Man I don't think I've ever had to catch up on this much whitefont all at once.
Like others,
I am hoping that Rey isn't actually related to Luke, but is in fact a force sensitive whose awesomeness doesn't stem from any of the existing characters.
John Boyega was, as expected, awesome.
I felt conflicted about Poe at first, as he's like an attractive version of Rob Benedict (who grates on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard, despite apparently being a great guy). But I swiftly got with the program about him.
Poor Kylo Ren can't do anything right. He's not even up to the task of being the worst son of a Harrison Ford character.
My big comment to my cousin afterward, which she wholeheartedly agreed with, was
"When do we get to see Leia using a lightsaber?"
Damn you movie, I swore going in that I'd enjoy you for what you were worth but not let a million tendrils into my brane.
Skipping all the SW talk. I just got back from MockingJay Pt 2. There doesn't seem to have been any discussion about it.
I was underwhelmed.
I thought it was a satisfactory conclusion to the series, quester.
I thought it was a satisfactory conclusion to the series, quester.
Me too, but I really hated the book so I went in with pretty low expectations.
I didn't read the books, I just went to the movies. After all the excitement of the previous films, this one seemed like a let down.
my one big reaction was unfortunately a Robot Chicken one. When Han stepped onto the catwalk I was expecting there to suddenly be a shot of a custodian down below innocently sweeping away only to suddenly curse his luck and wish for a transfer to Coruscant.
But I loved it. I loved it so so much and all I could think afterwards was how could they get this so right and the other three so so wrong.
I haven't seen the last two Hunger Games films, but I had wondered all along about breaking Mockingjay into two books as so much of the last part of the final book was denouement; very fitting and appropriate to the series, but I wasn't sure how it would translate to film.
After all the excitement of the previous films, this one seemed like a let down.
Imagine that feeling, but a thousand times worse, and you will have some idea of what reading
Mockingjay
is like.
I'm watching a fan edit of Attack of the Clones that improves on the original, making it more consistent with the original trilogy and removing some of the worst dialogue scenes. But my god, it is still a really terrible movie. The prequels just LOOK so bad, and the acting is so phoned in. Even Ewan is hard to watch.
The political intrigue and clone army machinations part of the story is actually pretty interesting, and the romantic subplot COULD be good, if written and acted better. I feel like I should read a novelization.
