Comments on Profile Post by Cellist88

I liked it. Not groundbreaking, but seriously what are you expecting?

I expected a better story/character development. Introduction of characters to mean something. It was just a mindless journey for 2 1/2 hours. Every scene felt pretty much pointless. I'll save spoilers for a thread that's bound to come up...but I don't see any aspect to like.

I walked out of the theater feeling run over by how much I disliked this movie and how much I felt it disrespected the original material, not to mention how bad most of it was written.

The childish humor, Terrible acting, terrible plot, pointless characters, cutting corners on all the interesting material and just killing off everyone on a whim......along with the whole "diversity" thing and pumping up the feminism ....and adding pointless creatures so they can just sell merchandise in the future. It was so bad, I no longer care for anything star wars anymore.

Not to mention the awesome movie that could have been made and wasn't. I loved Rogue One and have rewatched it multiple times, I've loved the Avengers Movies (Including Age of Ultron). This though, this was IMO just garbage.

Most of the characters were already introduced in previous movies. I'm 41 and grew up on the original Star Wars, I think this latest batch is much better than the second round with Jar Jar binks and friends, that was weak sauce in my opinion. The death of characters is what made Star Wars somewhat believable, how often does a superhero die?

They might as well redo the orginal trilogy with modern actors like they do with Spiderman and Batman every 5 years.

It's not that characters died. We weren't going to have Luke, Han or (obviously) Leia forever. But, IMO-as-always Leia floating back to the ship from space was goofy. The Hux 'can you hear me now' was again, goofy. Snoke and Phasma being killed almost arbitrarily without ever having done much, and ridiculously easily in Snokes case.

And Luke, they could have had him return to awesomness for at least one movie but instead they treated him like a kook. Then the pointless story line for Poe and Finn that included them going to a Casino Resort. Starwars at a Casino Resort is prequel-esque. Even Luke using suddenly Force Powers at the end that we've never seen.

And I don't know how a ship that CAN jump to lightspeed is unable to catch a ship that CAN'T jump to lightspeed. And the Laura Dern's escape hinged on the escape pods not being tracked by the New Order but escape pods not only get tracked but scanned for life forms, we saw this when C3PO and R2D2 made their initial escape in the first movie.

There was a way to take us diehards back to our child hood for a couple of hours (Rogue One got there by its end) while transitioning to a newer, larger, and possibly greater Universe. Instead this movie actually took a dump on the original movies, as far as I'm concerned, by making up force powers, making a kook out of Luke, etc. etc. etc..

With the exception of a few moments here and there, all 7 of the other movies are pretty bad. What did you expect?

I expected a serious attempt to make a movie that respected the original 3 films while expanding the SW Universe. Rogue One did it. This movie not only failed at that, but made one asinine choice after another after another.

Luke was the new Yoda, all eccentric and cranky...

Leia's return to the ship like a possessed ghost after getting blown into space was hokey, I agree.

Rogue One was the best modern Star Wars movie by far, I won't argue that point.

I think the Last Jedi is trying to reflect the way the world has changed and advanced since the original trilogy. The innocence of our youth is gone and we have internet zombies and pre-teens with cell phones. I couldn't fathom the powers of modern technology we have today. If you told me what a smart phone could now do 20 years ago, I would have laughed and punched you in the face with a smile.

I'm absolutely cool with the universe being diverse and the alternative seems non-sensible, but if the new era of Starwars is metaphorical social commentary instead of Luke (and or Rey) ligthsabering like hell against Snoke's minions while John Williams blares triumphantly... consider me a Trekkie.

Either way, I won't pay to see another Starwars directed by this guy.

#JusticeForDarthJarJar: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/

@BillOhio 100% agree. I find it's more enjoyable to read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia and imagine how it plays out, compared to the one I've just watched. Plot is OK methinks, directing/editing is not.

Good thing he won't be back for the next one. JJ Abrams is back (which can be good news or bad news, depends on how much you like TFA. I don't).

I was willing to go along with FA and forgive the hokey moments. On TLJ, I can't give the plot any respect. The central theme is a race against time until the rebels... run out of gas. Set aside how this movie wiped itself with my childhood and it was, in its own right, a terribly written movie. Worse, I think Rian Johnson is set to direct a trilogy(?)

Oh wow, I still have little hope for the next Episode, but I'll just skip the next trilogy then if that's the case.