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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, four

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people came together to drink beer, slash wine,

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and talk Star Wars. Welcome to the Game for a

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Movie podcast. I am your host, Mike B. Tank.

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I am joined by... Mitchell Clemency, just drank

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a beer. Andre Bellinger. And our special guest

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tonight... Claire! I know you from The Wedding.

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I thought about saying clear botanics. That's

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just boring. First time as a married couple on

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the podcast. I want to barf. Me too. Married

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couple flow. Sorry, off to a good start. We are

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drinking today. We've got a little bit of Powder

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Hollow, the smoky aftermath. It's so good. Such

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a good smoke. I haven't had this in a year and

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a half. It's been forever. Yeah, it's been a

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long time. We were in the area right by Middletown.

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There's a new one, and they had it on tap. Get

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a growler. Oh, no way. Yeah. So go to Middletown,

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dude. Now it's in Middletown. A lot closer. Where's

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the original one? Hazardville. Yeah. Okay, I

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don't know where that is. That's near Mass. Yeah.

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Andre, what are you drinking? I am drinking Cardigan

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Double IPA from New Park Brewing, brewed to me

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by one T -Dog, who is unfortunately absent. But

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here's the T -Dog. We're going to play Where

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is T -Dog in a second, but Claire, would you

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like to say what you are drinking? I'm drinking

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wine, Crafters Union Red Blend, gifted to me

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by my friend Michelle. Yay, Michelle. Thanks,

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Michelle. Hi. So do you guys want to play a little

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Where's T -Dog? Yeah, sure. Well, I think T -Dog

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is on some sort of hidden Sith planet that's

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not been mentioned before in eight movies, and

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we need to find, what is it, a T -Dog locator,

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as it were. A T -Dog wayfinder. A wayfinder.

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Yes. Okay. Yeah. I think that's where he is right

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now. Absolutely. Did you mention that T -Dog

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has put together his helmet, which he, you know,

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is a big part of the last time he caught up with

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T -Dog. He destroyed it. Right, right, right.

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That was a very pivotal moment for him. A very

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pivotal moment in the character's history. I

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mean, T -Dog's history. Yeah. But now he's just

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melded it back together, and I don't know why.

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Which is kind of lame, but at least it looks

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kind of cool because it has, like, red lines

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in it and stuff, you know? Yeah, it's going to

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sell toys. Yeah, it looks good on a poster. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. Yeah, T -Dog's new mask looks really

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weird. Yeah. Anyway, what do you think he is?

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Hmm. Hmm. Are you drinking his blood? Is that

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what it is? That's not wine. Oh, there's the

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red. I was trying to keep a low profile here.

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There you go. All right. New T -Dog. That's Claire.

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Hit me. Where I think T -Dog is is probably seeing

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Episode 9 because he still hasn't yet. Yes, that's

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very true. Winner! Yes. So we're going to talk

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a little Episode 9. If you have not seen it,

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here is your spoiler alert for Episode 9, Rise

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of Skywalker. We're going to spoil the crap out

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of it. We're going to spoil the crap out of it.

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So we continue the... movie series, the trilogy

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as it were, and finish with Rise of Skywalker,

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directed by J .J. Abrams, the first director

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of seven, and skip eight, and then go to nine,

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and he's back. That's just like they always planned

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it. It's like poetry, it rhymes. And speaking

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of things coming back, we have Palpatine! Palpatine

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is the big bad again. Aw. Yay. Woo. Yay. Extra

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creepy. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I will say... Oh, he

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looked gross. Ian Mc... I forget how to fuck

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up his name. Ian McDiarmid? Whatever. Palpatine's

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actor. He nailed it. He was awesome. He brought

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it. I don't know. It's a hammy role. You get

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to sink your teeth into it and have fun. Exactly.

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That's exactly what it was. He got to be super

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creepy. There's nothing wrong with the way he

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portrayed it. It's just more so, why do we have

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Palpatine again? Exactly. Because fan service.

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That's like, what you can say. On the last movie,

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why would you bring a new villain into the last

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movie? It's almost like there was no continuity

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between the three. It's almost like Kylo Ren

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was set to be the most interesting main antagonist

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of all Star Wars, and then they decided, nope!

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can't have that yep you take yeah you take Snoke

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off the board and suddenly all that's left is

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Kylo and now all there's left is Palpatine with

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Kylo what about Hux Oh, yeah. Hux. I love Hux

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as, especially in The Last Jedi, he was used

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as kind of a joke piece. Yes. And he was hilarious.

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Everything from the prosthetic eyebrows that

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they put on him. It was just so over the top

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because that's what he was in Force Awakens,

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but they treated him serious when he was making

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his Nazi speech in front of everyone on that.

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you know Death Star planet he was like I'm a

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serious bad guy and Rian Johnson looked at that

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and was like yo you're a fucking tool and I thought

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that was a perfect interpretation of that character

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a little remnant of that is still around in Rise

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of Skywalker they still have fun with them but

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I hated that absolutely hated that when he's

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just like I'm the spy I know. Oh, by the way,

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that is set up in Act 1, and sure enough, he's

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the spy in Act 3. Yeah. Smorky dork. Like, I

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literally, I looked at Claire when we were watching

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the movie, and it was just literally, oh my God.

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So much disappointment across his face. Yeah.

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So much. It's fine if he's the spy and whatever.

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It's the line, I'm the spy. Yeah, okay, okay,

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gotcha. So we're going into a lot of plot points

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here, and I would just like to say this is a

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very plot -heavy movie. Yeah, it's almost like

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all the characters do is spout exposition and

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hop from planet to planet. There's no character

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moments, it's just plot, and there's no character,

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you know? It's, oh, God. Oh, God. I just, I feel

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like my main problem is that this movie needed

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to be two movies, almost, right? If they wanted

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to do all the things they wanted to do in this

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movie, they needed more time and you needed to

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pace it out better. Yeah, that was the thing

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that I keep talking about with Mike that drove

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me crazy. Like, it could have been a way better

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movie, maybe, if it was broken up into two. But

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the whole movie was just them, like, sarcastically

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saying little, like, tidbits to each other. There's

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no, like, actual conversation. Not that I need

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to, like, sit and have, like, long dialogue,

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but it was just, like, little... like bleeps

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here and there at jumping plants play sure crazy

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and like i i think i need that levity in star

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wars like having those moments of having you

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know having having um like uh poe like spot a

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spot of queer like oh they fly now great you

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know like that's totally fine i just need more

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something meatier on top of that right right

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as well as like what i have hated about this

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trilogy is i feel like they always need to go

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somewhere like it's just We're here. We're at

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this planet. We need to find this pathfinder.

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Oh, it's on this different one. Let's go here.

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Okay, let's go here. Let's go there. And it's

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just, it's trying to get too many planets. Like,

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they had all these ideas for these unique planets.

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We've got the red salt planet or whatever, you

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know. We've got this planet. It's underwater

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or whatever, you know. And it's just, you don't

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need to go anywhere. You can sit in a spot and

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have a conversation and be like, hey, let's come

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up with a plan even. It's just kind of. And especially

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with this last one, when they go to the planet,

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the water, and it's the old Death Star and everything

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like that, where they're just like, okay, we

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need to come up with a plan. Rey's just like,

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fuck you, I'm out, see ya, I'm going on my own.

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Yeah. It's a very bloated movie, right? Yes.

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There's a lot of parts, especially in the first

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and third acts, where it's just like, oh my god,

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you're throwing so much information at me. None

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of it's going to stick. Right. And, you know,

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for The Last Jedi, this movie, by the way, The

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Rise of Skywalker reaffirmed how much I love...

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The Last Jedi. Exactly, right there with him.

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And if I'm looking at Last Jedi, and I didn't

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think about the planet stuff before, Mike, that

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you brought it up, but even that is on the simpler

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side in terms of, all right, we're mainly on

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our ships, and then we got Cancerbyte, we got

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the planet that Rey and Luke are on, and then

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at the very end, we get the Assault planet or

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whatever. So it's very limited, and it all feels

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purposeful when we go to these different places.

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This just felt like... an expose of like, hey,

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look at how industrial light and magic can make

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all these cool different worlds. And they can.

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Like the, you know, the, what's it called? Coachella

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universe. Yeah. Why couldn't we hang out in weird

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desert space Coachella for a little bit longer,

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right? It was beautiful to look at, but at the

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end of the day, it felt so rushed. Like, oh,

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by the way, Lando's here. Like, what? Yeah, like,

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okay, sure. Oh, by the way, there's Chewie. He's

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gone. And now, oh no, he's back. That's what

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I hated most about this movie. It was so noncommittal

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to the things that I, I think, would have made

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this a strong story. There are four death fakeouts.

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Yeah. Four death fakeouts. Okay, I got Chewie,

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C -3PO. C -3PO, Chewie, Rey, and then, oh my

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god, what was the last one? There's like one

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more in my head. Oh, Kylo. In the middle of the

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movie, Kylo gets a fakeout death. Yeah, they

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throw all that at the end with Kylo and Rey.

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Yeah. You're right. It's like he dies, which

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is a pivotal moment for Rey, I think, where she

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finds out that she is not only tapping into the

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Force, but this is the dark side. Cool. Lightning

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is coming at her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That five

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-minute stretch where I thought we were supposed

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to think at least that Chewie was dead, I was

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like, wow, that's a really interesting character

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moment for Rey. Exactly. Cool. That would have

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been awesome if they would have actually left

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Chewie dead. If I was sitting there going, oh,

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my God, Chewie, like, you know, like, it's sad,

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but at the same time. It is that character development

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of, hey, Rage has shot lightning out of her hands.

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She has to live with that. She has to live with

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it. Exactly. She killed Chewie. Not Kylo Ren,

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not Palpatine, not Hux. She did it. Right. Yeah.

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And by the way, the reason how our characters,

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we figure it out. Quite soon. Like, there's a

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cut scene where we see Chewie, blah, blah, blah.

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But Rey finds out because she could sense Chewie.

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Why couldn't she sense him initially when she

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thought she blew him up? Yep. Like, what? What

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are we doing? Not good. Like, we can't just pick

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and choose when her force powers come into play.

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Even somebody like Finn, who's force sensitive,

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like, he could have sensed something. Even if

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it's just a glimmer. I know it's not as much

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as Rey. But it's still something. He could have

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figured out at least a little tinge of something

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where it's like, okay. Because he can feel, according

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to the backstory and stuff, he can feel when

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there's an imbalance in the force. Losing Chewie

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would have been an imbalance. It's not force

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power, but it's good versus evil. And that's

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why he can wield a lightsaber. He was not great

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at it, but he can wield it. So they do know that

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he is force sensitive. Yeah, this is not an airtight

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plot. There's a lot in it. It feels like it was

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written... It just feels, slapdash isn't the

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right word, but it's definitely very reactionary,

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where I think they just look at the reaction

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from The Last Jedi, and they're like, oh, let's

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just give the fans what we think they want. Fan

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service the movie, yes. Yes. It's fan service

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the movie. And it just spends so much of its

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time undoing what The Last Jedi did, and it's

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rough. As much as I love The Last Jedi, and I'm

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with you, Mitchell, this reaffirms my like for

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The Last Jedi a lot. I almost kind of wish we

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had it at a different time. J .J. Abrams just

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had control of the whole trilogy, and it was

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just all safe. If it was all just Force Awakens

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, because this tries to

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be Force Awakens Part 3, where Part 2 wasn't.

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It was trying to make up that Part 2 wasn't there,

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so it was filling the blanks. It just felt super

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bloated. There's a second movie that sets all

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the stuff that Rise of Skywalker tries to do,

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and to me that's a less impressive trilogy overall,

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but at least it's more cohesive. I don't know.

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I'm just, ugh. And these three movies came out

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in the span 2015 through 19. So four years, three

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movies. That's a lot. I don't care how big Disney

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is. That's not a lot of time to... Especially

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with something like this. At least with, especially

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looking at Disney, the Marvel series, you have

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different characters. You go to different movies

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because you have this character, that. So it's

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a lot of time in between your characters. Thor

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1 is way before Thor 2. Yeah, you might have

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an Avengers movie where he's a piece of it, but

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it's... They take their time with that. Exactly.

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And I don't think they've cracked the code on

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that with Star Wars. Obviously they haven't.

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Now that they moved Kevin Feige in charge of

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that, so who knows how the Star Wars universe

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is going to be different. Wait, wait. Kevin Feige's

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in charge of Star Wars now? Kevin Feige, in terms

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of the high -ranking film people inside Disney,

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he is now also overseeing Star Wars in addition

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to Marvel. So look that up. Can I check me? Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. But he is, because of the success

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of Marvel and the lack of backlash from fans

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in particular of how they treat characters, they

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want a guy who they believe has that touch. I

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think you need a Star Wars guy. Kevin Feige's

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always been Marvel. Yeah, you need a separate

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guy. Yeah, I think you need a separate guy. Right,

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because I don't want Star Wars to be another

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MCU. Right, neither do I. Yeah, you know, it's...

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Man, I'm okay with Star Wars going into the ice

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for a little bit. Well, yeah, right. And they

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are. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, well, I think they

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have it in a weird place because, like, the Mandalorian

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is, like, that's huge right now, right? Yeah,

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much better than Skywalker. Yes, I would also

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agree. But I feel like Star Wars is more set

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up to be, instead of a theatrical release, they're

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going to be putting on smaller stories almost,

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you know? Like, that's kind of what it's queued

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up for. Like, the most well -liked Star Wars

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properties that came out this year, last year,

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rather, were... was the Disney Plus series and

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the video game that came out. Those are the two

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generally well -liked things. I heard it was

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really fun. the video game yeah I was just playing

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it before Mike came over it's good yeah it's

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a lot of fun would you rank that ahead of Rise

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of Skywalker in terms of story yeah so far I

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mean I haven't finished it yet but yeah yeah

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definitely yeah you should pause it wait for

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them to get another director and then play that

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oh yeah pause it again they'll get another the

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same director from before and then see how it

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finishes gotcha okay that way it's an even playing

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field all right all right yeah sounds like a

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sounds like a plan I can't wait to fight Palpatine

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again yeah you already know yeah All right, well,

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it sounds like we have finished our discussion

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on episode nine, unless anybody has any more

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thoughts on episode nine. Rayla was just not

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a good call. I'm so salty about that final kiss.

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Just why? Ugh. Oh, I actually had one more thought

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as well. Yeah? Yeah, I was wrapping it up, and

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I had one more thought as well. What the fuck

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happened to Rose? Oh, yeah! A very unpopular

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character, so they wrote her off. I was so pissed

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about that. So they're claiming that a lot of

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her scenes were initially tied to Leia, and I

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feel like that's kind of another unfortunate

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circumstance around this movie, is that they

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clearly wanted Leia to be a central focus of

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this film. Unfortunately, Carrie Fisher's passing,

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that didn't work out. Carrie Fisher was dead

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before The Last Jedi came out. I know! That's

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all I'm saying. Give me that excuse. I just wish,

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that's why I'm surprised that it took so long

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for Leia's character to exit the movie. as it

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did. Like, I really, I just assumed going in

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that it's going to be like, she's going to set

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Rey off on the adventure, and then that's it,

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you know? Yeah. But no, like, they just constantly

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bring her back, and so I'm like, what? Just a

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bunch of scenes of her just sitting there. Right,

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and it's unfortunate, because, like, again, I

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want them to do right by the character, but it

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just takes me on the movie, because I know, like,

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Carrie Fisher's no longer with us, and it's just

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like, ugh. And it's kind of weird, I mean, this

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is kind of separate, but it's weird to me that

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they keep bringing her back, and then, like,

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billy lord's in the movie too so i'm just like

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this is a weird like yes yes because just imagine

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doing a movie with your mom but she's not really

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there right yeah like it's it's just like i know

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it's like you know cj or whatever but it just

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like like as a viewer it just like sat with me

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kind of weird so it's like i think about like

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when it's really boring the plot kind of that's

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what i think that's what i was thinking about

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i'm like oh there's carrie oh oh there's billy

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walking by that's weird i know she's not there

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but you know it's just like yeah yeah no definitely

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right it's definitely a strange but you're right

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i think initially han's movie was force awakens

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luke sendoff was last jedi and then leia's sendoff

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would have been um whatever this movie was so

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right the original concept if You know, Carrie

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Fisher is still with us. Or Chewie's send off.

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He got his medal. He got his medal. Chewie got

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his medal. Our boy got his medal, finally. That

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made me chuckle when I saw it. Yeah, that's like

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the fun, dumb kind of fan service I'm like okay

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with. I'm like, fine, sure, give him the medal.

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How would you know about that? Like, who cares?

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Whatever. Whatever. Movie. Do we give this a

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rating? Yeah. We can give this a rating. Cool.

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What would you like to give it? Because if you

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ask the questions, you get asked first. Fine.

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I give it two retcons out of five. Two retcons

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out of five. Because on a base level, it's well

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-made, and I had fun watching the dumb spaceship

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blow up the dumb, I don't know, things. On a

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base level, I still had fun. I'm still, whatever,

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spoiling our rankings, but I still think it's

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more well -made than the prequels. But that's

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just me. Okay. Yeah, so there's a certain quality

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of having the experience of going to the theater.

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watching a Star Wars movie when you see a long

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time ago in a galaxy far far away when the John

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Williams score hits it is amazing I don't care

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what words follow that it's just an amazing feeling

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and that alone is worth half a star and that's

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why this is going to be a two star movie for

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me so two Star Wars two Star Wars two Star Wars

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out of five two Star Wars out of five okay alright

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well I give it two and a half lightsaber blades

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okay if you can keep adding blades you get a

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little half one Remember when Rey looks like

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she was from the dark side and she had two bladed

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light chambers? Oh my god. You're welcome. You

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remember? I remember. I just remember the last

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line of the movie, I'm Rey Skywalker. Fuck! One

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and a half stars! I know. It's enough to piss

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you off. I was not happy about that. I also saw

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that one coming. I did it, but I was hoping for...

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Because who would be the Skywalker that answers

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the question, where does the rise of Skywalker

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come from? See, I had a good theory, but it got

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shed on immediately. What did you think? So I

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thought this was going to be the end of the Jedi

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term. The idea Jedi, and then they were going

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to start a new belief system that was... The

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Skywalker. The Skywalker, or something like that.

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Interesting. That was my thought. I almost could

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jive with that better, actually. It's an interesting

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theory. I thought that would have been great.

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Sure. We've got Rey Skywalker. Claire, what's

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your rating on Rise of Skywalker? I'm on board

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with two. Okay. Hop on the board. But I don't

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know what I want to rate it as. That's the most

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important part. Coming up with something creative.

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Unique. I am not creative or unique, so it's

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going to be difficult. You're unique. I married

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you. You're unique enough. That's sad. I don't

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know. Well, you think about it. I'm going to

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pour us another beer. No, the moment's gone.

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Okay. Yes, please. All right, here we go. Beer

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time. I will say this. To be honest, and... These

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movies, and especially the entire trilogy as

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a whole, and I'm including Last Jedi in this,

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it is incredibly hard to create a universe as

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expansive that George Lucas made. Yeah, that's

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right. And to build upon it. Right. And that's

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why it feels so awkward for fans. Yeah, he did

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the prequels and they're universally hated, but

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a lot of people will... Right, maybe they're

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viewed with rose -colored glasses now, but the

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whole idea... Don't say rose, I'm so pissed about

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it. The Hobbit had more lines than rose, damn

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it, fuck. Jesus. Anyway, yeah, just the idea

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of, you know, this is his universe, he should

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offer it as long as he's still alive. Sure. Not

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gonna happen anymore, he sold it for $4 billion,

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but, you know... Yeah, I feel like that's what

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a lot of people did. Homeboy was done, man. Like,

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fuck it. It works. Cash that check. Yeah, you

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know, fuck it. Four billion, dude. It's hard

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to turn down. That photo with him just looking

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so dead with Mickey Mouse and lightsabers is

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just an iconic photo. And Bob Iger's grinning

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ear to ear. Yeah! And then he's like, I just

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ripped this motherfucker off. And Gordon's like,

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I know. All right. Well, let's jump into. Oh,

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you actually had a good point where I'm just

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like, oh, perfect. I got a little spot to come

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back in. And then he snorted. And then he snort

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laughed at me. This is fun. So we're definitely

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not cutting that. Sorry, I ruined it. No, you

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didn't ruin it. That's exactly what you needed.

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You added to it. Yes, and. So we're going to

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rate the movies. Rank them. Rank them. The power

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rankings. Episode one through nine, as well as

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adding Rogue One and Solo. Cool. So we have 11.

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Yes. Yep. We are going to go 11 through eight.

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Yes. Each of us. Our bottom four. Seven to four.

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Each of us? Yes. And then finally, 3, 2, 1. The

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rest of the way. Hell yeah. Plus me. Plus you.

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Plus Claire. Are you just going to chime in or

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you got your list? I'll make comments when appropriate

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and when I can think of something good to say.

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And then I'll talk about 3, 2, 1. Hell yeah.

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See, unlike T -Dog who would have two movies

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and then just be like, that's my list. Yep. Oh,

00:21:27.269 --> 00:21:29.250
T -Dog. Oh, T -Dog. We love you. He would have

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freestyled. He would have. Who would like to

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lead us off? Alright, I guess I will. We're starting

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from the bottom to the top. Alright, so my least

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favorite Star Wars is The Phantom Menace, followed

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up very closely by Attack of the Clones, and

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then a pretty sizable gap, Revenge of the Sith,

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and then finally Rise of Skywalker. You really

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hate the prequels. Yeah, no, I don't like them.

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They suck. Because I think I'm extra mad at them

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because now we're seeing kind of like a meme

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revival of sorts, you know? Because they're so

00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:05.940
badly acted and weirdly written that you can

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make awkward memes out of them and they're funny

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outside of context. But there's this weird cachet

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of people that think the prequels are better

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than the new movies and I just fundamentally

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disagree with that. Fair. Okay. Richard Brody,

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who is a New Yorker film critic, he wrote this

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huge op -ed. arguing that the prequels are better

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than 4, 5, and 6. And it's enlightening. Whoa!

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I don't know how much he believed it, but it's

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enlightening when you view it from that angle.

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How much did he smoke before he did this? I don't

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know. He is a very pretentious, and also he's

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a, what's it called, a contrarian kind of film

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critic type. That's fair. So I think he was just

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testing himself if he could successfully argue

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this. Yeah, right. Which, you know, whatever.

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Okay, Mitchell, what's your bottom four? Yeah,

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so honestly, these could flip -flop, but I have

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at 11, Attack of the Clones, and number 10, The

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Phantom Menace. The Phantom Menace at least gave

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me the Darth Maul fight sequence, so that was

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enough. I really watched that. Like, you know,

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I'll go back and re -watch some of that. I think

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the choreography is fun. And, I mean, it also

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has the Duel of Fates in it. The Duel of Fates.

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Like, it's just anything John Williams. John

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Williams is, like, the best part of all these

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movies, I think, pretty much. And that was him,

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you know, expanding upon a score that is so iconic.

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Yeah. So, good for John, you know, X amount of

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years later, still building on something that

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he built in 1977. For sure. Very cool. Number

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nine. This movie committed the crime of being

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boring, and that is Solo. I did not like Star

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Wars. Oh, wow. There's one thing a Star Wars

00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:42.240
movie cannot be, and that is boring. It was very

00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:44.460
boring to me. I could not latch on to any of

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our lead characters, including Donald Glover,

00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:51.819
as Lando. Who, by the way, has sex with his robot.

00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:54.019
He definitely fucks that robot. He definitely

00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:56.119
fucks that robot, and that's why he's number

00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:59.559
two on my list. You know why? Because Donald

00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:02.279
Glover fucks. Donald Glover does fuck. He's homosexual.

00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:05.259
man like which is fine and you're expanding the

00:24:05.259 --> 00:24:07.519
universe you could argue that but also my mind

00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:10.200
completely went in a different direction other

00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:12.359
than where the movie was going after that little

00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:14.799
nugget was dropped so I thought it was boring

00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.900
I thought the movie itself looked muddy I do

00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:19.660
yeah the color correction was off on that movie

00:24:19.660 --> 00:24:21.440
for sure yeah and then number eight The Rise

00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.779
of Skywalker we all had our takes on that yes

00:24:23.779 --> 00:24:25.960
not a fan of that movie yeah yep that's fair

00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:31.849
okay so a lot of what you've heard is goes Triple

00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:34.450
for me. At the bottom, I've got Phantom Menace.

00:24:34.509 --> 00:24:37.150
Second to last, of course, Attack of the Clones.

00:24:37.650 --> 00:24:40.250
Rise of Skywalker makes an early appearance.

00:24:40.690 --> 00:24:44.630
And then, different than the rest of you, I'm

00:24:44.630 --> 00:24:47.470
betting, Return of the Jedi. Yeah. Return of

00:24:47.470 --> 00:24:49.809
the Jedi is that low for you. I hate Ewoks. My

00:24:49.809 --> 00:24:52.670
dudes. I hate Ewoks too. They're neighbors. Yeah.

00:24:53.130 --> 00:24:55.390
My Return of the Jedi is neighbors to yours.

00:24:55.470 --> 00:24:57.250
Yeah, okay. All right, all right. Yeah. Because

00:24:57.250 --> 00:24:59.130
I was just going to say, like, I had, well, fun

00:24:59.130 --> 00:25:03.190
fact, Solo's my neighbor. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:05.569
I just, I hate Ewoks. I absolutely hate them.

00:25:05.569 --> 00:25:07.089
Dude, I fucking hate Ewoks. They're pro Jar Jars.

00:25:07.089 --> 00:25:09.170
Everyone shits on Jar Jar Binks. He was already,

00:25:09.190 --> 00:25:11.299
that, that. level of badness is already there

00:25:11.299 --> 00:25:13.740
with the Ewoks. Plus, I can't exactly remember

00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:15.759
what movie it was, but I think that was when

00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:18.019
Boba Fett died in, like, the most embarrassing

00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:19.880
way. Yeah, Boba Fett does nothing in that movie.

00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:22.140
He's built it as this big, everyone's complaining

00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:24.400
about Phasma. Dude, Boba Fett did it first, you

00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:26.519
know? Like, built up this huge villain and then

00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:29.359
did jack shit. And the Wilhelm scream. Just,

00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:31.920
just, I can't. I can't do it. It's just a Star

00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:33.660
Wars staple, by the way. It is a Star Wars staple.

00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:36.079
Yes, for sure. Which is fine if it wasn't a badass

00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:37.660
character that you just killed off. I will say

00:25:37.660 --> 00:25:39.099
Harrison Ford looked straight up bored in that

00:25:39.099 --> 00:25:41.079
movie. I think he was done being Han Solo way

00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:43.400
before he got. Way before he got. Because he

00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:45.619
died. He wanted to get killed in the first movie.

00:25:45.779 --> 00:25:47.619
Oh, there you go. He wanted his character to

00:25:47.619 --> 00:25:50.240
have meaning. Exactly. Right. So, yeah, that

00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:53.740
Return of the Jedi sneaks into my eight spot.

00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:57.509
Cool. There you go. Wow. Respect, actually. I

00:25:57.509 --> 00:25:59.210
thought I was going to kick shit for hell. I

00:25:59.210 --> 00:26:01.329
agree with everything you guys have said. These

00:26:01.329 --> 00:26:04.150
are awful movies. I don't know. It's easy at

00:26:04.150 --> 00:26:06.910
the bottom. I actually, I mean, I will defend

00:26:06.910 --> 00:26:09.109
Solo a little bit in that I thought it was entertaining

00:26:09.109 --> 00:26:11.910
and harmless, and that's pretty much where I

00:26:11.910 --> 00:26:14.309
fall on that. You can definitely say harmless.

00:26:14.509 --> 00:26:16.490
Yeah. You can definitely say harmless. You can't

00:26:16.490 --> 00:26:18.529
say entertaining, but... No, you can. You can.

00:26:19.529 --> 00:26:22.349
I mean, The Return of the Jedi is higher on my

00:26:22.349 --> 00:26:26.339
list, but I think if I watched it... now for

00:26:26.339 --> 00:26:27.940
like the first time I would agree with you that

00:26:27.940 --> 00:26:31.539
the Ewoks are stupid but like I grew up watching

00:26:31.539 --> 00:26:33.980
4, 5, 6 like my sister and I on road trips when

00:26:33.980 --> 00:26:36.279
I was like 10 we had like the original trilogy

00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:39.519
on VHS and that's what we watched and so it's

00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:42.180
like to me it's like not plot reason I love that

00:26:42.180 --> 00:26:43.740
movie it's childhood like it brings that in yeah

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:46.700
I grew up watching it and they were cute I can

00:26:46.700 --> 00:26:49.960
also I agree with that yeah sure Claire was running

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:51.799
it past me earlier when we were driving in the

00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:54.359
car. I said they're just little teddy bears,

00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.140
and as much as I hate the stormtroopers and I

00:26:57.140 --> 00:26:58.759
think they're dumb because they can't shoot anything,

00:26:58.940 --> 00:27:01.559
how can you not shoot a teddy bear that hobbles?

00:27:01.859 --> 00:27:03.599
And she goes, well, what about Chewbacca? He's

00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:05.740
just a big teddy bear. He's a giant teddy bear,

00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:09.309
just skinnier. Longer strides. And he can run.

00:27:09.670 --> 00:27:11.769
However, but he cannot change. He's a big target.

00:27:11.950 --> 00:27:14.569
But he can't, like, change little positions that

00:27:14.569 --> 00:27:16.769
fast, like direction. But Ewoks can't either

00:27:16.769 --> 00:27:19.210
because they hobble. They, like, march at you.

00:27:19.809 --> 00:27:22.970
Yeah, Ewoks permanently made the Empire. I mean,

00:27:22.990 --> 00:27:24.269
like, maybe they should have been the butt of

00:27:24.269 --> 00:27:26.029
every joke by then because, as you said, Star

00:27:26.029 --> 00:27:28.890
Trekers can't shoot. But as soon as I saw two

00:27:28.890 --> 00:27:32.190
giant logs crush an AT -ST, I just stopped considering

00:27:32.190 --> 00:27:34.349
the Empire as an actual threat. It's like, all

00:27:34.349 --> 00:27:37.549
right, they're just mooks at that point, you

00:27:37.549 --> 00:27:40.579
know? But it's a metaphor for the Vietnam War.

00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:46.579
Oh, great. Wow. Sick. Real good. Thanks, George.

00:27:47.859 --> 00:27:51.279
Really layered commentary there. Jesus Christ.

00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:53.960
All right, Andre. Seven to four. All right. Seven

00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:58.019
to four. At seven, I have Solo. At six, I have

00:27:58.019 --> 00:28:00.839
Return of the Jedi. Five, Rogue One. And four,

00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:05.099
The Last Goddamn Jedi. I will not be the last

00:28:05.099 --> 00:28:10.339
Jedi. And I'm really, I will say, Last Jedi and

00:28:10.339 --> 00:28:12.960
my neighboring film are like, they're just basically

00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:19.799
tied. It's The Force Awakens. Well, I don't know.

00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:24.519
Spoilers. Yeah, as I said, The Return of the

00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:25.940
Jedi is my least favorite of the original trilogy,

00:28:26.099 --> 00:28:27.940
but it still has that iconic, you know, final

00:28:27.940 --> 00:28:32.279
fight between Palps and Luke. Palps. Yo, what's

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:34.819
up, Palps? Yeah, right. That's why he was a cool

00:28:34.819 --> 00:28:37.240
villain because it was kind of fun and it was

00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:39.720
actually built to a final climactic showdown.

00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:41.859
He's like every villain ever. He has a Brooklyn

00:28:41.859 --> 00:28:46.240
accent. I am all the Sith. What are you going

00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:54.420
to do about it? Oh my god. Woo! Yes. If you don't

00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:57.599
know, Andre, every single character he does comes

00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:01.119
from Brooklyn. Especially when he's our judging

00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:06.200
master. Indeed it is. I'm learning one more accent

00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:09.119
besides Brooklyn. Just a one -up. I'm looking

00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:12.240
forward to it. What do you want? I'm a bugbear.

00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:15.039
What do you want? I'm a bugbear. I'm just trying

00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:23.700
to eat it. So yeah, I would say the gap between

00:29:23.700 --> 00:29:25.920
Rogue One and The Last Jedi is very large for

00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:28.319
me. Rogue One, Return of the Jedi, and Solo I

00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:30.619
tolerate. They're fun, and I will watch them

00:29:30.619 --> 00:29:32.759
if they're on. The Last Jedi I actively enjoy.

00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:34.900
So that's kind of where I'm at with that one.

00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:37.960
The Rogue One, I would say, just in summary,

00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:39.759
two -thirds, not a great movie, and then the

00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:42.140
final third is fantastic. I really love that.

00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:46.140
As soon as we get to the final scene on the final

00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:48.539
Scarif, I believe, that's the final planet, everything

00:29:48.539 --> 00:29:50.819
there is just perfect. But up until that point,

00:29:50.859 --> 00:29:52.700
a little muddy. That's just where I'm at. I'm

00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:55.940
with you. Yep. Cool. So at number seven, I have

00:29:55.940 --> 00:29:58.779
Revenge of the Sith. Am I the highest among the

00:29:58.779 --> 00:30:00.799
three? Okay. Yeah, I think so. Oh, never mind.

00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:02.579
Definitely on you. Yeah. So I got Revenge of

00:30:02.579 --> 00:30:04.299
the Sith there. Look, it closed out the trilogy,

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:06.299
and it was the one of the three where I was,

00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:08.680
God, I just remembered that in -theater experience,

00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:11.099
and that definitely kind of skews it a little

00:30:11.099 --> 00:30:12.819
bit. For sure. It's not a great movie, but the

00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:14.880
in -theater experience of watching it all happen

00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:16.440
was fantastic. You want to hear something sad?

00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:18.200
What's up? Attack of the Clones was my first

00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:21.000
IMAX movie. Oh, that's rough. You hate to see

00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.619
it. But at least you got a good lecture of why

00:30:23.619 --> 00:30:27.619
sand is bad. It's as coarse as rubber. I felt

00:30:27.619 --> 00:30:30.059
like I was that sand right there. That's great.

00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:35.180
Anakin, she fell into the sand. Oh, okay. I ain't

00:30:35.180 --> 00:30:38.839
going in there. He called the wrong Jedi. Number

00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:42.640
six, Return of the Jedi. And now this one, you

00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:44.880
had it at six as well. I will say like a good

00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.460
positive note for me. You mentioned the Palpatine

00:30:47.460 --> 00:30:50.279
versus Luke. For me, it was Darth Vader versus

00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:52.559
Luke. That was like the pivotal scene for me.

00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:55.579
For sure. In terms of, I've never felt more emotion.

00:30:56.269 --> 00:30:59.609
put out in a lightsaber duel before where in

00:30:59.609 --> 00:31:01.509
phantom menace you know you get darth maul it's

00:31:01.509 --> 00:31:03.309
fun to watch there's not a lot of storytelling

00:31:03.309 --> 00:31:05.829
there's not a lot of emotion behind each blow

00:31:05.829 --> 00:31:09.569
and in return of the jedi he's struggling whether

00:31:09.569 --> 00:31:11.650
or not he should kill his father the entire time

00:31:11.650 --> 00:31:14.490
and you feel that um you feel the rage at the

00:31:14.490 --> 00:31:16.950
end when he finally maims him cuts off his arm

00:31:16.950 --> 00:31:19.569
so yeah i thought that's an incredibly well done

00:31:19.569 --> 00:31:21.609
sequence so return of the jedi number six number

00:31:21.609 --> 00:31:25.509
five rogue one Rogue One, for all the same reasons

00:31:25.509 --> 00:31:27.589
that Andre has it at five, really loved the third

00:31:27.589 --> 00:31:30.490
act. Number four, The Force Awakens, a fun time

00:31:30.490 --> 00:31:32.990
at the movies. Again, great in -theater experience.

00:31:33.029 --> 00:31:35.250
I saw it the Friday it came out, and I was in

00:31:35.250 --> 00:31:39.650
Santa Barbara at the time, and everyone was cheering

00:31:39.650 --> 00:31:42.210
at the right times. We clapped at the end. Some

00:31:42.210 --> 00:31:45.210
people gasped when they saw Luke at the very

00:31:45.210 --> 00:31:47.970
last shot. So it was just a really fun time,

00:31:48.029 --> 00:31:50.819
and it did. I think, what is almost an impossible

00:31:50.819 --> 00:31:54.700
task of relaunching this series and also introducing

00:31:54.700 --> 00:31:58.160
new characters that we like or love in terms

00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.400
of Rey and Finn and all those guys, and then

00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:03.039
also reintroducing some fan favorites, in this

00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:06.359
case Han Solo. So, number four. Nice. Don't forget

00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:08.940
BB -8. Oh, BB -8. Oh, my favorite droid, by the

00:32:08.940 --> 00:32:10.950
way. You're absolutely right. How can you forget

00:32:10.950 --> 00:32:12.650
that? I know, I feel bad. I gotta say, BD -1

00:32:12.650 --> 00:32:15.769
from the Jedi Fallen Order, the video game, is

00:32:15.769 --> 00:32:17.269
kind of in the running for my favorite droid

00:32:17.269 --> 00:32:18.529
right now, I'll just say. Okay, there it is.

00:32:18.950 --> 00:32:21.970
Just big ups to BD -1. Big ups to BD -1. If it's

00:32:21.970 --> 00:32:26.930
not on celluloid, I don't care. Seven for me

00:32:26.930 --> 00:32:30.210
is Solo, just because, a lot of reasons, but

00:32:30.210 --> 00:32:32.609
I mean, I didn't mind it. Donald Glover is a

00:32:32.609 --> 00:32:35.569
pain to me. That's a rough one. That was such

00:32:35.569 --> 00:32:39.109
a disappointing take. And my problem was I was

00:32:39.109 --> 00:32:41.390
so excited about the casting when I heard it

00:32:41.390 --> 00:32:43.569
that I was like, oh yes, this is great. Lando,

00:32:43.630 --> 00:32:46.450
perfect. This is great. And then it became...

00:32:46.910 --> 00:32:49.809
wow he was doing a billy d impersonation the

00:32:49.809 --> 00:32:52.890
entire yeah right what's up hon and it's just

00:32:52.890 --> 00:32:55.890
like it's so cheesy i will say the one thing

00:32:55.890 --> 00:32:58.109
i like about that interpretation is that he actually

00:32:58.109 --> 00:33:00.089
actually go with the what's up hand he's like

00:33:00.089 --> 00:33:02.869
it's hon but okay that's like that's like the

00:33:02.869 --> 00:33:05.630
one not i'm like okay that's a good one for sure

00:33:05.630 --> 00:33:10.210
uh six i got last jedi It's a fun movie and everything

00:33:10.210 --> 00:33:12.650
like that. Right above it, it's Force Awakens.

00:33:13.589 --> 00:33:15.710
Agreed with your relaunching it and everything

00:33:15.710 --> 00:33:18.349
like that. And it holds a special place in my

00:33:18.349 --> 00:33:20.789
heart because of going to the theaters and experiencing

00:33:20.789 --> 00:33:23.589
Revenge of the Sith. Yes, exactly. And that's

00:33:23.589 --> 00:33:25.450
exactly it. It's going to the theaters. It's

00:33:25.450 --> 00:33:28.190
not a good film and I'm not going to defend that.

00:33:28.230 --> 00:33:31.470
No! Exactly. That is the dumbest scene ever.

00:33:31.650 --> 00:33:34.519
If you're not with me... Then you're my enemy.

00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:38.140
Yeah, exactly. Is that your Morty or your Rick?

00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:39.960
I don't know. That's my Hayden Christensen, my

00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:43.380
friend. I literally can't remember what happened

00:33:43.380 --> 00:33:45.200
in Revenge of the Sith. Revenge of the Sith was

00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:48.440
the third one. That's how memorable it is to

00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:51.019
me. That was the third one. And yeah, it was

00:33:51.019 --> 00:33:55.799
like, it's not an awful film compared to some

00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:58.200
of the rest we have on this list. But at the

00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:01.460
same time, like, it's not a good one. And I literally,

00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:03.839
I probably could have picked, Force Awakens or

00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:06.779
Last Jedi to jump it. No, but I mean, that's

00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:10.039
still valid. Like I said, this is our list. This

00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:12.019
is in the Criterion Star Wars collection. I will

00:34:12.019 --> 00:34:14.719
not defend Revenge of the Sith, but at the same

00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:17.840
time, to me, it brings that experience. And seeing

00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.400
all the memes has actually made it more like

00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:24.750
nostalgia for me. It's like ridiculous. But it's

00:34:24.750 --> 00:34:26.590
just that nostalgia feeling. You bring up a good

00:34:26.590 --> 00:34:28.409
point, though, about Star Wars movies in general.

00:34:28.630 --> 00:34:30.789
It's definitely the relationship between where

00:34:30.789 --> 00:34:33.130
you were in your life when you first watched

00:34:33.130 --> 00:34:36.389
them, and your love of them is going to be higher

00:34:36.389 --> 00:34:39.190
if you saw them at a younger age. For sure. And

00:34:39.190 --> 00:34:41.190
that's why the nostalgia thing was such a big

00:34:41.190 --> 00:34:43.190
deal for Rise of Skywalker. So, you know, they

00:34:43.190 --> 00:34:45.710
just wanted to go back to the past and all that,

00:34:45.750 --> 00:34:48.429
which ended up hurting it. But I think that is

00:34:48.429 --> 00:34:50.550
a similar feeling that a lot of people will have,

00:34:50.630 --> 00:34:55.110
for sure. There we go. Going to three? Are we

00:34:55.110 --> 00:34:57.050
doing the top three? Yes, sir. How are we doing

00:34:57.050 --> 00:34:59.650
this? I was confused. Three, two, one? So he's

00:34:59.650 --> 00:35:00.869
going to read his three, two, one, or are we

00:35:00.869 --> 00:35:03.699
going three, two, one? I think we keep going.

00:35:03.739 --> 00:35:06.260
I think we keep going. That's too much. That's

00:35:06.260 --> 00:35:09.420
fair. It's easy enough to deduce at this point.

00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:12.559
It really is. We have it down. Alright, that's

00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.500
fine. So, yeah. Number three, I have Force Awakens.

00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:18.260
Again, I said that this and Last Jedi are basically

00:35:18.260 --> 00:35:21.059
tied for me. Last Jedi took more risks and I

00:35:21.059 --> 00:35:23.920
respect that movie a little bit more in ways

00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:26.650
that it... kind of try to make, I don't know,

00:35:26.730 --> 00:35:28.610
it's a different interpretation of Star Wars,

00:35:28.750 --> 00:35:31.369
whereas The Force Awakens, to me, was just, like,

00:35:31.489 --> 00:35:33.369
going back to what you guys said, my favorite

00:35:33.369 --> 00:35:35.610
Star Wars going experience, just because that

00:35:35.610 --> 00:35:38.250
was, I was just super excited for a safe Star

00:35:38.250 --> 00:35:40.530
Wars movie, and that's exactly what I got. Right.

00:35:40.769 --> 00:35:44.469
I mean, just when Poe, like, goes to the first,

00:35:44.550 --> 00:35:47.349
like, X -Wing run on that, on the, I forget the

00:35:47.349 --> 00:35:48.710
planet's name, but that green planet that they

00:35:48.710 --> 00:35:50.329
were on, where they actually fight the Empire

00:35:50.329 --> 00:35:52.469
for the first time. So, where they go to the

00:35:52.469 --> 00:35:55.230
temple and all that? Yes. with the monsters yeah

00:35:55.230 --> 00:35:57.090
like when they're like when the first order is

00:35:57.090 --> 00:35:59.869
on like pushing back all the rebels and everything

00:35:59.869 --> 00:36:02.530
like oh man there's no hope and then Poe does

00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:04.769
his runway and whatever and like oh man I just

00:36:04.769 --> 00:36:08.329
ugh that's one hell of a pilot exactly I was

00:36:08.329 --> 00:36:11.230
fit right there I was like yeah oh fuck yeah

00:36:12.070 --> 00:36:15.210
It's a cool shot. Yeah, and honestly, a lot of

00:36:15.210 --> 00:36:16.789
the interesting stuff that The Last Jedi capitalizes

00:36:16.789 --> 00:36:19.230
on in this movie sets up. I love Kylo Ren's introduction

00:36:19.230 --> 00:36:21.730
to this series. He is the legacy character. He

00:36:21.730 --> 00:36:25.750
is the Solo and Skywalker, and he's a bad guy.

00:36:25.869 --> 00:36:28.650
He's a bad guy tempted by the light, and I really

00:36:28.650 --> 00:36:31.690
like that The Force Awakens was willing to introduce

00:36:31.690 --> 00:36:34.429
a character like that. I really was hoping you'd

00:36:34.429 --> 00:36:37.280
say tempted by the fruit of another, but... Why

00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:41.039
would you do that? Stuck in my head too. Everybody

00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:45.539
must suffer. Number two for me is A New Hope.

00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:47.659
Just, I mean, it's the movie that started it

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:51.130
all. Honestly, I could watch the movie over and

00:36:51.130 --> 00:36:53.449
over and over again. Luke isn't exactly my favorite

00:36:53.449 --> 00:36:55.070
character in that movie because he's kind of

00:36:55.070 --> 00:36:57.269
whiny and he doesn't come to his own until the

00:36:57.269 --> 00:37:01.090
later movies, but still a fun time. Easy to recommend

00:37:01.090 --> 00:37:04.190
to anybody. Just, yeah, it's a classic. And then

00:37:04.190 --> 00:37:06.949
my top is kind of like the vanilla answer, but

00:37:06.949 --> 00:37:10.010
Empire Strikes Back. There's no vanilla answer.

00:37:10.489 --> 00:37:16.989
Well, still. There is. I mean... It really is

00:37:16.989 --> 00:37:20.309
just like the perfect second dark chapter to

00:37:20.309 --> 00:37:22.409
me, you know, like the perfect sequel to me and

00:37:22.409 --> 00:37:25.210
that it raises the stakes. It flushes out all

00:37:25.210 --> 00:37:27.190
of our main characters into being something more

00:37:27.190 --> 00:37:29.090
interesting instead of just being two dimensional,

00:37:29.190 --> 00:37:31.989
a fun adventure. There's actually some depth

00:37:31.989 --> 00:37:35.260
to it. And yeah, I don't know. I just, I love

00:37:35.260 --> 00:37:37.360
all of the, like all three, like all of the plots

00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:39.320
intertwining. There's usually with all the other

00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:40.820
Star Wars movies, there's part, there's plots

00:37:40.820 --> 00:37:42.440
that I'm like, okay, I just want to get to the

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:44.800
good stuff. The Empire Strikes Back is nothing

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:48.480
but the good stuff. Okay. So there we go. I would

00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:50.260
agree that the Empire Strikes Back is probably

00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:52.380
the best movie. Like if I was to look at, all

00:37:52.380 --> 00:37:54.260
right, Lawrence Kasdan with this script is amazing.

00:37:54.340 --> 00:37:57.460
I forgot who directed it, but George taking a

00:37:57.460 --> 00:37:59.900
seat back and just producing this film, I think

00:37:59.900 --> 00:38:02.000
opened up a lot of doors creatively and they

00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.110
did, I mean, they knocked it out of the park,

00:38:04.250 --> 00:38:08.730
which is why it's my number three. Oh! So The

00:38:08.730 --> 00:38:10.750
Empire, and I will say this, this is a tight

00:38:10.750 --> 00:38:12.650
bunch at the top three for me. For sure, yeah.

00:38:13.010 --> 00:38:14.829
This could be a different order and a different

00:38:14.829 --> 00:38:17.150
day, but how it stands, when I was writing it

00:38:17.150 --> 00:38:19.650
as I was leaving work, The Empire Strikes Back

00:38:19.650 --> 00:38:21.449
is number three. And I will say this, too. I

00:38:21.449 --> 00:38:24.139
used to, or when I was growing up... they re

00:38:24.139 --> 00:38:27.480
-released the original trilogy in cinemas, like

00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:29.639
in a build -up to The End of Menace. Yes. Me

00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:33.500
and my dad saw every single one. Nice. And this

00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:35.900
one was the only one I did not fall asleep in.

00:38:36.340 --> 00:38:38.960
Oh, there you go. So, and not to say I didn't

00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:40.639
like the others at all, but, you know, I was

00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:43.119
a little kid. And this one, for whatever reason,

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:45.599
captured my attention. So, The Empire Strikes

00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:48.739
Back, I love it. Quite dearly. Number two, Star

00:38:48.739 --> 00:38:51.599
Wars or A New Hope, as it was retroactively named.

00:38:51.820 --> 00:38:55.539
Star Wars, I mean, look, you cannot... you cannot

00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:58.960
replicate the because i just re -watched this

00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:01.360
by the way it was like last week i just decided

00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:05.380
to put on disney plus what's up and i just decided

00:39:05.380 --> 00:39:07.300
to give it a watch and because yeah there's a

00:39:07.300 --> 00:39:10.039
lot of line reads that age poorly there's a lot

00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:11.900
of acting and special effects that just don't

00:39:11.900 --> 00:39:13.900
hold up especially the new special effects that

00:39:13.900 --> 00:39:16.500
george lucas yeah right and it's hard to not

00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:19.820
view that movie without those like java java

00:39:19.820 --> 00:39:22.880
the hut is in star wars now And no, he is just

00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.260
a Jedi guy. He is not in the first Star Wars,

00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:29.099
but he is here. Anyway, it is fun. It is charming.

00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.420
And it's everything that you want in just like

00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:34.360
a fun time at the movies. And I just love Star

00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:36.639
Wars. It gives me the warm and fuzzies, unlike

00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:39.079
any of these other movies that I've listed. And

00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:42.010
then number one, not warm and fuzzy at all. It's

00:39:42.010 --> 00:39:45.070
a dark wine that you drink nice and slowly. It

00:39:45.070 --> 00:39:48.110
is The Last Jedi. Hell yeah. Oh, man. I love

00:39:48.110 --> 00:39:50.429
it that you are that guy. I fucking love that.

00:39:50.650 --> 00:39:54.750
Let's go. Let me explain. Is it perfect? Hell

00:39:54.750 --> 00:39:57.769
no. The cancel bite stuff, while it has a lot

00:39:57.769 --> 00:40:00.230
of social commentary that Rian Johnson has sprinkled

00:40:00.230 --> 00:40:03.329
throughout his entire filmography, it is also

00:40:03.329 --> 00:40:05.730
a thing and a plot line that drags the movie

00:40:05.730 --> 00:40:07.969
down. There's a lot of fun moments, but at the

00:40:07.969 --> 00:40:09.789
end of the day, you probably could have cut it

00:40:09.789 --> 00:40:12.389
just a little bit. And then you look over at

00:40:12.389 --> 00:40:15.429
the biggest controversy of this film. Luke Skywalker

00:40:15.429 --> 00:40:18.809
is a crank. Well, you know what? I haven't seen

00:40:18.809 --> 00:40:21.170
this guy in 30 plus years, and if he's the same

00:40:21.170 --> 00:40:24.090
dude, why am I telling this story? Yes. I will

00:40:24.090 --> 00:40:27.130
say, on record, The Last Jedi has my favorite

00:40:27.130 --> 00:40:28.710
interpretation of Luke Skywalker as a character.

00:40:28.989 --> 00:40:31.190
Absolutely. Absolutely. By a fucking mile. I'm

00:40:31.190 --> 00:40:33.829
on board with that. Hell yeah. He is a jaded

00:40:33.829 --> 00:40:38.010
Luke Skywalker who was coming off the peak of

00:40:38.010 --> 00:40:41.429
his Jedi career and destroying the Empire, and

00:40:41.429 --> 00:40:44.329
suddenly he realizes the Sith isn't gone all

00:40:44.329 --> 00:40:46.679
the way, and he has to grapple with that. And

00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:49.300
he does things that he regrets. And now he's

00:40:49.300 --> 00:40:51.559
living in shame and is out living as a hermit

00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:54.380
to die. By the way, Mark Hamill delivering his

00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:57.099
best on -screen performance. You could say the

00:40:57.099 --> 00:40:59.179
Joker is probably his best character ever. But

00:40:59.179 --> 00:41:02.199
on -screen, we were talking about New Hope and

00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:05.340
how that dude could not read a line to save his

00:41:05.340 --> 00:41:08.280
life. He had the charm, but pretty much nothing

00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:10.559
else. He was an actor in this movie. And Rian

00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:12.420
Johnson pushed him there. I watched the behind

00:41:12.420 --> 00:41:15.320
-the -scenes documentary on this movie. He straight

00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:18.260
up says, Mark Hamill's like, yo, I do not like

00:41:18.260 --> 00:41:20.880
what Ryan has done to Luke, like at all. I'm

00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.400
fundamentally against what he put out there,

00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:26.219
but it's my job as an actor to give him my best

00:41:26.219 --> 00:41:28.820
performance. Oh, there's a little link there.

00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:32.860
Oh, it's from Kelly. Hi, Kelly. Anyway, and it's,

00:41:32.860 --> 00:41:35.460
yeah, it's probably the best on -screen performance

00:41:35.460 --> 00:41:37.800
that I've seen from him, and it works. And then

00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.949
third. The relationship between Kylo Ren and

00:41:40.949 --> 00:41:44.530
Rey. I like how fleshed out it gets in Last Jedi,

00:41:44.650 --> 00:41:48.829
where they start... They can connect, kind of,

00:41:48.829 --> 00:41:50.769
and everything like that. Man, it's almost like

00:41:50.769 --> 00:41:52.210
you can have two characters with an interesting

00:41:52.210 --> 00:41:54.030
relationship, and that doesn't end up with them

00:41:54.030 --> 00:41:57.510
making out. Huh. Fascinating. Exactly. Wait,

00:41:57.670 --> 00:42:00.329
Andre, did you see 9? What's that? Did you see

00:42:00.329 --> 00:42:03.090
9? Episode 9? Yeah. They ended up making out!

00:42:03.389 --> 00:42:08.800
No! Why would you do that to me, J .J.? No! It

00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:12.579
seems in your anger. You've ruined the fucking

00:42:12.579 --> 00:42:16.789
plot. Give in to your anger. Damn it. Anyways,

00:42:16.809 --> 00:42:19.510
yeah. So that dynamic was electric, and that

00:42:19.510 --> 00:42:21.989
is, I would argue, the best special effect in

00:42:21.989 --> 00:42:25.690
that movie is Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver acting

00:42:25.690 --> 00:42:29.869
one -on -one with each other. So, yes, huge fan

00:42:29.869 --> 00:42:33.610
of The Last Jedi, and that is why it's my number

00:42:33.610 --> 00:42:37.010
one. Hell yeah. Respect. Well, I have a slightly

00:42:37.010 --> 00:42:39.469
different list. Okay. Slightly, though, because

00:42:39.469 --> 00:42:41.250
I will say at number three, I have a new hope.

00:42:41.690 --> 00:42:44.349
Cool. Yep. Okay. Yep. For all the reasons. Yes.

00:42:44.409 --> 00:42:46.650
It's the one that started it. It's a classic.

00:42:46.750 --> 00:42:48.809
Absolutely. Empire Strikes Back is my number

00:42:48.809 --> 00:42:51.710
two. Okay. Just because at the end of it, you're

00:42:51.710 --> 00:42:55.090
literally going, wait, our heroes might lose?

00:42:55.409 --> 00:42:59.170
Like, I love that idea. Yes. That just is such

00:42:59.170 --> 00:43:02.389
a great twist to me, especially how old this

00:43:02.389 --> 00:43:05.010
movie was and everything like that. It was just...

00:43:05.769 --> 00:43:07.889
Empire Strikes Back is everything I could want

00:43:07.889 --> 00:43:10.110
from a Star Wars movie that's just different.

00:43:10.329 --> 00:43:13.170
It is. And they did lose. If you ended there,

00:43:13.309 --> 00:43:16.329
they lost. They lost. Hans and Carbonite. It

00:43:16.329 --> 00:43:20.250
literally, Lando fucked them all. Exactly. Luke

00:43:20.250 --> 00:43:22.690
no longer has his hand. It's like all these different

00:43:22.690 --> 00:43:26.510
things. Just taking L's. Taking these L's. Taking

00:43:26.510 --> 00:43:31.469
these L's. And my number one is very different

00:43:31.469 --> 00:43:35.500
than the rest of yours. Rogue One, Star Wars

00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:40.139
story. Yeah, man. Gareth Edwards' own. Rogue

00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:44.139
One. So what my thing is about Rogue One is just

00:43:44.139 --> 00:43:46.079
the first two -thirds of the movie, yes, you're

00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:48.079
correct, it's not the greatest, but it does have

00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:50.960
some great character intros where they have to

00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:53.639
get a lot of characters quickly. And I like that

00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:56.880
about it because the blind guy is one of my favorites.

00:43:57.139 --> 00:44:00.119
I can't remember his name. He's one of my favorites.

00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:03.329
K2 is my favorite droid, even besides. BB -8

00:44:03.329 --> 00:44:07.869
because it's Alan Tudyk and he is just outstanding

00:44:07.869 --> 00:44:12.889
he's the best and literally that end sequence

00:44:12.889 --> 00:44:17.489
like the whole planet like the getting the plans

00:44:17.489 --> 00:44:20.869
and then the fucking Darth Vader scene was so

00:44:21.610 --> 00:44:24.650
Freaking awesome. It was so good. That is fan

00:44:24.650 --> 00:44:28.090
service done right, I would say. That is everything

00:44:28.090 --> 00:44:31.349
I wanted in my Star Wars movie. When I left the

00:44:31.349 --> 00:44:34.389
theater the first time, I was actually pissed

00:44:34.389 --> 00:44:36.889
at the movie. Because all of the characters died.

00:44:37.070 --> 00:44:40.110
But at the same time, I was thinking, wait, they

00:44:40.110 --> 00:44:42.429
couldn't exist. And I watched it again, and I

00:44:42.429 --> 00:44:44.820
was like... They actually gave each of them a

00:44:44.820 --> 00:44:47.219
really good send -off that made sense with the

00:44:47.219 --> 00:44:49.219
characters and everything like that. Yes. It

00:44:49.219 --> 00:44:51.639
was literally, it's just my favorite Star Wars

00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:54.219
movie. It is a popcorn flick through and through.

00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:57.719
Oh, yeah, for sure. And it is... Rogue One. Yes.

00:44:57.880 --> 00:44:59.599
It's very self -contained outside of the Darth

00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.400
Vader stuff. You know, it's just like, don't

00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:03.980
joke in your ambitions. I can't get over that.

00:45:04.019 --> 00:45:05.639
I know, me neither. I was just going to say,

00:45:05.699 --> 00:45:08.719
that final sequence would have been so much cooler

00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:10.599
if I didn't know Darth Vader was in that movie

00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:12.440
and in the trailers and also with that first

00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:15.150
scene. Like, if I could... I would just have

00:45:15.150 --> 00:45:17.750
him only be in that final scene, and then that

00:45:17.750 --> 00:45:19.349
would have just been mind -blowing. See, I went

00:45:19.349 --> 00:45:21.070
in not knowing that. Oh, really? There you go.

00:45:21.110 --> 00:45:23.309
I had no clue he was in it. They unfortunately,

00:45:23.590 --> 00:45:24.989
I mean, like, he's marketable, so they showed

00:45:24.989 --> 00:45:27.210
that for where he ignites the lightsaber, they

00:45:27.210 --> 00:45:29.389
showed that in the trailers. Okay. Maybe I just

00:45:29.389 --> 00:45:31.329
missed it. Maybe I wasn't looking for it, whatever

00:45:31.329 --> 00:45:33.869
it may be. I didn't know that. So at the end,

00:45:33.869 --> 00:45:37.510
when he was there, holy fuck, oh, my God. Yeah.

00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:40.699
All the alarms are going off in my head. It was

00:45:40.699 --> 00:45:46.480
so good. It's a great payoff. Claire, thoughts?

00:45:47.099 --> 00:45:50.780
Comments? Concerns? My top three. I'm not going

00:45:50.780 --> 00:45:52.280
to go into a lot of detail because it's all things

00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.219
that have been said and I agree with most of

00:45:54.219 --> 00:45:58.530
them. Last Jedi, number three. Woo! Yeah! Join

00:45:58.530 --> 00:46:03.250
the clan! Woo! Um, Empire Strikes Back, for obvious

00:46:03.250 --> 00:46:05.809
reasons that have been said. And actually, Rogue

00:46:05.809 --> 00:46:08.170
One is my top. Aw, that's my big name! That's

00:46:08.170 --> 00:46:14.909
my big name! It's my achievement. It expands

00:46:14.909 --> 00:46:17.409
on the universe while still sticking to the primary

00:46:17.409 --> 00:46:21.190
storyline. It also plugs the biggest plot hole

00:46:21.190 --> 00:46:23.510
of the original Star Wars movie. Straight up.

00:46:23.610 --> 00:46:26.409
They explain why the Death Star has a dumb ass

00:46:26.409 --> 00:46:28.869
fucking weak point. They found a great way to

00:46:28.869 --> 00:46:32.130
do it. How he just built it and was like you'll

00:46:32.130 --> 00:46:36.510
find the way. I'm biased though. I really like

00:46:36.510 --> 00:46:38.909
that. I mean. I like that movie for all the reasons

00:46:38.909 --> 00:46:44.389
we've talked about, but I love Felicity. Felicity

00:46:44.389 --> 00:46:46.130
Jones is very beautiful. She's my favorite. Very

00:46:46.130 --> 00:46:49.150
beautiful. I will say this, too, and I'm totally

00:46:49.150 --> 00:46:53.820
blanking on my point here. I'm choking. Don't

00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:56.780
choke on your aspirations, Mitchell. I'm off

00:46:56.780 --> 00:47:03.380
duty. Claire's a nurse, everyone. I think everybody

00:47:03.380 --> 00:47:07.199
that listens knows. So sorry, everyone. So sorry.

00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:10.280
All three of you. Nice hearing from you. Hi,

00:47:10.340 --> 00:47:15.639
Kelly. Yeah, I don't know. I just love how...

00:47:15.980 --> 00:47:18.619
they introduce a character who is not Force -sensitive,

00:47:18.699 --> 00:47:21.400
but believes in the Force, like the antithesis

00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:24.360
of Han Solo in A New Hope. Where he's like, oh,

00:47:24.380 --> 00:47:26.280
you believe in that hokey shit? It's like, this

00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:27.800
is a guy who's just like, I'm one of the Force,

00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:29.719
the Force is with me. Even though he does not

00:47:29.719 --> 00:47:31.139
have any Force powers. He doesn't have a lightsaber.

00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:33.019
He doesn't have a lightsaber. It is religion

00:47:33.019 --> 00:47:36.239
for him, and it centers him in a beautiful, and

00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:38.960
it kind of taps into all the Eastern influences

00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:41.719
that the Jedi adopted because of George Lucas.

00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.199
But, you know, it's all in that character, and

00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:47.059
I think that's amazing. For sure. I do want to

00:47:47.059 --> 00:47:49.360
say real quick as a whole addendum to all this

00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:51.639
is that we spent a lot of time shitting on the

00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:53.539
latest movie in the series but I still fucking

00:47:53.539 --> 00:47:55.559
love Star Wars. I'm excited to see more stuff

00:47:55.559 --> 00:48:00.699
in it. There's something intangible about that

00:48:00.699 --> 00:48:02.739
universe that makes me want to constantly see

00:48:02.739 --> 00:48:05.400
more. The funny thing is I'm looking at my list

00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:08.019
going I would watch each of these except for

00:48:08.019 --> 00:48:10.260
Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones again.

00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:13.119
Each and every one of them except for my bottom

00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:17.670
two. And that just goes to show Star Wars. It's

00:48:17.670 --> 00:48:22.210
a fun universe. It's great. It's imagination.

00:48:25.469 --> 00:48:31.869
Did you just do the Disney logo? I was going

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to be tanning. You're watching Disney. That's

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what I was thinking. You know how many times

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I practiced that as a kid? Okay, screw you. Why'd

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you draw a penis in the air? Mickey, no! So that

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will do it for our Star Wars talk. Next time,

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guys, I think we jump back into our normal format.

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Yes. Everybody is going to see a movie. You guys

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are going to see what you want to see. I'm going

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to see what I'm forced to see, which I have already

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seen. Yes! And I've heard all about it. And I

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drink heavily about it. I heard it's a perfect

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movie. Oh, nice. I get it. I wish I could claw

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my eyes out. That's good, too. So, that'll do

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it for me, Mike. Claire. Andre. Mitchell. See

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you guys next time on Game for a Movie. May the

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force be with you.