Category: Star Wars Musings

All posts relating to the Star Wars franchsise.

The Surprise E3-Related Post

So, as an obvious show of weakness, I decided to cave and check out some of the E3 coverage for the purposes of mild amusement. As a whole, I don’t expect a whole lot of stuff here to be of relative interest to me personally, but I’d figure this would be a nice way to kill a few minutes. I’m going to be a couple days behind on these posts if I decide to do more of them, but it shouldn’t be much of an issue since nothing I say here outside of whatever personal inflections might come about hasn’t already been said by others who follow this stuff more closely.

Regardless, here’s Part 1 of… something, I guess.

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For Those Who Really Need Details On Solo

My hard-hitting review of Solo: A Star Wars Movie… well, let’s be fair. The banner pretty much sums up my thoughts on the film as a whole. Hell, I even did a quick dooble on the BoogieBoard gimmick (included after the break) that I posted shortly prior to this post.

But if you really want further thoughts…

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Off To See Soyo A Stare Warz Storing

So, by the time this post is eventually published, I will be off to watch that Soyo movie… or is it Solow… wait, maybe it’s Lowblow? I don’t know… that movie and stuff. I don’t know if the viewing will entice me to do some semblance of a full-blown post or revive that slideshow movie reviews, but if nothing else, it’ll be an interesting ride to say the least. Hopefully, the end result will be an enjoyable film if not a good one.

On blog-related matters, I’m presently rendering the House Show at the moment and if all goes well, it should be up live on Youtube tonight or tomorrow. Said show will probably be featured tomorrow on the blog, so check the channel later on to see if the upload made it in one piece. There’s bound to be glitches (my first attempt in a year), but hopefully things’ll be ironed out for the next one… assuming there is a next one.

For The Record…

As of today, I have yet to see the Solo movie. I have mixed thoughts on the matter and I’ve even seen a couple pictures of supposedly empty theatres showing the film. It might be a while, but I’d imagine sooner or later, I’ll catch a weekend viewing somewhere down the line… assuming big brother is up for it, of course.

That having been said, that logo in the recent review was going to happen regardless of whether the movie was good or bad… and I may very well keep it for any Star Wars-related fails in the future.

The Last Jedi… Meh… But With Spoilers!

For those who want a spoiler-y version of my thoughts on The Last Jedi… for whatever reason… here it is… It’s not a deep or detailed analysis nor is it a review – AW HELL NO, SON – but it is very spoiler-y and will address things that I both liked, didn’t like, and just wondered. Suffice it to say, those who would prefer a spoiler-free musings on the film can just scroll down and read my thoughts on the previous post.

(Note: I bounce around a lot and there’s a somewhat in-coherency to the whole ramble. But hopefully, whatever thoughts come to mind go through clearly, and if not… well, I tried.)

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The Last Jedi… Meh.

My thoughts on the latest Star Wars film are going to be brief because going into too much detail might be dipping deep into spoiler territory and I’d like to give people who have seen the movie a chance to go in with a clean slate rather than be, well, spoiled.

With that having been said, the only thing that I can say about The Last Jedi is that nothing of note happens and it’s back to business as usual. And even that might be a bit too spoiler-y without being too spoiler-y, but for what is supposed to be the big, major Star Wars entry – the big middle chapter in the trilogy – it just felt like a filler episode of a television series rather than anything of great significance.

Don’t get me wrong; I liked the movie enough that there were brief bits to enjoy. The space battle at the beginning of the movie was pretty good, the battle on the salt planet wasn’t too bad, I enjoyed the brief character interactions between Rey and Luke, the cast in general does the best they could with the material given and almost makes me believe in it, and then there was seeing Luke Skywalker in action for the briefest of moments.

But for the most part, I was largely underwhelmed. Questions that have been set up in the previous episode are either brushed aside or given rather underwhelming resolutions, there are plenty of uninteresting characters that I absolutely don’t care about, some of the character motivations are pretty goddamn stupid, the humor (with some exceptions) was overbearing to the point of obnoxiousness and almost makes me wonder if Episode IX is going to feature a crossover with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and as far as the direction of one Master Skywalker… well, I can see why Mark Hamill would fundamentally disagree with that sort of thing.

All of this would’ve been forgiven if the story was worth a damn and unfortunately, that isn’t the case here. Say what you will about The Force Awakens, but that had a sense of scope and opened the door to many new possibilities and interesting takes. It’s a pity that The Last Jedi chooses to ignore or even discard these new things and just bring things back to business as usual. I daresay that the movie is more interested giving us random characters who only exist to check items off the diversity checklist that the media likes so much, rather than give audiences a story that’s worth a damn.

Contrary to the supposed rallying cry that a lot of people are going for – at least if you were to follow the plethora of user reviews on the IMDB, this didn’t kill Star Wars for me. But I can safely say with absolute certainty that this is the first time since Attack of the Clones where I came out of a Star Wars movie completely underwhelmed and just disappointed by the lack of vision.

For what it’s worth, it’s an alright movie… but the best since Empire Strikes Back? Not a chance.

That would be last year’s Rogue One.