What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?
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Really? I thought it was pretty good. Lots of interesting and likeable characters, good story, well told. It kept the spirit of the original trilogy and was miles better than Episodes I-III. Held my attention the whole way.
Out of interest what are your favourite movies in general?
Being better than I-III is not an achievement.
And it wasn't very good at all. Characters were shallow as well. So who were the temple guardians? Donnie Yen was cool, OK but what motivations does he have? I hardly noticed Baze(?) was there till he was "One with the force". So Cassian was a bad guy because we saw him kill an informant once and went through a lot because he said so. That's just bad storytelling.
Saw Gerrera's only purpose in the movie was to relay Galen's message. Felicity Jones played that part great, though.
Jyn's motivations were all in conflict and she didn't act like it. There wouldn't be a villain and we wouldn't have noticed at all.
Lots of good material dropped off to tell a story too linear. It feels as if it was directly transferred from the script with no touches when taking scenes.
Characters were shallow? It's a 2 and a half hour movie, there was plenty of back story on Jyn and her dad, etc, if they had to retell the story of every single characters it would be a 5 hour movie. So of course with the time restriction the story had to be more 'linear' than your typical star wars movie.
I think your expectation needs to be tempered a bit because of that. If they do everything you'd ask for above they'd need to split it into 3 parts (which wouldn't be all that bad, tbh). But what they wanted to do was keep it concise so they could do other stories later (I'd heard they're gonna do the backstory for Han Solo, etc).
That is the main complaint I'm hearing. Star Wars is Star Wars because of classic memorable characters, not people who are just likable or average.
spycam1
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Yeah, I could see that. I think Force Awakens did a better job creating new characters.
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Miggs
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^ I said that after The Force Awakens, maybe even before it.
No way the films would touch 4-6. Harrison Ford is an iconic movie star who brought adventure, charisma and humor to episodes 4-6. Without him, these movies will struggle feeling flat-out awesome. They may be decent/solid but won't be on another plane. That said, I am holding out hope and have been for a couple years that episode 8 will kick *** simply because Johnson, who did an underrated flick called Brick and the awesome Looper, directed.
No way the films would touch 4-6. Harrison Ford is an iconic movie star who brought adventure, charisma and humor to episodes 4-6. Without him, these movies will struggle feeling flat-out awesome. They may be decent/solid but won't be on another plane. That said, I am holding out hope and have been for a couple years that episode 8 will kick *** simply because Johnson, who did an underrated flick called Brick and the awesome Looper, directed.
TBH, I threw in "get any worse" because the critical reception to I-III were pretty bad. I actually enjoyed I quite a bit despite what seemed to me at the time as hard-core fan criticism. I don't repeat watch movies often but I wouldn't mind watching that with the kids. Maybe tonight.
This one was straight boring. It had a similar feel to the 2009 Star Trek film, only that one actually had some entertaining throwback points with Spock.
Finally saw The Witch. Didn't really care for it. The first two acts were pretty good. Disturbing and dreary. But it didn't matter since the third act was pure crap (except for the possession scene, which was awesome if you forget the twins existed).
spycam1
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He also directed what I consider to be the best episode of Breaking Bad.
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which one?