I'm really surprised.
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Johnny J. wrote:
One thing that really disturbs me is that apparently anybody can become a jedi nowadays without any training and without having any knowledge of what it means.
It's always been like that, since Jedi are just a category of Force users and one of the less numerous due to theire obtusity.
Johnny J. wrote:
Kylo Ren is nothing more than a whining, spoiled brat.
Kylo Ren has good reasons for that AND he's a good villain precisely because of that: there's Kylo in any of us. Most of us don't have a trace of Vader or Palpatine inside, but Kylo... every time you feel underappreciated and tell "go flock yourself" anytime you justify yourself for not being your best self, anytime you envy someone or anytime you have a responsibility and think of misusing it for your own greed then you're being Kylo Ren. He's not "the villain", he's gray. I can respect and like that.
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den2k88 wrote:
It's always been like that, since Jedi are just a category of Force users and one of the less numerous due to theire obtusity.
I disagree - There is a lot more to the jedi than just the use of the force. They have always had to train with a master before becoming a jedi. It went wrong more often than not, apparently, but still. But when Luke says in the end that the jedi are not gone despite the fact that he didn't train Rey at all, I feel like it's kinda like having to learn to code programs without any teacher, without any books, without Google and the internet - And without Griff to answer in Q&A - Impossible.
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den2k88 wrote:
It's always been like that, since Jedi are just a category of Force users and one of the less numerous due to theire obtusity.
I disagree - There is a lot more to the jedi than just the use of the force. They have always had to train with a master before becoming a jedi. It went wrong more often than not, apparently, but still. But when Luke says in the end that the jedi are not gone despite the fact that he didn't train Rey at all, I feel like it's kinda like having to learn to code programs without any teacher, without any books, without Google and the internet - And without Griff to answer in Q&A - Impossible.
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeRemember the Force Ghosts. Obi Wan kept training Luke in the yeras between the Battle of Yavin and the Battle of the moon of Endor. Also, the Force guides the Jedi and not viceversa - any Jedi that even thinks of controlling the Force is full of hubris, and possibly on the very first steps towards the descent in the Dark Side. Most of The Forxe is "follow your instincts" and many people throughout the Galaxy use the Force on a daily basis without training... and Maz Kanata. She's a Force sensitive which never trained with the Jedi. I won't even delve in the former EU (now Legends) and its sects of Force users, all of them descended from the Je'daii which hadn't even a distinction between Light and Dark side.
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
simplistic treatment of, darth vaders descent into evil and madness.
Well his descent into evil is basically Jedi Council fault since they were so full of themselves and their own political correctness that they failed to treat Anakin like a person - and conveniently threw their own ideals into the garbage bin. Add a lot of scheming and the very same fault Kylo Ren, his grandson, has... Vader is a Well-Intentioned Extremist[^] that starts following a mad man and doesn't eralize the depth of what he did until he sees his own son tortured and almost killed (sounds like the end of Romeo and Juliet).
Munchies_Matt wrote:
the ridiculous ja ja binks
Ridiculous but useful to explain the PoV of Qui Gon Jinn... which is extremely important. For 800 years Yoda believed in the Universal Force and looked ahead in the future and far and wide in the Galaxy while Qui Gon lives "in the here and now". Guess what Yoda teaches Luke in Ep V, after his greatest failure and exile? Precisely what Qui Gon believed... also, Qui Gon taught Yoda how to become a Force Ghost. So for me Jar Jar is condoned... even if insufferable.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
SO where does the last film places itself in time, is it after the first three or before them still?
30 years later than Ep VI :)
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den2k88 wrote:
30 years later than Ep VI
About the same as Harrison Ford then! :) But the descent of darth vader into evil was still trite. The lack of recognition of his power by the council would not drive an inherently good person to evil. It needed more. It needed some real darkness to it, some real understanding of the human state. If Romeo and Juliet is similar, then it is similarly shallow.
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den2k88 wrote:
30 years later than Ep VI
About the same as Harrison Ford then! :) But the descent of darth vader into evil was still trite. The lack of recognition of his power by the council would not drive an inherently good person to evil. It needed more. It needed some real darkness to it, some real understanding of the human state. If Romeo and Juliet is similar, then it is similarly shallow.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
If Romeo and Juliet is similar, then it is similarly shallow.
Only the ending where the two families (Darth Vader) recognize the darkness and the error of their warfare (Vader's service under Palpatine) only when they see the corpses of their son and daughter (Luke dying at the hand of the Emperor).
Munchies_Matt wrote:
The lack of recognition of his power by the council would not drive an inherently good person to evil.
He wasn't inherently good - he was vindicative, as he salughtered the Tusken raiders from the first to last, children included, after their rape of his mother. He became "evil" for fear of seeing his wife and kids die during childbirth (thank you very much, Force visions) and due to years of endless warfare (Clone Wars) that left him mentally exhausted and pushed by the same "pacifist" council to increasing violent acts of war for "the greater good". Take a person, make him commit atrocities, add disillusion in those who bring forth his ideals, add a deep fear for his loved ones and some frustration for flavor... no wonder he wants to destroy or conquer everything.
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
If Romeo and Juliet is similar, then it is similarly shallow.
Only the ending where the two families (Darth Vader) recognize the darkness and the error of their warfare (Vader's service under Palpatine) only when they see the corpses of their son and daughter (Luke dying at the hand of the Emperor).
Munchies_Matt wrote:
The lack of recognition of his power by the council would not drive an inherently good person to evil.
He wasn't inherently good - he was vindicative, as he salughtered the Tusken raiders from the first to last, children included, after their rape of his mother. He became "evil" for fear of seeing his wife and kids die during childbirth (thank you very much, Force visions) and due to years of endless warfare (Clone Wars) that left him mentally exhausted and pushed by the same "pacifist" council to increasing violent acts of war for "the greater good". Take a person, make him commit atrocities, add disillusion in those who bring forth his ideals, add a deep fear for his loved ones and some frustration for flavor... no wonder he wants to destroy or conquer everything.
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den2k88 wrote:
He wasn't inherently good - he was vindicative, as he salughtered the Tusken raiders from the first to last, children included, after their rape of his mother.
I guess I missed that. Which film was that in? Perhaps it was just badly acted then, the process of his descent into evil was unconvincing for me.
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den2k88 wrote:
He wasn't inherently good - he was vindicative, as he salughtered the Tusken raiders from the first to last, children included, after their rape of his mother.
I guess I missed that. Which film was that in? Perhaps it was just badly acted then, the process of his descent into evil was unconvincing for me.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
I guess I missed that. Which film was that in?
Attack of the Clones. The worst written worst acted piece of... movie... ever. And Hayden Christensen could be anything he wanted to be. Why did he choose to be an actor, I will never understand. Terrible.
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
I guess I missed that. Which film was that in?
Attack of the Clones. The worst written worst acted piece of... movie... ever. And Hayden Christensen could be anything he wanted to be. Why did he choose to be an actor, I will never understand. Terrible.
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den2k88 wrote:
And Hayden Christensen could be anything he wanted to be. Why did he choose to be an actor, I will never understand. Terrible.
This is probably the root cause of it. Totally unconvincing.
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People that like the story/series all say it's the best star wars movie made to date. People that are ho-hum about the story/series give mixed reviews. People that don't like the story/series will all say that it's just more of the same garbage. It's the same with any franchise. I learned a long time ago not to rely on other people's opinions of things, and prefer to go through the act of discovery on my own.
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The new Star Wars movie came out at midnight - 17 hours ago - and not one post about it. No "as bad as The Force Awakens". No "best thing since sliced Jedi". Total silence. Surely, the Disney company can't have put all the die-hard Jedi off watching it? I admit, I'll wait for it on DVD - I kept expecting Rey to sing a duet with bluebirds in TFA...
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Until now. I didn't even know that there was a new star wars movie :-O
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The new Star Wars movie came out at midnight - 17 hours ago - and not one post about it. No "as bad as The Force Awakens". No "best thing since sliced Jedi". Total silence. Surely, the Disney company can't have put all the die-hard Jedi off watching it? I admit, I'll wait for it on DVD - I kept expecting Rey to sing a duet with bluebirds in TFA...
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I'm not sure how you've found a way to post from 1983 when the last Star Wars movie came out, but having done so ; couldn't you have come up with something more interesting to say?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
