The Lando bit didn't phase me. It's not like there is any sex, other than a few fairly mild kisses. Male to female human, if You have weird sex hang ups. I may have to notify the SPLC on the above droid racism!
Seriously, I didn't ever feel preached at.
I laughed, I cried, got misty eyed. ( the appropriate manly welling, but not released, tear, if you care about other's reactions. I always cry at Disney movies. I got nuttin to prove. )
Space ships, explosions, plot twists... Star Wars.
I liked it better than VII, way better than 1-3.
Worth the ticket price.
I don't get the low sales. It's like the studio wanted it to fail?
Wonder Woman also seemed to suffer studio interference and sabotage. Hollywood has a lot of mean & stupid people.
But since I accept it in other literature, like the Green, Red, and Gold rocks that affect that illegal alien, Kal El, I just grumble about it from time to time.
My real complaint is schitzo tech in the whole series. Pure nerd stuff here, I admit.
In The Last Jedi, we see the Empire & First Order is capable of making blaster resistant armor, but only one person has it. Why? The stock answer is the Empire is cheap and storm troopers are disposable, so why bother? It's a crapsack world, and it's run by ruthless, uncaring monsters.
As A 20th Century American, I was brought up with the attitude that troops are expensive, but hardware is cheap. It takes over a million dollars to train a fighter pilot, a bit less for infantry, but still, we know that giving our troops a technological edge is good for winning. And Winning should be important.
Of course that attitude can go too far.
We don't build enough modern airplanes to lose any. And we have lost some. We only built 100 B-1bs. Less than 200 F-22s, and 21 B-2s. That means that every B-2 lost is 5% of our total capacity. We have a lot more pilots than cutting edge hardware. And buying the sexy stuff means they keep trying to get rid of the old stuff that is still needed, like the A-10.
One storm knocked out a major chunk of our bomber force in one day.
Kelly Johnson, Lockheed chief engineer, of P-38, P-80, U-2, and SR-71 fame, ( and A-12 secrets ) is rumored to have said that someday the Air Force will get the plane that does everything it wants, but they'll only be able to afford one. And they will lock it in a vault so nothing can happen to it.
The Star Wars Empire also seems to have that disease. See also Death Star. Death Star 2, and Starkiller Base. ( renamed from Deathstar 3 to fool the bureaucrats into thinking they were buying a new program, and not following up two epic failures )
Aesquire wrote: "The tech in Star Trek is understandable. Sure, the technobabble is strong and bogus, but warp drive, transporters, flip phones, and Alexa all have rationalized explanations, and build on known science."
Have you seen: "How William Shatner Changed the World"?
I just watched a commentary on the Justice League movie's treatment of women. The Amazon's armor got the bare midriff treatment, showing off the abs. Some were annoyed. Also, Wonder Woman with the new cinematographer/Director got lots of upward shots to show off that fine Amazonian Butt.
True, All True. Sexist pigs! I enjoyed it. Anyway.
The lame villain, poor special effects, and the darned lip. All those were horrid. You'd think spending million$ on a CGI upper lip by now would be seamless, but it was like inserting Polar Express's Uncanny Valley in a different movie.
I got to see it over the weekend, I was originally just gonna wait for it to show up on Netflix or similar, but the opportunity to see it at no additional cost came the other day. I'll try and talk in generalities to avoid spoiling.
I don't get what you guys are going on about with robot sex, I didn't get that vibe at all. It was clear that Lando and the bot cared for each other more than they verbally expressed (common trope in rom-coms), but man and sentient machine or animal becoming close and saddened by loss is also nothing new.
For a movie about Han's back story, I found it to be pretty lacking on back story. We start off with him in love with the mother of dragons, on the run trying to escape a crap planet, then next into the army. That isn't much backstory and really felt like a cop-out to me. It was good to see how Han and Chewie meet, also Lando, and the Falcon. It also felt like Lando had more backstory development than Han.
The nostalgia circle jerk seemed excessive and held the movie back. Yea, we get it, you are talking about Jabba when mentioning the "big gangster" over and over.
I did like Donald Glover as Lando, but didn't buy this guy as a good Han. My Fiancé has the opposite opinion and liked Han but said this Lando wasn't as smooth as the other one.
The movie was decent and watchable, certainly better than Force Awakens, Rogue One and the old crap from the 70s. It still does not hold a candle to Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. See it when it comes at no cost to your favorite streaming medium, don't even spend a dollar at Redbox for it.
This might be a silly question and I haven't done any research, but is it possible to buy the non-"Special Edition" Star Wars movies? I know everything I have seen on TV for the last um-teen years has been SPecial Edition.
The plot, botched caper leading to another caper, is repeated in bigger & bigger Bad Choices throughout the movie.
"Tell Jabba I'm going to get his money" is the Solo curse.
Do we really need to see the Imperial Acadamy? I mean, it would be pretty, but there's only so much time you have to tell a story. This isn't a Peter Jackson saga that lasts nine hours in three parts without Director cut additions.
Besides, they spent more money than most wars in history, partly in reshoots with changes in directors and vision. The BluRay might have the stuff you like with special effects missing.
Perfect? Not even close. But how much back story do we need? More beatings as a child? That might be just what it needed to be the most hated film, more child abuse.
Won't argue about the actors, I agree. Lando, the GF, and the Mentor, all well done. Han? Just ok. But the intent is a ",coming of age" story, so a bit vague is proper.
The Lando -L3 friendship is SOP drama. Give the audience a character to care for, then put them through hell. If there's no reason to care, there's no reason for the character.
Won't argue relative merit on the new films vs. Each other.
The Bill Whittle youtube link above is well worth watching.
The really important part is, No One ( except George Lucas when he went insane ) thought Han Solo was a cold blooded killer. Not when the movie came out, not today.
In fact, I would argue he's the most loved character in the whole series. Luke was a whiny brat, his dad was a whiny adult, Obi Wan has his flaws, etc. etc.
Because he shot first. You might be too young to remember westerns, and might think they were all black & white morality. Oh, so wrong. The Searchers, alone makes that a myth. Over and over, the morality of the use of violent force is argued and rehashed and on and on.
And people don't like Cold Blooded Killers.
We love reforming bad guys. Leon The Professional. The Outlaw Josey Wales. etc.
Han Solo was the arch typical "reluctant Hero". A staple in comics of the time,and cinema. He just wanted to be left alone to live his life. He didn't want to get involved in any political crap, since that gets you killed and there is no profit to it, and in his experience, no winning.
But he gets drawn into plots of others and his own character won't let him abandon those he has made his own, or feels obligated to.
THAT, I thought SOLO did a good job showing us how he became the man we saw in that dive in Mos Eisley spaceport.
Personally, I have two separate copies on VHS - one set remains unopened, and I also have a new VCR in the box, for the eventuality that the VCR I actually use ends up eating the tapes I actually play.
If you've seen The Last Jedi, go see "how it should have ended" on youtube. I laughed.
The nice actress who played Rose was so picked on that she fled Instagram. People were so unfairly mean and vicious.
Bunch of arse holes. The actress didn't write her part, the dialog isn't her fault. Not her fault some punk doesn't think she's pretty enough, skinny enough, white enough.
It's hard enough enjoying a movie or tv show when the actor is a loud mouth jerk on politics or defends accused rapists, or raises money for a politician. You just have to realize all actors are expected to be good at is short term memory, parroting the lines written for them, and pretending to be a person.
Accept they should have those limited talents and be idiots elsewhere, or if you can't, don't watch.
Fans are funny.
My sister, and many other Grey's Anatomy fans, freaked out when their beloved character..... The actor who played that character, got a job as The Comedian in the movie Watchmen. They can't deal with their memories of the kindly, blah blah guy and the very Bad guy in a different movie & roll.
