That side-quest was not a failure. It inspired a new generation of force wielders to fight the First Order as seen in the final shot of the film.

Phrasing it that way makes it seem like the movie behaved as a didactic scold. It completely answered the questions, and did so through the same adventure storytelling the movies have always done. Some folks may have not liked the answers, but that’s more a product of preconceived ideas than any failure of the movie.

I go the other way. The fact that JJ Abrams has issues with The Last Jedi only confirms my feeling that it’s a masterpiece.

I loved the subversion of The Last Jedi. I loved the headfake with Snoke. The combined Rey/Kylo fight was great Star Wars choreography. Luke as a burned out hippie who lived to see everything he dedicated himself to be twisted back on itself is a logical outcome that was have real world examples of. Saying Rey’s…

Yes, but dammit, we COOK with it. Let’s see you make all your lovely baked goods, sauces, and mac n cheese dishes without it!

Shane Spencer

Let’s Remember Some Other Guys who came up and hit a bunch of homers immediately:

You’re really stretching that “mostly”.

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It was exactly as good as a Han Solo prequel movie could have been. I feel like it had a lower ceiling than other films they could have made instead, but it went right up to that ceiling.

We went in with low expectations and were really pleasantly surprised by how much we liked it. Sad it didn’t do better.

It matches to his upright stance. You don’t get to alter the strike zone by hugging your knees. Any other reading of the rules would be absurd, no?

I recognized Jeremiah Johnson the first time I saw the Meme. Comes with the territory growing up in the 70's and 80's with a mother who used to say that Robert Redford could park his boots under her bed any ol’ time.

You know how to tell that the people protesting about how evil Chic-Fil-A are full of shit?

Since Chick fil A no longer gives to groups that do political lobbying, anyone protesting against them is literally just protesting the owners having Christian beliefs. If you look at the “hateful” groups they donate to, it’s just the Salvation Army (who LOTS of other companies donate to) and the Fellowship of…

This is the most amusing part to me.  “What, the Fundamentalist Christian CEO adheres to the Biblical definition of marriage?  Clutch the pearls!”

It’s a manufactured dust-up.  Christians have been around for 2,000yrs, it isn’t like nobody knows what they believe.  

The choreography for this duel was top notch, but for me it lacked any emotional weight to it (as compared to the duel in Ep. V or VI) because I just didn’t feel any connection to the characters involved. The protagonists were all pretty bland due to the poor script, and the villain involved was barely in the movie.