Last Film You Watched

deipnosophist said:
Hi mate...yes, I am well...hunkered down in shutdown mode here in NZ. Nobody is paying me any money though...my personal balance sheet carries a lot of assets listed as 'debtors'...lol.
And you?...handling the virus with equanimity i hope?
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Working from home and on full pay so better off than a lot of people. Not missing my commute but like most people getting somewhat fed up with pubs being shut.
 
Gwladysstreetlad said:
Cheesy/bad dialogue and some poor casting choices aside I really don't think the prequels are as bad as they get made out to be tbh mate. In terms of the dialogue noting will ever top the "your momma" joke for being the most cringeworthy line in star wars history.

Personally I find the way the sequels wasted such an amazing cast absolutely staggering. So many great actors and actresses forced in such nonsensical roles and even the leads only have wafer thin character development. Mate, if I seriously listed everything I hated about TLJ I'd end up taking pages of this thread. Nobody wants that to happen, least of all me! so I'll limit myself and make it as abridged as possible because I'd rather not inflict that on you and everyone else!

I just hate everything about it. The plot (or the lack thereof), the endless macguffin's, the stupid and directionless subplots, the useless new characters, the needless separation of the main hero's, the character assassination of Luke, the pointless death of Snoke, the "your mama" joke, the destruction of Hux as a credible villain, the waste of Phasma, the turning of Finn from an interesting stormtrooper in a moral crisis into an utter clown, turning Leia into Mary Poppins in space, the ludicrous nonsense with Admiral purple hair, ect, ect. It's just goes on and on. It not only trashed everything that came before but it spectacularly derailed what was already a very mediocre sequel trilogy and left episode nine with nowhere to go.

That's why I'm so lenient on TROS, Abrams did the best he could in an impossible situation and managed to carve out a fairly entertaining film from it imo. ;)
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Given how dreadful The Force Awakens was, I am glad I never wasted time or money on any of the sequels.

Say what you like about the prequels, but they at least felt like Star Wars.
 
The Revenant

Thought it was too long in the cinema.

Thought it was too long today.

Incredible basic story, but it could have been 30 min shorter.

Parts of it felt (and looked) like a Terrence Malik movie, which is fine, if it actually was one.

6.5/10
 
Gwladysstreetlad said:
Cheesy/bad dialogue and some poor casting choices aside I really don't think the prequels are as bad as they get made out to be tbh mate. In terms of the dialogue noting will ever top the "your momma" joke for being the most cringeworthy line in star wars history.

Personally I find the way the sequels wasted such an amazing cast absolutely staggering. So many great actors and actresses forced in such nonsensical roles and even the leads only have wafer thin character development. Mate, if I seriously listed everything I hated about TLJ I'd end up taking pages of this thread. Nobody wants that to happen, least of all me! so I'll limit myself and make it as abridged as possible because I'd rather not inflict that on you and everyone else!

I just hate everything about it. The plot (or the lack thereof), the endless macguffin's, the stupid and directionless subplots, the useless new characters, the needless separation of the main hero's, the character assassination of Luke, the pointless death of Snoke, the "your mama" joke, the destruction of Hux as a credible villain, the waste of Phasma, the turning of Finn from an interesting stormtrooper in a moral crisis into an utter clown, turning Leia into Mary Poppins in space, the ludicrous nonsense with Admiral purple hair, ect, ect. It's just goes on and on. It not only trashed everything that came before but it spectacularly derailed what was already a very mediocre sequel trilogy and left episode nine with nowhere to go.

That's why I'm so lenient on TROS, Abrams did the best he could in an impossible situation and managed to carve out a fairly entertaining film from it imo. ;)
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the cringiest line in all of Star Wars is Darth Vader's nooooooo! in RotS.

No contest. The cringe is so extreme it literally hurts to watch.
 
dholliday said:
the cringiest line in all of Star Wars is Darth Vader's nooooooo! in RotS.

No contest. The cringe is so extreme it literally hurts to watch.
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It WAS the worst. Then TLJ happened, an actual your momma joke deliberately written into any script that wasn't meant to be a parody is so much worse. Rian Johnson should of lost his job and then been blacklisted from ever being involved in film or tv again for that embarrassment. WTF was he thinking?!
 
Gwladysstreetlad said:
It WAS the worst. Then TLJ happened, an actual your momma joke deliberately written into any script that wasn't meant to be a parody is so much worse. Rian Johnson should of lost his job and then been blacklisted from ever being involved in film or tv again for that embarrassment. WTF was he thinking?!
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I don't even remember the line you are talking about in TLJ. "Noooooooo" is seared in to my brain for all time. It is also uttered by Vader, which multiplies the effect tenfold.
 
Philw said:
I don't even remember the line you are talking about in TLJ. "Noooooooo" is seared in to my brain for all time. It is also uttered by Vader, which multiplies the effect tenfold.
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I wish I couldn't remember anything about TLJ personally.

It takes place right at the start of the movie when Poe flys his single X-Wing up to the First Order dreadnaught to buy time for the resistance (so far so good). He then patches through a message to Hux and has the most cringeworthy conversation in Star Wars history pretending that he can't hear Hux and demanding to get put through to him, his second in command says something like "I believe that he's........ tooling you sir!" In the second worst line in SW history. The "your momma" joke just caps the whole thing off. The scene feels like a family guy sketch but without any actual laughs. The whole scene and conversation is an utter embarrassment. Watch it on YouTube if you can stand the cringe.

At least the "Nooooooooooo" moment was somewhat believable. A guy who has just had his entire life destroyed, killed the love of his life, and thus his kid/s and left himself permanently scared and deformed and more machine then man might conceivably shout "no!" on realising all this.

There isn't a single adult human being, either living or dead who would ever of had the conversation that Poe and Hux had in TLJ because people don't talk like that in real life. It destroyed the credibility of Hux and Poe in one single scene. Hux so much so that he's replaced and killed by his replacement in the next film.
 
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OnlyBlueWillDo said:
It was never in the original, he didn't need to say anything, Lucas added it when he tampered with the first 3 films in the 90's.
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RotS is Revenge of the Sith. That horrible line is very much in the original.

You're referring to Lucas adding that same "nooooo!" to Vader deliberating between Emperor and Luke in Return of the Jedi. That was added to the bluray edition and latest dvd additions. It is one of the most disgraceful post-edit decisions in all of film history.

Fortunately i downloaded the Despecialized versions of the originals, so all is well with the world.
 

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