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Post #1150150

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Gaffer Tape
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
28-Dec-2017, 9:25 PM

Warbler said:

That is not clearly explained in movie, and why was he “going to die anyway”?

sorry not buying it.

This is not clearly explained in the movie either.

Not good enough, I was confused by the whole thing and I sure I’m not the only one.

There were no real lightsaber fights.

Sorry, Warb, but I’m gonna have to disagree with you on all of these. Well, I don’t disagree that there are no real lightsaber fights. I freely admit that. But I loved the fact that there wasn’t. I’m so sick of the formula of them. Luke’s non-fight with Kylo was better and more impressive than any actual fight could have been.

As for the rest, I dunno, it made perfect sense to me. You mentioned something about your viewing experience, but I don’t know what thread it’s in. Maybe it distracted you. But all the visions between Kylo and Rey made it very obvious (maybe too obvious?) to me what was going on the MOMENT Luke appeared on Krayt. I guessed immediately that he was just a vision too, especially given how different he looked. But I thought that whole idea was fantastic, that Luke completely demoralized the First Order without resorting to any measure of violence. He simply outsmarted them. That was probably my favorite part of the whole movie and made The Force feel truly mystical to me for, really, the first time since the original film.