• BmeBenji@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Star Wars: The Last Jedi

    I saw it the day it came out and thought it was a brilliant departure from the macguffin-based plots that had come before, and it showed so many different things that had never been in a Star Wars movie before.

    Turns out all Star Wars fans want is more of the exact same that had been in the previous 7 movies.

    • kboy101222@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I agree with the other guy somewhat - take out a lot of the casino scene and it’s the best star wars movie so far.

      I’m pissed Johnson isn’t going to get the trilogy he was promised. Instead, we got Abrams making the most corporate star wars to date, and that’s saying something

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        The casino scene is the crux of the movie. The main character - Rose - is a loyal soldier who stops a deserter ‘or her sister died for nothing.’ Planet Capitalism is where she’s disillusioned by war profiteers and makes the unsubtle decision to free their animals. By the end she prevents said deserter from repeating her sister’s sacrifice.

        The Last Jedi is an anarchist critique of of Star Wars where a rebel soldier rejects the old lie.

        I have no fucking idea how Disney decided to produce it as an actual Star Wars film.

          • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Years later, I’m still flabbergasted this isn’t the default take. The movie has deep problems, but the themes are right there in your face.

            The only way it doesn’t put “anyone can be a hero” onscreen in eight-foot-tall letters is the ending. Which sure feels like Disney checked in, went “Oh SHIT,” and forced a sudden fourth act that over-corrects back toward the status quo.

            Imagine if Rey hadn’t arrived on Krait. Kylo offers her the universe, she inhales to answer, hard cut. We don’t see either of them until the next movie. Instead, when the last gasp of the Rebellion was pushed deep into the caves, some rando side character saves them. A nobody with significant screen time watches the whimsical native fauna casually nudge giant boulders, and decides to just fuckin’ try. In an ideal reading, this character would not have dialog. She would not even have a name. Who she is aggressively does not matter. Only that she understood what Luke said and Rey ignored: the Force is in all living things.

            Nobody can own that.