Star Wars The Bitter, Pointless, Not Last Jedi
(inspired by a comment on a another post, I feel the need to rant on the topic of the zombification of the star wars franchise)
yes, the movie tears down everything in the entire franchise that was heartful or in any way well thought out and replaces it not with any actual ideas but with the type of schlock corporate fascist occultists that run Disney want their inferiors in the general population to think.
I turned it off at the line, 'see with your feelings.'
princess leia using her mind powers to float through space was the most absurd scene of in any movie I have ever seen in my life. i thought someone was playing a prank on me and that wasn't in the real movie, like it was a prank cam version. THAT would have been funny.
Here is the problem, the last jedi Luke, who had been built up by 3 very famous movies to be the coolest shit that ever stank, and now one of the largest media conglomerates in the world had to AGREE ON what the actual coolest Jedi shit in the universe actually was.
And in true corporate form, they punted or pulled a play-action fake and downgraded the entire franchise to a children's movie like idk mulan YES MULAN and turned Luke Skywalker into the most stereotypical bitter middle-aged man in the history of film.
Then there are the cheap reversals of major plot points, which demonstrate why beginning screenwriters are taught they demolish any sense of plot.
The fighter pilot hot shot shouldn't have attacked the dreadnaught! They destroyed it though! But it cost them the bombers! But now there are still 20 star destroyers chasing us exactly like in the video game FTL! But we can run faster! But we are running out of fuel! But darth whatever can attack us! But he's wearing a mask! But the big boss says masks are stupid now! Now he's not wearing a mask, and he is more angry! Now he wants to kill leah! Now he doesn't! Now someone else is shooting her! Now she's blown up and in space! Now she's not! The black guy is leaving! Now he's not! Will someone go on a suicide mission at the weakest point of their fleet finally! Actually yes if we just get in there and blow up this one thing, well, shit will be great! Good, do that! Ok, fine we will do it.
It's like 8 year olds talking about how they are going to play star wars.
Why is the rebellion even doing this in the first place? How did things get so bad if the death star was destroyed? Doesn't this entire movie mean that the destruction of the death star was futile? That the entire rebellion has gone pretty shittily since the end of Return of the Jedi?
Why in the world would Luke have given up after the end of that movie and gone to the middle of nowhere things were going great for him? EVERY OTHER NOVEL OR GRAPHIC NOVEL of the star wars universe has luke doing immensely cool shit, discovering the secrets of the sith, training a new academy, being part of a new government as the rebellion reclaims worlds, etc etc etc.
The new movies are vomit, the worse art that the united states has ever, ever produced. And this is what will happen to every piece of art in the world, or universe, at this rate.