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Thursday, 7 June 2018

Was The Last Jedi any good?

This is a hard question to answer. Compared to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Cone Wars TV show and Rebels TV show - the answer must be a resounding no.

But it did have its merits:

1. Old Luke Skywalker: all in all I thought he was pretty cool and I liked much of what he had to say. He rallied against the myth/legend of the Jedi and saw the need to set the past aside.

2. The theme of discarding the past. Kylo Ren continued this theme also.

Not so good:

1. Really bad contemporary-style jokes.

2. Rey's amazing skills considering she had next to no actual jedi training

3. Snoke

4. Poe Dameron killing off more of the Rebel Alliance than the First Order did. Why didn't someone just blow his brains out?

5. Captain Phasma

6. Princess Leia flying through space

Blade Runner 2049

I was thinking some more about the Blade Runner 2049 film and realised that the director totally missed the nuances of the 1982 movie...

For example in the original Blade Runner film who exactly was the bad guy? Tyrell? Deckard? Roy Batty? Kind of hard to say.

Tyrell made organic machines that people wanted to buy.

Deckard only killed replicants because he was blackmailed/coerced into doing it.

Roy Batty was an escaped slave seeking freedom.

In the sequel film the baddies were more obvious. Like in a teenage slasher movie...Sad really.

Dance Fighting

'Dance Fighting' in Jumanji reminded me of Summer Glau in the movie Serenity, Milla Jovovitch in Fifth Element and Zhang Ziyi in all of her martial arts movies and I guess a whole bunch of other actresses and Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse... ugh!