Oh, BTW, Rey saved The Books. They’re on the Falcon.
This is a really well-written article.
Hollywood is the abode of a population dominated by criminals and perverts. Of course they support a world view where all is gray. They are then justified in their corruption and perversion. No one dare criticize them. There is no right or wrong, just wealth and power.
They are too foolish to understand that in such a society they themselves would be slaves. They don’t have the stomach to fight and would fall to the first Stalin who would inevitably arise in a society without right or wrong.
I agree with most of this... except... the books were NOT destoryed... Ray has them! they showed them near the end of the film in her room. Ray had already taken them when yoda burned the tree.
Sounds as if the murderous Kyhmer Rouge of Cambodia would’ve loved this movie.
These idiots do not even understand nature. Predators establish territories that they defend against their kind. Herbivores often defend their grazing grounds. It is folly to separate humans from nature. We are nature.
The Star Wars franchise is dead. It is now a zombie shambling around as SJW Wars.
Disney has sucked the life out of Star Wars as it does with every creative property it acquires. Disney no longer knows how to make movies. It only knows merchandising.
In other words, The Last Jedi was written by a loyal devotee of Karl Marx and its their message of Communism written on the back of the beloved Star Wars legend in order to spread their hate.
Is the woman the star/hero in this one?
If so, I’ll wait for the video...I’m way past tired of female heroes.
I did not like the movie, very boring.
Of the three original stars, the two who died in the movies are alive and the one who is still alive in the movie is dead in real life.
As someone who has seen all the movies but I don’t live and breathe them, this is the best and most exciting SW movie in quite awhile.
1. Why is it that the Imperial officers have the Blue bars on top but the Director himself has his Red bars on top of his uniform as if his is put on upside down?
2. Rogue One was the only Star Wars movie that didnt have the scrolling words on the start of the movie.
3. In the final scene why did the death star destroy the imperial base as there were many of their troops & equipment on the planet? There were just a handful of rebel troops on the planet to be mopped up as they were vastly outnumbered but why destroy your own base to kill a few stragglers?
I just watched Empire Strikes Back for the millionth time. 40 years of just loving these films and the characters just makes me sad the direction the franchise is taken. I’ve just decided to ignore these new films. They’re not the Star Wars I love. I’ll stick with the originals.
I didn’t hate it, and think it had some good moments. The original trilogy is still the best.
I’m not one to state what The Last Jedi is like (It’s probably better than The Force Awakens, but then again, even the Prequel Trilogy or, heck, even the Holiday Special’s probably better than The Force Awakens at this point), but I do think some statements need to be made.
First of all, regarding the whole “good and evil” bits you alluded to, the first Star Wars film might have had that (though even there, it’s a bit hazy since Obi-Wan did essentially brainwash a Stormtrooper, which does technically violate someone’s free will and thus is usually considered a villainous act), and possibly the second film, but the third film and the prequel trilogy definitely started entering gray areas the moment Obi Wan essentially claimed that truth is relative to a point of view (plus his, you know, lying to Luke about Vader’s dad and even telling him to commit patricide). Plus, in the Prequel Trilogy, there’s barely even any real difference between the Jedi and the Sith, with it even being implied that the Jedi dabble in nihilism and relativism with Obi-Wan’s infamous “Only a Sith Deals in Absolutes” retort. The novelization even implied that, for all their talk against having selfish elements, the Jedi Order’s reason for even “recruiting” Anakin to spy on the Chancellor, an explicitly borderline treasonous act, WERE inherently selfish ones in terms of ulterior motives, since Mace Windu basically made a comment that implied that sabotaging Anakin’s friendship with the chancellor was the exact reason why he was right for the job, wanting to keep Anakin under the firm grip of the Jedi Order.
As far as Lucas and the whole Rebels being Minutemen and the Empire being the Jacobins, funny you should mention that, because it turns out the Minutemen weren’t really high on Luca’s inspirations for the “heroes”, they were based on the Vietcong. The Empire, if anything, WAS based on America. And in the Prequel Trilogy, Palpatine actually took control of the Republic and turned it into an Empire via elections, and legal ones at that (if you know your history, you’d know the French Revolutionaries didn’t take power via elections, they did it by murdering the king). And speaking of which, when Lucas explained the Old Republic’s basis on history, he actually specifically stated that he based them among others on of all things Robespierre’s France (I believe his exact words were, when discussing his views on democracy and dictatorships, “Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon?”). On a similar note, in one of the books, Children of the Jedi, Leia flashes back to when the Rebels took the Imperial Palace and, well, let’s just say that the Rebels in the flashback come across as acting a LOT like the Jacobins, such as looting and shelling the Imperial Palace and slaughtering the servants regardless of race, sex, age, heck, even whether they even committed ANY crimes besides obviously having loyalty to the Empire (and what’s even WORSE is that the Imperial Palace used to be the Presidential Palace, meaning their actions meant they DESECRATED an image of the Old Republic). Don’t believe me? Read these:
http://thedailychrenk.com/2017/12/19/star-wars-always-leftie-fantasy/
https://otnesse.tumblr.com/post/162081709399/this-is-from-george-lucas-1973-notes-for-star
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sith-invites-bush-comparisons/2/
And as far as Rousseau, didn’t the Jedi basically advocate not owning anything, a whole anti-possessions clause of the Jedi Code that somehow extended to even holding any loyalty to your family due to it going down the path to the Dark Side, even advocating they should basically not even CARE if their loved one dies and not make any attempt to save them, have them die even a painful death (honestly, if you ask me, that comes across as even MORE cold and heinous. If you care for someone, you should at least make an effort to save their life from an exceedingly painful death.)? That even having sentimental feelings for family members is indicative to turning to the dark side? Yeah, last I checked, the Jedi, or at least the Prequel Trilogy Jedi, came across as being far closer to Rousseauians than the Sith/Empire, who actually said that they should be a government of LAWS instead of politicians (the Jacobins believed the exact opposite).
So far as the actual film, while I’m at times glad that it’s NOT an Empire Strikes Back clone and that they did develop Rey to have at least some degree of vulnerabilities to her character from what I’ve heard of it, I do think the story from what I heard was very poorly thought out (I’d even argue that Lucas had far more of a firm grasp on Star Wars than this did). Plus, I’m not fond of the dig against Capitalism/Free Markets made with the Canto Bight scene from what I heard, or the SJW elements which were arguably even WORSE than in The Last Jedi. And that’s not getting into how the First Order was made to be grossly incompetent a few times or the violation of the various laws of physics even by Star Wars standards (Poe’s infamous bombing run comes to mind), at least from what I heard.
Nihilism, the all-devouring force.
I just saw it.
This article gets a lot of stuff— well— wrong.
Here is a glaring Yoda does not destroy the Jedi texts. Nobody does. They are seen, safe and sound, later.
I’ll be seeing it again this Saturday with a group of extended family.
Last night I finally got around to watching “The Last Jedi” on Vudu, for about $6.00. I had put it off as I did not want to go to the theater, hate going now and it’s easier to wait for it to hit pay per view.
Well I can’t add to much to the overly negative reviews I have read here and on IMDB. It was terrible!!!!!!!
The Force has now become Magical Sorcery, they are able to do things now never in the previous films. The plot and plot holes were tremendous. The acting though was absolutely the worst I have seen and could have imagined. The Pilot playing the Han Solo want a be had no acting ability what so ever and the rest of the cast just as bad. I felt sorry for Mark Hamill, they took his Luke character and made it horrible and 180 degrees from what it was.
Carrie Fisher looked terrible and I know that there were parts where she was CGI’ed. It was like she just went through the motions. Young Darth Vader was terrible.
Too many others have reviewed this abomination so I can’t anything new, except to say Disney has destroyed the franchise. Glad I did not buy this thing.