Star Wars : The Last Jedi

Star Wars - The Last Jedi

Just watched this movie today. Overall, I find this trilogy set of Star Wars gives viewers questions. It uses viewers expectation and produce a some how unexpected experience.

Some comments :

(1) How could Supreme Leader Stoke be so easily killed off?  This was even worse than that Emperor Palpatine. As least Palpatine fought with Skywalker.

(2) The trailer leading to the movie had set me thinking that Princess Leia would be killed off by her son. I was wrong.

(3) Kylo Ren - Director made viewers feel that Kylo might be a good guy after all. But we were wrong.

(4) Rey - Viewer was thinking that her parents would be related to some Jedi given her Jedi strength and skill. Some how I was disappointed to find out that her parents were not great jedi after much anticipation. Perhaps it was similar to Anakin.

(5) You know that it is a Disney film by the cute Porg (the bird like creature) and the presence of children and the ending scene where a child character holds a boom and looks at the night sky.

(6) New Skill - Luke Skywalker ability to teleport himself to another planet and fights like a normal jedi master. Never have such skill shown in other Star Wars movies.

(7) The inability to destroy the rebel vessel - I find it unbelievable. The First Order could just send in their Tie fighters in great numbers to get close to it and destroy the vessel.

(8) The island in which Rey trained is so earth looking.

(9) Luke Skywalker - Like Kylo, the Director has made viewers wonder that he might be bad at one point (by trying to kill Kylo). But we were wrong. I think the last scene where Luke fights off Kylo quite beautiful against the backdrop of AT-AT Walker.

I find the viewing experience for The Last Jedi better than The Force Awakens, but Rogue One is better than The Last Jedi.

US$1 Million

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Exchange rate as at 10 Dec 2017

Back in 20 March 2015, I shared that I had achieved SGD $1 Million in wealth, excluding property and central provident fund saving.

At the current US$ to SGD$ conversion rate of US$1 to SGD$1.352 (as at 10 Dec 2017), I have obtained an equivalent US$1 Million in wealth, excluding property and central provident fund saving. This is achieved after I started working for 23 and a half years. I have no debt owning to banks or financial institutions.

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