My rating for TLJ has now fallen to a 3/5 to a 2.5/5.
The only thing I liked in this movie was Rey and Kylo Ren. That was literally it.
I sort of dislike Rian Johnson’s style. He just seems like some egoist that thinks he needed to ‘bend genres’ and ‘break tropes’ and ‘be shocking and Avant-garde’ to prove how Nolanesque he is or something. Not someone who’s suited to make a blockbuster movie.
Every bad decision in this film is being defended as if the filmmakers were shackled to the story and the thing just wrote itself (“that’s what’s realistic”). Sorry, but as someone who’s a film major, that’s not how the force works.
I’m glad some of you got joy out of this movie, but if Luke can turn his back on his sister and friends, I can turn my back on Star Wars. Solo is probably the last one I’ll see, as I’m actually looking forward to that one.EDIT: Apologies for originally saying I hate Rian Johnson 😉. Hating a director you don’t know is silly. His filmmaking just rubbed me wrong, personally.
People can do inexplicable things after a tragedy. If that rubs you the wrong way that’s great. Do you have a nice honest opinion about why you don’t like it - fine by me. But the one thing I did doing preparation to see this movie is I found out that Rian Johnson had been inspired by three movies and I looked them up and found out what they’re about and watched two of them. I’m trying to watch the third one right now. And I wouldn’t call any of his storytelling avant-garde or new because none of that he was looking at less than 50 years old. One of them, Twelve O’clock High, was a big influence on George Lucas’s plans for the first Death Star Battle. Ryan Johnson Drew from it interesting command lessons and a few other things that went deeper into the story. Three Outlaw Samurai has a lot of similarities, though not in plot, to Hidden Fortress, the original plot inspiration for Star Wars.
I personally find Rian Johnson storytelling to be very inspired. I think it’s just the right amount of subtlety and action and makes a perfect complement to the previous movie. Definitely not as subtle as the prequels, but this movie was mostly action with some carefully told character development for each of the main characters. I’m not swear I say settled because on the surface it doesn’t seem like each of those things is terribly important, but when you look at the character development from the last movie to the end of this movie it is a huge jump in these characters development. I love it I love what they did with Luke. Luke was the hero in the original trilogy and this Trilogy he’s not. The success of the original trilogy lasted 10 20 years, we haven’t been given a time frame. And then things went to hell and Luke went from Legend to grumpy old Mentor, which is a classic Mythic trope. And Mark played the role perfectly. I rank this and Rogue one right after the original trilogy in quality. And I find it terribly I’m using that Frink and I agree on this movie because he’s so totally did not agree on The Force Awakens. So I challenge anyone who didn’t like this movie to tune into IX and see what they do before you throw the whole sequel trilogy out the window.