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Roboturner913
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Just got back with my 13 year old from a viewing at Silverspot. Far from thrilled with this particular Star Wars installment.
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Just got back. OMG. It wasn't perfect on the whole, took too long to really get going, but it was the Star Wars movie I've always wanted to see. I know a lot of purists won't like it, the mythos is not all that present, but to me that makes it more relatable. And that ending, wow, I can't even. It was so perfect.
Like the other guys said, it took some time to get going, but the last ~45 minutes were unbelievable. Right there with the original movies, for my money.
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What a crazy show that sucks you in and throws you for a loop and then ends in a way to really make you go huh?
What a crazy show that sucks you in and throws you for a loop and then ends in a way to really make you go huh?
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I agree that it took a long time to get going, and it sort of rolled over on itself trying to build backstory. But I think that's where it lost me, and I kinda' gave up on the characters. Also agree that the end was pretty frothy, but by then I think I'd checked out.
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It won't be the last time I'm standing by myself when the room divides.
I know that feel.
I won't argue with anybody who doesn't like it for that reason, or the lack of characterization, or the purists for the lack of all the Force/Jedi mystical stuff. I can see those weaknesses, objectively speaking. They just don't bother me as much.
Having said that, Ep. IV has a lot of the same issues. The characters were pretty thinly drawn. You've got a naive farmboy, a damsel in distress, an outlaw with a heart, an old wizard, a masked villain....it's all archetypal and that informs us who the characters are, but that's an easy trick to disguise the fact that there really isn't much depth of character going on there.
And outside of the amazeballs opening scene of the Star Destroyer chasing Tantive IV, there isn't much of an action scene until literally halfway through the movie when the Imperials find them in the detention unit and the gunfight starts.
And it should be noted that original reviews and returns on that movie were not very good. I think Rogue One is similar in a lot of ways in that it is a slow grower. Once you see what happens in the end, you're more likely to care about the characters, so that the next time you watch it you're more engaged in the backstory/buildup stuff.
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That's good to hear. I'm going to try and see it with my kids over the holidays. But first, we need to do our Christmas Tradition where we watch one of the best Christmas movies.....Die Hard. We've been doing it for years and looking forward to it tomorrow.
John Wick Chapter 2 was fantastic. It took everything the first film did and cranked it up to 12. If you enjoyed the first, 2 is a must-see.
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they killed 12 dogs in this one?
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If John Wick had 12 dogs and someone killed them all I'm pretty sure we would all die.
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i would live because i would assemble an elite cadre of body guards including the sorcerer's apprentice, castor troy, ghost rider, and w/e the **** his character was in that werewolf movie i forget the name of... or wait, was he a vampire? i forget
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i would live because i would assemble an elite cadre of body guards including the sorcerer's apprentice, castor troy, ghost rider, and w/e the **** his character was in that werewolf movie i forget the name of... or wait, was he a vampire? i forget
John Wick was a documentary so I don't think any of that fake magic **** would help you.
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I saw Hidden Figures with the kids. It is a really good movie.
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anyone like Horrible Bosses with Justin Bateman? My wife and I thought it was funny but the other couple did not care for it.
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