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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Star Wars: What do think of the New Movies?
« on: May 29, 2018, 11:29:52 PM »
• Force Awakens was fine for being a retelling of Star Wars ("A New Hope," for those born after 1977).
• Rogue One was a serviceable "war" movie, but the best parts were the space portions of the "Battle of Scarif" -- see the 8½-minute HD supercut that removes the other extraneous ~124 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCVWm20fU0A
(To those outside of the US -- Sorry that YouTube won't let you see it, but take my word for it: it's _really_ cool...)
• For Last Jedi, the problem for me was one of the internal logic of the established Star Wars universe being ignored. Forget about a blown-up Leia using the Force to fly in outer space, forget that 'tracking through Hyperspace' is now a thing; my problem is this:
Established:
1. The Rebels are almost out of fuel and can only jump to hyperspace one more time (regardless of the fact they can now be tracked).
2. The Rebels are trying to outrun the First Order (and Snoke's mega-warship) by flying through normal space.
3. The First Order is perfectly content to wait for hours... and HOURS... AND HOURS... until they eventually catch up and overtake the slightly-slower Rebel command ship.
Query:
The point of hyperspace is that it is a shortcut through normal space. Why didn't Snoke's mega-warship or any of the First Order ships simply make 2 mini-hyperspace jumps to 'leapfrog' past the Rebel ship and cut them off? One jump in ANY OTHER DIRECTION other than straight ahead (space is, like, 3D, you know, so let's not have an unintended "Holdo Maneuver" occur here), with the second jump positioning them right in front of the Rebel ship. Why wait for the Rebels to run out of fuel or eventually be overtaken?
(I know, I know, the movie would be over in 20 minutes...)
Much like TFA = ANH mentioned above, TLJ has similar themes to The Empire Strikes Back: Rebels pursued by Evil Overlords after destroying their superweapon in previous movie; a Jedi-in-training; the beaten Rebels left in a dire cliffhanger...
Sadly, unlike TESB, the most disappointing aspect about TLJ for me was that by movie's end, it left me apathetic, not eager, for a resolution to the storyline: I have absolutely zero interest in finding out what happens next for Rey or Kylo in SW9, or seeing any of that storyline continue further.
If TLJ was the last SW movie ever (which we know it won't be), I would be perfectly fine with that...
• Will probably wait until Solo comes out on DVD to see it.
• Rogue One was a serviceable "war" movie, but the best parts were the space portions of the "Battle of Scarif" -- see the 8½-minute HD supercut that removes the other extraneous ~124 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCVWm20fU0A
(To those outside of the US -- Sorry that YouTube won't let you see it, but take my word for it: it's _really_ cool...)
• For Last Jedi, the problem for me was one of the internal logic of the established Star Wars universe being ignored. Forget about a blown-up Leia using the Force to fly in outer space, forget that 'tracking through Hyperspace' is now a thing; my problem is this:
Established:
1. The Rebels are almost out of fuel and can only jump to hyperspace one more time (regardless of the fact they can now be tracked).
2. The Rebels are trying to outrun the First Order (and Snoke's mega-warship) by flying through normal space.
3. The First Order is perfectly content to wait for hours... and HOURS... AND HOURS... until they eventually catch up and overtake the slightly-slower Rebel command ship.
Query:
The point of hyperspace is that it is a shortcut through normal space. Why didn't Snoke's mega-warship or any of the First Order ships simply make 2 mini-hyperspace jumps to 'leapfrog' past the Rebel ship and cut them off? One jump in ANY OTHER DIRECTION other than straight ahead (space is, like, 3D, you know, so let's not have an unintended "Holdo Maneuver" occur here), with the second jump positioning them right in front of the Rebel ship. Why wait for the Rebels to run out of fuel or eventually be overtaken?
(I know, I know, the movie would be over in 20 minutes...)
Much like TFA = ANH mentioned above, TLJ has similar themes to The Empire Strikes Back: Rebels pursued by Evil Overlords after destroying their superweapon in previous movie; a Jedi-in-training; the beaten Rebels left in a dire cliffhanger...
Sadly, unlike TESB, the most disappointing aspect about TLJ for me was that by movie's end, it left me apathetic, not eager, for a resolution to the storyline: I have absolutely zero interest in finding out what happens next for Rey or Kylo in SW9, or seeing any of that storyline continue further.
If TLJ was the last SW movie ever (which we know it won't be), I would be perfectly fine with that...
• Will probably wait until Solo comes out on DVD to see it.
