What movie did you see today?

[Timbuk2]

Saw it on saturday too.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. Manifold times better than the The Force Awakens, but still not as good as Rogue One.

Ren was much better, more the conflicted man, less the sullen teenager. Rey was better too, she seemed to have more purpose, was more believable in what she was doing, in what she wanted to do.

General Hux remains my favourite character, from both films. He's just so apoplectically angry all the time. Superb.

Spoiler:

The moments of humour were very well done, particularly Po's pretending to be on hold and not hearing Hux when 'calling' the Dreadnaught, as a time-delaying tactic.

Agree with most of your points though, Wigs. The Force Awakens was a dreadful rehash of A New Hope. And I was struck by the similarities to the attack on Hoth with that on the abandoned rebel base here - with At-Ats closing in on the Empire/First Order side, and ground-level speeders on the rebel side. Still visually dramatic, but I really wish they could come up with new stuff, when they have such a massive amount of material they could draw on.

I really need a second and third viewing to take in points I missed. Having a few glasses of wine before and during the movie dulled my in-take and memory of certain subtleties.

[Asmo]

I watched it (star wars 8) and I find it an utter failure, I don't know how to use the spoiler feature but I don't think there are actual any spoilers in the coming rant:

1) I am amazed that the cast of actors so utterly devoid of charisma could be found let alone that it would be found for such a high budget film, I suppose that after 7 nothing much could be done but I kept hoping some of the heroes would get killed so that a better actor could be brought forward. Alas only characters that do have charisma seem to be get killed in the new trilogy.

2) I don't understand why rehashing the same stories is seen as a thing. SW7 was pretty much a remake of SW4 and SW8 is a sort of SW5 and 6 jammed in to one with some boring crap thrown in the mix. Frankly they would have been better of just doing the story 3000 years latter or 3000 prior to move away from the old trilogy material completely. Hell they could have used the pc games old republic story as inspiration, it was certainly way better then this movie.

3) The planets were poorly developed the nuns were completely out of place in the L. SW planet. the one planet (casino) that could have been the saving grace of the movie was rushed through crammed with images but little actual story as if they could not wait to get back to the grey images repetitive images of the space chase.

4) This is a minor point I am quite willing to suspend disbelief for the sci-fi/fantasy genre but the idea that space ships the size of the major city are running on fuel that can run out (let alone run out some 24 hours after the ship took of off the planet)!!! is completely ridiculous!! I am expecting to see space gas station in the 9th.

5) oh yeah the main villain appears and gets eliminated without one yo-ta of explanation as to who the hell he is, that is some great story telling.

It says a lot for the movie that the gimmicks such as the stupid bird were some of the best highlights of the film, despite the fact that they would have been a low point in the original trilogy and pissed me off similar to how jar jar did in the prequel. One thing it did is show me how good the previous 6 movies really were, yes even the prequels.