get something new and refreshing, people bitch that it's too different.
Anakins parents weren't nobodies.

IIRC Darth Plagueis had the ability to impregnate and did so to Anakins mother. Plagueis is killed just before TPM. It's no surprise anakin is OP as phuck considering he was created by a sith lord
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Originally Posted By PaddleBunt
A lot of your critique of my points comes from "You didn't care in the original trilogy so why do you care now?". You have to understand that the lore of star wars wasn't even remotely in the same realm during the OT that it is now. We are talking 7 movies, 100's of animated tv episodes, dozens of novels, dozens of video games. I didn't care about force ghosts in ESB because the force was still very mysterious and unfleshed out. At this point the force is very fleshed out and there is a clear prescedent for what is and isn't possible.

Killing snoke took zero balls. You're retarded if you think it was ANYTHING less than a cop out. I'd allow your point about Reys parents except that they made SUCH a big deal about it in 7. It's clear they wrote themselves into a corner they couldn't be bothered to work themselves out of.

To your point about Anakin you can just stfu. Anakin phucking skywalker? the phucking chosen one?OF COURSE HE WAS OVERPOWERED, he was literally created by the force. BUT EVEN ANAKIN NEEDED TO BE PHUCKING TRAINED TO USE HIS POWERS. THATS THE PHUCKING DIFFERENCE YOU TOOLRei has recieved zero training but is already stronger than the previous GOAT Anakin. Why? Absolutely no phucking reason given as to why she is so absurdly powerful

Anakin was defeated several phucking times. Dooku cut off his hand, Obi-wan murked him, even phucking luke beat his ass in ROJ. Rei? Never phucking beaten by anyone, literally never suffers for her choices. She is a mary sue, there is no denying it at this point
That feel when luke skywalker received basic training (moving some rocks around and failing to lift the xwing out of the water) and he can go toe to toe against vader. but brb nobody has a problem with that

also, i've heard a few last jedi haters irl saying that the CGI yoda in movie 8 looked atrocious and it's embarrassing that CGI looksthat bad these days.....WHEN YODA WASN'T CGI IN 8.


posted this in another thread and i'll post it here cuz it's relevant af
I'm sorry, but this film ruined Star Wars. Here are some simple reasons why.

Obi-Wan as some kind of a hologram ghost was so cheap. His death in the last movie was extraordinarily powerful, and I thought his voice telling Luke to "use the force" was mysterious enough. But now he's basically just alive, body and all. He just glows now. Really cheap.

Mark my words, if there's a name to be put to what killed Star Wars, it will be "Yoda." WTF was that character? They put an actual muppet into a Star Wars film. I'm going to throw up. And he's supposedly this amazing master of the force, but he's also simultaneously the comic relief character? The people who made this movie hate Star Wars, and just wanted it to go to hell. That's the only theory that makes sense.

Everything about "Cloud City" (jesus christ, that name) was painfully stupid. It didn't even look like an alien planet, it looked like some sort of shiny condominium complex on Earth. Darth Vader at the end of a fancy dinner table? That scene was just so ridiculous and campy.

I'll admit, for a split second I was impressed with the big twist, that Darth Vader is Luke's father. But the more I thought about it, the less it makes sense. They clearly came up with this on the fly, because there were no hints to this in the first movie. Sure, we got a twist. But at what cost? I'll tell you what cost - there is now no way for this to be a cohesive trilogy. The makers of this film spat in the face of everything the first film tried to set up.

I'll say it - Luke Skywalker is now a Mary Sue. He goes and gets a lesson in how to navigate an obstacle course and lift some rocks from the muppet, and now suddenly he can hold his own with Darth Vader? Admittedly Vader won the duel, and thank goodness for that, but the fact that Luke was able to last as long as he did is an insult to the Darth Vader character.

Suddenly Luke can telepathically communicate with Leia?! What?! Where did that random thing come from? This movie made a mockery of the force, turning it from something that "binds the universe together" to something that all sorts of magic powers convenient to the plot can come from at any given point. Mark my words, these "force powers" will only get more ridiculous in future movies (if they even make future movies after this disaster.)

One more point on this embarrassing "Yoda" character - if he's this amazing master of the force, why don't we see him fighting the Empire? Why doesn't he go and fight Darth Vader? Yoda just stays on the same planet all the time doing absolutely nothing? What a waste.
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post 1537865711 12-18-2017, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted By bartosh
That feel when luke skywalker received basic training (moving some rocks around and failing to lift the xwing out of the water) and he can go toe to toe against vader. but brb nobody has a problem with that

also, i've heard a few last jedi haters irl saying that the CGI yoda in movie 8 looked atrocious and it's embarrassing that CGI looksthat bad these days.....WHEN YODA WASN'T CGI IN 8.


posted this in another thread and i'll post it here cuz it's relevant af
There are time jumps between each movie , in total he had about 2-3 years of training before he barley beats Vader in rotj, he got smoked in empire... got his hand chopped off
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Originally Posted By ohiostate124
so......Rey........

I refuse to believe that she is........

Spoiler!
just the daughter of 2 randoms.

Evidence:

Remember in TFA, when the random first order guy told Kylo that a girl helped Finn and BB-8 escape. He used the force to draw him in and choke him before asking “What girl?.” I always took that to mean he knew her or atleast knew of her based on the way he said it. There was recognition.

On top of that, didn’t Maz Kanata tell her that the lightsaber belonged to both Anakin and Luke and now it calls to her?

Plus, Luke mentioning how he has only seen this raw strength once before in presumably Kylo.

In The Force Awakens, with absolutely zero training, she beat a Kylo in that battle of wills and then beat him in a lightsaber duel. In The Last Jedi, still very little training, she beat several members of Snokes elite guard.

Obviously, you don’t need to be a Skywalker to be force sensitive but something has to be up for her to be THAT strong with the force.
Yeah, you're right,
I want to assume that Kylo Ren was lying to her....because if not, that would be phucking retarded to tease the audience with the mystery of her parents only for that to be the conclusion.
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big question for the strong star war nerds itt

was....
Spoiler!


Luke dead this whole time and it was just his ghosts force roaming around or did he ascend and achieve the final form of a jedi being the entire force itself?

Spoiler!
He was very much alive. He died in the same manner as yoda....dissipating into the air and leaving his robes behind. I'm sure they'll bring him back in some way as a Force Ghost.
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Originally Posted By bartosh
That feel when luke skywalker received basic training (moving some rocks around and failing to lift the xwing out of the water) and he can go toe to toe against vader. but brb nobody has a problem with that
It still made sense because Luke was his son. It makes no sense for Rey to be as powerful as she is because as far as we know.....
Spoiler!
She's just some nobody Mary-Sue with plot armor, that happens to be "force sensitive"
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Originally Posted By Maestro
It still made sense because Luke was his son. It makes no sense for Rey to be as powerful as she is because as far as we know.....
Spoiler!
She's just some nobody Mary-Sue with plot armor, that happens to be "force sensitive"
There's like 20 complaints about the new movie and this is one I'll kind of agree with. But I'll add a few talking points

1) it's coming off to me like there's some weird scale of difficulty to do force abilities. Inconsistencies. Luke can almost raise an xwing out of water with 0 training and rey can command somebody to free her with 0 training. Just because obi-wan did it with ease on tatoine doesn't mean that it's some super hard force trick. If that force trick IS really difficult, it wasn't established in OG movies. Likewise, Rey power can be established outside of these movies as well later on
Spoiler!

2) rey clearly isn't THAT powerful because snoke bopped her in the head with the lightsaber.

3) rey has previous fighting experience with her staff throughout her life so she isn't a novice fighter like luke was. There's definitely some justification to her fighting abilities


Also, multiculturalism is fine in the movie considering it's aliens and stuff but the casting for the main new actress was atrocious. She was a genuinely bad actress and they should have cast somebody else.
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This interview that Rian Johnson gave can at least shed some light on Snokes past. It doesn't necessarily save the film, but its better than nothing;

Spoiler!

http://ew.com/movies/2017/12/17/star...ed-theories/2/

“It would have stopped any of these scenes dead cold if he had stopped and given a 30-second speech about how he’s Darth Plagueis…It doesn’t matter to Rey. If he had done that, Rey would have blinked and said, ‘Who?’ And the scene would have gone on…"


For the unaware of who Darth Plagueis is;

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Originally Posted By Maestro
This interview that Rian Johnson gave can at least shed some light on Snokes past. It doesn't necessarily save the film, but its better than nothing;

Spoiler!

http://ew.com/movies/2017/12/17/star...ed-theories/2/


“It would have stopped any of these scenes dead cold if he had stopped and given a 30-second speech about how he’s Darth Plagueis…It doesn’t matter to Rey. If he had done that, Rey would have blinked and said, ‘Who?’ And the scene would have gone on…"


For the unaware of who Darth Plagueis is;

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post 1538096751 12-20-2017, 12:12 PM
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Do we need spoiler tags now I am unsure? So I'll do it regarding Snoke

Spoiler!
I mean, I was more pumped than most to find out WHO Snoke was before now.

After the way everything went down though, I kind of agree with the writer.

Snoke as we know it now was written to serve as a catalyst to Kylo Ren becoming the supreme leader. It was us fans who after The Force Awakens strongly assumed he was someone else and we all took to the internet with all that speculation and drew up all our own theories completely writing off that he may be a new creation and insisted he had to have some epic origins yet to be unveiled. Those who were letdown are SOL, but these fans did it to themselves as Snoke was not intended (at least in Episode 8) to be revealed as someone else. The script for this movie was finished before all fans screamed "OMG Snoke is Darth this, Snoke is Mace, Snoke is Luke, Snoke is.....JAR JAR BINKS!!!!!"


this has probably been covered by now, but I only skimmed through since reading this thread before movie released
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[QUOTE=Deathstroke post_id=1538096751]Snoke as we know it now was written to serve as a catalyst to Kylo Ren becoming the supreme leader. It was us fans who after The Force Awakens strongly assumed he was someone else and we all took to the internet with all that speculation and drew up all our own theories completely writing off that he may be a new creation and insisted he had to have some epic origins yet to be unveiled. Those who were letdown are SOL, but these fans did it to themselves as Snoke was not intended (at least in Episode 8) to be revealed as someone else. The script for this movie was finished before all fans screamed "OMG Snoke is Darth this, Snoke is Mace, Snoke is Luke, Snoke is.....JAR JAR BINKS!!!!!"[/spoiler][/QUOTE]This is the epitome of realization most people haven't come to realize yet.

Simply stated, fans bitched at TFA for lack of originality. They got it with TLJ and now they're bitching again.

There are a lot of good things that happened in this film.
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Ive heard they ruined the starwars series and there is a petition? Something to do with Skywalker?


I only watched the first 3 movies as I thought everything else was too much.

What is the deal did Disney kill star wars? And how bad is it?
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