(12-21-2017 08:19 AM)Chappy Wrote:  

(12-21-2017 08:08 AM)58-56 Wrote:  The whole Laura Dern suicide run seemed kind of stupid: they have robots for that. Could have let C3PO go out in a blaze of glory. And all she did when she was alone was stare out the window at her friends blowing up.

Ha, I thought the exact same thing. He's just a bit player now anyway. Send him off with his last words being "Oh, dear!".

The more this peels back the more these scenes show just how dumb they were. This one with Dern, the Leia floating through space and the what are we calling these projections (astral? is that what it is?) were just a bit too much for me. I enjoyed the film mostly, but Johnson took some ill advised liberties that brought the value of the film down.

I'm trying to balance those with the fact that as a kid and then as I grew up expecting that I would never get the prequel and that I would never get any Star Wars at all ever again. And now to have had six additional films, Rebels, the Clone Wars series, the promise of more spinoff movies, etc. I would probably be content if a monkey directed them.