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Post #1151616

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Anchorhead
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
31-Dec-2017, 12:26 PM

Collipso said:

I think that lots of criticism towards both movies upon release are the same, from what the link SilverWook provided tells and from what I can see of TLJ’s reaction.

However, some criticism towards TLJ isn’t about the moviemaking aspect. It’s about the literal core of the characters, with lots of people thinking Luke was ruined, or that Rey doesn’t obey the rules of the universe, etc etc.

And those complaints aren’t going away. They’re problems the audience has with the core of the movie, and I see it as different from the criticisms TESB received upon release.

Having lived through the release of Empire and not being a little kid at the time, I can say for sure that a lot of the criticisms were most certainly about the core and the characters themselves. In the interest of disclosure, I was very disappointed in how the characters of Vader and Han were handled.

Vader was morphed into something other than a second tier military officer and Han had become a good guy proper, not a scoundrel who did a nice thing. The final dagger was Vader as a family member. Lucas had altered both characters, to me, to the point where they were too different for me to care.