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RE: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Movie Review- Spoiler Free

in #starwars6 years ago

I'm afraid I must disagree. While mostly enjoyable, it was sorely lacking in many, many ways. I'll respect your desire to not go into spoilers, so I'll just leave these thoughts here:

  1. The Admiral was stupid
  2. When the script completely erases a major character's arc from the first movie and returns him/her to the state he/she was in at the beginning of the first film, that is unacceptable.
  3. When a long and meandering plotline ends up being completely meaningless, it ought to have been cut in post, or removed from the script entirely.
  4. Poe's arc was dumb.
  5. Finn's arc was worse.
  6. The main conflict of the movie was incredibly lame.
  7. If the only way the script writer can come up with to insert humor is to stop and make an incredibly stupid joke that undermines the character or leaves the audience saying "WTF?", it's probably best not to try for humor. The Trilogy (there is only one) was funny in parts, but that humor flowed naturally from the characters and the story. This flick....not so much. Does no one in Hollywood understand how to do smart humor any more?
  8. AGAIN too many pointless and jarring fan service moments that served no real purpose to advance the story, or that were so random and "Why TF is that happening" as to eliminate the purpose they served.

I can go on. At length.

Glad you liked it. I enjoyed the interplay between Luke and Rey, and between Rey and Ben. The sword fight on the flagship was pretty cool.

Aside from that...all flash, little substance. Which is NOT what Star Wars (used to be) about.

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Interestingly I had a similar conversation with many of those points with my wife earlier tonight. She thinks I need to open my eyes and be more critical instead of overly positive about everything...lol. I'll shoot you a nice upvote for your great discussion in a few days once I'm not worried about bumping up these kinda spoilers

No worries.

I'll probably put up my own Spoilery review in the next day or two.

I really, really, REALLY want to think this was awesome. Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw in the theater...when I was 3. So it's been a major influence on my entire life.

But.......

Oy

Yeah, they did miss a lot of opportunities and it did lack a lot of depth. I'll have to watch with a more critical lense next week. I'll watch for your post and we'll chat more there.

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