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It's not bad, but I had my hopes way up high because it seems to have gotten really good reviews.
Personally, I'm in the category of people who thinks "The Force Awakens" was a really good movie, and "The Last Jedi" is definitely worse in my opinion. It's running pretty much on reheated leftovers.
It also lacks a nasty villain - Kylo Ren is nothing more than a whining, spoiled brat.
One thing that really disturbs me is that apparently anybody can become a jedi nowadays without any training and without having any knowledge of what it means. Major plot fault imho.
But it has a lot of nice qualities as well. It's worth seeing.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: One thing that really disturbs me is that apparently anybody can become a jedi nowadays without any training and without having any knowledge of what it means.
It's always been like that, since Jedi are just a category of Force users and one of the less numerous due to theire obtusity.
Johnny J. wrote: Kylo Ren is nothing more than a whining, spoiled brat. Kylo Ren has good reasons for that AND he's a good villain precisely because of that: there's Kylo in any of us. Most of us don't have a trace of Vader or Palpatine inside, but Kylo... every time you feel underappreciated and tell "go flock yourself" anytime you justify yourself for not being your best self, anytime you envy someone or anytime you have a responsibility and think of misusing it for your own greed then you're being Kylo Ren.
He's not "the villain", he's gray. I can respect and like that.
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den2k88 wrote: It's always been like that, since Jedi are just a category of Force users and one of the less numerous due to theire obtusity. I disagree - There is a lot more to the jedi than just the use of the force. They have always had to train with a master before becoming a jedi. It went wrong more often than not, apparently, but still.
But when Luke says in the end that the jedi are not gone despite the fact that he didn't train Rey at all, I feel like it's kinda like having to learn to code programs without any teacher, without any books, without Google and the internet - And without Griff to answer in Q&A - Impossible.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Remember the Force Ghosts. Obi Wan kept training Luke in the yeras between the Battle of Yavin and the Battle of the moon of Endor.
Also, the Force guides the Jedi and not viceversa - any Jedi that even thinks of controlling the Force is full of hubris, and possibly on the very first steps towards the descent in the Dark Side. Most of The Forxe is "follow your instincts" and many people throughout the Galaxy use the Force on a daily basis without training... and Maz Kanata. She's a Force sensitive which never trained with the Jedi. I won't even delve in the former EU (now Legends) and its sects of Force users, all of them descended from the Je'daii which hadn't even a distinction between Light and Dark side.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Until now. I didn't even know that there was a new star wars movie
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I'm not sure how you've found a way to post from 1983 when the last Star Wars movie came out, but having done so ; couldn't you have come up with something more interesting to say?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Are Santa's elves just subordinate clauses?
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Other than the ones who want to be independent.
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Oh deer, is it Christmas already?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I would like to sleigh that one Saint so bad - you came up with it in the Nick of time.
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Yes, apart from the naughty ones that don't follow the elf and safety rules - they're insubordinate clauses.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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So I've got $94 anyone know what I can spend my $118 on?
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Whatever you do, spend it soon!
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Jeremy Falcon
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I was watching a CNN news story about the real wolf of wall street (that the movie was based on). Dude is super smart and as usual the news reporters don't know what they're talking about. But, he goes into the emotions behind this stuff. Anyway, he also agrees it's a time bomb. What goes up must come down and all.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why not spend it on more bitcoin?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Sir, I would suggest the Park Lane property.
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If buying some coins I would treasure some Krugerrand.
I am an oldschool treasurer
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Yay! You're a multimillionaire!
Give us a few hundred thousand, will yer?
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Some horrid, scurrilous, misguided people have had the nerve to suggest that the cyber-criminal's currency of choice might be a new take on the good old Ponzi scheme (the one where a con-man gives Investor #2 some of Investor #1's money as a convincer and keeps going down the blockchain line doing that until the scheme is established as a sure-fire winner).
They couldn't possibly be right, could they? Nah! It's all about as kosher as it gets. <wondering-what-that-very-loud-popping-noise-in-the background-is-emoji="">
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Bitcoin may fall hard but Ponzi scheme would be a misnomer. Ponzi means a complicated design of (sort of) getting paid more than once. Not really the case here.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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A basic Ponzi scheme is not really all that elaborate, it simply involves paying off early investors with the funds invested by newer investors - that is to say the first tranche get paid from the investments of the second and they in turn get paid by the third and so forth until there comes an inevitable point where there is no subsequent tranche of investors to pay the previous one and the final investors lose their entire stack.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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A scheme implies a fraudulent design. Of course the monstrous rise in in Bitcoin valuation is crazy, but it could hardly have been foreseen form the outset even from its early owners, and most early owners got rid of them without any profit. IMHO Bitcoin is much more like the infamous Dutch Tulip Craze than a Ponzi scheme.
Tulip mania - Wikipedia
[EDIT:] by "complicated design" above I meant the designs to hide the fact that it is a pyramid. Like Bernie Eckhoff et cohortes.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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PeejayAdams wrote: ...paying off early investors with the funds invested by newer investors Just like our Social Security system!
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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