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| addicted to trailing-throttle oversteer |
My wife and I finally saw it today. From the postings here I was expecting a disaster. But both of us actually liked it. Found it reasonably entertaining, but I'm not looking at it as a Star Wars junkie. I don't look for continuity issues. I don't really break down and analyze the snot out of someone else's make believe. It either works for me or it doesn't; this one works well enough. And I like it better than the Abrams' homage to Episode IV, despite some slow spots and some apparent Disney-inspired weirdness. | |||
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Res ipsa loquitur |
Why can’t they just do Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy? Mrs. BB61 hated all the Disney stuffed animal marketing ploys in the movie. I agreed. They were in the movie solely to get the kids to demand them for Christmas. __________________________ | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
There is so much good EU material they could have used Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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| Serenity now! |
So I just saw the movie, and want my money back. That said, I don't think I saw this point made so speak up if I missed it. When Leia is blown out into space she was on the bridge of the cruiser, but when Po mutinied he was also on the bridge, was there a second one on the ship? ------------------------------------------------ 9/11/01 Never Forget "In valor there is hope" - Tacitus | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Leia was on the main bridge. Admiral Prom Dress piloted the ship in the kamikaze attack from the secondary bridge. So, yes, there were 2 bridges (this makes sense, as some modern warships have backup controls in case of battle damage). Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| Res ipsa loquitur |
In many Sci/fi series, a ship has a main bridge and a battle bridge. Star Trek for example has both. __________________________ | |||
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Admiral Prom Dress. Ha. | |||
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The wife and I saw this at a matinee yesterday. 5 minutes in I am shaking my head, thinking to myself, "This is a movie made by a committee of Social Justice Warriors from ABC/Disney." It was as if the writer(s) or the suits said: "Ok, let's check the boxes. Young female pilot, fat old guy pilot, dark-skinned pilot, another female pilot... and then, LIZARD pilot just show we aren't species-ists either!" If they could have signalled one the pilots was gay somehow they would have done that, too. I was expecting to see "Will" from Will and Grace in one of the cockpits. Then it got worse from there... much worse. Bad jokes, stupid plot lines, plot lines that went nowhere, improbable chance meetings, poor or no character development. I said to the wife "It's as if they had 12 committees and gave each one 12 minutes of the film." I do not care what happens next. I really don't. ___________________ Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me. | |||
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Mixed feelings...how is it Leia could survive in outer space and float back to the ship?? | |||
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| In search of baseball, strippers, and guns |
They also had to be able to put some force field around the damaged bridge, or when they opened the non airlock door to the bridge to let Leila back in, they also would have all been spaced, and we would have Leia Marry Poppins part deux Again, this also, like the battle bridge concept, shows up in sci-fi so I didn’t have as much an issue with it —————————————————— If the meek will inherit the earth, what will happen to us tigers? | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
There's some speculation floating around that Poe is gay. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Hop head  |
don't care, but do think the actor that plays him is not that good an actor, of course, with a crappy script, guessing that is to be expected https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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| I'm not laughing WITH you  |
Well, I just saw it and I liked it. Rolan Kraps SASS Regulator Gainesville, Georgia. NRA Range Safety Officer NRA Certified Instructor - Pistol / Personal Protection Inside the Home | |||
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Certified Plane Pusher |
Just saw it. Much meh but Daisy Ridley is certainly cute.  This message has been edited. Last edited by: Phantom229, Situation awareness is defined as a continuous extraction of environmental information, integration of this information with previous knowledge to form a coherent mental picture in directing further perception and anticipating future events. Simply put, situational awareness mean knowing what is going on around you. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
This write-up has a lot I agree with about TLJ, take a look if you feel like it. He nailed EXACTLY why I walked out of Force Awakens feeling so saddened:
Good point here:
And here:
The Last Jedi Killed My Childhood, and That's Exactly Why It's Great | |||
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Just saw it yesterday, and yes mixed feelings as well, and this also bugged the crap out of me. | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
People seem to focus on how she can survive being in the vacuum of space--something that has been theorized is possible--yet ignore the concussive forces of the munitions detonating on impact with the bridge. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Understand all that but you still must have an excellent script, complete with great dialogue, story, acting and directing. This film lacked that. So why I understand the reset, that this film was for millennial and younger. It just wasn’t a good movie at all. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
^^^^^^^^^^ Exactly. In my previous post, I stated this movie reminded me of any Walking Dead episode from recent years. My college aged son called the dialog "cringy". Good real estate is "location, location, location". Good film is "script, script, script". "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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