{"id":11792,"date":"2018-01-06T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T00:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11792"},"modified":"2020-02-08T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T20:44:36","slug":"star-wars-the-last-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/star-wars-the-last-jedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Last Jedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/strong>, released in 2017<\/p>\n<p>Rey wants Luke Skywalker to train her, but he isn&#8217;t interested after what happened with Ben Solo &#8212; who became Kylo Ren. Meanwhile, the Resistance is on the run from the First Order. When General Leia Organa is knocked out of commission there&#8217;s dissension in the ranks &#8212; with Poe&#8217;s help Finn, BB-8, and a mechanic named Rose embark on a dangerous mission.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/star-wars-the-force-awakens\/\"><strong>The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/a>. It didn&#8217;t have the sheer excitement of <strong>The Force Awakens<\/strong> but the story was more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s long but I didn&#8217;t mind &#8212; in fact, I wouldn&#8217;t have minded seeing the original longer version.<\/p>\n<p>Both established characters and new ones will have you cheering. A couple of parts near the end are particularly visually stunning. It&#8217;s also very funny in a lot of places.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, and Kelly Marie Tran. Directed by Rian Johnson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/looper-2\/\"><strong>Looper<\/strong><\/a>). The music by John Williams is glorious &#8212; weaving established themes for Rey, Luke, Leia, and Yoda beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>The previous movie in the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> universe was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story\/\"><strong>Rogue One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been announced that Johnson is going to direct a <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> trilogy outside of the Skywalker saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong.&#8221; Star Wars: The Last Jedi, released in 2017 Rey wants Luke Skywalker to train her, but he isn&#8217;t interested after what happened with Ben Solo &#8212; who became Kylo Ren. Meanwhile, the Resistance is on the run from the First Order. When General Leia Organa is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8,122],"class_list":["post-11792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11792"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15446,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions\/15446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}