When I watch this movie, it only makes me remember how good were all those other Star Wars movies and series before this one. They were great! But this one is a disaster.
I am a Star Wars fans that has watched everything about Star Wars, including all animated series, movies, TV shows, video games, toys, non-canon legends, articles, everything. I can tell Star Wars is my favorite franchise to marathon.
Last year I started my full marathon again, for 4th time, including all movies and series. The marathon is really long but hugely enjoyable at a level that no other can compete, until you get to this movie, The Last Jedi (2017).
The Last Jedi (2017) screwed it all.
Let me explain...
...If you are not a Star Wars fan, and you watch this movie alone (without marathon),you may like it. But when you are a Star Wars fan, you will feel severely disappointed, specially if you are marathoning.
Where's the respect for the Star Wars fans?
I blame it on only two persons: Rian Johnson (writer and director) and. Kathleen Kennedy (producer). You two screwed up what George Lucas took 40 years to build.
It was much better with George Lucas. Oh! Way better!
Why I blame it on Kathleen Kennedy? Because she is in charge now. If you choose someone to direct a Star Wars movie, make sure he or she is a Star Wars fan, because oh God! The Star Wars fanbase takes all this very seriously.
I have some questions for you, Rian, and Kathleen. See below:
* How Luke Skywalker gave up and abandoned his only family (his sister and friends) the republic, and all the causes for what he fought so hard and refused to help them? Did you even watched the original trilogy? Luke never give up. Please watch The Return of the Jedi, Rian.
This "Last Jedi" Luke is not in line with the Luke from previous movies. And that's just NOT what a Jedi does.
* If Luke didn't want to be found, how R2 D2 gave the missing part of the map? Can you explain?
* How Rey, without any experience with the force, develops skills so perfectly and quickly in a way that an experienced Jedi or even a Sith has never done it?
* What is that training from Luke?? Are you kidding me?? And how this training helped her in some way??
* Where the hell the all-powerful Snoke came from?? He did showed up in Star Wars without any origin, background/story? Nothing?
* How Leia survived that incredible SCAR explosion like in way that no a Jedi wouldn't have survived? Ok she is a Skywalker but, if she is so powerful, more than the Jedis (judging for the way she survived) why she didn't used those powers before to help a little bit? C'mon!!! This doesn't makes sense!!
* Why Finn and Rose rescue the space-horses but don't rescue the children?
* And there's a lot more. I just don't have time to mention more than 30 errors found on this movie.
If you are a Star Wars fan, you know what are all those errors.
We, the Star Wars fans deserve more respect.
I am going to marathon again, and I will skip this one and pretend this movie doesn't exists.
The production design is good, the special effects are good, the acting is good, but the story is a joke. This screenplay is embarrassment for the Star Wars fans.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
2017
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
2017
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
Jedi Master-in-hiding Luke Skywalker unwillingly attempts to guide young hopeful Rey in the ways of the force, while Leia, former princess turned general, attempts to lead what is left of the Resistance away from the ruthless tyrannical grip of the First Order.
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An embarrassment for the Star Wars fans
A big stumble backwards
I didn't like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and I'm sorry. It seems as if the filmmakers were so focused on cool visuals and clever-sounding lines that everything else suffered. There are plot points that don't make sense, dramatic scenes which are undercut by out-of-place humor, and inconsistent characters. After the prequels, I felt like The Force Awakens was a step in the right direction, but this movie is a big stumble backwards.
Not this Disappointed Since Jar Jar Binks
I love the Star Wars franchise. I was so anxious to watch The Last Jedi especially how The Force Awakens ended and how good The Force Awakens was. I bought my tickets a month and a half in advance in anticipation of episode eight.
As the movie started I was dialed in for the first 15 minutes then I noticed this subtle uneasiness in me like a disturbance in the force. It began with the interaction between Poe and Princess Leia. She made a comment and made a decision regarding Poe that I found a little unsettling. "OK." I thought. I didn't like that exchange but it's not a show stopper. The subtlety was that Leia was making it seem like the Rebels were in no need of heroes. They didn't need fighters anymore, they needed thinkers (or something akin to that). I took that little shift in philosophy in stride and kept eagerly watching. A couple of other small iniquities occurred but I soldiered forth watching with an open mind because it's "Star Wars".
Then, there came the interaction between Rey and Luke Skywalker.
Luke is part of movie folklore to me. Like many people have the one celebrity they'd like to meet: the one fictional character for me has always been Luke Skywalker. Luke was the first hero I'd seen wear black. He had piloting skills, light saber skills and could do Jedi mind tricks. He was the coolest.
Fast forward nearly 40 years and now Luke is an old man. So what I'm expecting is an older, WISER Luke. If Luke is on a deserted planet then it must be for a very good reason. And if Rey found him, much like Luke found Yoda, then Luke will have so much to impart upon Rey. That's not quite what went down. They made Luke a sullen pessimistic old man that was ignorant of simple truths. He offered so little; to the movie and to Rey. He was a shell of his former self, he was only good at being the ex machina. The Luke Skywalker in this movie was NOT the Luke Skywalker I knew. The Luke Skywalker I know was killed in this movie.
After seeing my fictional hero relegated to something unrecognizable I actually became bitter while watching the movie. There was almost nothing they could do to save the movie. And they didn't . In fact, it got worse. By the end the movie was more of what I should have saw coming: rebels running from the Republic and figuring out some remote yet heroic way to ward them off. And what added to the annoyingness of this movie is that they didn't know when or how to end it. What should have been the end was followed up by another half an hour mini movie with its own beginning, middle and end.
But unlike The Last Jedi I know how to end this post. Don't waste your time.