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Bayushiseni
Episodes 1, 2 and 3 were lousy but at least in them George Lucas tried to tell a different story inserted in the same universe. He made wrong choices but he had the guts to try something different.In episode 7 and 8 the creative minds just copied (to the worse) Episode 4 and 5. Episode 7 is a copy of episode 4 with everything overblown in proportion but dumb.
Episode 8 starts with the evacuation of the rebel base... Mmmm where have we seen this? And ended with the hope of the last few ones... Mmmm... Where have we seen this?
But where episode 4 and 5 are spectacularly crafted, without any pointless scenes or weaknesses in characters, plot and character evolution, these new beefed and highly tech episodes are a sad comparison when we put them side by side.
The Empire Strikes Back is, IMHO, the best film of the first trilogy (and therefore the best of them all), and this feeble copy cannot compare in any way.
The final confrontation scene with Luke is really good and what shows more than anything else is how hollow Kylo Ren is.
Fifth lost opportunity in an universe that offers so much...
moldypoldy
Absolutely gorgeous film. Didn't really feel like Star Wars. frankqb nails why.DisneyStitch
I liked it better than Force Awakens even though I think I might have mentally asked myself "what is going on?" more times than the previous movie. The character arcs are all over the place, just when we think we might actually get some explanations from the previous film, the director appears to reply "Nah, don't pay attention to that, forget that happened in the last movie, or sorry no sequel for that character." It's action packed, but I'm sorry to say a good deal of the magic has left the Star Wars franchise. The visuals, however, are simply breathtaking. The CGI certainly doesn't fry your brain here. The humor is straight out of a Marvel film, you could literally piece the lines into any Marvel offering and you'd never tell the difference.Whether or not JJ Abrams crippled this movie by providing a shaky foundation with Force Awakens is debatable but it brings me almost to tears that I now have to "check my brain at the door" in order to enjoy a Star Wars movie. Heart wrenching...
Character development is quite possibly the main point that sinks the film. Who is Supreme leader Snoke? We have no idea, and who cares now that he's dead? Why does Captain Phasma have even less screen time and things to do in this film than the last one? Once again the answers don't exist. Who actually is General Hux? Sorry, he's as cardboard a character as they come. How can Rey still do so much with the Force without being trained at all (Luke finally gives in to give her a few lessons, then doesn't even bother?) Lets be honest, Kylo has never been a threat to Rey's abilities, why start now?
To make matters worse, character decisions are all over the place. Why did Rose decide to save Finn? She didn't know Luke was going to show up, so she effectively prevents Finn from sacrificing himself so that... everybody dies. It's almost as if the people writing the script never actually asked questions as to why characters would do what they did, they just didn't care.
The running theme with Disney Star Wars seems to be that the Force doesn't mean anything anymore. The rules and boundaries that were set forth in 6 films mean absolutely nothing. Any force-sensitive can now become more skilled in the course of 2 weeks with no training than Grand Master Yoda in 900 years... It just simply makes no sense and no explanation has been given. I don't know what kind of trilogy Disney is making but it isn't Star Wars y'all.
Peeorpoo
Another Hollywood movie with a forced romance subplot.Dawizz
Calling this "movie" a train wreck is insulting to train wrecks. The last act is trying very, very hard to be an Empire Strikes Back, that is laughable. Why is Rose here? Oh yeah the Chinese market... Oh andeumer
Boring.... can’t believe that these kind of movies are made nowadays... especially with the budget they have.- standard movie formula
- too long
- bad script
+ the humor
Skip if you want to save time ;)
armyofshadows
Bad.BenShee
Themes of this movie:1. More "diversity", both in cutesy animals (both CG and puppetlike), worlds
2. Epic space battles, with ships that get bigger and bigger.
3. Somewhat shoehorned romance.
4. Mark Hamill being awesome.
5. Quite a fair amount of philosophical navel gazing...
6. Rey and Kylo Ren's arcs developing well.
7. Animal activism.
8. Rian Johnson throwing away a bunch mysteries JJ Abrams put in.
9. Humour that was usually funny.
10. Hope for the future of the series.
chunkylefunga
Average film.Where the originals actually had a decent plot the new star wars has become part of the generic superhero franchise.
Forced romance, forced humour, not subtlety at all.
Sure the last 30 minutes was good but the other 2 hours were very slow. Might have been decent if it were 90 minutes long.
There's a reason why Mark Hamill publically stated that he disagreed with the direction the movie takes Luke to.
danisanna
Awesome.Emiam
-7/10Thus, the movie was about to get a straight four, but the fact that this "saga" never ends and becomes a new boxing cow, lowers the score! When. Ever. Should the rebels be those who are strong? Who chases? Who wins fight afterfight and destroy the evil? In every movie at the end, the hope is that more rebels will join and THEN, at least, the final fight will be... I'm more and more tired of every good-looking movie like this.
In spite of all above, it's good CGI and as good as Rogue One, and yes - a bit unpredictable. Still want it in the movie collection.
atomicelmo
5/10palefire
The Last Jedi does a great job at exploring the complexity of the light, grey and dark sides of the force with a nuanced Kyo Red and Luke Skywalker, but otherwise lacks creativity and imagination. An interesting contrast to this film is Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets- which does a much more creative and fleshed out world but lacks the wish-fulfillment of seeing jedis and sith.Paravail
I didn't like this film. I think I hated it. It had this "out with the old, in with the new" mentality that seemed to express itself as "screw everything the fans like." There's a lot of rather nasty subversion of expectation. I get that the director wanted to keep things from getting stale, but this movie seems to really despise what Star Wars is about. It does away with chosen-one narratives, the duality of good and evil, and the nobility of sacrifice. It's a much more modern and less traditional film than what Star Wars usually is. And that's the problem. Star Wars isn't about moral grayness and how crappy reality can be. People forget this, but the first Star Wars came about at the tail end of almost two decades of constantly social and cultural upheaval. It was an intentionally old-school film mimicking the techniques of 1930's action serials. It succeeded because it gave people an escapist fantasy of unambiguous good and evil. It was a comforting movie, one that gave people hope and optimism. It wasn't some innovative deconstruction with social commentary shoehorned in. I really liked The Force Awakens because it understood what Star Wars is and why people like. This movie seems to want to pretend like the Force Awakens didn't happen. I'm sure plenty of critics and intellectuals will praise this movie for its "boldness" and "innovation." I'm just left wondering why Rian Johnson wanted to make Star Wars into something it's not.Base994
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