You know this was an odd scene if you think about it. Like the equivalent of the director just walking into the shot and winking at the audience.

i think thats the symptom number 1 of bad writing in modern movies - so often when the characters are talking they are literally explaining the scene (not the plot, the scene) to the audience.

>>212855476 (OP)
>touches brown piece of liquid substance on the ground and tastes it
>"it's shit"

>>212855476 (OP)
ah yes. who doesnt lick the unknown ground of an unknown planet and say outlout what it tastes like?

>>212855476 (OP)
what does it matter that it's salt anyway? i don't get it.
i know that being salty is slang for being upset, but first of all putting modern slang in your star wars movie can't be something that anyone thinks is a good idea and second of all, if it was meant to mock "salty" fans, this must have been recorded months in advance, meaning they must have already known people would hate the movie and if you know that, why not change the movie?
so again I genuinely ask. what was that scene supposed to mean? was it established that salt corrodes walker joints or was it really just a preemptive attack against the people who don't like the movie

>>212857490
It's literally just a thing where he shows a "snow planet" like Hoth, but then goes "hah no its actually not snow, its salt". Its just a pointless subversion/surprise/gotcha.

>>212857589
but that's so lame. it's still preemptive mockery of obvious criticism. if you know people will think it's lazy and lame, why use a white planet? just make it a desert planet or steppe planet if you want a sparse landacape

>>212857820
He's just that lame, I think

>send in the snow troopers
>but sir, that's not snow, it's salt
>in that case, send in the salt troopers
>...
>what is it?
>they look exactly like the snow troopers
>that's because salt and snow are both white and have crystalline structures
>...
>what is it?
>sir, with all due respect, you're full of shit

>>212855476 (OP)
It’s just a way to clarify the terrain for the audience, and to produce the sympathetic taste of salt in their mouths as they watch a character taste something that turns out to be salt.
I’m serious. Do people think he’s calling the audience salty? I didn’t get that vibe

>>212857490
It’s a new type of terrain for Star Wars, a salt flat, which can be mistaken for a desert, so they made sure to clarify it’s a salt flat.

>>212855476 (OP)
does he say "its salt" or just "salt"? i dont hear the its

>>212857589
No, it’s clarifying a new type of planet for the series. It already seemed like salt but they clarified it because they felt it necessary. They are not accusing you of wrongly assuming what the planet is, they just wanted to spend a second of screen time actually including the fact (and taste) of the planet being salty

>>212857589
>>212857820
Because they decided to make soft reboots of the original trilogy. First is tatooine/death star, second is hoth/space chase/fancy planet, third would have been jungle but they rushed to change it by how much of a disaster it became. Rian mixed up the order and made the "Hoth" part at the end to subvert you. It's all garbage nonsense not worth thinking about.

>>212858104
>to subvert you
It’s rearranged but I dont think he’s making by a mockery of anyone’s expectations, he just did the alt Star Wars movie so he does things alternatively in it

>>212858135
In terms of the salt planet and putting an AT-AT fight at the end, I mean. Other parts of the movie do definitely attempt to betray the audience as a lesson

>>212858098
>>212857820

>>212855476 (OP)
>Star shit watcher thinks it’s odd for the director to wink at the audience during a scene

>>212857030
>Planet India
what a terrible single biome planet George

>>212858161
>>212857820
They don’t think Hoth is lazy and lame, they just wanted to mirror it while providing the sense of alterity the movie was trying to refresh the franchise with

>>212855656
Earlier today I was considering making a thread generally saying that movies have gotten so much worse since trope terms like "Meet Cute" and others are now directly acknowledged within media itself
Particular because everyone still engages in all the same cliches they "critique"

>>212855476 (OP)
Chung was right

>>212858515
That doesnt look like math homework.

>>212855476 (OP)
It was to highlight that the Resistance are particularly incompetent, to justify the weakness of their current intergalactic position.

>>212855656
I was wonder if it’s because movies need to be sold around the world so everything needs to be overly explained since it needs to be understood by many different cultures

>>212858672
I think they wanted to make sure the viewers realized it was salt and not snow or just dirt

>>212855476 (OP)
Fuckin loved this scene. TLJ was so kino

I really do not know why everyone is so bothered by this shot

>>212855656
>>212858444
it's a bit of a "damned if you, damned if you don't" situation.
they could acknowledge "this is like a scene in a movie!" or they could just do it. the latter is better, obviously, but i completely understand that itch.

>>212855476 (OP)
>Let the past die, kill Luke if you have to
I should've seen it coming

>>212855476 (OP)
there's probably already a wookiepedia entry about Johobi "Planet Licker" Mushmoth, explaining his tragic backstory that led him to lick every planet he lands on and warn others of its composition.

Maybe if there was like a sub-plot where these two or three minor characters on the rebel spaceship could spend the film complaining
>there's just no friggin' salt on this ship!
>none in the whole rebellion, we're low on salt
>anyway back to the space engine

Then after we see them go back on forth on this in maybe a half dozen little scene fragments, we get the big pay-off.

>It's sodium-chloride

>>212859640
Should have been a background gag of resistance members eating french fries and shoveling the salt from the ground onto the fries, while also adding pepper from a shaker

>>212859640
Earlier in the movie
>Hey man, why did you requisition so many potatoes? These things got no flavor!
>just trust me

>*slug alien looks out the ship window and gulps nervously*

Oh I get it because it's an assault

>>212855476 (OP)
The retarded thing is you can do this scene
>Bad guys approaching planet
>See the battlefield on screen
>"I'll have the men prep the winter gear."
>"Don't bother. That's not ice; scanners indicate this is a salt planet."
>Show gigantic salt crystal or something
>

>>212859925
lmfao

>>212859934
Eh same thing, it wouldn't be better that way. I really don't think it's crazy that some soldier who just arrived in a space trench notices the ground seems like salt and then tastes it and confirms its salt.

>>212859934
You literally don't need any scene at all. It only exists because Rian wrote a sequence that was intentionally similar to Hoth then got worried people might say it was similar.

>man gets a cut and falls down
>YEOWZA THAT SMARTS

>>212860124
>resistance soldier taps another soldier on the back
>'check it out dude *shows some salt in his hand* It's you'
>fuck you Gary

>>212855476 (OP)
I never saw this movie. Is the salt important or something?

>>212859934
>I hate salt. It's rough and coarse and it rusts my walker's joints

>LICK SQUARE 4 OF YOUR STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI SCRATCH-N-TASTE CARD NOW