• SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    10 minutes ago

    Actual pain. Like a lack of object permanence, but for periods of time. What is that called. Am... Ambrosia, right.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 hour ago

    This truly is an inexplicable thing to liberals isn't it? It isn't like the movies at all so they are just completely at a loss to understand what is happening. Their entire worldview no longer makes sense. I think this is why so many comrades have had a lot of success radicalising liberals the last few days.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      53 minutes ago

      People generally want to understand why things happen, when liberalism is failing to explain why things happen and can't even come up with fake bullshit to mislead people then they are forced to turn elsewhere for explanation.

  • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    There was only two things that were good.

    The infantry landing onto the side of a space destroyer in high atmosphere was a neat idea. Undone I think by having the weird horse cavalry. Really needed an Andor or Rogue One seriousness to pull off.

    But I did like the Rey and Kylo Ren being able to affect and pass objects accross time and space. It built on the force projection from the Last Jedi.

    It felt weird and magical how the force should be. And they used it enough in earlier scenes that passing the saber back and forth was not a deus ex macchina in the finale.

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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      3 hours ago

      Undone I think by having the weird horse cavalry

      The weird cavalry was kinda cool, the part that undid it for me was that the entire sequence hinged on Palpatine not knowing which direction is up

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    Libs still don't get that this is how political economics works. Like, this is the core of it. Capitalism in decay yadda yada

    • BashfulBob [none/use name]
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      5 hours ago

      No no no. Economics is when there's an evil ghost and you have to beat it with the power of being horny for a girl that's not into you.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 hours ago

        God I wish it was that easy I have so many lesbian crushes I would be unstoppable.

  • sandinista209 [he/him]
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    7 hours ago

    Rise of Skywalker was the complete disaster that Chuds thought the Last Jedi was.

    • ihaveibs [he/him]
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      6 hours ago

      I still don't understand the reaction to the Last Jedi. Otherwise sensible people have the most dogshit takes on it.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        5 hours ago

        I know it's popular to defend TLJ because the main detractors against it are all racist chuds who hate it for the stupidest reasons, but it's still a terrible movie. The plot goes nowhere, the world building is an affront to basic human sanity, and every character in the movie had a clause in their contract to grab hold of The Idiot Ball the second they came on screen and never let go of it lest any of them use their brains for long enough to negate the gigantic plot holes and stupid decisions permeating every scene. It had some great ideas that would have been fresh and exciting if they were executed better and weren't in the second movie of a trilogy that was never intended to have those themes (you can't really pull the "heroes can come from anywhere and be nobodies" theme when your entire trilogy is nostalgia bait glazing all the legendary figures from the OG trilogy in every other scene).

        If you put a gun to my head and made me pick a best film out of that trilogy I'd unfortunately say TFA, with the caveat that it's just a significantly worse version of A New Hope that hadn't completely squandered its cast yet.

      • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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        2 hours ago

        There's a lot of aspects about it I really like...but as a complete piece...it's just not there for me. Take Luke Skywalker's cynical turn for example. On paper: fucking love it. There's that meme going around showing young and old luke with young college philosophy graduate and jaded Marxist professor.

        But like...if you're going to have earnestly eternal optimist Luke turn cynical it has to be from a failure of that optimism to have positive results rather than a failure to follow it. Luke being tempted to kill kylo ren makes sense to me....but I don't get how he concluded his entire philosophy and worldview was wrong when by his own admission it was a "moment of weakness" where he almost did the most contradictory thing to his own philosophy that he's ever done. If anything I think that whole fallout would have made him double down.

        So much of the movie is like that. Good pieces in isolation but none of them quite work.

        That being said: it's the best by far of the sequel trilogy. Rise of Skywalker is a dumpster fire. Force awakens is a pandering cynical cash grab with nothing worthwhile to say or add that gets progressively worse every year.

        Last Jedi feels like it's made by an actual artist with something to say....even if what he's saying just doesn't quite hit.

      • Tomboymoder [she/her, pup/pup's]
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        5 hours ago

        there are some gems and it's the best of the trilogy, but there is also just a lot of garbage and poor choices.

      • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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        6 hours ago

        I've always been very pro Last Jedi - there's some shaggy elements to it (in particular, low speed chase is kind of silly) but overall I actually really like it - Luke and Rey's arcs are both good. I also really like "rey from nowhere" and the fact they recanted all of it was truly dogshit storytelling.

        • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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          5 hours ago

          I read that RJ wanted the suicide hyper drive attack to be done by Leia and got overruled. That would have made so much more sense.

          Her tapping the force to pull off a once in a lifetime thing that even veteran pilots and computers can't do.

          Like Luke with the deathstar.

          • Moss [they/them]
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            5 hours ago

            That would actually make sense as well, because that scene raises the question of why don't pilots just do this all the time. Requiring force sensitivity to properly pull off a kamikaze move gives it a good reason to be near impossible

            • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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              4 hours ago

              At the risk of combining pedantry with Star Wars nerd crap, I believe (this is just what I remember) that there's a line or two in the movie that states that the ship's shields were fully down, and it's implied that this is the only reason why the suicide attack worked. In lore, shields on ships are primarily for physical objects (like asteroids and crap), so it makes sense to me that they can, I guess, magically repel even other ships in hyperdrive unless the shields are down.

              • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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                3 hours ago

                From the debate at the time, I think it was a timing thing too, you jump too soon you’re an ethereal hyperdrive ship that passes through them, you jump too late their shields are up and /or their tractor beam is stopping you (for small kamikaze ships).

                That’s why I think Leia should have done it and for any non force user it would have been next to impossible etc. Plus it completes Kylo’s ascension that both his parents are dead.

        • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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          6 hours ago

          Ray from nowhere and the kid with the force at the end was a great message that a hero can be from anywhere.

              • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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                4 hours ago

                I thought Snoke getting smoked was one of the coolest uses of a standard "evil chair alien" that I've ever seen. Just a cool twist that set up a power vacuum intrigue with Kylo Ren. Que my immediate bafflement when I went online and saw legions of nerds malding that Supreme Lord Snoke didn't get hours of backstory and lore explanation.

                • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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                  1 hour ago

                  Yeah very reminiscent of the ROTJ sand dunes fight in some ways, lots of chaos even tho it's less kinetic (the back and forth between the barge makes that one way cooler in many ways)

      • schlongjohnson [he/him]
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        6 hours ago

        nerds will immediately go home after watching a movie to watch a four hour video essay before they can process their own feelings on things

  • Gorb [they/them]
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    5 hours ago

    Star wars? More like star bores amirite?

    Because of woke

    Why is 6 afraid of 7? Cos 7 ate 9

    HAHAHAHAHAH

    HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

    HAHAHAHAHA

    (I'm not doing ok)

  • UltraGreen [comrade/them]
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    5 hours ago

    I refuse to read any prequel slander. I recognize that they may have ruined all big budget movies forever, but you guys just don't understand the vision.

    Plus I like spaceship shooty movie

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    No you are just blind to the material conditions that led inevitably to his return

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    7 hours ago

    THERE WERE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH EYES TO SEE THEM

    Also, Palpatine showed up with no foreshadowing or anything

    The last four years count as foreshadowing

  • AutoVomBizMarkee [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t care how wrong I am. I watched that movie over the course of two nights, high out of my mind, and relished the total lack sense it made, like it had been put together by people that hate the source material but are bound to it. Like a shitty Star Wars fever dream. It’s what the franchise deserves and I really respect it for that. More high budget wastes of money for fan fiction that I can watch a year after everyone hates it please.

    • TheRealChrisR [none/use name]
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      5 hours ago

      I liked RoS as images and sounds playing in front of my face at the theater. One of the few things I remember is saying it felt like Trapped in the Closet cause there was some “twist” every 5 minutes. Butt TITC is at least a series of music videos to explain that…

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    Lmao, wut??? Like the old saying goes, you shouldn't call it a comeback when he's been here the whole time.