I don’t know how Kylo Ren freezing a blaster bolt in midair is a bad thing.
Corny? Sure, it appeals big to the 10-year-olds and the hardened comic book readers in the audience, but for many of the fans of the original, un-specialized trilogy, it’s over the top.
There’s this fine line in space fantasy movies: It’s OK to stretch the imagination, but it’s easy to go too far and then insult the intelligence. Cool quickly becomes silly.
There is a subtlety to the Force in the first two movies. The Force grants powers that aren’t so, well, garish, for lack of a better word. But now, it seems, anything goes.
Star Wars is fast approaching Sharknado.
I can understand if Kylo used the Force to transform into a monster or something but freezing a blasterbolt midair is not even that big a jump from tutaminis.