Maybe. But I thoroughly enjoyed Fury Road and Spider-Man: Homecoming and other stuff that requires you to just enjoy it for what it is so I don’t think I’m dealing with an inability to have fun while villains act villainous and stuff explodes. TLJ had some moments like that for me but, as a whole, couldn’t keep me in the moment strongly enough to overlook its flaws.
In case anyone else is having their inner geek run rampant about this planet-destroying stuff, I figured I’d link to this:
Of course, we don’t know how big the gas giant that the rebel moon is orbiting around is or how big Alderan is (though there is probably something written about it somewhere :p). One thing though…even if you didn’t blow up the gas giant, imparting even 2.25 x 10 to the 32nd power to the gas giant is going to cause Bad Things™ to happen to the rebels on a moon orbiting said gas giant. I seriously doubt that you’d need to blow it up completely to destroy the rebel base. Another thing would be…you don’t build a weapon that has it’s maximum damage output limited to Earth…I mean, what if you wanted to blow up a super earth or a super duper big ass earth?
In the end, it’s just a movie, and really where would the fun be if they just flew into the system and instantly killed all the rebels?
I liked Spider-Man: Homecoming, and really liked Wonder Woman, so I know I’m not quite broken in the fun department yet, either. Just some cracks showing on the surface.
TFA was very derivative and repetitive. TLJ less so.
We find out later that Rey took the sacred texts. Did she spend some time studying them as well? Just because we didn’t see it on screen doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. And, like Empire, the timeline is a pretty fuzzy. How long was Rey really on that island? Days? Weeks? The rest of the movie appears to take place over the course of about 24 hours, but we see at least several days pass on the island.
Could be. That’s not the impression I had when watching the movie, but I’m not going to claim that my reading of the movie after one screening is the best one.
Why didn’t the rebels split up?? Why didn’t the non-cruiser ships take off before they ran out of fuel??
What in the **** made them think Justin Theroux would stop hot chick make money look good in a casinoing…to take off on a suicidal mission to fuck with the First Order???
Also, why the fuck did the Rebel ships start floating backwards towards the First Order ships when they ran out of fuel? I understand they want to make things look like WWII, but naval ships in WWII didn’t capsize and float backwards towards the enemy when they ran out of gas. It doesn’t happen to airplanes either; they run out of fuel and they glide. It sure as hell doesn’t happen to spaceships; they just keep going the same direction they were going at the same velocity they were going, they just stop accelerating. So WHAT was he trying to make them behave like? It’s like there was a black hole back there drawing them in, it looked really damned stupid.
Rather than hijack this thread with the discussion of whether Mark Hamill’s acting was good or whether A New Hope was a good movie by today’s standards, I have continued this topic in a separate thread,, which I hope you, and other posters, will take a look at. I have decided to critically re-watch A New Hope and analyze what makes it a good movie, from the standpoint of cinematography, writing, and acting, not just “entertainment.”
First snowflake, then you call me a troll. What are you so angry about then? I assumed you were upset that others are able to enjoy something you cannot.
No idea where all this hostility is coming from. All I said is your opinion isn’t the only one that counts and you can’t seem to tolerate that idea.
Actually, I didn’t call you anything. But you keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel superior. Reading is fundamental.
No, I am not trying to convince you of anything. I am addressing points you bring up as arguments because you brought them up and apparently you find that offensive enough to attack me personally rather than deal with the argument.
You are the only one that has been doing any personal attacking here, but I say lets just drop it so you can calm down and get back to spending all of your time posting about a movie you hated.
No, you abandoned the discussion of the movie and went directly at me, telling me that I was insulting people by not acknowledging that their opinions were valid. You’re the one that needs to calm down and get back to defending the movie, since it seems oh so very important to you.
I suggest you re-read the thread then, because you are way off. Can you cite one of my “personal attacks”? You not liking what I said does not constitute a personal attack. Calling me a snowflake and skirting the rules about calling someone a troll on the other hand are. Also “I’m calmer than you are” dude.
