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Post #1151657

Author
Mielr
Parent topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
31-Dec-2017, 1:39 PM

SilverWook said:

https://geektyrant.com/news/star-wars-fans-in-1980-reacted-to-empire-strikes-back-in-the-same-way-fans-are-reacting-to-the-last-jedi

I don’t see a whole lot of overlap in the criticisms between ESB and TLJ.

Most of the criticisms of ESB is that it wasn’t neatly tied-up like SW77 was, and left people with a lot of questions. But the point is, they CARED, and were upset they’d have to wait 3 years to get the answers to those questions. They were expecting a happy ending like SW77 and they didn’t get it. They were frustrated, and didn’t like what happened to the characters…but they CARED.

My problem with TLJ is that it made me not give a crap anymore. Halfway through the film, I was wishing they’d all get blown up like in R1. I don’t CARE about Rose and Finn and Poe and Rey and Ren and whatever boring thing they’re going to do next. It left me with no interest at all in seeing ep. IX.

There was never a moment in the film where I was in suspense or on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen next. For an adventure/fantasy/sci-fi film, that’s an automatic thumbs-down for me.

If someone were to ask me to explain the plot of TLJ, I don’t think I could. The story and screenplay were very poorly conceived and written, IMO. 😕