GRcade Ranks: The Star Wars Movies - RESULTS PAGE 9

Oh, and I forgot about the Leia Poppins moment

Jenuall wrote:Bobba Fett does strawberry float all in reality in the original trilogy and yet the fandom found endless ways to fap over the guy.

I genuinely don't give a strawberry float about boba fett so I was pretty confused about all the mandalorian hype. Like don't get me wrong it's probably a good show, but who strawberry floating cares right?
It's like darth maul; once again who gives a strawberry float, the dude had like one line and I can't even remember what it was.

I think people who didn't like The Last Jedi thought they knew where it was going, only to be massively shocked when it didn't go the way they wanted.

It's genuinelly one of the best cinema experiences I had purely because so many moments made me gasp. I respected the ballsy nature of it most. It was a beautiful mess, and should have been the finale. The main takeaway was 'what on earth does this leave for the last film' and man that showed in Rise Of Skywalker.

TLJ will ALWAYS be the most divisive film, I totally get it - but people kidding themselves into that being a worse film than Attack Of The Clones...man I don't know what they are smoking. The Red Room alone should be enough.

VlaSoul wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Bobba Fett does strawberry float all in reality in the original trilogy and yet the fandom found endless ways to fap over the guy.

I genuinely don't give a strawberry float about boba fett so I was pretty confused about all the mandalorian hype. Like don't get me wrong it's probably a good show, but who strawberry floating cares right?
It's like darth maul; once again who gives a strawberry float, the dude had like one line and I can't even remember what it was.

Sometimes its just enough to have a cool looking character and have peoples minds fill in the blanks.

VlaSoul wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Bobba Fett does strawberry float all in reality in the original trilogy and yet the fandom found endless ways to fap over the guy.

I genuinely don't give a strawberry float about boba fett so I was pretty confused about all the mandalorian hype. Like don't get me wrong it's probably a good show, but who strawberry floating cares right?
It's like darth maul; once again who gives a strawberry float, the dude had like one line and I can't even remember what it was.

Maul features pretty heavily in Clone Wars and Rebels (and is pretty good in both).

Mandalorian is fun on the most part, but doesn't have an ounce of depth to it and is pretty forgettable stuff. I can't even begin to entertain the idea it might be on some kind of equal footing to something as epic as TESB, which runs the gamut of despair, betrayal, love, hope & loss - all happening to characters that we are invested in & are believable, well-developed and unique.

Mandalorian may have some nice moments here & there, but feels like chalk and cheese to me.

DML wrote:I think people who didn't like The Last Jedi thought they knew where it was going, only to be massively shocked when it didn't go the way they wanted.

It subverted my expectations (great) but it also subverted my suspension of disbelief (very bad). That's why I don't like it, not because it didn't "go the way I wanted". I don't need my fantasy fiction to be realistic, but I do need it to be mostly self-consistent.

OrangeRKN wrote:

DML wrote:I think people who didn't like The Last Jedi thought they knew where it was going, only to be massively shocked when it didn't go the way they wanted.

It subverted my expectations (great) but it also subverted my suspension of disbelief (very bad). That's why I don't like it, not because it didn't "go the way I wanted". I don't need my fantasy fiction to be realistic, but I do need it to be mostly self-consistent.

I really hate it when people say "you just didn't like where it went" about TLJ, for whatever reason it's quite a common defence by people who like it

I don't dislike it because they went against expectations, I dislike it because the film has so many issues throughout-juvenile out of place humour, cringeworthy moments like the Mary Poppins bit, unnecessary and boring subplots, jarring tone changes and pacing between scenes....it doesn't nearly make up for that by looking amazing and going in different directions.

OrangeRKN wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:Then you have the Hyperspace ramming scene which is contentious but I don't think anyone can argue that the impact of it, the visuals and the soundscape, is one of the most effective moments in the films. Again, it's one of the best looking shots in the series.

Honestly I think I got too distracted thinking the premise stupid to give the visual spectacle enough appreciation

There's a lot of chatter about the ramming scene being nonsensical, but I don't think Holdo goes into thinking "yeah this is going to look strawberry floatin' ace", it's more an "aw gooseberry fool I gotta try and buy these guys some time what do I do". It's a desperation move, and it just happens to pay off.

It's the "we gotta pull some holdo manoeuvres" conversation in Rise of Skywalker that presents it as something that they could have done to solve every single problem in the past, which makes it seem a bit ludicrous. And it just happens to be brought up by the worst character in the whole franchise strawberry floating Charlie.

Imrahil wrote:Mandalorian is fun on the most part, but doesn't have an ounce of depth to it and is pretty forgettable stuff. I can't even begin to entertain the idea it might be on some kind of equal footing to something as epic as TESB, which runs the gamut of despair, betrayal, love, hope & loss - all happening to characters that we are invested in & are believable, well-developed and unique.

Mandalorian may have some nice moments here & there, but feels like chalk and cheese to me.

If you're looking for depth, then Star Wars is the wrong series for you...

Frank wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:Then you have the Hyperspace ramming scene which is contentious but I don't think anyone can argue that the impact of it, the visuals and the soundscape, is one of the most effective moments in the films. Again, it's one of the best looking shots in the series.

Honestly I think I got too distracted thinking the premise stupid to give the visual spectacle enough appreciation

There's a lot of chatter about the ramming scene being nonsensical, but I don't think Holdo goes into thinking "yeah this is going to look strawberry floatin' ace", it's more an "aw gooseberry fool I gotta try and buy these guys some time what do I do". It's a desperation move, and it just happens to pay off.

It's the "we gotta pull some holdo manoeuvres" conversation in Rise of Skywalker that presents it as something that they could have done to solve every single problem in the past, which makes it seem a bit ludicrous. And it just happens to be brought up by the worst character in the whole franchise strawberry floating Charlie.

I still don't really get what problem anyone has with the Hyperspace ramming scene. As you say it's a last ditch attempt to buy some time. Hyperspace has already been established as a thing with potential crashing consequences ""Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova" so what exactly don't people get about the premise?

Lightspeed skipping and Hans "LOL we gunna go to hyperspace from out of the dock for REASONS" bullshit are much more ridiculous.

It makes hyperspace ramming a thing. It begs the question of why hyperspace ramming hasn't been the preferred method of warfare for the entire series.

OrangeRKN wrote:It makes hyperspace ramming a thing. It begs the question of why hyperspace ramming hasn't been the preferred method of warfare for the entire series.

Because it kills the person performing the manoeuvre?

Moggy wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:It makes hyperspace ramming a thing. It begs the question of why hyperspace ramming hasn't been the preferred method of warfare for the entire series.

Because it kills the person performing the manoeuvre?

Just get R2D2 to strawberry floating do it

OrangeRKN wrote:

Moggy wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:It makes hyperspace ramming a thing. It begs the question of why hyperspace ramming hasn't been the preferred method of warfare for the entire series.

Because it kills the person performing the manoeuvre?

Just get R2D2 to strawberry floating do it

R2D2 is better than 99.99% of human characters.

OrangeRKN wrote:It makes hyperspace ramming a thing. It begs the question of why hyperspace ramming hasn't been the preferred method of warfare for the entire series.

Seriously?

That question exists (and has always existed) based on the logic within the series - it contradicts nothing we have learned already.

The reality would be that to build spaceship sized projectiles with both the targeting capacity and hyperspace drive capability to simply use them as brute force weapons would be astronomically expensive and time consuming.

But then the First Order can apparently build a secret armada from out of nowhere and build a weapon the size of a planet so who knows!

Jenuall wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:It makes hyperspace ramming a thing. It begs the question of why hyperspace ramming hasn't been the preferred method of warfare for the entire series.

Seriously?

That question exists (and has always existed) based on the logic within the series - it contradicts nothing we have learned already.

It's about self-consistency in what rules the fictional universe establishes about itself. A setting doesn't need to lay out its rules in full (and actually this is a bad thing to do), but anything it does establish should be consistent with the rest of the setting. Hyperspace ramming isn't a problem before TLJ because it is never put forward as a concept. One might consider the possibility, but equally one can consider there would be some in-universe explanation for why it wouldn't work - we simply don't know it, because we don't need to know it, because it is never a relevant thing.

TLJ makes it a relevant thing. It introduces some limited rules for hyperspace ramming, and those rules appear jarringly inconsistent with the established setting.

Oh god I forgot about the 10 billion star destroyers magically appear out of the ground bit.

That film is so so gooseberry fool.

LewisD wrote:Oh, and I forgot about the Leia Poppins moment

Genuinely cannot fathom the hate this scene gets. It's entirely consistent with what Jedi are known to be capable of. Yes it looks a bit weird and if mum jokes are okay for Poe then I think they missed a trick by not having frozen Leia get carried to sick bay under someone's arm like a surfboard, but the way people act like it was a heinous crime against the series is baffling.

Ackbar getting an extra's death is far worse in my opinion.