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[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

Kyle Chandler in Pure Country (1992)

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Fantastic Four 2025 (Minor spoilers)

I want to start out by saying that I’ve never been a big Fantastic 4 fan. I saw this movie because I thought the aesthetic looked neat, Pedro is hot, and I was interested in seeing whether or not they finally made a decent Fantastic Four movie. And I can honestly say it is pretty good. Especially compared to the trash that came before it. 

I liked the performances. It was definitely a visual treat. When it was announced that Sue was pregnant I was worried she wasn’t going to be very useful for the rest of the movie and was very happy to be proven wrong.

Overall, it was a really neat movie but the whole time I was kind of wondering, what about the movie wasn’t clicking with me. And I think I figured it out.

There are some characters, some teams that require no introduction. The Fantastic 4 at least to the general moviegoing public are unfortunately not counted amongst them. 

They aren’t like Superman or Batman, you can’t just skip the first four years of their development and expect everyone to be emotionally invested in them. 

They spend all this time telling us how great they are and how much people love them and how Fantastic they are but they don’t do enough to really show us and I think that’s a mistake. 

That being said, this wasn’t a bad movie. It was pretty good. Definitely visually. I love retro futurism/modernism and they really pulled that aspect off. Maybe I could’ve also used some more time spent in that world. The whole thing just sort of felt like it was scratching the surface. It was so long and yet by the time it was over, I couldn’t help but think I needed more. 

More emotional depth, more relationship development, more character interaction.

Just more. 

7/10 my opinion might change with a rewatch.

Keep in mind that you’ll probably like this movie a lot more if you’re a big Fantastic 4 fan.

With all the serious shit out of the way, here’s some random thoughts I had while watching it:

1. Of course they gave Pedro a baby. He always has a baby.

2.Mr Fantastic's plan:

3: What was going through my mind every time the Silver Surfer was on screen.

4.Galactus looking like those Roboworld bitches in Redline.

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Chumba-wumba-laya

[bazookat]

You must be a wiki, since I want to search every last part of you.

(I am so sorry if this sucks I tried to be original.)

Lmao that's pretty creative tbh

Oh btw, did my ask go through?

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was i a better writer in high school than i am now? because it seems coming up with stuff for my novels was a lot easier back then

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My thoughts (complaints) about The Last Jedi

[SPOILERS APLENTY.  DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN”T SEEN THE FILM]

So I saw The Last Jedi last week, and thought it was ‘okay’.  Obviously the internet is pretty divided over it.  I’m just going to list my major gripes.

Now, my biggest gripe I thought I would have before seeing it was the treatment of Luke Skywalker.  I will say that I didn’t like it at all, but I’m going to give Rian about a 50% pass on this.  I remember when I first heard that potential plot (Luke has been missing) first spiiled by the Latino Review-and then it turned out to be the preface to The Force Awakens-I said back then: how do they justify this?  How do they come up with a reason good enough for Luke to abandon his sister, his friends, and the whole galaxy to just go to shit while he hides out somewhere?  A reason that would fit the character.  He had to have a reason that he had to be gone (some kind of mission that only he could do) or he wasn’t Luke Skywalker.  Luke wouldn’t just abandon the galaxy.  He’s the last of the Jedi.  He has a job to do.

JJ Abrams probably didn’t think about it too much because we all know how much he loves the Mystery Box.  Hell between that and Rey’s parentage, he had plenty of items to play with in there.

So Rian had the hardest section of the story to deal with and to come up with a reason to justify Luke’s disappearance.  And I didn’t really like it.  I could go on and on and say that if you didn’t give a shit about Luke Skywalker as a character you were kind of missing the point about Star Wars.  

BUT...let’s put that behind us.  I didn’t like it, but that’s where he went.  So be it.  And maybe as someone who LOVES Star Wars (the original), maybe I wouldn’t be the best choice to write a Star Wars sequel because I’d be too beholden to the source material.  Maybe you need someone who sees the source text with less reverence than I would to succeed-to push the story in new directions.

So if I put my disagreement about Luke’s character aside (giving Rian a pass because he’d been written into that corner already), there’s still a lot about that movie that didn’t work.

-None of our three Force Awakens characters except Rey had a story.  Or at least a story of significance.  Finn literally went on a snipe hunt that was a complete waste of time.  Its neat and flashy but if you think about it: it had ZERO impact on the movie.  And just settling for this alternate code breaker who assures us that he can break the Imperial code too.  Okay, I guess that makes sense (spoiler alert: that didn’t make sense...oh unless that entire subplot was pointless anyway).

-Speaking of that whole escapade: didn’t the Resistance cruise have, like, six hours of fuel left...?  How did Finn and Rose travel to Canto Bight, sneak in, get captured, wake up in a cell (because they were knocked out: for how long?  At LEAST an hour probably), escape, find the Codebreaker-wait, the other codebreaker-and then hyperspace back to the Imperial Dreadnought?

-And since when is hyperspace instantaneous?  Rogue One did that too.  Jyn Erso’s team called for assistance, everyone got in their X-wings, and were there in about twenty minutes.  I mean, didn’t you feel like Luke and them were on the Millennium Falcon for a while in the original Star Wars?  A day or two at least.  Or maybe a couple days?  In the old role-playing game Traveller each ‘jump’ using the jump drive took a week.  I always imagined Star Wars was kind of analogous to that.  Or somewhere in between.  Maybe not a week, but sure as hell not 20 minutes.  

After all, Han said that the Falcon made point-five past light speed.  If we take that statement at face value (as in their hyperspace travel was comparable to 1.5 times the speed of light), many stars are light years apart.  Our closest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is more than 4 light years away.   It would take a long time to traverse between systems.  

-The low speed chase.  Omg how stupid was that?  And since when do the fighters have to stay within hand holding range of their cruisers?  Hell the X-wings in Rogue One (see above) jumped to an entirely different system to fight.  The idea that the Tie Fighters had to stay within arms length of the Imperial cruisers was stupid-and didn’t follow any of the evidence we’ve seen in the Star Wars universe.  

-The First Order Dreadnoughts.  Is there no economics in this universe?  I mean I understand that the First Order star destroyers could be retooled imperial ones, but where do these dreadnoughts come from?  These things are 20 times the mass of a Star Destroyer.  Do you  know how expensive these things would be?  The First Order is some militaristic faction that most of the galaxy doesn’t consider a threat.  Where do they have the money to build two (or more) of these monstrosities?    

-Snoke.  WTF...?  So Snoke was this super sinister bad guy, seven feet tall, so strong in the Force that he was able to tap into young Ben’s mind and turn him...and now he’s gone.  Why didn’t we learn about Snoke?   Who was he?  Where did he come from?  How did his face get effed up like that?

And now he’s gone?  The big threat, the mastermind of the plot to destroy the Republic, and now he’s gone?  Oy.  

(Now, I did like that once Snoke was dead, Kylo still chose the dark side.  That was good.  (That’s one of my gripes about Episode III-this was before I disavowed the prequels entirely mind you-was that Anakin never consciously chose the Dark Side.  It was the biggest moment of those films and he was like ‘eh, sure.  I’ll join’.)  So I did like that Kylo chose the mantle of new Supreme Leader than being Ben Solo again).

-The whole of the Resistance can now fit on the Millennium Falcon.  What?  That was dumb.  

-Luke’s appearance.  LOVED the music when he was heading out to meet the First Order.  But he was an apparition...yet he kissed Leia’s forehead and handed her apparition Falcon dice...which later disappeared.  Wait, what?

I think... 

It seems like Rian Johnson had little to no interest in making the next film in sequence after The Force Awakens.  Now I’ve seen people get on his case because the script for The Last Jedi was written before TFA came out, but folks: it would have to be.  They were probably in pre-production before TFA came out.  Remember the old Star Wars films were made three years apart.  These are coming every two.  

But it seems like Rian wanted to make his movie and was forced to use those same characters.  

I saw reviews that talk about how the movie went in surprising directions.  And now that I’ve seen it I’m thinking: did the movie surprise you, or did the characters just act out of character from what they’d established before?  Cause that’s not the same thing.  

Very little of it was surprising.  You knew that Vice Admiral Holdo was going to do something to protect the fleet, likely sacrificing herself.  It was a REALLY cool moment with the hyperspace thing, but did she have to wait until they were down to just three transports?? 

Rian missed out on the spirit of The Force Awakens.  I loved TFA.  I know many people think it was just too derivative of Star Wars.  I loved Star Wars, so I didn’t care (I thought it was a conscious choice by Abrams to try and reset the whole universe after the awful prequels).  But for me, the stuff riffed off of Star Wars wasn’t that big of a deal.  The big deal was that there was new life in the Star Wars universe.  There were three new characters that I loved and couldn’t wait to see more of.  Think about it: when Han Solo showed up in TFA, it was cool-but he wasn’t ‘saving’ the movie at that point.  We were already invested in Finn and Rey.  The further development of their individual relationships with Han were fantastic as well.  

And when Han died, it meant something.  Luke’s death?  Are you kidding me?  “I overexerted myself with my Force Astral Projection and died.”  

It just seems like this wasn’t a complete story.  Rian had an idea for Rey and Kylo to interact (and if you look at it, aside from those scenes Rey’s interaction with Luke literally led to very little).  

He didn’t know what to do with half the characters and didn’t bother to come up with anything of significance for them.  And what he did come up with was ‘eh’.  I think he had a lot of cool scenes (like the hyperspace thing), but forced the plot to connect them together.  The characters said the lines they had to say to advance the predetermined story.  It didn’t feel organic to them or their motivations that were established in TFA.

It wasn’t a horrible movie, but I would have liked to have had an actual Episode VIII.  You know...one that actually followed and acknowledged that there was an Episode VII.

[alina774]

The Last Jedi

Holy crud. I go to see a film in theatres for the first time since District Nine and I'm not disappointed at all. Screw all those haters that said it would be terrible or not worth the money. They're morons who're always goin' to be harpin' on about something they think is 'bad' and ruin it for the rest of us. No spoilers but damn that was a good film and Carrie Fisher was a queen in disguise. To anyone who cares, please repost this and if you haven't seen it, take the leap. It's totally worth it.

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