We must have done this.
Anyway, really enjoyed this. I have to say that I think my critical faculties are a little blunted by this recent crop as I love them all. This is probably on a par with Rogue One, maybe even with TFA and the Last Jedi. I just know that I get a very warm feeling sitting down to these films and am never disappointed. Getting the criticisms out of the way - and I don't mean the "why do they even have a train when they have anti-gravity transport?" suspension of disbelief stuff, I was glad to see the death of Rio Durant who was getting a bit Jar Jar Binks for me. I was also glad to see the death of L3. There was probably some point being made but with fairly strong female and/or black characters all over the place in these last four films, I don't think they need to add in a minority metaphor. I wasn't happy about Darth Maul turning up either as it is the first time in the last four films like I have been made to feel like I am missing something by not watching the crap trilogy. . Having said that, this is the first film where Mrs Bored felt like she understood the plot so maybe I being prejudiced against the character.
I loved the way it started off in a very "Blade Runner" setting which, I hope, was a conscious nod. The thing that sets these films apart from other sci-fi action films is, of course, the references to the Star Wars canon (as I believe it is called) and I loved the bits in here - the explanation of the Millenium Falcon's nose, the card game where Han wins the Falcon, the meeting of Chewie and Han which was much more original than I thought it was going to be, the Kessel Run The last four films have been increasingly heavy on cameos where the original trilogy was relative unknowns (aside from Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing, I suppose). I thought that Woody Harrelson as possibly too big and recognisable but I liked his character. I only went "Oh, that's Thandie Newton" halfway through her appearance and haven't seen that much of Paul Bettany for him to be any more than a nagging "Who is he?". They are definitely going for a posh English dark woman in the female leads with Rey, Jyn and now Qi'ra. I don't mind but it does get a little confusing if only for trying to work out if Rey could be Qu'ra's daughter mid-film. Alden Ehrenreich is great as Solo and Donald Glover is as LAndo as well. They are keeping with the CGI being nicely clunky, again in keeping with the last four films as well.
I would say that all the double- and triple-crossing at the end of the film was, perhaps, too much but I think that is me being overly-critical and, as I say, Mrs Bored didn't have any problems with the plot.
Anyway, really enjoyed this. I have to say that I think my critical faculties are a little blunted by this recent crop as I love them all. This is probably on a par with Rogue One, maybe even with TFA and the Last Jedi. I just know that I get a very warm feeling sitting down to these films and am never disappointed. Getting the criticisms out of the way - and I don't mean the "why do they even have a train when they have anti-gravity transport?" suspension of disbelief stuff, I was glad to see the death of Rio Durant who was getting a bit Jar Jar Binks for me. I was also glad to see the death of L3. There was probably some point being made but with fairly strong female and/or black characters all over the place in these last four films, I don't think they need to add in a minority metaphor. I wasn't happy about Darth Maul turning up either as it is the first time in the last four films like I have been made to feel like I am missing something by not watching the crap trilogy. . Having said that, this is the first film where Mrs Bored felt like she understood the plot so maybe I being prejudiced against the character.
I loved the way it started off in a very "Blade Runner" setting which, I hope, was a conscious nod. The thing that sets these films apart from other sci-fi action films is, of course, the references to the Star Wars canon (as I believe it is called) and I loved the bits in here - the explanation of the Millenium Falcon's nose, the card game where Han wins the Falcon, the meeting of Chewie and Han which was much more original than I thought it was going to be, the Kessel Run The last four films have been increasingly heavy on cameos where the original trilogy was relative unknowns (aside from Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing, I suppose). I thought that Woody Harrelson as possibly too big and recognisable but I liked his character. I only went "Oh, that's Thandie Newton" halfway through her appearance and haven't seen that much of Paul Bettany for him to be any more than a nagging "Who is he?". They are definitely going for a posh English dark woman in the female leads with Rey, Jyn and now Qi'ra. I don't mind but it does get a little confusing if only for trying to work out if Rey could be Qu'ra's daughter mid-film. Alden Ehrenreich is great as Solo and Donald Glover is as LAndo as well. They are keeping with the CGI being nicely clunky, again in keeping with the last four films as well.
I would say that all the double- and triple-crossing at the end of the film was, perhaps, too much but I think that is me being overly-critical and, as I say, Mrs Bored didn't have any problems with the plot.
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