So Rey’s vision of Kylo not bending to Snoke was correct in shape but the devil was in the details. Turning to the Light side he did not.
How about Kylo’s vision of Rey turning to stand with him? We know these visions will be literally correct, but like the twists on wishes to a genie, they won’t turn out exactly how they were expecting. How will this one end up playing out?
FWIW (and no mega fan of the franchise here) good not great. Enough has been said about the pacing. This movie was mostly saved though by both having some humor and by a few actors who actually inhabited the characters and brought them to life with believable conflicted relationships between them (completely missing in Ep 1 to 3). Oscar Issac’s Poe a bit of a miss. Harrison Ford he aint. Fisher’s Leia also felt flat.
And astral projections - have mass or not? Apparently yes, but then why no red footsteps?
I liked it. I liked it quite a bit more than I was expecting. I liked that it wasn’t predictable and all the rehash stuff was minor. E.g. “Death Star cannon” doesn’t get blown up.
My thoughts drift to the upcoming Star Wars land at Disneyland and Disney world(official name: Star Wars galaxy’s edge). They double downed on the blue milk, but I’m not sure if I want to drink something milked out of whatever that was.
If disney doesn’t provide red salt at the Star Wars land restaurants I will be disappointed.
It was a great theatrical experience moment. We could hear people gasping/holding-breath/nervous-giggling, etc. When it happened, I held my wife’s arm and said, “That was awesome.”
I think this movie will rise in my estimation the more I see it.
I hesitated to rank it or judge it too much initially. I need to see it 3-5 times more to evaluate it and that will wait for the Blu-ray(April 18, I have heard).
In “Star Wars,” what Solo says is “she can make point five past lightspeed.” What that means is anyone’s guess. You’re assuming it means 1.5C, but it could have any number of meanings as a term of art in that galaxy. It could be an expression of engine power, quantum warping, who knows.
The movie was finished before Carrie Fisher died. How were they suppose to change it at that point? another CGI Carrie? most people didn’t seem to like the one from Rogue One.
I don’t mind that Rey’s parents were nobody important who sold her off for juri juice. The knights of ren never showed up, but maybe the imperial red guard is what they morphed into during production. Snoke’s orgin story remains a mystery as well. I suspect that Disney is leaving these unanswered or vaguely answered questions up for later canon.
Yeah, that bit bugged me too. If she had just said something like “it wouldn’t’ve worked” then it would’ve been fine. But for all she/we knew Finn would’ve been successful in taking out the laser, and that would’ve given them time until reinforcements showed up (at this point I think they still expected them to come). She certainly had no way of knowing Luke was going to show up.
If anything “don’t throw your life away” would’ve been a better storyline for Poe given the bombing run early in the movie. It doesn’t really mean anything for Finn.
I was kind of disappointed there. The assumption seems to be that whoever is emperor HAS to be evil, and never benevolent. I was hoping Rey would join him with the goal tempering the rule of the First Order. That would fit with the movie’s seeming theme that it was time to drop the Dark/Light stuff, and make sense with the La Resistance trying to re-capture the galaxy with 20 people prone to suicide runs.
When they were in the throne room, having just teamed up to kill their foes, and Kylo was doing his best now-we-can-rule-together pitch and Rey was replying with the whole it-isn’t-too-late-to-stop-zapping-the-unarmed-dropships bit, I was nodding at what I honestly thought he was going to say next: “Yeah, join me now and the first thing we’ll do is announce from this here throne room that they should stop firing; and the second thing we’ll do, is whatever the hell else we want.”
