Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The way Darth Maul dies is...kinda retarded.

Yeah, the character deserved better IMO. I mean, it had to happen obviously. Can't begin ANH with Maul still possibly around.

Maul was the only COOL thing about that movie. Way to go Georgie Boy.

They could have had...Obi Wan flies into a rage and kills Maul after Qui Gon dies, Anakin witnesses. It sticks with him, and later on it plays a role in his turning to the dark side. Obi Wans guilt over all that is why he can't fully kill Anakin on Mustafar.

Instead we got something that would have fit in with a Looney Tunes cartoon and everybody just looks like a douche.

china already pulled TLJ from theaters because totally bombed there. their biggest complaint was "why should i suddenly care about this old man?" which the film's climax surrounds. the trouble is that most of china never even saw the original trilogy.

it kinda makes sense why it failed there. for example it would have been very weird in the 1977 theatrical version to have some intense musical fanfare when ben kenobi first appeared, having first been introduced to an audience who has little/no idea who he is. and then have the story's climax follow him, instead of the assumed main protagonist. also, you don't learn anything about luke in terms of character development, besides casual and fleeting references to the OT/PT, (most which were surely missed in china) and his flashbacks with kylo. so without the supporting context of the OT/PT, luke was really just some jaded grouchy old reluctant master who decides to finally join the battle and gets killed in a tremendous feat of herosim. chinese cinema has an obscene amount of films with that same exact plot, so perhaps that seemed trite to them as well.

Originally posted by Surtur
You tell yourself that little guy. I know you need these pretend victories. I'm allowing it 🙂

Originally posted by AuraAngel
Why do ya like it so much? 😮

The same general reasons you like any other movies.

Qui Gon looked like he was about to have a heart attack during his duel. Dude shoulda been on the Yoda exercise program.

Originally posted by dadudemon
The same general reasons you like any other movies.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
china already pulled TLJ from theaters because totally bombed there. their biggest complaint was "why should i suddenly care about this old man?" which the film's climax surrounds. the trouble is that most of china never even saw the original trilogy.

it kinda makes sense why it failed there. for example it would have been very weird in the 1977 theatrical version to have some intense musical fanfare when ben kenobi first appeared, having first been introduced to an audience who has little/no idea who he is. and then have the story's climax follow him, instead of the assumed main protagonist. also, you don't learn anything about luke in terms of character development, besides casual and fleeting references to the OT/PT, (most which were surely missed in china) and his flashbacks with kylo. so without the supporting context of the OT/PT, luke was really just some jaded grouchy old reluctant master who decides to finally join the battle and gets killed in a tremendous feat of herosim. chinese cinema has an obscene amount of films with that same exact plot, so perhaps that seemed trite to them as well.

Interesting stuff. It seems like it was doomed.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Interesting stuff. It seems like it was doomed.

Originally posted by dadudemon

Still impressed with how ripped Hayden got For ROTS.

Yeah you would think with Hollywood workouts these days Driver would have put Hayden to shame. But it’s the other frigging way around.

^ Still making the apostrophe mistake. Will try to stop.

It depends on the internal motivation these guys have and their body types.

Driver is a much better actor than Hayden and in the end that's what really matters.

Ps. Edit out the giant image as it ****s up the page.

Isn't Adam Driver a former marine too (before he became an actor) ? Regardless, I guess ripness is one thing people can say for early 2000's Hayden over him...

I'm pretty sure Driver's physique is better for strength, actually. Abs look great but true strongmen are big slabs of meat.

I think people are really putting a little too much thought into this.

Abs and no abs aside, I think every sensible person can agree that neither Christensen nor Driver look like women though.

Who thinks they looked like women ?

Originally posted by Surtur
You know from a certain angle Kylo kinda looks like Aeryn Sun from Farscape, but with shorter hair. Damn. That shits gotta hurt anyone who is a fan of the guy.