caught a matinee showing on my day off today. 2D Imax. 4th time. Excellent movie.
I really can’t understand 90% of the criticisms in this thread. there are like 10% of them that i can understand, but the rest?
- I can understand not liking parts of the Canto Bight sequence
- I can understand wanting to know a bit more about snoke (curiosity and all that)
- I can understand being annoyed by Phasma, and bits of Finn as well
not much else though.
I actively avoided advertisements, fan speculation, marketing and the internet overall in relation to The Last Jedi, and just generally kept any hype for it on the down low, which may be why I had such a strong positive reaction to it. I think the last two points, to do with Snoke and Phasma, may partly be to do with hype and fan speculation. When you are convinced that Snoke is Darth whogivesaratsarse mentioned in a single line of dialogue from one of the prequels/comics/video games based on one thing from his physical appearance or that he is totally going to be the big ultimate bad guy, and he ends up a red herring you’re liable to be disappointed.
If there was one thing I WAS disappointed with it’s that Snoke wasn’t tiny, (you know, because Ren uses the mask as intimidation so Snoke could’ve used the big hologram as intimidation) but whatever. It’s not something I’ll lose sleep over. There are more important things in the world than a space movie.