I probably like TLJ the best of the sequel trilogy and really I’m not an angry fanboy on any level-- but the Leia space thing was lame, the casino plotline a time waster, the Poe argument boring/pointless....it’s amazing to me this movie works as well as it does with those bad storylines. Mostly I think it looks cool…

an awful lot of people bending over backwards defending a film when no one is actually here right now bashing it.

almost like the only people they have to convince that it’s not a poorly written and directed film, is themselves.

The entire arc bent away from Star Wars’ old good-vs.-evil narrative and even dared to call that narrative into question. 

TLJ is messy at times but largely works by itself. But I think it fails to live up to the task it should carry as part of a larger story. It doesn’t work well as Chapter 7 of an 8 part story. It doesn’t even work all that well as Chapter 2 of a 3 part story. Now a good chunk of that is because the previous chapter,…

Luke is inherently non-violent? He blew up the first Death Star and continues killing people throughout the trilogy.

I’m still in the camp of viewers who liked The Last Jedi, but I have to admit, especially in retrospect, that it did a poor job of setting up a finale. At the end of TLJ, there’s not much of a setup for the third film. Maybe that was as intended. Maybe Johnson wanted the next filmmaker to have a freer hand than he had…

I like The Last Jedi. I’m a defender of The Last Jedi — it’s a darn good movie.

The Last Jedi is the best of the sequel trilogy, but I don’t find any of them good enough to revisit. There’s plenty to praise, the performances, the visuals, and plenty of interesting ideas, but the script just needed a lot of work to realize those ideas to their fullest potential.

The “your mother” ‘phone call’ to Hux from Poe and the lightsaber toss I found a jarringly discordant way to start the film and it really threw me off. Didn't work at all for me.

The Last Jedi did have the largest first to second weekend box office drop in terms of absolute dollars to date when it happened at the end of 2017 from about $220 million to $68 million.

Question for attentive watchers, because I’m not watching this a fourth time right now: the Resistance at the end is reduced to like 20 people on the Millennium Falcon, who can’t get anybody to take their calls. It’s pretty dire!

Finn ended TFA wearing a Resistance jacket, shooting stormtroopers, being galactically infamous for betraying the First Order, and having rando stormtroopers call him “TRAITOR!”, branded an enemy of the First Order and an agent of the Resistance. Maybe he didn’t map this out as a career plan, and given that he was…

It doesn't mean the humour worked for everybody. 

I’m disappointed to see this still take this extremely reductive attitude toward why people didn’t like this movie.  

Finn learning to care about others is his arc in the first film. He started the film as someone who constantly wanted to get away. At the end of the film, he stood up to Kylo rather than abandon his friends.

“It’s a massively profitable work of corporate entertainment that kept the Star Wars fires burning and helped Disney sell a whole lot of stuffed Porgs.”

Don’t get me wrong, I liked some of the ideas here but as mentioned, Finn, who should’ve been the one of if not, the main break-out character is sidelined and TRoS didn’t do much for him either.

Canto Bight fucking blows, is the problem.

Rian Johnson understood Star Wars, but clearly didn’t like it and thought he could “fix it.” JJ just desperately wanted everyone to like him. I feel both directors were overthinking it.

Oh Jesus fuck, not this bullshit again.