Last Jedi Minute 30: Barnacles

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Date

March 12th, 2021

Summary

Filmunentarian & guest commentator Jamie Benning has some explosive opinions to wrap up All-Star week!

Guests

Jamie Benning

Notes

Film

  • Starts with Kylo Ren making his attack run and ends with Kylo Ren coming around to make another attack run.

Podcast

  • Kylo Ren's TIE Silencer prototype fighter.
    • The complexity of the missile launcher. Originally the missiles were going to just come out of the bottom naturally, but they had to redesign it to match with the toy.
  • The way Kylo Ren spins his fighter is echoes Darth Vader's TIE fighter spinning away at the end of Star Wars.
    • That shot was not mentioned in many of the early screenplays, including in the shooting script. It must have been added later on.
    • Is spinning actually a good trick, does it help you to fight or fly any better?
    • Reference: Iron Man suits. In the future, that's going to seem so dated, unless we actually developed that technology in reality.
  • The hangar on the Raddus is reminiscent of Battlestar Galactica (any one).
    • How come there's no door on the hangar? It leaves them vulnerable to bombing runs. Most spaceships in Star Wars don't have doors, they have just a see-through force field that you enter and leave through.
      • Anakin flies in and attacks from the inside in both The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith.
  • "Resistance Babies" (à la "Muppet Babies") as the spin-off of this movie.
  • Tallie has quite an internet following considering how little screen time she has. Maybe she's more like a Dak than a Wedge.

Meta Minute

  • 49:22 podcast episode length.
  • Although this is Jamie's first appearance on the STAR WARS MINUTE, this is not his first Movies by Minutes podcast, and he's a frequent guest on the Indiana Jones Minute.
  • Wedge had only 2 minutes and 30 seconds (rounded to the nearest quarter minute) of screen time across the entirety of the Original Trilogy, whereas Tallie had 1 minute and 30 seconds, which is greater than Wedge had in any individual movie.

Quotes

  • Alex: Does "lady pilot" Tallie get killed in this […]? Pete: Oh yes she gets very exploded.

Links

Audio only
https://art19.com/shows/star-wars-minute/episodes/4b1192d2-7089-4511-92ce-859d3e43fc71
Video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9dS5X2nfY

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