[quote=ynwtf]An audience like me? I actually want to read it. We have different views on the movie. I think your arguments would be easier to follow (for me) in a review format than point-by-point arguments popping up in a chaotic thread group discussion.[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois]Screw it, this is the opening paragraph:

[b][i]"You don't need Luke Skywalker. What did you think was going to happen here? Did you think I was going to walk out with a laser sword and take down the whole First Order? You think that I came to the most unfindable place in the galaxy for no reason at all? Go away."[/b]

This is but one of many ways in which Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) refuses the call to adventure presented to him by Rey (Daisy Ridley), the scavenger-turned-rebel who grew up knowing Luke only as a mythical hero whose deeds made him into a living legend across the galaxy. Each refusal does its part to exemplify [i]The Last Jedi[/i]'s thesis statement about the complicated intersection of the perfect heroic ideal and the imperfect human reality, but it's this line in particular that sticks with me because, in a sense, he's right. The main thrust of the film involves the few remaining members of the righteous Resistance trying to escape from the sinister First Order and their vastly superior firepower - if actual ship-to-ship combat by ace pilots like Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) can't make a significant difference to this war, why should the Resistance pin their hopes on one old man with a quote-unquote "laser sword"? This line of thinking takes a turn for the metafictional once you consider the extremely polarised reaction audiences themselves have had to Luke's seemingly out-of-character cynicism - surely, the idealistic young man whose faith and kindness redeemed the seemingly irredeemable Darth Vader couldn't possibly have grown into a cowardly paranoiac who would bear a lightsaber against his own nephew and choose dying in obscurity over fighting the good fight, right?[/i][/quote]

[quote=Iroquois]Who could keep writing for an audience like this?[/quote]

[quote=cat_sidhe][quote=ynwtf]You tease, you, only dangling your Jedi review in front of us without actually showing it to us.

I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! But I'd have to write one first =\[/quote]

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ynwtf talks about dangly bits.[/quote]

[quote=ynwtf][quote=Iroquois]I can probably go back to knocking out short ones that only last 2-3 paragraphs instead of the essay-length ones I'd been doing previously. I have a lengthy draft for a [i]Last Jedi[/i] review on hand but we'll see if I ever post it.[/quote]


You tease, you, only dangling your Jedi review in front of us without actually showing it to us.

I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! But I'd have to write one first =\[/quote]

[quote=cat_sidhe]Yeah, give us a couple of quickies, Iro! <3[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois]I can probably go back to knocking out short ones that only last 2-3 paragraphs instead of the essay-length ones I'd been doing previously. I have a lengthy draft for a [i]Last Jedi[/i] review on hand but we'll see if I ever post it.[/quote]

[quote=cat_sidhe]Toussling with my next one. I'll write it all in one flow later, but I actually want to watch the film again, this time putting the thing on hold a couple of times to decensor. :lol:[/quote]

[quote=mattiasflgrtll6]If I had the energy, I would post reviews more often myself. I would probably have less of a problem reviewing Black Panther than Total Recall (which I actually posted), but for some reason haven't gotten to it yet.[/quote]

[quote=Iroquois]Sure he is.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Whoever posts after me is a nice fellow![/quote]