Men as a whole, have little role in the new film other than as villains (Kylo Ren and General Hux), dutiful side characters (Finn), or incompetent hot heads (Poe Dameron). On that last count, “The Last Jedi” goes to great lengths to shame and embarrass Dameron, the only token white male among the new batch of “good guys.”
Poe Dameron emerged in “The Force Awakens” as a gutsy rebel pilot in the spirit of Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles. But in “The Last Jedi” his plot to save the Resistance fleet is both mutinous and disastrous. It ends up leading to the deaths of nearly all of his fellow fighters.
Dameron hatches this plan behind the backs of Vice Admiral Holdo, a purple haired, LGBTQQIA, #WomensMarch, leader of #TheResistance who takes command when Princess Leia, excuse me, General Organa nearly dies. Holdo is as bitchy as she sounds. Instead of revealing her plan to Dameron when he first asks, she kicks him off her bridge, calling him a “trigger happy flyboy” that “we don’t need right now.”
Yaaaaassss! Slay, Queen! Bitter, blue-haired feminists everywhere stood up and cheered at her “savage clapback” to Dameron and his “mansplaining,” I’m sure. But the effect on the film is horrendous. This Hillary Clinton clone, complete with the shrill moral superiority, exists for no other reason than to provide a ham-handed moral lesson about the importance of female leadership.
Couldn’t care less . . . Hollyweird can go to hell as far as I’m concerned. Can’t imagine anyone fussing over this.
I hear that now that Disney has cemented its alliance with Marvel they are planning a new, kid friendly edgy superhero franchise.
Deadpooh: ****s about to get surreal in the 40 Acre Wood
Haven’t seen it.
All this is completely correct.
” a purple haired, LGBTQQIA, #WomensMarch, leader of #TheResistance”
Wait, when was it estasblished in that movie that she was a Lesbian?
Nothing new . . . almost every action movie has the lead played by a woman . . . all kiddy cartoons have the woman leading the pack whenever they’re running . . . all commercials (Liberty Life, Progressive, Spectrum) have the damn dumbest men, usually fat with red hair, getting insulted by their wives. I am so fed up with these nasty anti-white-male commercials and anti-white-male movies.
Good chance to read good books.
Oh, give me a break about Rey.
Spoiler alert
She is far from perfect. She couldn’t turn whats-his-geek-face from the darkside, and it was whats-his-geek-face that ended up killing supereme leader snoke.
I will concede that while they don’t drift away from some of the well worn out plot devices, like having ot destroy a death-star (or Starkiller Base, or Dreadnaught in the latest one), they have drifted almost completely away from good/evil and tried to turn everyone into equivocating, bi-polar sacks of contradiction.
...but even that isn’t new. Remember when Luke at to turn dear old dad away from the darkside. We all knew that Darthy was really just a good guy holding out as a mole under the clutches the mean ol’ Emperor. Right?
Saw it.
Problem wasn’t feminism so much as sloppiness.
It is a mess. Like Homer Simpson’s make-up gun.
Men as a whole, have little role in the new film other than as villains...
However, as the show progressed, I noticed something odd about the way the characters acted. And then I spotted it: Though the cops were played by a man and a woman, they were actually two female roles. If they had replaced the male cop with a female actor and changed the name to Cindy or something, the character would have made more sense.
And the bad guy really just acted like a regular male.
Once I spotted that, the rest of the show was both funny and aggravating. The latter because I knew what they were doing.
That’s feminism’s job, ruining things.
Huh?
The movie ended well, but there were moments there when I was thinking, “Oh, this isn’t good.”
Another movie like this one, and they’ll lose the guys.
Interesting analysis
The Phantom Menace ruined "The Last Jedi".
The Jedi went from noble warriors for truth and justice to a creepy bunch who takes very little children away from their families and forces them to live without emotional ties while indoctrinating them into a weird philosophy that allows no absolutes. Which is in it's self is an absolute.
They really resembled a group of Mamelukes more then anything else.
I don’t watch movies ever only my wife and children do
The last movie I watched which the wife got on Netflix which took me about two months to watch was called Captain fantastic and it was excellent my whole family said I was that guy
Otherwise Holly weird is a bunch of pedophile losers and I wouldn’t watch any of their crap if you paid me
I saw the movie. Politics aside, it wasn’t very good. I did not tell my son what I honestly thought about it. He liked it and was happy.
But the Good Vs. Evil aspect was blurred bad. The Evil was obviously evil. The good guys were a conflicted mess from Luke to Ray to Fin. All the good guys were routinely confused about their loyalties (except Poe). The movie almost tried to emphasize that there wasn’t much difference between the good guys and bad guys and that conflict was pointless. Just live under tyranny and move on. Luke Skywalker has become a sniveling sissy.
Some of the dialogue and writing was pretty weak too. On that point, I got the impression that this effort was a transitional set up for movies to come. But, like the article says, I’m not sure who the hero or main character will be in the next film. Chewbacca?
Spoilers ahead, so don’t read if you don’t want to know.
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the Yoda quote is wrong. He doesn’t tell Luke that there’s nothing in “those books that the girl does not already possess”; he tells Luke there’s nothing in the “Jedi Tree” where the books were stored that Rey doesn’t already possess, and then goes on to destroy the tree. It is later revealed that Rey has already removed the old Jedi texts from the tree, so she (presumably) will be using them on her journey to reinvent the Jedi.
My take: It sucked.