The Last Jedi

If you haven't seen it. Stop reading. Click out of this thread.

I enjoyed, and really liked Rogue One. I think if I were to score it out of 10, I would give it a 9. I even really liked The Force Awakens, On the same scoring level, I would give it an 8 out of 10. There were a few things I didn't like but those complaints were so minor I can look past them.

However; Ive seen the Last Jedi twice now. After the first time, I was pretty down. So I decided to see it a second time just to make sure how I felt about it.

On the same rating scale out of 10, I give it a 2. WOW a 2 out of 10? Seriously? That seems pretty bad right? Was it really that bad?

It has few really good moments and a **** ton of terrible moments. Lots of slap stick knee slapping jokes. I don't mind a few of these but they kept repeating them.

There was a bout seven plot dead ends. Points in the story that if you had removed them, would have in no way affected the story or outcome in any way.

The entire casino branch side mission to find the code breaker, could have been removed from the film. They end up where they needed to be anyways. They didn't even need the code breaker at all.

I think the character Rose was shallow and only in the movie as an attempt to fulfill some kind of politically correct request to have more minorities in big films. I didn't care about her character even though I was hoping that she would be something new to experience.

Fin takes a back seat to her when she makes her appearance. That doesn't make any sense. We just watched him kick so much ass in the Force Awakens but now that we meet Rose, Fin becomes helpless and clueless?? Seriously? It seems so convoluted and contrived that it is obvious they needed to roll Fin back so they could establish Rose as some kind of kick ass hero. It was clearly obvious but it fails for me.

Not to mention the constant tear jerker moments. When Leia dies in space? But then doesn't. Or when Fin is about to sacrifice himself to destroy the weapon, but then doesn't die. They do it immediately with this really quick Rose "death" scene right after, but NOPE she's not dead. We see her later just sleeping. Seriously?

That whole confrontation between the trapped Rebels and the incoming Empire seems so convoluted. The Rebels get in rickety ships that take twenty minutes to reach the Empire's weapons? The movie seems to pause like a chess match.

The empire moves their pawn. Then we wait for ten minutes in the movie to see what the Rebels do. They move their pawn while the Empire waits. Then the Empires turn comes. The whole thing seems to pause and start, pause and start.

You almost forget that there is a war going on at moments. Because they have paused the war so they can lead you down a plot dead end that is pointless to the actual story. Just like when Poe decides to mutiny only to be shot by Leia who wakes up from her injuries. That whole series of events didn't even need to take place. They could have cut it from the film and you wouldn't have felt as if something was missing.

Over all I felt like the story seems to have been written by four or five writers all working independently on parts of the story. Then when they all finished their parts they got together to figure out how to tie each of their pieces together. It really feels like 3 or 4 movies in one. Where they are each drastically different. With their own feel. But it doesn't work in a good way.

Here is another aspect to a very cheap and failure of pay off. When Rey is in the cave of fears, there is a massive build up. We are about to learn who her parents are! She's figuring out the cave of fears, how it works. She gets all the way up to the stone of seeing and shes begging to learn the information. But nope, all we get are dark figures and her face. Nothing. Robbed of a scene completely. A huge build up with zero pay out. We learned nothing from it.

Then they build us up again when shes facing off with Kylo. Yay! Now we will get to learn who her parents are. Wait what? Is Kylo ******* with her? Is he lying? Her parents were just nobodies? They sold her off to make money? They were assholes? Rey's parents were shitty parents? That's it?? This huge build up twice to learn that they were just alcoholics looking for a way to get a little more money?

Then Kylo expects by telling Rey that her parents were assholes that she would join him? But she watched Kylo murder his own father in cold blood. Rey was close to Han, she looked at him like a father figure, someone to admire and look up to as a role model. She is tempted by Kylo? That doesn't make any sense. What girl in the entire universe would join a bad guy after he tells her, that her parents were assholes who abandoned her?

This is getting long. Probably no one is going to care to read most of it. If even half. So I might as well stop now before it becomes a novel in of itself. I am trying to justify the 2 out of 10. I can go on and on how it deserves such a low rating.

But like I said, I loved Rogue One and I really enjoyed The Force Awakens. It's just that the Last Jedi was a major disappointment.