but no, she just acts dead for a bit then saves herself. We're led to think Leia is going to die in space.Let's distinguish between subverting expections and being subversive P.S I just thought in my head that in my version Kylo's lightsaber would get wrecked and he break Luke's in rage after the salt planet, then the final shot of the film would be Kylo turning on his new lightsaber but the beam wouldn't be janky and you'd have that musical sting and make it all menacing. He could even reveal that he was only using Rey and then cast her out if he wanted, setting him up as a true arsehole that would be a compelling villian in the next film! No, instead we must set up the expected storyline only to subvert it, because that makes it better, right? Why not have him launch the missiles at Leia, have him become more confident and competent in the film to make it more believable when he kills Snoke. Instead he goes against that despite having at least 1 clear part (you can debate what the kylo/rey scenes were meant to convey, if anything) that set that up. It was the obvious, most basic story line that would have been unoriginal and had to have been executed very well to not make you roll your eyes but people expected anyways. After he didn't blast Leia into oblivion I thought there was a shot at him turning. This reminds me of that Starbucks Christmas thing where a dozen crazy Christians complained about the cups losing the Christmas imagery, but then five million people kept talking about how everyone was freaking out about the cups and they thought they were totally owning them by buying them and drawing the devil on it or some shit.īefore the film people thought Kylo Ren was conflicted. Rey’s parents being nobody? That was tied into the films themes and Rey’s character arc with purpose. Snoke dying? I guess that’s the one but it works within the story to establish Kylos character arc and the theme of the film (Also Jay said he liked this bit). What is actually frivolously subversive about the movie? Luke being a hermit? This is established in TFA. I also think the idea that the movie is subversive just for the sake of it or that it makes the narrative “fall on its face” is just. I feel like I’ve seen this used ten times more ironically by RLM/posters here to mock people who like The Last Jedi for being subversive in and of itself than I’ve seen anyone actually praising the movie solely for being subversive. R/Freaked (Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s 1993 film Freaked) R/FinalFrontier (Free and unrestricted Star Trek fan discussions) R/JayMovies (Ongoing list of movies that Jay has mentioned) Letterboxd: List of all movies featured on Best of the Worst LookAMike: pictures of people that Look Like Mike r/RedLetterMedia created by u/yancyfryjr on April 5, 2012.Previously Recorded!: Jack Packard's and Rich Evans' YouTube video game review and Twitch live stream channels They have also made some Feature Films.Various Movie Discussion videos and Behind the Scenes videos as well as Short Films and Random Videos.The Nerd Crew, an exclusive pop culture podcast.re:View, a much more stripped down and straight forward approach to film critique.Best of the Worst in which various RedLetterMedia members and guests watch and review multiple films or videos ranging from B-movies to instructional VHS tapes.Half in the Bag in which Mike and Jay review films in a more traditional format.The 70 minute Phantom Menace review part of a series of movie reviews by Harry S.RedLetterMedia is an American film and video production company operated by Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, and Rich Evans. Want to find a certain RedLetterMedia video? What is RedLetterMedia?
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