Actually, it was the "can I speak to your mom" joke that immediately turned me off from the film. What a choice.
Robot Chicken did it right.
Actually, it was the "can I speak to your mom" joke that immediately turned me off from the film. What a choice.
Rogue One is the best, but this is up there!
A really great point. If it had fulfilled all of our expectations of what the scene would be, what kind of arc would Luke have had? "Hey, the Jedi Temple burned down and I self-exiled myself to a planet so far in the Outer Rim that you'd have to spend decades working to find me. You did all that though, so here's a glass or warm blue milk and a cookie. Your training begins tomorrow."I mean if he just picked up the light saber, they could have showed that at the end of TFA. I believe there had to be a curveball, and just him picking up the light saber would have been anticlimactic. But even apart from that, it just makes sense in the story, he looked miserable even in TFA, he wants Rey to go away and he expresses that.
I can't see how it would have been a better scene if he just accepted the light saber.
When bad posters like Ishida are involved it was inevitableOf course this thread turned into a Star Wars pissing match.
It always turns into a Star Wars pissing match.
I think OP is referring to the 2018 film.This is such a wonderful example of the exact opposite of what the OP is asking for: a perfectly fine one-liner, near the end of a rather beloved action movie.
Surely you don't mean the man that let Iron-Man 3 end with Tony destroying all his suits only to get them back in Age of Ultron? Not the guy who saw Ragnarok take away Thor's eye and Hammer only to give them back in the next movie.
How is it not irony? The Last Jedi was clearly trying to put too much meaning into a trilogy that was clearly only intended to retread the events of the original trilogy with some modifications. It was clearly trying to make Star Wars feel more contemporary by invoking contemporary problems, and it did so at the expense of pacing. Not that The Force Awakens didn't have its pacing problems, but The Last Jedi was absolutely abysmal in terms of pacing, and that's due to the fact that someone in charge was taking the series too seriously and trying to ensure it made a statement. Problem is, that statement wasn't even close to being core to the experience; it was relegated to a side story that stomped the pacing of the movie further into the ground after the slowest chase in sci-fi history dragged the pacing to ground level.That's not irony. In my opinion, TLJ suprised but it also built upon TFA. Rey has to face she was left by her parents, abandoned on a desert, Kylo kills his master and accends, Luke faces his mistakes and finds peace, Poe achieves a leader ship role and Finn finds his place in the resistance except from saving Rey.
It may be irony, if you create a fallacy or a strawman, that the fans only liked TLJ because it deconstructed 'undo' TFA.
While a cringy line. The rest of the movie isn't horrible.Here's another one, and what do you know, it's also from Star Wars!
"I don't have people. I'm alone".
"Hmm.. Han... Solo..."
Me:
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So many moments you could pause it on that were such red flags. The Goat Milk, Finn running out of his hospital bed, Leia Poppins....the shit bar HAS no low!
I didn't see it, but more than once I'd heard people say they heard laughter/mockery in their theater the moment this showed up:
And that's literally the start of the movie.
(The Mummy 2017, for those wondering.)
How is it not irony? The Last Jedi was clearly trying to put too much meaning into a trilogy that was clearly only intended to retread the events of the original trilogy with some modifications. It was clearly trying to make Star Wars feel more contemporary by invoking contemporary problems, and it did so at the expense of pacing. Not that The Force Awakens didn't have its pacing problems, but The Last Jedi was absolutely abysmal in terms of pacing, and that's due to the fact that someone in charge was taking the series too seriously and trying to ensure it made a statement. Problem is, that statement wasn't even close to being core to the experience; it was relegated to a side story that stomped the pacing of the movie further into the ground after the slowest chase in sci-fi history dragged the pacing to ground level.
I think you're mixing up Predator (1987), a beloved sci-fi action film with The Predator (2018) a deeply reviled and hated movie. Which I don't blame you for, it's a stupid title.
This is actually an awesome answer. Fuck Alien 3.Newt and Hicks getting killed offscreen right at the beginning.
The ultimate example. This one's so bad, that I actually like the fact that Colonial Marines retconned Hicks' death. I should not like anything about Colonial Marines.Newt and Hicks getting killed offscreen right at the beginning.
It was this. Literal seconds into the film.
Sad that Neill Blomkamp's Alien sequel, which was set to feature an older Hicks and Ripley, retconning Alien 3, was cancelled because Ripley Scott wanted to make Covenant.The ultimate example. This one's so bad, that I actually like the fact that Colonial Marines retconned Hicks' death.
When JP3 came out it was back in a time when movie releases were significantly later in the UK than the US, and I was too eager to see a new JP that I shamefully admit I downloaded it.You set to watch a movie, either at the theater or at home. You got your snacks and your drink. You're comfy, ready to have a good time. You start the movie.
For a short moment, everything is well. But not long after, something happens: your moviegoer instinct flares up in alert. "Oh no", you tell yourself. "I might have made a mistake. I think this movie might end up being bad." You try to shake the feeling away, resolute in not being a pessimist. Unfortunately for you, you were right: the movie ends up being bad.
Let's talk about those moments early on in a movie that lets you know that it's going to be shit.
My moment happened almost twenty years ago. I was in my teens, naive and hopeful. I was anticipating this movie for months. It came out while I was away on a trip with my family. All I could think of was getting back home to watch this movie. The trip was a distraction, a hindrance. I didn't want any part of it. All I wanted was the movie.
When I got back home, I went to see the first showing I could. I bought some popcorn and a soda, settled in my seat, convinced that I was about to have a great time.
Not even five fucking minutes into the movie, this happens:
This is the opening scene of Jurassic Park 3. I was 14 when I saw it, and yet, I could tell, right then and there at that moment, that I was about to watch a terrible movie.
Jurassic Park 3 ended being a bad movie. Weak plot, bad characters and unexciting set pieces. The movie has a quality level of a direct-to-dvd regurgitation, but with better special effects than those movies. It was a hard disappointment for my younger self, who loved the first two movies, as well as dinosaurs in general.
Twenty years later, it's still a bad movie.
I dunno. I think everyone can agree that that moment is the one, just not what it means for the movie.Edit - As for the Last Jedi, I disagree but I think it's clear that those who like the movie and those who hate the movie are never going to get anywhere in such a conversation.
William Gibson's script got adapted into a decent comic a few years back. It's worth a read. In his story, Hicks and Bishop are the protagonists, with Ripley and Newt actually getting to return to Earth together in the opening.Sad that Neill Blomkamp's Alien sequel, which was set to feature an older Hicks and Ripley, retconning Alien 3, was cancelled because Ripley Scott wanted to make Covenant.
Newt and Hicks getting killed offscreen right at the beginning.
Coming here and seeing all the clowns posting the lightsaber scene after reading this article is giving me the worst whiplash in the world.
Oh no, Luke didn't treat the magic laser stick with enough reverence. It's so important to him that he didn't bring it with him.
Oh no, Luke didn't treat the magic laser stick with enough reverence. It's so important to him that he didn't bring it with him.
That idea is like half the problem with JJ Abrams. Seen the same flaws his whole career. Things are important in a movie because they are important to the fans outside the movie and no effort is made to establish that importance in the film itself. Like the Khan reveal in Into Darkness means nothing to the characters but the film treats it with reverence because we the audience know it's like a thing in a different movie. Anakin's lightsaber is lost at Bespin and magically found again for really no reason and with no explanation and then placed on a pedestal for no reason other than for the audience to go googly eyed over. TLJ really cleaned up a lot of that and all the answer-less mystery boxes but then Abrams just hamfisted them back in, even the lightsaber, so here we are.Oh no, Luke didn't treat the magic laser stick with enough reverence. It's so important to him that he didn't bring it with him.
I was in denial of the Fortnite thing when I heard about it and the movie fucking slaps you in the face with it at the start.