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We didn't have any pudding in there, buddy.
Bert and every one of his chimney sweep compatriots died in the trenches of WW1.
One other detail about that scene. The guy whose vest he rips is clearly wearing a wire under it. So that macho guy was actually an undercover cop, or an informer, and Cobra just totally ruined his cover. Strange detail.
Unless that wire was actually how the actor was being mic'd up for the scene, and the shirt rip was improvised by Stallone...
Yeah, I agree with you. I'll go see the ninth one, because I'm endlessly gullible, but I've lost hope in this 'trilogy'. Maybe the next one will have a more coherent story.
And yeah, that is a problem. It's a real shame that the plot of the film gets in the way so hard of a coherent and logical story.
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Not if the story in the Last Jedi is non-linear. Maybe Rey arrived on that island months before the chase started, and left there weeks before the chase events we see. I don't know if the film-makers intended for this to be the case or not, and frankly I don't much care. The film-makers made a bad film, their opinions don't matter much to me. If you take the events in the film as not actually happening in sequence, it makes a lot more sense, and fits in with a longer passage of time occurring to allow wider events to take place.
Basically you have two stories, Rey arrives on the island, spends an indeterminate amount of time there, then leaves. After she leaves, the rebels/republic/resistance (Too many R words to describe the hapless losers) get involved in their tedious chase, and soon after that she arrives purely by chance at the most opportune moment.
But those stories are chopped up and interleaved, and only sync up at that very last moment as the dregs of the resistance come crawling out of their hole.
No, but they knew they were going to be doing her last film soon enough. Introducing a Leia-like character and then killing her off in the same film doesn't make much sense any way you slice it.
Once was enough.
I paid to go see it. How else would I know I don't like it?
I also go to see almost all the Marvel films, despite the fact that I've only enjoyed two of them, and have actively detested at least several.
Don't even need to use it on yourself. If you're floating in zero gravity and pull an object with greater mass than yourself towards you, what will actually happen is you move towards the more massive object. This is pretty basic physics.
But they should have killed her off, indeed. Go out with dignity. Now she'll have to die off-screen since they've said they won't CGI her.
Better yet, they could have given her Holdo's role and make her death have real meaning. Holdo is a completely nothing character who was just a second-rate Leia stand-in when they had Leia right there to use! I don't understand how this garbage got made.
Is he cool?
I'd argue that there actually is a gap between the events of TFA and this film. And also a gap during this film. I think there's a period of time between the destruction of Starkiller base and Rey arriving on the Luke's island hideaway, and another gap between her arriving on that island and the slow-motion space chase that makes up a major portion of this film.
But the passage of time here is very poorly shown on screen, and makes it very clear to follow the path the characters are on, or the wider events taking place in the galaxy.
So:
TFA Starkiller base blows up -> some time passes -> Rey leaves to find Luke/finds him -> more time passes -> The absurd chase scene happens, and it happens to coincide with Rey leaving the island.
That sequence of events is the only way I can find to make some sense of what we see on screen. I think this is a bad film.
That final battle sequence makes a hell of a lot more sense if you imagine it's from a zombie film. Thanks for the tip!
Agreed. The role of an unemotional automaton with no expressive range really plays to his strengths.
The BEF in 1940 was comprised of Britain's professional soldiers. Some were surely young and inexperienced, but it's not like they hadn't been trained. Expecting them to maintain discipline and not throw away their weapons in the face of the enemy is not asking that much.
I expected a professional soldier of the BEF to at the very least hold onto his rifle. This is a low bar.
And yes, I noticed the other soldiers in the background. But the focus of the film was on the few who spent the film running away, and trying to sneak onto hospital ships.
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