The audience started clapping as soon as STAR WARS appeared on the opening screen of The Last Jedi. For fans of STAR WARS, this movie will be review-proof. R2D2 makes an appearance. 3CPO shows up, too. An aging Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), usually in a grumpy mood, resists training Rey (Daisy Ridley). Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), leader of the Resistance, finds her small band of heroes decimated by the First Order. Bad Guys Snoke (Andy Serkis) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) move to crush the Resistance. Plenty of battles result. The movie keeps flipping from the island with Luke and Rey to the beleaguered Resistance fleet. If you’re not a STAR TREK fan, none of this will make a lot of sense. Needless to say, The Last Jedi will make tons of money for Disney who owns the franchise. STAR WARS: The Last Jedi is likely to be the most profitable movie of 2017. GRADE: A-
This Christmas I’m getting lonely for K. Gordon Murray’s SANTA CLAUS. Is it playing anywhere?
Dan, I think HULU has it.
We may wait until we get to Florida. The theaters are a lot nicer and newer and often less expensive there.
I understand the First Order is not exactly teeming with geniuses.
Jeff, STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI is about two and a half hours long. Too long by 30 minutes or so. But, some STAR WARS fans just can’t get enough!
I still want to see it, but have missed so many movies this year.
Maggie, that’s what Netflix and HULU are for!
Hoping to see it one afternoon this week.
Patti, set the bar low and you won’t be disappointed! But, you may have to buy some popcorn to hold you for 2 1/2 hours.
One reason I always avoid seeing films like this when they first come out is audience misbehavior such as the clapping you site. The audience needs to BE QUIET and just watch. But then I don’t go to movies much any more, though MUDBOUND looks interesting.
Rick, if the clapping would have bothered you, you would have gone ballistic when the guy came in with a toy light saber and started waving it around!
They should have taken it away from him or kicked him out.
Rick, several people in the audience were “dressed-up” as various STAR WARS characters, but they were not disruptive. The toy light saber was very bright.
Tell me Finn has a small part. The actor playing him was so boring in the last film.
Steve, Finn’s role is minor. It seems that every new STAR WARS movie ADDS more characters so they all end up fighting for screen time.
We won’t watch it when it comes out in Europe – but the hype …
I never liked Star Wars, would have preferred more “real” Science Fiction films – but these are very rare indeed.
Actually I haven’t been in a cinema to see a movie in the last 15 years!
Though one of the reasons is that my wife is “visually impaired”, she can only watch movies on tv – and next year she’ll probably need a cataract operation.
PS and OT:
She enjoyed the GOT season 7 very much on our big flat screen tv however (in Hungarian).
Wolf, before STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, there were a dozen “previews” of upcoming movies. MARVEL seemed to dominate the new releases. THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR looks fabulous!