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You can't really blame Jackman for the lack of grumpiness. He's shown in Logan: he can do it. In other words, on previous X-films, he just wasn't asked - either by the script or the director or both - to get really nasty.
The height never really bothered me. I'll take a great performance (which Jackman delivered) over the right "look" any day. Does Michael Keaton look like Bruce Wayne? Nope. Was he a brilliant Batman? Absolutely.
I think an athlete would be a mistake. Have we learned nothing from the '90s? Palhares might look like Wolverine, but that's not a smart way to cast films.
Just move the question mark.
What is your favourite?
Steak.
I don't know. If it was exploding, I would think the oxygen would be vaporised by the heat, right? It would light on fire and dissipate, wouldn't it? If it didn't, I would imagine that it would disperse throughout the vacuum way too fast to make atmosphere and allow for sound.
I think the finest two films are the first two. I love Return of the Jedi dearly, but I think the fractures are sorta creeping in at that point. I think Gary Kurtz, as a producer, was equal to Lucas as a writer-director-creator. In other words: Lucas would come up with "Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars", and Gary Kurtz would say, "Too much," and get Lucas to revise.
Lucas is, I think quite obviously, a gifted and talented storyteller. He has a lot of innate ability and a tonne of experience. But film isn't the work of one, singular artist, it's the work of many, many, many people. Over the years, I think George Lucas had fewer and fewer people around who would (or could?) tell him, "No," and as a result, his vivid, brilliant imagination carries him too far away from the keen-edged storytelling of the first couple of films.
No, he saves his friends from immediate danger, then transcends the physical world to become more powerful than they could possibly imagine. He's not *dying*, he's *ascending*.
Though, I think I'm coming around to landofree's green milk idea.
I was expecting it, so it didn't surprise me. I was sad that Luke was dead, partially for the lost opportunities for future stories.
Mostly, though, I felt like if they were going to kill Luke off, they did it right: a heroic act that won a battle and then peace. I should also note that my interpretation on watching it in the theatre is different than how most people saw it. Most people assume his astral projection caused enough exertion that he died. I thought (while watching it) that he recovered from the ordeal of the projection, meditated, and willed himself to transcend the physical. I prefer my version to the official story.
I was on IMDB a lot, and often debating or discussing Tolkien. Moviechat's a pretty cozy place, though.
It took me awhile to get into the Plinkett persona. I understand completely why somebody would not like him.
I will give SF Debris' thing a listen tomorrow, probably; I'll let you know what I think after I watch.
I will check it out.
But one thing I really love about the Red Letter Media reviews (especially the Phantom Menace review) is that it's kinda like a screenwriting primer. The way he goes through character, plot, story, and so on, basically uses negative examples from The Phantom Menace (and positive ones from the original films) to do a one hour crash-course in script writing. The techniques and advice he doles out are good writing tips and filmmaking tips underneath it all.
But, I am interested to check out SF Debris' breakdown.
You're right: the thread is about how Rose could have used her knowledge better and saved lives, which is true regardless of the chain of command.
I just disagree that Rose was doing her job properly. It doesn't seem like Poe should be giving her orders. He was "air force", or whatever it is in space, and she was maintenance. Different sections of the whole military, so she shouldn't be taking orders from Poe and should have known the mission was wonky (didn't they have lines to that effect...?) Of course, I can't really comment with expertise on the hierarchy and structure of a fictional military, but it seems like she shouldn't be taking orders from Poe...
They then decide to use military vehicles to go AWOL on a secret mission that only they know about without any orders from superior officers.
None of them did their jobs.
Green milk?
No, it doesn't.
From The Empire Strikes Back:
YODA: "You must feel the Force around you. Everywhere. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between the land and the ship."
If it flows through the ship, I'd say "robot hand" is covered.
Even so, if she knows how to stop the entire enemy strategy, she should tell her commanding officer who should bump it up the chain. You're right: the military have systems to make sure that privates aren't complaining to generals. But they also have ways to get information to generals from privates if that information is important.
And would have been a much better plan and plot than we got.
More importantly: if Finn and Rose can get into an escape pod and fly it into hyperspace without being followed, why not just do that with, y'know, *everybody* on the ships?
Oh, and I almost forgot! I thought the scene at Auschwitz was handled badly and came off as disrespectful.
- I think most Marvel moviegoers like playing "Where's Waldo" with Stan Lee. Yes, he does get too much credit.
- I thought it was odd that Mystique was rarely herself in this film, but it didn't really bug me. "Oh, time and budget reasons," I thought to myself.
- Psylocke was a bit oversexualised, but that's not inaccurate from the comic books.
- (See above)
For me the flaws in this movie are MUCH bigger. The writing is bad. The movie never picked a protagonist (it waffled between Mystique, Jean, Scott, and Professor X), it kept taking detours (Quicksilver, Wolverine) just to show off popular X-Men. It reused a lot of old stuff, and less effectively than before (Quicksilver!).
Huge problem: it never stays consistent with its portrayal of powers. Apocalypse can melt people into walls and disintegrate them with a thought. Why does anybody in eyesight of him ever survive longer than three seconds? Cyclops' beam can cut a tree in half, but doesn't really hurt Storm? What?
Overall, I thought the action was boring, the characters dull, and the scripting/writing bad.
I thought when Apocalypse possessed the body he converted it into his weird blue self. Didn't he have to regenerate into a new body every so often, regardless of which body it was...? But there were a lot of powers in this movie that I thought weren't explained properly and/or were inconsistent throughout.
It's not as good as people say it is, but they said a lot, so that'd be nearly impossible. It's an excellent film and well worth watching.