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I have so many complaints about that movie but THIS is number one. The entire thing is a complete waste of time, all set about because Poe got turned into an insubordinate, hotheaded moron. Doesn’t help that Holdo has a perfectly functional plan she won’t share with anyone instead preferring to let them believe they’re all going to die, but frankly the movie is just a series of stupid, terrible decisions in a row from every character and above all, the director.

Can you tell I hate this movie?

If I had the chance to make edits to the script, I'd have done the following:

• Replace the animals in the racing with podracers
• Have the hacker guy drop the dreadnought's shields for a moment to permit the Holdo manoeuvre

The podracer stuff is basically just fanservice, but it's very minor and not adding any more distractions than were already there, so I think that's fine

The hacker does have a motivation to ensure the empire doesn't get a clean win. He profits from the war. He wants both sides to struggle. Doing this just as he leaves gives him an actual role beyond betraying Finn and Rose, makes sense for his motivations, and also explains why hyperspeed ramming doesn't usually work in Star Wars

You are our last hope.

Just rewarched on a TV in a background and it's so bad. I thought maybe given some time it would clear up a bit as GOT hype died down but it's just awful, can't believe the actors managed to keep a straight face.

One can surmise it's actually a life-sized model kit tank made out of cheap plastic, akin to how it works in Ground Defense Force! Mao-Chan.

"Hey, alien planet we've never been on before. Let's take our helmets off."

"Hey our map guy got LOST inside an underground tunnel and tried to pet an alien snake and now he's infected."

"This medical machine is configured for men. Caesarian mode is on the left."

I call the movie Fuckwits In Space for these and many more reasons.

Last Jedi

That's cheating, none of that movie made any sense whatsoever.

The plot point is that you cannot be tracked while in hyperspace. Something the first order was able to do so they could follow them to their destination instead of waiting until they are out of hyperspace to pursue them.Trackers are well established in the universe otherwise. They just only work outside of hyperspace.

In the original script, they were used for processing power, but the C-suites made them change it because they feared spectators wouldn't understand.

Originally it was humans being used for their brains as processing units, but they thought thatd be too confusing for audiences so they went with batteries.

Maybe not for the plot (since it's never referenced or brought up ever again in the film) but I think it does work thematically:

This would be the one real miraculous event in Brian's life. If anything, you would expect that a man who fell from a tower, got picked up by a flaming ball, and returned safely to the ground would be hailed as a holy person by all witnesses.

Instead, nobody gives a fuck and in the next couple of scenes Brian becomes a holy figure through entirely unrelated and mundane means.

Except for the fact that Vincent is only there without Jules because Jules quit. And Vincent was in the toilet because he was constipated because he's a heroin addict.

If Jules hadn't quit, Marcellus would not have been there. And Butch wouldn't have known about any of those developments.

Although to back your theory up, Jules would've never left for doughnuts.

Abed:
It's the first season of Lost on DVD.

Pierce:
That's the meaning of Christmas?

Abed:
No. It's a metaphor. It represents lack of pay-off.

[...]

Abed:
I get it. The meaning of Christmas is the idea that Christmas has meaning. And it can be whatever we want. For me, it used to mean being with my mom. Now it means being with you guys. Thanks, Lost.

Using The Room is cheating. There are only, like, two scenes in the entire movie that make sense according to the plot.

And also, I would have probably gone with the playing catch (with a football, I think) in tuxedos scene.

The whole Looper premise doesn't make sense.

Criminals in the future send people back in time to get whacked. If you get an abnormally large payout, that means you whacked your future self and are now retired.

Why have someone kill themselves with a large payoff? Why retire them? If they're retired in the future, why have them killed?

You have present day hitmen, A, B, and C. Future victims, a, b, and c.

A -> a, B -> b, C -> c results in stupid large payouts and retired killers.

A -> b, B -> c, C -> a has normal payoffs and no retirements.

Still doesn't explain why you wanted a, b, and c dead in the first place.

Looper is a great LOOKING movie, those shotguns were on point! Just don't go thinking about it for more than 5 minutes.