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There are perhaps a half-dozen of them: goose-pimple inducing, fist-pump encouraging, heart-racing bursts of cinematic satisfaction. The problem is that the narrative threads connecting them are lazily knitted and sometimes tangled or broken. The overall plot is underwhelming and there’s far too much padding, especially during the first hour.
Perhaps the most telling thing we’ve learned from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi is that George Lucas was right with his 2005 claim (later reversed) that there wouldn’t be an Episode VII because there was no more story to tell. Filmmakers can bring back Han, Luke, and Leia but that doesn’t mean there’s a compelling narrative for them.
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Post subject: Re: Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
Posted: Wed December 13, 2017 11:20 pm
what on earth am I talking about
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am Posts: 35430
Agree with some of that. It’s definifely tangled. But It’s better at being George’s vision of Saturday morning episodic fantasy than George ever managed to be. Ever c
Will go as far as to say he was so determined for this not be Empire he drove to the edge of the map and threw everything over and went back with his own notions. It works and when it works it works really well. It’ hits hard. When it doesn’t it’s almost embarrassing
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