Roy Tang

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THE LAST JEDI Spoiler-free (promise) review:

  • great movie, but there was this weird draggy part around the middle that they maybe could have done away with
  • my brother whom I watched with says he thinks it was the best Star Wars movie ever. I’m not sure
  • Adam Driver needs to either speak up or work around his accent a bit
  • because we didn’t plan this movie outing so well, we ended up with terrible seats (i.e. very first row, slightly off-center) in the Imax theater. I think the Imax was fine, but being so up close made for some weird angles sometimes and sometimes the 3d didn’t work so well from where we were seated. And medyo nakakapagod sa mata. Never again!
  • walang post-credit scene lol

Comments

Magugustuhan ba ng mama mo?
This is a spoiler-free review so I can neither confirm nor deny
sabi na nga ba andun si jar jar
Came here to ask this.
I feel like it’s superfluous because my mom and i dont really share the same taste in movies anymore. the only way she’d watch a star wars or marvel movie would be if richard gere was somehow cast. instead i’ll say the movie is generally family/kid friendly, if youre fine with the violence
Finally watched it. Better than Force Awakens, not as good as Rogue One in terms of plot and pacing. Best Star Wars in visuals. Loved the ending.
What's the physics behind those bombers, though?
Bakit hindi kayo nanood nung 95 thing
i'm thinking momentum probably. there's artificial gravity inside the bomber so it was enough for the bombs to "fall". once past some sort of force field, it was just a matter of momentum (otherwise, they would've accelerated more outside the ship).
The other movies sort of imply that the shields mostly stop blaster bolts, except in ROTJ, when a whole lot of ships have to turn because the shield around the Death Star is still operational, and in Rogue One, when fighters crash into the gate. So if I had to make some scifi reasoning for how the bombers work, I'd say that they're loaded with dumb explosives that have a casing that can just go through ray shielding, and the Dreadnaughts may have little armor and be fully dependent on shields. Or it could be a small technological shift. Like, those dreadnaughts may take years to build, while the bombs are a new innovation that shield tech hasn't caught up with yet (like how carriers and fighter bombers made battleships obsolete). Ohh, if you meant them falling as if there's gravity, yeah, JVee's explanation would be it–they're launched out by the bomber's artificial gravity, then just keep going.
Yeah that b-wing knock-off was terrible. You don't drop bombs in space. Apparently as the First Order gets more high-tech the rebels get more low-tech.