ITT we improve The Last Jedi:
>Luke is genuinely curious as to how Rey got his old lightsaber and doesn't throw it away.
>on Crait, Luke (no hologram) shows up to face the Imperial walkers
>Kylo only fires from his walker and Luke deflects the blasts with his lightsaber
>Kylo, annoyed, then orders all the walkers to fire on him
>Luke then pulls out his old lightsaber and uses both of them. He blocks all the blasts and the deflected blasts even damage a few of the walkers
>Kylo orders a ceasefire when he sees the blue lightsaber that belonged to his grandfather
>Kylo goes to meet Luke and demands the lightsaber
>Luke says he senses the good in Darth Vader, but he senses none of that good in Kylo. If he sensed any good, he would give him the lightsaber.
>Kylo attacks Luke. Kylo starts to win the fight and gets Luke on the floor.
>Luke uses both lights to block Kylo's attack by pressing both sabers into the crossbar of Kylo's lightsaber
>Kylo keeps pushing, but Luke holds him off
>Luke senses that Rey and the resistance have escaped. He then stares into Kylo's eyes.
>Kylo looks confused, but then he falls forward onto the ground. Luke is gone, having sacrificed himself the way Obi-Wan did.
>Kylo looks around, but seeing nothing, takes the Anakin lightsaber and leaves Luke's clothes and his green lightsaber
ITT we improve The Last Jedi:
yeah better than what happened
Actually Luke throwing saber away made sense.
In OT he nearly killed Vader, when siths found out about his sister. Now he nearly killed Kylo.
Luke is aware of his anger and prefers to stay away from weapons.
Anakin's lightsaber got destroyed before that scene though
>it's SUPPOSED to be shit!
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Nah
>remove porgs
>remove some of the more out of place jokes
>remove entire Finn/Rose subplot
Shorter more focused movie with the fat trimmed. Punished Luke and the "hologram" are fine.
Not be a slightly different TESB. It's literally another remake minus a few differences thrown and the throne room sequence from ROTJ.
How about this:
The 'clever' quips, comebacks, and one-liners are replaced with more serious dialogue befitting battle-hardened adults struggling for their lives. Tone down the use of colloquialisms and humor in inappropriate situations; the characters sound like college students, not the weary soldiers they are.
Make the antagonists something other than walking jokes - The First Order's leadership lacks any kind of menacing or even realistic figures. There is a notable lack of the kind of people you would expect in senior positions in a powerful and competent military. The figurehead of TFO, Hux, has an appearance, dialogue, and personality completely at odds with his supposed position as one of the highest authorities in TFO. There is a discrepancy between what the TFO is supposed to be in the galaxy, a powerful military group that is competent enough to be a rising power, and what we see, which is a bunch of buffoons that for some reason have armies and superweapons at their disposal.
Make Rose a little less autistic
Remove the word 'spunk' from Snoke's vocabulary
Make the motivations of certain characters more clear. Finn's character wasn't nearly as fleshed out as it should have been in this movie, for the amount of screen time he had. Another example is the purple haired vice admiral. A single line from her about the possibility of a mole on board would go a long way in making her actions and reluctance to give out info much more reasonable.
Rework Leia's space Mary Poppins scene into something else.
Let Star Wars be the epic sci-fi fantasy adventures its supposed to be, instead of just using the Star Wars IP and making it in the same style of a marvel movie.
Erase the shitty Finn subplot entirely and replace it with Luke interacting with R2-D2 and Chewbacca.
>Luke then pulls out his old lightsaber and uses both of them. He blocks all the blasts and the deflected blasts even damage a few of the walkers
This is unironically cringier than the matrix neo bullet-time dodge that Luke does in the movie
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there's no improving it
But still better than the garbage final project
OPs post reminds me of pic related
We can only hope.
Make it ESB 2.0 just like Abrams and the board wanted.
-Give Rose a reason to exist, make her the code breaker/silcer/god engineer
-Remove the capitalism subplot/shorten the chase because Rose is the hacker and let the plan work
-Luke is yoda and trains Rey
-Luke Obi-wan's Kylo in person
-Let Leia us the force to close a hole in the rebel base and save some people
-Remove the hyberspace kamikaze (awesome shot though) because it's to OP and breaks space combat make it an old school kamikaze that cripples snoke's ship instead.
Don't set up audiences to expect a maximum nostalgia in your first film with the commercial director then 'subvert' those expectations you set up with some auteur director trying to be smart.
>Remove the word 'spunk' from Snoke's vocabulary
lmao. Why?
I know that's what I thought
le FUCKING HYPE scene for hyperactive fanboys
Humor can work, but quips I agree are stupid.
Good humor that informs on the characters without everyone sounding like a smarmy Sorkin character is kino. Think King of the Hill. Stuff like where Hank is asked if he's gay and he bahs and says "What? No! I sell propane!"
How about have Luke on scottish planet searching for a way to go back to the Jedi of old? Before it became Jedi and Sith in an attempt to create a force user order that balances both light and dark? why else leave bloody maps everywhere?
Then end the battle of Crait with remnents of NR ships arriving and kicking FO ass, Kylo either escapes or falls captive, then finish the movie with a scene that mirrors the clones on Coruscant scene where the NR goes post pearl harbor US and rebuilds its navy
>ITT we improve The Last Jedi
The main characters are replaced by the RLM team, who are aware they are in a movie.
Yoda want milk.
Sorry user, that's lame. And that Luke was able to use the force to project himself into the minds of people on a distant planet was one of the coolest things in the movie.
>Luke never tired to kill Ben, the First Order kidnapped him as a boy and sacked the temple.
>Luke spent years looking for him only to find him having been turned into Kylo Ren.
>Broken hearted that he could not save his nephew, he retreated to the Jedi Temple to wallow in misery.
>Instead of Yoda, it's Anakin who shows up to remind him that no one is beyond redemption.
>He pulls the X-Wing out of the water and takes off for the final battle.
>He gets one or two shots on the Gorilla walkers but they shoot down his rusty fighter, he somehow walks away from the wreckage unscathed.
>He fights Kylo and dies like Obi Juan.
>Before he fought, he gave something to Rey, a map, showing the locations of the surviving Jedi from his order, with instructions to seek them out and complete her training.
>And that Luke was able to use the force to project himself into the minds of people on a distant planet was one of the coolest things in the movie.
Jesus Christ, dat shilling.
Cut:
Quips/Reaction shots
Porgs on the Falcon at the end
BB-8 piloting the AT-ST (worst thing in the film)
Most of the Canto Bight stuff could be trimmed and reworked
Add:
The third lesson
One line of Snoke backstory
Pacing is this film's main issue. Get the runtime to about 2 hours.
How does a person like something so shitty.
non-meme fixes here:
>Luke sees a vision of Kylo stabbing Han, he ignites the lightsaber in attempt to stop Kylo, when the vision ends he immediately tries to put the saber away but Ben has already woken up and it's too late
>Luke isn't just hiding on the planet, he's studying the ancient Jedi texts to find a way to break the cycle of balance between light and dark while temporarily suppressing himself from the Force to ensure the Order cannot find him and the texts. He doesn't try to burn the texts down anymore, obviously. He doesn't want to train Rey at first because he sees her as symptomatic of the whole balance-between-light-and-dark thing which he is trying to overcome
>remove tracking subplot, remove Rose
>remove Holdo, Leia goes into a coma and the resistance operates on her last instructions, Poe is frustrated but doesn't mutiny
>no hyperspace ram. The ship is too low on fuel to do a proper jump, so Leia (after waking up and explaining her plan) sacrifices herself and the ship by jumping straight past Snoke's ship's shields and into the ship itself (same effect as shown in the film). Some comment that normally such a precision maneuver would be completely impossible but Leia used the force to pull it off
>praetorian guards are resistant to force powers (show kylo attempting to force push them at the start of the fight and failing), reshoot the beginning of the fight to fix the shit choreography
>Luke projects himself onto crait, but this time once Kylo realizes the deception he inmediately heads for the base to stop the resistance, and Luke is forced to physically manifest himself to stop Kylo. He handily beats Kylo (but refuses to kill him) but this allows the first order to fire on him for real and fatally wound the real Luke
>hux is not treated like comic relief
>don't bring phasma back
>some mention of the knights of Ren (they're out there somewhere trying to find Luke or hunting down force-sensitives or whatever)
I didn't have a problem with Luke's characterization. He failed his students in the most complete way possible, he's not gonna be a hopeful young farmboy anymore. Just remove Rose the character and some of the quips and the Porgs and the movie would be fine.
i like all of your suggestions and especially the first one
>Humor
In the old trilogy, the humor came from the characters personality. Han's aloof attitude, Leia's abrasiveness, yoda's eccentricity etc. What makes the modern day marvel style humor so awful is that the "quips" made by each of the characters can be interchanged. Any of the quips made by captain america could have been made by tony stark or vice versa. Make more of the humor come from the characters.
>new characters
New characters are fine, but make them interesting. When Rose was introduced, it looked like she was going to be shy, awkward, emotional, if not a little idealistic. After the first scene, that personality seems to have dissappaited, and she became a boring, generic character with boring generic reactions. Captain Dame Edna is unsalvagable. It feels like she was added for the sake of just having a new character, which is obviously the case. Her little 'arc' felt pointless. Just showing up and dying in the end.
>Luke
Luke should have been less overbearingly bitter. Ben Kenobi was reclusive, and distrustful, but you could see he was mature and wise. He wasn't so much "bitter" as he was "world weary", which is what Luke should have been. Still a bit bitter, but mature about it. It would have felt as though things had gone full circle.
>The plot
In terms of story progression, TFA felt like one step forward while TLJ felt like two steps back. It would have been nice to leave the theatre thinking that something was achieved. Set up a clear goal, show the characters overcoming obstacles to reach that goal, and show that something was achieved, or changed, or progression to some end point was made. This was just a mess.
>we get to see Rey nude
"Luke attempting to kill someone in their sleep" is an idea that needs to be scrapped altogether.
If you wanted to keep that whole sequence, the best idea would be for Luke to merely fantasize about killing Kylo (without actually physically going to his quarters and turning on his saber). Kylo is powerful enough to sense Luke's murderous intent and confronts him about it and fights him.
That would have made Luke not a child killer, and Kylo still would have told Rey the truth when he said Luke was a murderer from a certain point of view
>add that Kylo gets his hand chopped off as is the family tradition
The point of my idea is to have Luke NOT be a child killer though. He has no intention of harming Kylo, he goes there to confront him about the darkness he sees in him, has a vision of Han dying, and only instinctively ignites his lightsaber in an attempt to save his friend. Then Kylo wakes up, gets the wrong idea, and breaks Luke's vision when it's too late.
I see. That could be 5 seconds of footage added, and the issue is alread solved.