Most of my family has seen it, and they all really liked it--all 3 hours of it. I babysat the littlest ones here at home, but it is a movie for all ages.
Almost everyone I know is going to see it!
People are pretty good at not talking about it, though, to not spoil any surprises for anyone. Because of Star Wars loyalty, you will have to wait and see for yourself!
How fun to have a great new release for Christmas! This is part of our ex-Mormon family Christmas traditions.
For the old folks, "The Man Who Invented Christmas" is good.
I saw it on Friday afternoon. The theater I went to had it showing on 5 screens so no problem getting a ticket. I saw the first movie that came out in the 70's when I was a young mother. I may have seen a couple of the other early ones, too. I did not see any of the recent ones until the one that came out last year.
I guess I am not a star wars fan because it was just ok for me. I did feel a certain sadness to see Carrie Fisher in the movie as I knew that she passed away shortly after filming this, her last movie.
I saw the first one as a new graduate from high school.
My older brother who was a returned missionary by then watched it at least six times when it first came out. And has been a Star Wars fan ever since.
His children grew up with it - they were given no choice. :)
As for me, once was enough when it came out.
Watching it ever so often now on tv reruns is more than enough for me. Still love the first one the most. It's my favorite out of them all.
And then the one where Yoda was introduced. He's another favorite of mine.
It wasn't too much of a surprise when Fisher came out with her tell-all book shortly before her death about her off-screen romance with Harrison Ford. It was more of a surprise she kept it a secret for as long as she did.
I heard it was awful from a lot of reviewers on youtube. The trailers didn't even excite me. I remember being more pumped when the first three star wars films were re-done and put on the big screen in the 90's. I was also pumped for the phantom menace and attack of the clones. Say what you want about attack of the clones but i loved it in theaters i think i was 19 at the time. Me and anakin both bitch all the time, i could relate. And we both were awful at talking to women and the anger problems i could go on and on.
The whiners on-line didn't like that they didn't get to find out Snoke's entire backstory, nor who Rey's parents really were (there's mention of them, but it's from a character lying to her).
Saw it Friday morning (we had our company "christmas party" Friday, it started with all of us seeing The Last Jedi, then lunch at Islands, then four hours at a local micro-brewery. None of that fancy-schmancy dress-up party stuff for us geeks!).
Well i do trust you more than the youtubers so i think i will go see it on the big screen. You did live on naboo at one time after all hahaha you know star wars better than most. I really want to see that scene with all the big walkers, the at-ats but bigger.
Hahahaha now that's funny. But if they did have naboo you would be there for sure haha. I will probably watch it tomorrow hopefully not too many people will be there.
I saw it Saturday with my dad, and enjoyed it even though it didn't turn out the way I had hoped. I was really hoping they'd finally formally introduce the "Gray Jedi" -- a middle ground between the goodie-two-shoes Jedi and the evil Sith -- and even have Ray go down that path. Gray Jedi are not beholden to the Jedi Council or Code, but they don't fall to the Dark Side either. I find it odd that Star Wars talks so much about "balance," only to introduce characters on each side who kind of cancel each other out. Where is the "balance" when it's always the Good Guys fighting the Bad Guys? Why not introduce a main character who actually embodies Balance by blazing a path right down the middle?
The completely black-and-white paradigm between the Jedi and Sith in the Star Wars universe has always bothered me, especially since I left Mormondom, which always portrayed itself as the Ultimate Good. Why do we humans seem to gravitate toward fiction which glorifies this "two-path-only" idea? Why must it always be a battle between Good™ and Evil™, with no gray area in between? Jedi vs. Sith, Superhero vs. Villain, God vs. Devil, it's all the same: totally unrealistic. And I think it gives people and especially kids some very wrong and potentially dangerous notions about life in general. There is no Pure Good or Pure Evil in life, only shades of gray, and I appreciate fiction which actually acknowledges that.
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oneinbillions Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The completely black-and-white paradigm between > the Jedi and Sith in the Star Wars universe has > always bothered me, especially since I left > Mormondom, which always portrayed itself as the > Ultimate Good. Why do we humans seem to gravitate > toward fiction which glorifies this > "two-path-only" idea? Why must it always be a > battle between Good™ and Evil™, with no gray > area in between?
Dude, think about Annakin's entire story for a moment...his life is one big gray area. :) So, actually, are the stories of most of the characters -- both Jedi and Sith (with Palpatine being one of the few exceptions).
So true OIB....this black/white thinking is what has infected our political system and made it almost impossible to get anything done in Congress. Not to mention this type of thinking is what brought us our current administration which only is making things worse. Too many "battle lines being drawn", and as the song goes, " nobody's right when everybody's wrong". I'm afraid our country is heading for trouble if this polarization continues. I know I sound like " Mr. Obvious" here, but maybe the Obvious slips by at times if not pointed out. The whole " Star Wars" theme has been good vs evil and has reinforced this paradigm as reality. Maybe we should question its influence on our society and the possible negative consequences of promoting this type of thinking.
There’s a lot to love. As a film, I liked Force Awakens a tiny bit better, but this one has many great moments. Also some nice meta messages that we here would likely relate to, about... nah, that would be a spoiler.
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I enjoyed the film. There were parts in it that I could tell they wanted the audience to laugh at them but only heard a few chuckles or none at all. Tough crowd.
One scene is in the trailer where Chewy is flying the ship. He Growls, and then camera pans down and one of the birds growls/yells too. Cute little animal. I hardly heard a peep from the audience.
Probably 40 people in the theater. I went mid-day.
I knew my boyfriend wanted to see it and so I went. I actually do like Star Wars, but not the biggest fan I know. I slept through the one 2 years ago twice (I was on strong meds for shingles). I haven't seen it all the way through yet.
I loved the movie--so much so that I bought my ex and son tickets for later in the day.
I really liked Luke. He was my favorite. I liked the Asian girl, too. I liked them all, but those were the 2 I liked.
Star Wars came out when I was waiting for a missionary. He wanted to see it so bad, so he asked me to go see it. I wasn't impressed. I told him so. I grew to like it a lot. My little brother went to see it 32 times. ha ha ha ha His son when he was small (1 to 2 years old) would walk around humming the music.
If you live in Utah, you just have to wait until Sunday to see these movies that people line up for. The theater wasn't even full. Nobody sat next to us. Thank goodness.
Anyone remember how mormons compare/compared the movies with mormonism? The dark side, etc.? I was explaining it to my boyfriend yesterday and joking about me going over to the dark side.
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Maybe that is why my RM brother took to it so well as he did. He watched it half a dozen times when it was first released. His children grew up with the films and the trilogies. They're all schooled in the Star Wars series.
It's almost a religion. Yeah, can see where/how the 'dark side' gets compared to good v. evil Mormons grow up with.
I still haven't seen it. It's so cold here I may wait until it warms up some.
We don't go to theaters anymore either. Last few times we went, there were so many people talking, babies crying, etc. that it just wasn't worth it. When it comes out on Blu-ray in a few months, I'll just buy it and watch it on my big screen TV from the comfort of my recliner.
Saw it last night. It was good, but it sort of drifted around too much to be great. It felt more like one of the new Star Trek movies than a Star Wars movie (I like the new Star Trek movies, but I'm not overly fond of them as Star Wars). There was a lot to like, but also a lot that annoyed me. It is not even close to being the best Star Wars movie, but it is also nowhere near being the worst. It's entertaining. Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley are absolutely brilliant. While I'm not a fan of how they wrote Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill is brilliant. Watch it for no other reason than enjoying those 3.
Will do sparty, the theater has been way too crowded for me to go thus far so i think i am going to wait until winter break is over for the kids to go back to school and just watch it during the day or something in the middle of the week.
I love Star Wars and saw the original (A New Hope) many times in high school when it first came out. I saw the new release a couple of days ago. It is worth seeing, but I really did not like some of the changes to the premise of the story. The use of the Force in particular really bothered me. It’s used as magic but I won’t say more so no spoilers! I also felt there were lots of plot holes. Mark Hamill was wonderful in the movie, but Luke acted totally out of characters IMO. My son pegged it: So Jedi get PTSD? Go see it but it’s not as good as people are saying. Star Wars should have ended honestly after the first trilogy. Now it’s going to unending Star Wars movies a la Disney.
Sweets,it got a lot of bad reviews on Rotton Tomatoes for that reason. People thought they trashed Luke. I havent seen it yet so cant make an informed opinion, but a lot of fans arent happy.
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The treatment of Luke was really out of character.
Of course, if you watch the YouTube videos, lots of people want to go on about how it didn't meet their personal expectations. They thought certain plot lines were going to be resolved, but they weren't. That led to disappointment.
The way they approached TLJ was like a person who goes to a concert only knowing one song by the band they're seeing. They wait the whole concert for that song, and if they don't hear it, the concert sucked. If the band does a different arrangement, the concert sucked.
With YouTube, everybody's a film critic. And many of them have no business commenting on films. They have no idea what the market wants, only what they personally wanted to see.
If you're having a hard time digesting TLJ, think of it was a dream Kylo Ren might have in a bacta tank after losing to Rey on Starkiller base. That explains everything. No joke!
Yes, the negative reviews are having an impact. From some very unscientific sources, I've heard that hardcore fans go over and over, and that can drive sales. However, most long-term fans see it once and they've had enough of the political messages being crammed down their throats.
There was no development of the characters. For example, the first time we're introduced to the purple-haired Admiral Holdo Poe doesn't even know who she is. Isn't that odd, considering the fact that there were only a few hundred members of the resistance left alive at that point. And why is she wearing a dress for the Oscars. Leia was a strong female leader but she dressed the part.
Also, though I was blown away by her heroic self-sacrifice and the related special effects, it came way too late and it does not add up with what we're used to seeing when ships make the jump to hyperspace in the Star Wars universe.
That's just the beginning of the problems in this, um, movie.
Just saw it a second time. I liked it a lot more this time.
Spoiler alert!
The part with Leia flying through space like Mary Poppins is still goofy as shit.
Luke throwing the lightsaber over his shoulder is a bit goofy, something Yoda would do.
However, there is a SJW element to it, though. When the rebels are evacuating their base at the beginning of the movie, all the people in control are women. The female pilots are calm and in control. The men scream and lose their composure. If that happens once or twice, it goes unnoticed. However, it happened over and over in this movie.
Poe gets slapped, demoted, and humiliated. Total SJW crap.
About Luke not being willing to go fight Kylo, it does echo back to Yoda's quote, "Wars not make one great" from The Empire Strikes Back. But it also goes against all the thing Luke did before. He wanted to submit his application to the academy. He left Yoda to go fight Darth Vader. He was always ready for a fight.
It also goes against Ben's attitude about going to rescue Leia. So I don't think every Jedi who loses one a padawan to the dark side has to go in to hiding and never come back when their help is requested.
However, overall a good movie.
T-Bone
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Saw it this afternoon, had not intended to, but Darkest Hour was sold out. I liked it, but agree it was bittersweet knowing Cari Fisher could never be in another. Great nephew liked it enough that he sat through it a second time with me.
Just got home from seeing the late screening. OK movie. I watched it with some melancholy knowing that it was Carrie's last appearance on screen (and maybe Mark Hamill's?)....but a new Jedi warrior emerges and that little boy at the end has game too.
I still want to go see it while it's still in theaters. With the temps below zero again here today I'm waiting for it to thaw a bit before I venture out to watch a movie.
Planning to see Despicable Me 3 at home on Netflix this afternoon. It may be goofy, but I'm still just a big kid at heart.
I've seen them all (except Rogue One) in order. Been a fan since the first release Episode 4. This one is pretty dark. JJ Abrams will direct Episode 9 and has said it will tie all three trilogy's together. Hope I'm around to enjoy it.
Director Rian Johnson's boast that he set out to "break" Star Wars turned out to not be a good thing. It's visually beautiful and has great performances by Carrie Fisher and Adam Driver, but the scriptwriting (also by Johnson) is terrible. Plot holes, continuity issues, inconsistencies, and maddening illogic abound.
What may have bothered me the most, though, was the lack of technology (and imagination). Forget future-tech; this Star Wars doesn't even have 2017 tech like biometric ID, basic surveillance, and nuclear-powered space ships that don't need to carry all their fuel with them (lest they, you know, get stranded in intergalactic space or something). There's also a crew of exploited orphans straight out of Oliver Twist, a "Free Willy" subplot, and a subverted heroic self-sacrifice -- none of which land the way they're supposed to.
It has a few payoff moments, but many more head-scratching, "WTF?" ones. If you go in with low expectations, ignore all EU lore, and avoid thinking much, it's sort of an enjoyable ride.