ST What do you think of TLJ 6 years later?

I like the Rush Hour films and the Tucker/Chan Dynamic but nah man the fifth element wasnt, imo, great.

Crait was good, not the best but a good sequence. Ahch-to was filmed in areal world location with little cgi bar the porgs and the creature that Luke milked which adds to the authenticity.

I hope to visit "Ahch-to" one day.

 

Skellig Michael is great, if the sea cooperates. Highly recommend a trip there. But leave yourself a good number of extra days when booking, or you run the risk of missing the trip to the island if the seas aren’t calm.

 

Yes indeed. Id like to tour down there around Kerry. Its been years since I was there so Id incorporate the trip into it. Plus have to make sure we can visit it after the restrictions etc.

 

Correct.

Also correct.

3 for 3.

 

Do I win something?

 

@Bor Mullet and @FightoftheForgotten

Get a room you two lol

 

I definitely can't say I got a sense of "wonder" seeing Luke do his ''chores''. That milking scene... There's such a thing as being too realistic.

 

For me, it wasn’t “realistic”, it was just completely disgusting and annoying.

 

I did like him carrying the huge fish. But that's it. The pole-vaulting, the milking, whatever wasn't really fun or interesting. Felt a little over the top, and shook me out of the film.

 

I’m more talking about the look of it all than any perceived points RJ was making. Being shot on location, and featuring some cool alien designs that really fit the scenery (like the milking scene or not, it’s undeniably a great creature design), I found it to feel authentic for the most part.

But this is faint praise, mind you. I found very little authenticity in the broader film.

 

I don't remember much about the setting of where Luke was living. I found it pretty forgettable, aside from the weird Wind in the Willows toad nuns that seemed hilariously out of place.

 

The original concepts, that I believe Lucas made for that island, or someone did, showing off some cool weird jedi temple were pretty iconic looking. It's really too bad they scaled that all back to ... just some basic rocks and a ledge.

 

It's a real location.

 

Some of it was. Some was just a soundstage, and some a huge parking lot set. But still, just because they went all "real location" for parts of it, doesn't mean that they couldn't make it seem more SW-special and less 'we went there and filmed it as is'.

 

If you think the first Jedi temple was something...just wait to you see the suburban Jedi temple. "It's so real".

 

Of course but it is a lovely area. It doesn't always have to built from scratch. Hamill loved it except all the steps he had to take.

 

I thought the location was fine, but yeah the actual temple/buildings could’ve been much more interesting

some of the designs in the art books were much better than what we got

 

It is a lovely area. But to be used a base to create something more. The rock huts, the steps, the mountain is Earth-real. So I think they could have pushed the temple concept bit to make this real world location look like its set in the GFFA and not just earth.

 

I agree! I was really looking forward to both seeing the first Jedi temple and finding out why Luke went there. Both ended up being so disappointing, annoying, and ‘ meh”. I couldn’t believe that all that these well paid professionals could come up with was a cave or tree or whatever and a mosaic for the Jedi Temple. I mean, talk about underwhelming!!! And having Luke on the island just hiding out, feeling sorry for himself, and doing nothing because he was so stupid as to go into his nephew’s room to read his mind without permission and then ignite a lightsaber over him was downright infuriating and totally out of character.

 

Yes. I think it's something with the digital processing or something, because while I buy Tatooine, Jakku and AchToo look Earthlike.

I mean, if you're going to do that, come up with a reason why there's no structures. Comment on the fact that there's nothing there but these little huts (the one Luke is in has just...walls and some sort of table? And he was there six years?)

OMG, THAT is what they looked like! I knew they seemed familiar. Thank you.

 

That's OK! It was all part of the plan RJ was following!

 

Interesting. That minimalist design of the island is one of my favorite parts of TLJ. It’s really not a temple but a sacred holy site.

From the design it tells me the ancient Jedi were there for the power of that site - not to build their own structures. The small changes the Jedi made are more poignant for how sparse they are.

It’s very different from the Temple on Coruscant.

I thought the books were really cool too. In the prequels we learn how many years it takes to become a Jedi and see the huge library and other information areas in the Jedi Temple. Going back to the roots of the order - all the important information needed to become a Jedi fits on a single shelf.

Too bad the one use for the books in TRoS was an illustrated page about Wayfinders that starts the quest for the movie’s McGuffin. That is an important inciting event. But it’s a much more specific type of information than I expected in the books.

 

I liked the island’s design. Too bad it had little to do with the actual story.