On 01/02/2018 at 8:45 AM, Krakalakachkn said:

@Tiinker

 

The rebel ships were shielded from the First Order's sensors, that is until Poe and Finn's plan led the only code slicer who could give the FO access to those codes directly onto Snoke's ship.  They should be executed for their incompetence at the very least, let alone their treason.
 

Rose suddenly showing up was bulls***.  Way to toss all believability out the window.  Also Finn should have died.

 

Agreed - unnecessary.

 

He went to confront him, not kill him.  The level of the dark side he found in Ben's mind caused a momentary gut reaction, much like the way you would grimace or pull away if you stuck your hand in a bag and encountered a bunch of creepy crawlies.

 

Luke acts like a baby in this movie.  It's really grating imo.  What grated even more was how everyone was praising Hamill's role as "the best of his career."  Really?  I can't see it.  I'd take Professor Arnold any day.

 

 

I'll concede that there may be more logic in the script than I originally gave credit for.  The gut reaction to draw your weapon to kill your sisters child still seems incredibly unbecoming of the world's saviour and dedicating 30-40 minutes of the film to Finn and Rose going to casino-island which serves no real purpose beyond screwing the good guys is just a very strange choice of writing.

What I DO want to see in the next film, if I get round to seeing it, is some explanation of what on earth the First Order even is. Do they have an agenda or a philosophy? What are their key bases? I'm stumped on how the whole of TFA ends in destroying some jumbo death star (that we're led to believe is supposed to be a crippling blow to the FO) leads to their being like a few hundred rebels left at the beginning of TLJ. 

I feel like in order to save this film series there really needs to be some sort of *purpose* beyond "this is an inherently good thing to do" and "this is an inherently bad thing to do".  In the previous films you had a notion of these philosophies which came from the concept of the Force. In these latest films it feels like the writers seem to have just decided that the Force and magic are literally the same thing. 

28 minutes ago, SinisterDeath said:

 

Re: Hyperspace as a Weapon

Maybe it's a size/mass thing? AFAIK the ship they were using was the largest the Rebels have ever had, and while less massive then Snoke's ship, it wasn't like an X-Wing. My guess? Perhaps it was a lets see if this works + kamikaze run. (It also strikes me as a blatant rip off of the Picard Maneuver gone horribly wrong.)
Side note: No one finds it at all troubling that the Rebels employ sucide bombings, and if the ending show's us anything, Child Soldiers?

 

irt the last part, I feel like there was at least 3 separate occasions where suicide bombing was the answer.

1. opening scene where she drops the bombs and destroys her own ship.

2. commander going to suicide into the imperial ship to save the remainder of the fleet after they'd run out of gas.

3. finn trying to blow up the battering ram.

3 minutes ago, SinisterDeath said:

Oh, the one thing I absolutely hated about Last Jedi?

 

All the Fan Bois hate on Social Media that completely ruined it, and spoiled every single thing about it with complete disregard to those who haven't seen it. I have two words for those people, that I can't repeat on DM!

 

On the other hand, perhaps all there hate lowered my expectations enough that this movie was decent/good/worth the money for me.

 

It's kind of surprising. The majority of people I know liked this film. The reception seems to be all over the place and depending on who you're friends with, you're going to hear quite different things. 

I didn't really like the Force Awakens at all but at least it had some enjoyment as an action film. 

The story here was so bad that I couldn't even enjoy the action because the scenes leading to the action were so mind boggling ridiculous.

I hate this film.

 

Ya what's goin on I wanna plaaayy

Wanna be a backup in my game? Just started. I have zero currently

 

Where is it at? I wouldn't mind if it's a small game.

 

Ya what's goin on I wanna plaaayy

I'm running an aliens game on sg soon so you better play!

 

You got it!

Ya what's goin on I wanna plaaayy

Independence Day.

With Will Smith? I LOVE THAT MOVIE

Dead or Alive The Movie. I almost had a seizure.

Perks of Being a Wallflower. Extremely surprised by how much I liked it! Emotions were all over the place during the film, and even though the entirety of the script is pretty saccharine it doesn't even matter just because of how much heart is poured into the whole thing. Great movie! Recommending it.

Hitchcock.

No, not that bombshell with willsmith, The one with Anthony Hopkins.

I loved this movie. Specially the ending when he did the  'composers moves' to the screams of the viewers of his movie. It was epic. ^_^

 

Django Unchained.

This was suprisingly good IMO.

Not only was it a western, I enjoyed it. It was entertaining. And had, IMO a GREAT performance of D'Caprio, (As a Villian no less!)

And it had just enough blood, without being ridiculous.

 

Lincoln.

I lked it... but, there was just something off about it. The actor that played his wife.. Dunno, didn't like her acting in it. Otherwise it was definately oscar worthy.

How come it was so surprising for Django to be good? imo if it's a Tarentino film then you're always in for a treat. Daniel Day Lewis was incredible in Lincoln though wasn't he?

Me, Myself and Irene. Not sure if that was the worst... or the best movie I've ever seen.

edit: Oh and the 2nd Indiana Jones movie, just because of that annoying little kid.

....dude

 

Short Round made that movie

This! Silver.. how could you..

Loved Statham in Snatch, but I think that was the only movie that he's starred in that I've actually thoroughly enjoyed.

Oh and another movie to add to Worst Movies.

Forbidden Kingdom. Jet Li and Jackie Chan are like my childhood heroes but... SMH.

DiCaprio's only decent role was in the J. Edgar Hoover flick. That one was okay. The rest? Trash.

 

What about Blood Diamond or The Departed? I thought those movies were phenomenal.

See, I still see those as De'caprio still being de'caprio, playing the same ol' type-cast role over and over again. (same with inception) But hoover? That was a complete 180 turn from a type cast type role. To me, that movie showed he wasn't just a face for the ladies, and good at acting as himself but actually has some acting talent going on.

 

Side note.

Robert Downey Junior?

I'm not quite convinced he's as good at acting as they say he is.Sure he makes a great Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, but they are... very similar characters.

And his other movie... with galafacasus?(sp).. Sucked, Didn't even really care for Robert Downey Junior in that either.

Tropic Thunder. I don't see the character connection between Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes though. Thought he played the latter rather brilliantly.

DiCaprio's only decent role was in the J. Edgar Hoover flick. That one was okay. The rest? Trash.

What about Blood Diamond or The Departed? I thought those movies were phenomenal.

I love DiCaprio. Amazing actor.

Braveheart? How dare you! x[

I've heard the The Tree of Life was oscar worthy and absolutely brilliant. But I fell asleep during the ads before the movie.. and then again during the movie. Twice. So it's on my list since I didn't have a clue what was going on. Yes, I'm a clueless bastard.

Harry Potter 6. The acting in that was just puke.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the greatest movie ever. You, sir, are a blasphemer.

Blasphemy.... They're good because they're full of awesome and epicness.

These guys know.

Actually it's not so much the worst movie rather it's the movies I went to see with high expectations and unfortunately turned out to be ass.

I read the first two book and thought they were pretty great. Eragon becomes quite whiny during the second book but mans up towards the end.

I agree

The one thing that actually stopped me from giving up on the series was that I felt he actually did a good job representing that young emo feeling

What Eragon was going through felt real to me

It was frustrating to read for sure but when he got back to business it was very satisfying

 

Have you read the last book yet?

I'm doing a reread of the series before I read it for the first time

I haven't and to be honest, I'm not sure if I plan on. I'll probably end up reading it just for the sake of finishing the series. After reading the third book I kinda feel like Paulini just ran out of ideas and through that random heart of hearts crap in there. When I read that I was just.. -.- In general, it was a much less satisfying read than the previous two books though I'd have to re read it again to tell you why.

What'd you think of book 3?

And to add to the list of worst movies is Catwoman with Halle Berry and the movie Alexander. Those were pretty garbage.

I read the first two book and thought they were pretty great. Eragon becomes quite whiny during the second book but mans up towards the end. I was about 12 years old when I saw the movie after reading the books and, even then, I knew how unbelievably crap it was -.- The way Brom died. The Varden. The ending was completely wtf and made no sense to the story. And I only saw worse acting in Harry Potter 6. It sucked. Ruined a poor child's dream.

Lol Eragon. What the hell.

Have we come across any Tinker Aes Sedai?

NBA Dream Team 1992 Documentary. Amaaazing stuff.