Somebody mentioned ~20pages back that the quick trailer shot of Rey's fight on the death star debris looks terrible. It's been three films and it still doesn't look like Daisey Ridley has any idea on how to swing a sword, at least Alec Guinness had the excuses of being old, fighting a guy in a rubber costume and not knowing exactly what was going on. I mostly consider the prequel fights to be too flashy and badly choreographed and I'd take it a thousand times over what it looks like in the ST.
Doomcock pointed it out in one of his current videos, she's obviously not swinging for Kylo's body, she's swinging for his lightsabre.
For all that broohaha during the filming of TLJ about her being such an amazing fighter that so quickly became capable with a sword, she really fucking sucks at fencing.
She can wave around a stick, but whatever the fuck it is she's doing doesn't look like she knows what the hell she's supposed to do.
It really blows my mind, it's a Star Wars trilogy and we have only seen like maybe 1 good lightsabre duel and... dunno... 1 halfway decent space battle... if even that.
We don't need them at a 5 minute interval, but ffs, TLJ has not a single Lightsabre duel and only one space battle (which sucked).
I'm only curious in the sense I want to see how the Rat would fuck up and demolish a series that already had some impressive piles of shit get made.
It's telling that they're actively holding IPs and past films hostage for their shitty streaming service; really making me just want to have Disney get dismantled and rendered bankrupt and then made dead and forgotten as a company rather than just have the upper management get purged like what I'd have said a week ago.
With streaming services splintering into smaller and smaller islands of licenses, this is all the more reason to go back to the old fashioned habit of just buying the DVDs you actually want to watch and not pay out the ass for 50 streaming services that all just carry fragmented libraries.
Seriously, as long as I physically own a copy of a movie, I don't have to deal with some asshole like Disney buying the rights to a movie I used to watch on Netflix and then having that movie get whisked away to another streaming platform once the license is bought by someone else.
Given how this process makes it all the more expensive to retain access to ever shrinking libraries, just going "Fuck this shit, I don't need a subscription to Netflix and get a free copy of Bird Box, when I can buy the DVDs of the movies I wanna see just like that."
I honestly think they should have hidden Kylo's face even when he removed his helmet, or hell, the only time he removes his helmet is when he is interrogating Rey and we dont see his face, only the back of it while we only see Rey's reaction to it while he talks. That would create a mystery over what he looks like. Imagine instead of getting a scar across the face, he had his helmet on, which caused a piece to fall off, revealing just a small fraction of it?
That last part is what they did with Phasma and the fact I have to remind you of that shows how effective that worked, I guess.
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In order for this to really, truly work, the magnitude of his misdeed should have been far greater. He should have been more than an edgy tryhard Vader, he should have been a monster. Then and only then would everything make sense upon the reveal, as the true horror wasn't that he was malformed or an alien or a robot, the true stab to the gut could have been that he was an ordinary man.
Sorry to say this, but both these ideas would just be a retread of Vader.
Kylo, by comparison, shows up at the beginning of TFA and apes Vader's appearances throughout, but he has none of the intimidation. He's shorter, scrawnier, meeker. He doesn't have a recognizable theme, nor the calm intimidating aura Vader had. He's emotional and hysterical. He slams things with his saber and doesn't get any really impressive feats. He gets his ass kicked in the first movie and his face is revealed quickly, killing the suspense. He just seems to have been based on Vader himself, with no real other sources to draw from. He's shallow in design and shallow in motivation. He loses any stage presence when standing near anyone else. Every time he's on set with someone else, the audience is drawn to look at someone else, since his design is bland, his character is bland, and his power is unimpressive compared to the others.
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The thing is, that’s literally what he was INTENDED to be portrayed as: this bratty child who wants more than anything to be like Vader, who’s so deeply brainwashed with Dark Side ideology that he’s willing to murder his own father. He’s not supposed to be imposing, he’s supposed to be pathetic. He’s the antithesis of the big bad, literally nothing more than Snoke’s puppet.
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Kylo killing Han should have been the turning point for the character - where he realizes that he’s gone past the point of no return, and regrets everything, turning on the dark side yet knowing that he will never be accepted by the protagonists. Perhaps he would spend the second movie trying to aid Rey and co. only to be rebuffed, and then barges into the climax of the last film for a heroic sacrifice.
I think making Kylo Ren a Vadr fanboy was almost a smart idea, but the way they handled it was bad.
Obviously, the better choice would have been to not have a poor man's Vader in the first place, but having discount Vader might have worked, still, even if they quickly show his face.
They could have made Kylo a character that makes the audience feel absolutely uneasy whenever he's on screen if they had made him unhinged and unpredictable in a way where you simply fear that he's about to do something really terrible at any moment. The moment he's captured a protagonist and just as much as talks with them, you should be on the edge of your seat, fearing that he's about to do something really fucked up.
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Captain Vidal from Pan's Labyrinth, he's always calm and collected, but the way how he hurts and kills people with utter disregard is absolutely terrifying.
Problem is: how could that fit into an SW movie? Disney would never allow it. Still, even the "Darth Columbine"-approach could have worked if TLJ hadn't shit the bed and gave us Tweedle-Dip and Tweedle-Shit instead of expanding on Hux' and Kylo's rivalry. They could have given us way more nuanced and interesting villains, that actually know what they do and are lethally effective at it.
It's a Disney movie meant for soyboy-mouthbreathers and porg fanatics, so we don't get nuanced and interesting, we get Captain Planet-tier villains, that fail to intimidate anyone, since they are always treated as a joke. Seriously, is there just _one_ scene of Hux not being treated as a clown?
