Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Finally caved and pulled this off the shelves at the library. I expected awfulness, and was not disappointed. Watch: Loose message about the evils of eating meat (from a character who likely could not support himself without it) Physics become further irrelevant in space (nice job stealing from Battlestar Galactica with the ship flip) Physics become suddenly important in space (fuel... almost as bad a McGuffin as a trade federation) More newly discovered force powers - ghosts aren't blue and fuzzy any more! Domestic violence - or, why it's ok for Leia to slap Poe, but not for Poe to slap Holdo Further gender disparity - why it's ok for Rose to sacrifice herself but not for Finn to sacrifice himselfBut that's not all! Ships with no shields! Shields with no ships! Nazi impersonators! Backstabbing and betrayal! Red guard assault cloned from Tarantino! Ridiculousness in a casino! A horseback chase that would make PETA proud! The immortal Captain Phasma being irrelevant (again)! Slow bombers that have no need to go slow! Fishing!What more could you ask for... other than logic, continuity, and real heroism???

I feel like I am surrounded by robots. No one is human anymore. Are there any humans left? White flesh and blood, not brown and black and purple robots. Humans!!! People keep going to the cinema to watch these films by Disney and they are all awful. Not one good actor especially now that Leia is gone. The fat clone. The Fat East Asian chubby girl. The admiral who ordered every around but was clueless (I bet she likes curry). Lombray Ball is my man and he hated it too

Let me be clear - Lucas' prequels were worse as movies, had worse performances and technically looked like poor CGI. But at least those movies helped to establish Star Wars cannon and lore. They added worlds and characters, and helped to expand the universe we love. The Last Jedi, in comparison, is a parasite movie. It rides along on the lore it inherited, contributing nothing while consuming everything, it uses up and destroys lore and characters, but adds nothing. It's bungling director clear had no idea he was meant to take the baton, then pass it on.The Last Jedi ends pretty much exactly where it starts, minus a few characters that were unceremoniously killed off. Luke Skywalker dies for no real reason, Snoke dies for no reason and without ever being explained. Basically, we're supposed to take this as a changing of the guard, except the new generation of Star Wars characters, Rey and Ren, aren't even a shadow of the great heroes and villains of Star Wars of yore. The movie is a long boring sequence of failed attempts to do things, which ultimately fall flat, and eventually leave you wondering what the point was. There's no real character arc or progression for anyone, Rey basically teaches herself The Force because learning from Skywalker would be perpetuating a patriarchal construct. Kylo Ren is utter flaccid as a villain, he mostly yells and strains so hard you're worried he'll burst a blood vessel. Everyone else's performance serves no purpose and could have been edited out without affecting the final result of the movie. The forced humor is cringy, the forced love connection between Rose and Finn is cringy, the casino scene is straight of a cringy Lucas brainstorming session. Worst of all, this movie leaves no reason to want to watch its follow up. The characters and mystique that could have been are dead and gone. Ryan Johnson didn't just kill Luke Skywalker off pointlessly, he killed Star Wars. I will not be watching the next one, and I strongly urge you to do likewise.

Awful story with too much symbolism and taglines. Felt like a soap opera with expensive CG. 95% of the movie just confused everything we learned from the star wars universe prior to TLJ. This movie would better serve and april fools prank. I will never pay for another Star Wars Product or service ever again. #GaryStu Mary stu it doesn't matter the movie was just unrealistic in every way. Just another carboard butterfly in life. Some things are just better off left to the imagination then actually having another film.