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The timer is just so she doesn’t get late for work, man...

And I wonder what she is thinking about while that is happening...

I have seen Annihilation, and this is no sci-fi! This is straight horror, man. It managed to frighten even me, who is more or less insensitive to movie violence.

Except Annihilation has very few scenes of actual violence, but a total mind-warping experience. It is masterfully done. Very much so.

It's up in a few weeks here. Thursday it's the new Tomb Raider, I'm interested to see if it will be any good.

My suggestion turned out to be useful, right?

But... but I never said your suggestions weren’t useful...

Well then. Saw Tomb Raider and Death Wish yesterday.

Death Wish is pretty standard revenge movie faire. However I found it a bit off-putting that the movie seems to imply it is pretty much totally okay to go out and do vigilante justice. Given that the original movies did a good job of implying that doing so turned you into someone who is not better than the criminals you are killing, that seems to be a bad turn towards a more socially acceptable version mortal violence.

Tomb Raider is very competently done. The take on Lara Croft is definitely a more realistic version, where she is portrayed as much more vulnerable and mortal than her previous incarnation. The overall story was pretty basic, yet also well told. All in all, a very solid movie, IMO.

Next week it's Pacific Rim 2, which I am looking forward to very much.

Aaauuuuggggghhhh!!!!

I should stay away from anything relating The Last Jedi, apparently. But, no, I had to watch IGN describing the deleted scenes which are included on the Blue Ray. One of those scenes is, apparently the "third lesson", in which a.) Luke again behaves like a total asshole and b.) the movie implies a Jedi would have stood by while a village of innocent people gets plundered by raiders. I'm sorry, Beto, but FUCK RYAN JOHNSON. This fucking HACK should have never been let near any work of Star Wars.

Goddamn it, I'm angry.

Maybe this can entertain you a bit, maggie :

Yeah, great trailer. :-) Thanks!

Magnus, did you forget Episode I, when Anakin and his mom ask Qui-Gon Jinn about the state of the slave population on Tatooine (and their own situation, obviously) and he, point blank, states “We didn’t come here to free slaves”, man? The Jedi were, very much, cold-hearted bastards, in some respects.

I’m sorry, but that’s not a deviation from any canon, be it pre or post-Disney.

But, hey, you go on hating the movie. I don’t mind.

^ But Qui-Gon spoke the simple truth: they didn't come there to free the slaves. They were protecting the Queen of the Republic and is on the run from the massive Trade Federation army. Not to mention their spaceship was in need of serious repair on the hyperdrive. They already have a lot on their hands at that moment but you still want them to free the slave population? Why don't you ask Qui-Gon & Obi to topple the government too while you're at it?

I remembered reading some side-materials during the Prequel period in which they explained that a number of slavery-system in Tatooine was not exactly a crime on paper. It was a regulated system that was an integral part of the planet's government/governance. Besides, unlike slaves during ancient times where they were chained and whipped and lived in camps, slaves like Anakin & his mother have their own homes and received payment for their services to buy things (you can even see Watto giving extra things to Anakin when he did a good job). You're gonna need a political power, a good plan and enough resources if you want to free the slaves in places like Tatooine at the time. It'll be totally irresponsible if the Jedi just come in lightsaber blazin' freeing the slaves but then don't know what to do with them next and just left them there to live and fend for themselves. That can only resulted in the freed-slaves suffering more than when they were still slaves. Slavery can be complex and freeing slaves are not a simple matter. You also need to educate them how to live independently. So yeah, sometimes, politics and resources gets in the way.

It's totally different from Jedi just standing there watching a village being pillaged. Pillaging/plundering is totally a crime no matter how you look at it, and the Jedi just let it be in this version?

Yeah, it's honestly retarded to suddenly try to make it out as if the Jedi were some sort of True Neutral force in the galaxy who only cared about some sort of philosophical balance.

How many times have we seen Jedi save innocent villagers from raiders or slavers or whatever else comes to ruin their day, in series like the Clone Wars or in comics, games and books? You can't just wave off all those times it did happen to make a shitty point in your shitbag of a shit movie, Ryan fucking hack Johnson.

Auuugggghh!!!

But they are. If it keeps the balance (the Force has always been about balance) they might just as well keep out of it. Why help now, if next time they might not be there - and the raiding party will simply come back in greater numbers?
And the Clone Wars was an exception, the Jedi weren’t behaving normally, then.

Anyway, Luke was trying to teach Rey a lesson but it was also a comedic bit... there was no raiding party, no “raiding and plundering”, the other tribe was coming to a party and Rey just ran with her lightsaber down the mountain all flustered to almost crash into them. At least Luke had the decency to look sheepish about it.

Can you tell me the definitive explanation of "force balance" and its source before Disney took over the SW franchise?

Yeah, you are way wrong, Beto. I'm sorry, but I have read way too many Star Wars books, way too many Star Wars comics, played way too many Star Wars games and seen way too much Star Wars television to believe in something so fundamentally wrong about the Jedi as you (and Ryan Johnson) are stating here. Maybe some individual Jedi might have that philosophy... but as Obi Wan Kenobi stated so eloquently in A New Hope: "The Jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic." Not "guardians of the balance".

Dude, we are not gonna go on a measuring contest now, are we? I’ve read a thing or two, as well...

And if you really think the Jedi were so high and mighty, please, justify me how they let one of their own commission and fund a whole fucking army of clones under their own noses without their knowledge - and then, when it was convenient, used them to fight a war that had no real purpose, huh? And had the gall to name it after the freaking clones, like they started it!
Jedi weren’t even military, either, at that time (and, good grief, what a shit-show, they helped make of things).

Also, Obi Wan has a bit of a problem with statements and points of view, doesn’t he? Sometimes?

Actually Sifo-Dyas disagreed with the Jedi Council about creating an army to defend the Republlic and was removed from the Council. He deceived the Kaminoans into believing that the clones were an order from the Republic and, when the Sith became aware of his plans, they arranged his death and took over the project. I don't know how you can blame that on the Jedi as a whole nor how in your mind that doesn't make them "high and mighty". Using the army was basically a manipulation from Darth Sidious. They suddenly were in a war and there was that army they suddenly had. Their only other option would have been to surrender any sort of ground war capability.

Obi-Wan did manipulate Luke at the start in regards to his father. Saying that the Jedi were guardians of peace and justice was not such a thing, like at all.

Honestly, at times it seems that in your desire to defend the Last Jedi from any criticism you are using really fucking bad arguments, man. :-/

Nope. It's just that you ignore what's in the canon, too, when it suits you.
Syfo-Dyas was removed from the Council, BUT HE WAS STILL A JEDI KNIGHT. A very highly regarded one. Let's not forget the fact that Qui-Gon was also a very highly regarded knight as well and, according to Obi-Wan, only wasn't in the Council because he "butted heads" with them quite often - and he wasn't really a conventional Jedi, either (he was also the one who brought Anakin into the fold, and we know how well that turned out).
Jedi were not above subterfuge and intrigue when it suited them - remember the "Jedi mind trick"? - it's right there, in almost every story. It's just, when it's turned against them, it looks pretty bad. And it has very nasty consequences. For an Order that portents to guard peace and justice, to behave in such a manner, that's just poor form, wouldn't you say?

One nice place to see Jedi behaving out of the ordinary, IMHO, in the new canon, is the Ventress novel. That's some good reading. It takes place in the thick of the Clone Wars. Some real nice work, there.

And, man, I don't defend TLJ from any criticisms... You can criticize it all you want! Just don't ask me to agree with you, okay?

You wanna know something I HATE about it? That alternate scene about Phasma and Finn. THAT should have been the one in the movie! I get that it's longer and all, maybe it would have taken people a bit some more time to get from A to B, but... it's such a cooler scene, overall... GOD, I HATE THAT IT WASN'T IN THE MOVIE!!!

There, see? I can vent, too.

Okay, how exactly did we get from "Jedi are only concerned about the balance of the force", your initial statement about my rage, to "Jedi are capable of subterfuge, too"? You moved the goalposts and that is a bad discussion tactic. That Sifo-Dyas was still a Jedi Knight does mean nothing. He had ideas which the Council deemed too radical and was removed from it (not unreasonable, given that they made decisions for the entire order), but he went without their knowledge to actually enact the clone army with the Kaminoans and after his death Palpatine took over the funding for his master scheme.

Being the guardians of peace and justice doesn't preclude using subterfuge, mind tricks and so on. In fact, those means are very often necessary if you are habitually outnumbered, as Jedi are. Jedi are diplomats, warriors and sometimes spies. They are, however, not only concerned with the balance or some such abstract concept.

Their role has changed over the thousands of years of the Republic, where in the old times they often were kinda like space sheriffs of their corner of the galaxy, after the Jedi Council got more organized they were more like space rangers, sent out by the Council to deal with a problem. ^^