Unacceptable!

Or, hear me out, five minutes of the Thanos-copter.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for sticking it to the harassers and recognizing The Last Jedi.

Rob - I’m largely on the same page as you. Born in 1976, and Luke Skywalker is my hero.

Yup. I caught that also. It also could be that Rey has sticky fingers. heh

So I haven’t seen this brought up anywhere yet, and I could be wrong, but at the end of the movie as someone (Finn, I think) was packing something away on the Falcon, it looked like the bag/compartment they were throwing whatever it was into also contained the Jedi writings. I’ve only seen it once so far and…

Footage of Bricken’s childhood, seconds before being killed:

I loved that scene with Ren telling Rey about her parents- especially hearing the audible reaction of some of the women in the audience to “You’re nothing. But not to me.” They were definitely satisfied with Rey’s reaction.

It happens a lot- why I predict a certain amount of backlash for the next two Avengers films as well: It’s not the movie they had in their heads, whatever that is. And it never will be unless they direct the thing (perhaps not even then). But that will often be the baseline comparison for many fans: the “perfect” film…

We’re going to have to agree to disagree about that. I think it would have been ruinously absurd to try to attach significance and emotional resonance to the death of a squid-faced puppet that once notably yelled “It’s a trap!” in a movie 30 years ago.

They wanted Luke pulling some prequel-esque Jedi shit. Rolling onto Crait and hacking the legs of the super AT-ATs and force pushing them into one another and deflecting laser barrages, then flying off to some planet and boning Mara Jade while Admiral Thrawn serves them cocktails wearing that tray thing R2 had to wear…

The Holdo Maneuver might be my favorite action scene from any action movie, ever. I still can’t believe it happened.

I think what they wanted, and what some have directly told me, was Luke literally walking through that hangar door and taking out the entire First Order with his laser sword. They wanted a power fantasy.

I think the answer is: the same old EU bulshit: Mara Jade, Solo twins, Thrawn and Kyle Katarn. Fan-fiction, basically.

Two things would have made me like it more as a Star Wars movie, and it has nothing to do with story or character choices. And it’s silly, but these tropes have become part of the whole thing. It’s still a set of movies, not just individual films, so the 2 things are:
1) More wipe transitions
2) Somone saying in…

It was perfect. And the suggestion that Rey had known it all along, but had been telling herself a different story, was a great touch.

I feel like a jerk for saying this, but to me right now the very dumbest part of the very dumb backlash to this silly space adventure movie is people rending their garments over Admiral Ackbar, as though he were an actual important character in the series—or, really, even a character at all, as opposed to an…

• When Kylo Ren, with like ten seconds of icily savage dialogue, revealed that Rey’s parents were nobody-ass losers, pissing on both George Lucas’s sole storytelling move and all The Force Awakens’s hints about Rey having a mysterious and auspicious background.

I also loved the jab at the Jedi Order of the prequels when Luke points out how they were over romanticized and more or less brought about the rise of Palpatine and the Empire through their own ineptitude.