I’m pretty sure I hated this movie. I was beyond confused with some of the ideas that went into the plot.
The humor was a huge issue in this movie for me and it was obnoxious from the very first moment it appeared (the prank call that helped defeat the Dreadnought). It really did nothing but detract from the movie for me. Like what was I supposed to get out of the “Luke milking a giant aliens breasts in front of Rey and then sloppily drinking the milk so it runs down his chin” scene? That was bizarre as hell.
Then there’s just bizarre moments in the story. One had me laughing more than any of the comedy scenes and I think it should be obvious which scene that is. “Super Leia” killed me. At first I was stunned. We see Kylo Ren hesitate to kill is mother and then his wingmen gun her down and she gets sucked out into space. Wow, great stuff! And to make it better awhile after she’s been dead the camera focuses on her body out in space. Looked really haunting. Then her hand twitched and confusion set in. When she started flying my brain started melting.
Honorable mentions for bizarre plot lines include that Finn/Rose adventure that I’m still confused whether it accomplished absolutely anything at ALL and the Holdo withholding the plans from everyone because plot reasons(?) and then jumping to hyperspace in Snoke’s ships and annihilating it completely (with Finn and Rose conveniently surviving everything while the ship around them and the dozens of troopers and Phasma herself just disappeared from that execution party they were having because…plot?).
Wasted potential with Snoke too. I was interested in learning who he was and then they just kill him. Who taught him the ways of the dark side? How was he influencing Kylo Ren? How did they know he was influencing Kylo Ren? How did he become leader of the First Order if he’s a nobody? Why did the director decide that having a terrible shot of Snoke dead and sticking out his tongue with a goofy expression on his face was necessary and did anything aside from detract from how threatening Snoke was in the previous scenes?
Why did Luke also try to murder Kylo in his sleep? He put the Rebellion at risk and his own personal safety at risk in Return of the Jedi in order to save Darth Vader. But his nephew is being turned to the darkness and the first thing to come to his mind is loom over him with a turned on lightsaber in his sleep and contemplate murdering him? What? Why did Luke become so disillusioned with the Jedi when arguably he was the one that pushed Ben over the edge? Why did Kylo collapse the house on both of them and how did Kylo escape fine but Luke was trapped there while his temple burned? Instead of taking responsibility for his actions, why did he run away and leave his friends alone and weaker against this rising new threat? Why did the writers use Luke Skywalker as a foil to the ideas of BOTH the Jedi and Sith instead of Kylo Ren who was set up to have actual issues with both and ended up rejecting both in the end anyways?
And I’m looking over all I’ve written about this movie and realizing…yeah I did hate this flick. It was pretty terrible.