While Star Wars: The Last Jedi has been very successful at the box office having earned over $1 billion and becoming the highest grossing film of 2017. But that didn't change the fact that the film has attracted more than it's fair share of critics since it's release in December. And as to be expected, many Star Wars fans have been extremely vocal about their gripes with Episode VIII, sometimes engaging the creators behind the film on social media.
Writer/director Rian Johnson has had a strong presence online all throughout the production of The Last Jedi, and when faced with some of the various criticisms of his film, Johnson has not kept quiet. Earlier today on Twitter, Rian fired back at the critics in a hilariously epic fashion. First off, he addressed the naysayers regarding Luke's Force-Projection on Crait in a thread of photos:
👀— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018That thread then lead to some back and forth between Rian and a few fans about Leia's space scene, in which the character used the Force to propel herself back inside the Raddus after its bridge was destroyed. His response to the critics is truly priceless, and it also contains coarse language, so younger reads need not scroll further:
Anything in there on Mary Poppins Leia? Thanks...asking for a friend https://t.co/5179fUMgiX— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) January 19, 2018
I never really understood the complaint - can you articulate it for me? Is it just that Leia shouldn’t be able to use the force?— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
Not at all. To me, the manifestations of the Force w/Leia had always been more emotional than physical. But that wasnt what my issue. The visual of her flying Mary Poppins-style & banging on window to be let back in hit me as more absurd than emotional. I just didn't connect w/it— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) January 19, 2018
Ah. She’s floating not flying, but if the visual just didn’t work for you, that’s fair.— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
Rian, it was just very odd. She should be able to use the force, but my perception would've been that it would've been in a very limited capacity due to her focus on politics and not training with the force. That wasn't some simple force jump she did.— Aaron (@achisling) January 19, 2018
Interesting. I guess the fact that she’s in zero G and that space offers no resistance meant (to me) that it wasn’t a big feat at all - kinda minimal, in fact.— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
Thanks for your response. I thought about that, but then I also thought about the what kind of physical torment that being in the cold vacuum of space would do when you're trying to channel the force? How could she focus to do that much with little to no training?— Aaron (@achisling) January 19, 2018
It's nice to see Rian having fun with things like this, and I hope we all can learn to appreciate things like this, regardless of our opinions. (Seriously, if you didn't like the movie, don't be a jerk to Rian or anyone else behind the scenes! That kind of behavior is completely uncalled for.)Cause she’s a badass muthafucka.— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 19, 2018
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He has a good sense of humor, I do the same with haters
ReplyDeletehe has a good sense of humor maybe in a future he will be a great director of comedial movies, i dont want him in another star wars movie, sorry but i dont like his job so far
ReplyDeleteWell answer this, why didn't the deck decompress after Leia got them to open the door? Outside of the hatch was the vacuum of space. There were just too many plot holes for my liking. I didn't really hate the movie, but it could have been so much better. But there were far too many subplots that didn't lead anywhere, or caused more damage than it helped. In the movie, the good guys Finn and Poe cause more people to die through their actions than by the hand of the first order. In Sci-fi the good guys always disobey orders, it's more popular with Star Trek though, so that's not the problem. The problem is, by not obeying orders, they caused so many people to needlessly die. Poe by disobeying Leia's order to call off the attack and Finn, with Rose's help, when he gave sensitive information to a hacker they just met, and he then gives the information to the First Order. There are so many logic-defying events in the film, that whether or not it's a SW movie or not, it makes it a movie that's not as good as it should have been.
ReplyDeleteLeia Poppins has become the new "Nuke the Fridge" or "Jump the Shark." Just awful in a way that defies description.
ReplyDeleteIs Rian Johnson even a Star Wars fan? He took the Mythology of Star Wars, and turned it into 'The Phantom Menace: Part II'. 'The Last Jedi' may as well have been directed by George Lucas. Johnson is completely out of touch and does not understand what Star Wars is about. I agree with Mark Hamill totally. I can't believe Johnson is in charge of another trilogy. What an utter disappointment.
ReplyDelete@ Calvin - yo. I take your point about it being difficult to understand certain moments. But, trust me, everything is explained in the movie, one way or another. They're pretty small things, but it's there. The decompression thing with Leia, for example. If you rewwatch that moment, you'll notice the door she touches doesn't back directly onto the bridge. She actually flies into the open door of an airlock/decompression chamber, into a small hatch/ corridor, and puts her hand on the opposite airlock door. When we cut to her door opening, the pressurised air signals that the airlock has been engaged, so the other door is almost certainly closed to the vacuum.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Poe and Finn plots, yeah it's depressing, but it's totally the point. And just because people die doesn't mean they are morally responsible. It's war. The First Order and trying to kill the Resistance it whatever way the can and, due to mistakes made by their prey, they succeed. Poe and Finn fail at properly protecting their people, but that doesn't equate to their blood being on their hands. Rian Johnson is the first Star Wars writer director to actually tackle the 'war' aspect in more depth. Where sometimes good people die needlessly, and commanders make deadly errors. Normally, I wouldn't see the need for this kind of harsh reality as it is space fantasy, but, at the same time, as this is the middle part of three chapters, this is precisely where the complicated ethical/ moral conundrums are meant to turn up, and where the heroes are meant to struggle, fail and learn. While it may be too heavy handed for some, I think Johnson succeeds in creating challenging arcs for the main characters that also tie into the overall theme and message of the movie - learning from your failures and what it truly means to be a hero. : )
A movie doesn't have to be explained to be appreciated. That's what the movie does. And this movie didn't do it, no matter how much convincing or explaining one would do.
DeleteTBF, I got the impression that the failure of leaders (on both sides) was the theme of the film on first viewing, and confirmed it for myself at the second time of watching - no explaining necessary. Genuinely sorry the message didn't work for you, but it's not fair to state the movie doesn't work as an absolute.
DeleteIt amuses me that physics is suddenly an issue for some fans. Lightsabers aren't possible, walking around without a pressure suit inside a giant space slug isn't possible, hanger bays open to space aren't possible. Why on earth are bombs and Leia surviving space suddenly big problems??
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