IIRC the Rose storyline was supposed to be with Leia, but they couldn't get the CGI Leia to look right in those scenes

Jan 12, 2020
12:24:08pm

byujag All-American

so that's why they got cut (along with time constraints)

so the Roselessness of this movie is actually just a happy coincidence.

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Just saw Star Wars and turned this category back on. It was fine, but the best part (very minor spoiler)

Mike Honcho All-American

1/11/20 9:39pm

(Probably nothing new in this post, I’m just not going to go back through weeks-old posts to see)

Mike Honcho

1/11/20 9:40pm

RE: Just saw Star Wars and turned this category back on. It was fine, but the best part (very minor spoiler)

spugeddy24

1/11/20 9:43pm

oh sorry, did that one sentence lead you to believe that I'm "caught up on it?" My bad.

Mike Honcho

1/11/20 9:58pm

If you felt the need to post it on a message board then probably

spugeddy24

1/11/20 10:01pm

Haha. This is the stupidest logic. By that reasoning everyone here who posts about anything is "caught up on it"

Mike Honcho

1/11/20 10:02pm

Thinking there aren’t any gay people in a galaxy far far away seems kind of odd

spugeddy24

1/11/20 10:04pm

I agree. Is there someone in this thread who thinks that?

Mike Honcho

1/11/20 10:04pm

You seem to think it’s “weird”

spugeddy24

1/11/20 10:05pm

It was a weird scene to include. The fact that lesbians exist wasn't the weird part.

Mike Honcho

1/11/20 10:07pm

You’re a good dude. Nice chat man.

spugeddy24

1/11/20 10:20pm

Man, I compliment a guy and get 2 thumbs down. Rough board.

spugeddy24

1/11/20 11:06pm

I mean, I figured you were being sarcastic. Maybe they did too.

Mike Honcho

1/12/20 4:53am

It’s not weird if you think that gay couples existing is normal. There’s a young

Jay Rick

1/12/20 10:05am

Even a lot of LGBT folks thought it was tokenism, which it was

Mrs Featerbottom

1/11/20 10:21pm

I think he actually had a longer cut that showed the couple more earlier in the movie.

spugeddy24

1/11/20 11:05pm

I tried my best to avoid reviews and spoilers before I saw the movie after it

BYUBandfan

1/11/20 10:40pm

I enjoy a good pun. Well done

spugeddy24

1/11/20 11:06pm

So woke

Backcountry

1/12/20 4:36am

Agreed.

inside_info?

1/11/20 9:44pm

Your last comment. You’d get it if you were woke. smh

Zaphod

1/11/20 9:54pm

Finally saw it last night. My major issue had to do with world building(spoiler)

NavyCougar

1/11/20 9:56pm

Yeah, that was weird too. In one scene they say they have to step up recruitment

Mike Honcho

1/11/20 10:13pm

you need to search for the reddit article with a supposed inside

Jeremy

1/11/20 10:09pm

RE: you need to search for the reddit article with a supposed inside

Mike Honcho

1/11/20 10:11pm

Jj wanted more Rose I guess

Jeremy

1/11/20 10:35pm

I just had a chance to read the link you sent... it sounds like JJ wanted to include some stuff I'd have liked but

Mike Honcho

1/12/20 4:47am

Also holy cow everyone in that sub hated basically everything about the movie. I assume they're all heavy SW nerds

Mike Honcho

1/12/20 4:56am

They called it the Holdo maneuver and said “that shot was one in a million”

BYUFootballisBack

1/12/20 10:58am

IIRC the Rose storyline was supposed to be with Leia, but they couldn't get the CGI Leia to look right in those scenes

byujag

1/12/20 12:24pm

Huh, was the rest of Leia not CGI? I thought it was and was impressed at how well done it was. The only bad CGI was when

Mike Honcho

1/12/20 3:58pm

it was all CGI, but these scenes for some reason they couldn't get to work well

byujag

1/12/20 5:54pm

Sounds like a few of your spoiler gripes were in JJ Abrams original cut and got

BYUFootballisBack

1/12/20 1:01am

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