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Star Wars VIII : The Last Jedi [WARNING: SPOILERS]
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What was refreshing about it? The main plotline of the rebel cruiser running low on fuel, but managing to just get far enough ahead of the First Order fleet to get out of range of their weapons and this to form the basis of the films 151 minute runtime? Was that refreshing?
The Canto Bight part of the movie? Was that refreshing?
The way in which they portrayed Luke Skywalker as out of character as they possibly could? Was that refreshing?
The Princess Leia space scene? Refreshing?
The complete lack of a lightsaber (laser sword lol) duel throughout the entire movie? Refreshing for a Star Wars movie?
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Soldato
Yea those never been done before in a star wars film
How was Luke Skywalker out of character? He was not a wise Jedi master, not by a long shot. Powerful yes, but he is no master like those in the prequels....
Did you expect him to come out like sabre wheedling maniac chopping down storm troupers like a bad ass? Lets not forget it is also an old man in the film...
The trilogy was never about Luke, its about Rey and Kylo. The old characters distract from this all the time as peoples focus naturally goes to them as they are the people everyone know's and loves.
The whole Ray, Luke, Kylo plot was the best part of the film.
Did you expect him to come out like sabre wheedling maniac chopping down storm troupers like a bad ass? Lets not forget it is also an old man in the film...
The trilogy was never about Luke, its about Rey and Kylo. The old characters distract from this all the time as peoples focus naturally goes to them as they are the people everyone know's and loves.
The whole Ray, Luke, Kylo plot was the best part of the film.
Caporegime
Just got back from watching it, I enjoyed it.
BB-8 as expected steals the show
BB-8 as expected steals the show
Soldato
BB-8 turned into the Terminator this film, his kill count is ridiculously high.
Soldato
You do kind of wonder why they even go on missions themselves, if BB8 clearly does everything more efficiently with more stealth, higher kill rate and has to rescue everyone all the time. 
Caporegime
Question in spoiler
I can't clearly remember but the later makes sense...
there's a scene where there's no sound for 10seconds... It's about 1h 50m into the film. What was it? During the salt flats? Oh or was it the hyperspace cruiser lightspeed fleet kill?
I can't clearly remember but the later makes sense...
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The latter.
Don
That bit is visually stunning.
Soldato
Stunning, yet breaks your heart
when you realise every Xwing had a hyperspace capability, so many Rebels died in space battles in all those movies and all they had to do was sacrifice one Xwing as hyperspace bullet, preferably on autopilot...
Don
Hyperspace X-wings would just go splat like bugs on a wind screen
Soldato
Force = MASS x acceleration but this is sifi so you never know.
Don
what does more damage in a crash at 60mph? A guy on a motorbike or a guy in an articulated truck?
At those sorts of near-light speeds, you'd get total mass-energy conversion. It would be like a nuke going off as it hit. Make a slug of
something dense (like diamond or depleted uranium) with hyperspeed engines and a navigation system, you'd have a missile that could jump to a system, then take out almost anything.
That's why this sort of trick looks spectacular in the movie, but when you think about it, it breaks so many things. How many ships or cruisers could have been saved by ramming one of them into a super star destroyer, or a death star at light speed? TLJ has made a fundamental change in the rules of the movies. It's like suddenly turning up with modern guns where everyone else has swords.
something dense (like diamond or depleted uranium) with hyperspeed engines and a navigation system, you'd have a missile that could jump to a system, then take out almost anything.
That's why this sort of trick looks spectacular in the movie, but when you think about it, it breaks so many things. How many ships or cruisers could have been saved by ramming one of them into a super star destroyer, or a death star at light speed? TLJ has made a fundamental change in the rules of the movies. It's like suddenly turning up with modern guns where everyone else has swords.
Comparing real life to sci fi doesn't really work, especially considering some of the inexplicable crap in this movie.