The Last Jedi - General Movie Discussion

I personally really like the movie !! I think the characters are pretty great and the story is flowing.

obviously there is a lot of criticism over the sequels and everyone is entitled to their own view, but I love them !! The way Luke is rebellious towards training a new generation of Jedi due to Kylo’s fall is great and the expansion on Rey’s force abilities is incredible ! I would personally not of changed much to this movie as I think it is a solid performance from Disney.

would love to know others thoughts !!

 

More from Sariah Wilson on her interview with RJ

 

I hope Rian’s trilogy happens. I think it could be very good

 

According to that same interview it is still in the works, not canceled!

 

why, of all the films , I thought it the weakest of all, and that includes the awful prequels, in fact it put me off the whole franchise, particularly with all the nonsense spewed forth by lucas films and disney employees on social media,

 

I love the Last Jedi. Of all the films, I thought it was the strongest of all, and a return to form following the prequels. I don't pay attention to what is said on social media and I certainly don't let what might be said there by Lucasfilm or Disney employees influence my opinion of a film, because it has nothing to do with the quality of the movie itself.

 

The awful prequels are in the bottom of my list for hundreds of reasons. Even TROS that took a strange way, for my taste, is a better movie than any of the PT.

Answering your question in a briefly way (because TLJ was already dissected by a lot of members of these foruns):

- Here we see the best Luke Skywalker, in an artistic way, with Mark Hamill being perfect in his acting skills. Also we see the beautiful of Luke's arch, from a desolated man that isolated himself in the island untill becoming a legend and an inspiration to the galaxy, at the end of the movie;

- The movie is full of "little details" and plays with the subject of duality in an intelligent way;

- Most beautiful photography and visuals of the saga. Especially in Crait and in the throne room;

- Canto Bight, love everything there.

 

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cool, I am about character arc and writing, the visuals are not that important to me , i live in the most beautiful part of the world
so io didnt like that rey was made all powerdul from day 1, luke had to work for it

 

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they had established that luke was a good pilot back in tattine, and has at least some minimal training from ben, and needed to be rescued by han at the end, he wasnt all powerful from day 1

 

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luke had some training, rey had non

then fast forward to her meeting with luke, still no training and is more powerful tahn kylo and luke, luke had force but still needed training on dagoba from yoda and had 30+ yeas of experience over rey who had no training and no experience fighting or force.

 

And where is that?

 

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there are many places here that would be a great back drop for a movie like star wars

 

Very nice. The first one kind of looks like Ach to.

 

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it is home

 

I just recently watched the ST again over a few weekends in order (7, 8 and then 9). As many know here, I enjoyed TFA and TROS but have been a critic of TLJ as I don't hate the movie, but the portrayal of Luke in the movie just never sat well with me.

This time I watched TLJ in the context that Luke KNEW that Rey was a Palpatine (as he said in TROS to her that even Leia knew). I know this is only my intrepretation, but Luke's portrayal works better for me now as I think that Rey being a Palpatine and wanting to be a Jed is a no-go for him. That's where the lightsaber flip comes from as he's almost saying, "Are you kidding me, you want a descendent of the most evil man in the galaxy to be trained to be a Jedi?????" Especially after what happened with Kylo Ren, Rey training and possibly turning to the darkside would be a double whammy to the galaxy.

Obviously by the end of the movie, he sees the error of his ways with Rey and comes back to protect the Resistance. This is furthered in TROS where he gives Rey the talk she needs to coax her back to reality that she has to face Palpatine. But my context for Luke is that he didn't want to train a Palpatine, and I know that many will disagree because that wasn't Rian Johnson's context (at the time), but it works for me.

 

That was a question that could have been asked about Luke. Especially when, as far as we knew at that time, Vader was the most evil man in the galaxy. In fact Yoda more or less did ask it.

I think Luke’s reluctance is credible even without her ancestry coming into it. The question of whether he’s equipped and suitable to train anybody to be the galaxy’s new hope is just as relevant on its own.