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Let's have a films thread.

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It’s all about the money for Disney, they couldn’t care less if it was a decent movie or not. Any Star Wars film, no matter how bad it is will always sell and make them shedloads in merchandise. 

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Me and the wife are taking our 11 & 8 year old kids to see Star Wars later. 

 

2 x adult @ £14 + 2 x kids @£9.50 plus 50p booking fee each = £49!!!

 

Having read these reviews I thought bollux to that so used £16 worth or my Tesco vouchers instead.

 

If it’s as shit as Babs and others say, at least I won’t feel like it’s cost me anything :thumbup:

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2 hours ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Me and the wife are taking our 11 & 8 year old kids to see Star Wars later. 

 

2 x adult @ £14 + 2 x kids @£9.50 plus 50p booking fee each = £49!!!

 

Having read these reviews I thought bollux to that so used £16 worth or my Tesco vouchers instead.

 

If it’s as shit as Babs and others say, at least I won’t feel like it’s cost me anything :thumbup:

Mate you might love it, there are plenty saying they do.

 

The kids will think it's fantastic and you WILL need to buy them Porges for Christmas.

 

There are some stunning bits that are well worth seeing anyway even if you aren't keen on the story and the comedy.

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5 hours ago, Babylon said:

I've just remembered Luke milking some alien tits and slurping it down.... lol

 

The amount of shit done for cheap laughs for kids is criminal.

And yet it's a 12A certificate. Seriously lost it's innocent charm.

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6 hours ago, Strokes said:

Can people put spoilers on for the Star Wars film, if they are going to give things away please?

 

6 hours ago, Buce said:

 

I can't believe you don't want to know Darth Vader is gay.

 

I bet you thought I was joking, Strokes...

 

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On 12/14/2017 at 21:36, Babylon said:

Just back from watching it, I feel like Rian Johnson has stabbed my childhood through the heart and kicked sand in its face for good measure.

 

What a crock of shit, force awakens was meh to ok. I loved Rogue One, but this was just trash. Nice looking trash with a few good bits, but Star Wars isn't a ****ING COMEDY. Do you really need to start every single scene with a bloody joke, a crap cheesy joke at that.

 

I know the originals were kids fims, but they didn't feel exclusively aimed at kids. This felt like a dumb kids movie set up to sell a shotload of porges.

 

I know why Johnson has been given a trilogy, why wouldn't Disney want to hand the reigns to someone more interested in their PC bullshit (apparently every man in the world is a hot head idiot and every woman level headed and saves the day), oh and every pilot in the world is a black or Asian woman apparently. Oh and... save the animals ffs.

 

His trilogy is basicly going to be hunger games meets Star Wars.

Pretty much agree with every word Babs!

 

It definitely divided opinion in our family. The wife and my lad loved it, whilst my daughter and I thought it was crap. 

 

Your point about the "comedy" is bang on. I hated the one liners and it was all a bit slap stick in places for my liking. The main problem for me is how weak the main characters are. I think Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher have forgotten how to act and I could barely understand her mumblings. Kylo Ren just doesn't do it for me and the whole thing desperately misses someone with the presence of Darth Vader.

 

The General Hux character is awful I thought and the only two that grabbed my attention were Poe and Benicio Del Toro's cameo. 

 

Maybe I'm just getting old and remembering the originals through rose tinted specs, but it's lost it's magic for me. It's all gone a bit Harry Potter and Hunger Games as you say and it just doesn't feel right somehow.

 

I quite liked Rogue One and the Force Awakens was O.K. but this was a big let down for me.

 

Shame. But the cinema's will still sell out no doubt...

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I've just come back from watching it and I'm very surprised by the negative reception in this thread, I thought it was great. I do agree that the humour was overdone, trying way too hard to be like a marvel film.

 

Maybe I should watch it again next week with more of a critical eye.

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On 16/12/2017 at 08:15, Izzy Muzzett said:

Me and the wife are taking our 11 & 8 year old kids to see Star Wars later. 

 

2 x adult @ £14 + 2 x kids @£9.50 plus 50p booking fee each = £49!!!

 

Having read these reviews I thought bollux to that so used £16 worth or my Tesco vouchers instead.

 

If it’s as shit as Babs and others say, at least I won’t feel like it’s cost me anything :thumbup:

You pay twice as much to watch city play palarse and then complain about costs

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I and everyone of my star wars loving mates really disliked it. Leaving aside the geeky stuff like the messing up of the series lore, you have some really horrendous moments and scenes (Leia flying through space is actually worse than anything in the prequels) and important information is not revealed (how did Kylo get involved with Snoke? Why is the first order so much better equipped than the Republic forces?) Now you can wave some of this away as nitpicking but key to making TLJ just a bad movie is the whole Finn Space Casino plotline.  It's awful, ultimately pointless and it takes up around a third of the movie. It's not like it was a short scene like the rubbish tentacle monster things in Force Awakens. It totally floors the movie and the numerous other terrible moments just add to it. I await the Red Letter Media review of this with baited breath. I really struggle to see how they'll manage to pull this back in episode 9.

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I like many on here was also disappointed.  SPOILER ALERT

 

One thing that is getting to me in this trilogy is the scale of things.  The film alludes to this being a war for the future of the universe. A universe that contains billions of star systems and trillions upon trillions of lifeforms.  Yet the 'Resistance' contains a couple of hundred humans with the odd alien for window dressing.  The mighty resistance bombing fleet had about five ships (The RAF alone by the end of WW2 used over 130,000 planes).  The First Order don't seem to be that much bigger.

 

The prequels for all their faults (though I appreciate them more now after TFA and TLJ) at least had an incredible sense of scale.  It really made you feel like you were watching an intergalactic conflict unfold.

 

Another thing is Luke Skywalker, this film took an iconic hero of cinema, someone who we last saw so triumphant and so complete at the end of ROTJ and turned him into a miserable broken lonely old coward whose only pleasure was seemingly milking the tits of a weird sea elephant thing in what seemed a bit perverted in its tone.  Then basically to cap it off he just...dies...alone...just literally vanishes.  Did he die because he was just knackered or what?  Honestly what an absolutely pathetic way to bump off Luke ****ing Skywalker.

 

Won't bother mentioning the horrific 'humour', nothing plot and lore tampering.

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4 hours ago, BlueSi13 said:

I like many on here was also disappointed.  SPOILER ALERT

 

One thing that is getting to me in this trilogy is the scale of things.  The film alludes to this being a war for the future of the universe. A universe that contains billions of star systems and trillions upon trillions of lifeforms.  Yet the 'Resistance' contains a couple of hundred humans with the odd alien for window dressing.  The mighty resistance bombing fleet had about five ships (The RAF alone by the end of WW2 used over 130,000 planes).  The First Order don't seem to be that much bigger.

 

The prequels for all their faults (though I appreciate them more now after TFA and TLJ) at least had an incredible sense of scale.  It really made you feel like you were watching an intergalactic conflict unfold.

 

Another thing is Luke Skywalker, this film took an iconic hero of cinema, someone who we last saw so triumphant and so complete at the end of ROTJ and turned him into a miserable broken lonely old coward whose only pleasure was seemingly milking the tits of a weird sea elephant thing in what seemed a bit perverted in its tone.  Then basically to cap it off he just...dies...alone...just literally vanishes.  Did he die because he was just knackered or what?  Honestly what an absolutely pathetic way to bump off Luke ****ing Skywalker.

 

Won't bother mentioning the horrific 'humour', nothing plot and lore tampering.

Hollywood unveils hugely popular but shit sequel in huge cash cow franchise. Shocker.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2017/12/18/star-wars-last-jedi-triumphs-box-office-despite-fan-backlash/

 

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