This film made me angry. Kinda wish I could unsee it.
I did like:
- The new characters
- The humor
- The closing scene
My nuke-the-fridge moment was Han’s death–particularly the manner of it. It felt like a shitty and unfitting way to treat the character. If they wanted to kill him off, couldn’t he have gone out a little more…heroically? Or willingly sacrificed himself for something? Or at least got some dying words or an honorable burial? Getting thrust through by surprise with a lightsaber, looking sadly into his son’s eyes, and falling down a shaft? Yuck. Why not just feed him to the Sarlacc? What’s next–Luke is skinned alive while Leia is forced to eat her own entrails?
For all the tribute the film was making to the OT, that moment is a brutal violation of its spirit.