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Agree with the others, it should have been cancelled long ago. They've damaged the legacy of it now with more average seasons than good ones.
They should try and go out with a bang when they do finally finish, by having another movie. Concentrate all their efforts into making it as good as possible. For someone like me who stopped watching a while ago, I probably wouldn't care about watching some last episode of season 30 if that's the last time we see the show. But if the last time we were to see The Simpsons was in a film, that may generate enough interest for me.
I could never buy Robert De Niro as the young Jimmy in Goodfellas. He is introduced to us as being in his 20's and De Niro was around 47 at that point.
A lot of stuff didn't belong in this film. I'm all for adding humour in scenes but they went too far with the injection of humour, and it was the wrong sort of humour used at the wrong times. At least TFA got the balance of humour and seriousness right. Case in point - the Millennium Falcon action scenes had to have some silly "humorous" moment with those little owl creatures attached.
Was she in a relationship with Leia? Their goodbye was made to be more profound than necessary as if they were an item, which would of course add to the feminist angle.
"May the farce be with you" is more appropriate for this film.
Not so many WTF moments
It felt like a series of ever increasing 'jump the shark' moments right from the word go.
It started off on a poor note with the prank call. I mean using a "Your momma" joke essentially, in a SW franchise?? If that was a jump the shark moment then the bit with Leia turning into Superwoman was like a backflip or somersault over the shark. And then by the time it got to the Casino Planet I was scratching my head so much I almost rubbed my scalp away. I kept expecting James Bond to turn up in that scene. Like, seriously, you wouldn't have aliens in a James Bond franchise, and people dressed in tuxedos at a casino was the equivalent for Star Wars.
This film was still better than any of the prequel trilogy films, despite having a lot of dodgy stuff in it. There was nothing in this worse than Jar Jar Binks.
Everything that was great about Alien was missing in this. The 2 films are worlds apart. I'll even happily take Alien's visual effects.
This film sank to the depths of your typical cliched slasher flick for the most part. You have hot looking couples doing stupid things, using the F word superfluously, getting picked off one by one in various gruesome fashion, AND they throw in a sex scene for good measure. It's closer to the Final Destination films in tone than it is to Alien.
I mean forgetting all the bad logic for a second, there were parts of this that were just so silly they came off as unintentionally funny, like "I'll do the fingering", and the moment David gets the newborn xenomorph to stand up with its arms raised. Who thought these would be good ideas?
My main gripe with this film among many, and the reason I'm losing respect for Scott most of all, is the sapping of the mystery out of the Alien movie that this does with its weakly written backstory on how the aliens came into existence. All because of a malevolent droid experimenting? REALLY??
For a PG rated horror from the early 80's I think it does ok. Sure, it's not so scary now but it has its moments and is entertaining. The scene on the staircase with the videocamera is kind of chilling.
I thought it was quite interesting. Reminded me of Minority Report with the Teeps similar to the Precogs.
Having not read any of his books and having only seen film adaptations of his work, I can tell he heavily incorporates dreams, and that looks to be the running theme of this miniseries.
I've just watched this film again for the second time and I didn't mind the ending as much this time round. It did turn a bit actiony once she got out. I could have done without the alien dog monster, and the flaming bottle throw was very improbable. I actually liked seeing the UFO in the sky, and the closing shot with the lightning highlighting the huge spaceship was also a good way to end it.
The only thing that stood out for me about Vader's meeting with Krennic was hearing how much JEJ's voice had aged. I'm not going to knock the film for it because there's little they can do about it, but it was noticeable, at least to me.
I have no problem with them and think they are menacing enough. The Hardhome scene demonstrated that. The mystery behind them as well just all adds to the threat. It's not as if they've been the only villains in the show we've had to rely on. We've had cunning villains, sadistic villains, violent villains. The WW are a bit different. They've just quietly gone about their business in the background as a deadly relentless evil that everyone dreads without knowing much about them.
He's simply a pervert.
Like Cersei said about leaving the family vulnerable and powerless after killing Tywin, or along those lines, I think she's lumping Tommen's death into that to make him feel extra guilty. As an eventual repercussion of his actions.
One of the other dragons, or a spear or some weapon made of Dragonglass would be the best bets right now, other than killing the Night King of course. Maybe even Wildfire would work.
He is but he's meant to be noticeably shorter than the Mountain, hence him being called Mountain.
If the Night King does speak I'd like him to say "Ice to see you"
I think they did right giving him more screen time. He had barely done or said much at all in this season. It wouldn't feel good writing to have his character just be dragged along for the ride in the background as a barely speaking secondary character, considering how much development his character has had over the course of the series.
Hopefully he is given more meaning in the bigger picture for the last season than a rescue mission of his sister, because I can't say I really care all that much for her.