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So, I thought this movie was the most acceptable of all the Disney ones by blackwater 01/10/2018, 3:30pm PST
The Force Awakens was a crude rehash of the original trilogy. Rogue One was way too dark. The Last Jedi was... vaguely acceptable? Even entertaining.

But yeah, everything Rafiki said is basically 100% correct.

The Force was a lot cooler when it was a mystical kung fu power that you could develop by training under ancient masters. Now it's just a mutant power that you either have or you don't, same as X-Men. But X-Men at least had interesting and different powers. "The Force" is now basically just whatever plot armor is needed. Yoda doesn't even give a shit about the ancient texts any more, because lighten up maaaaan.

The original movies had the romantic tension between Han and Leia, plus the family drama between Luke and Darth Vader. This movie has... Rey, who never expresses an emotion, Finn, the fat Asian girl, and a bunch of other forgettable characters.

I guess the interaction between Kylo Ren and Rey is probably the most interesting character development in the whole movie. But it's really only development on Kylo's side, because Rey continues to have no defining character attributes. It's also... kind of predictable? Kylo turning good would have been too obvious, as well as being a blatant rip-off of the original trilogy.

They tried really hard to make this movie less predictable. Too hard, as Rafiki noted. There's a lot of WHAT A TWEEST moments with the rebel commander, Luke's hologram, and so forth.

I don't usually have a lot of sympathy for star wars NEEEEEEERDs. But I will say one thing: if they had just taken any random fanfic from the expanded universe and made it into a series, it probably would have been better than this crap.
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So - The Last Jedi NT by What a goatfuck 12/15/2017, 11:41am PST NEW
    Tell me about it! by Mark Hamill 12/15/2017, 11:53am PST NEW
    Not a surprise by fabio 12/15/2017, 11:54am PST NEW
        MILD SPOILERS FAGS by What a goatfuck. 12/15/2017, 6:32pm PST NEW
            Re: MILD SPOILERS FAGS by A total lawyer 12/15/2017, 9:54pm PST NEW
                You got me. That doesn't happen in the movie. NT by What a goatfuck. 12/15/2017, 10:18pm PST NEW
        Did you review the last couple Star Wars movies? by Jerry Whorebach 12/01/2019, 7:51pm PST NEW
            Poe Gameron is 5'8'', that's a midheight NT by NORMAL 12/01/2019, 9:19pm PST NEW
                Next you're going to tell me Rose Tico has a "normal" bodyweight and ethnicity. by Jerry Whorebach 12/01/2019, 10:01pm PST NEW
    It's funny when there are hijinx. :( (spoilers) by Rafiki 12/26/2017, 9:49pm PST NEW
        I love this Luke meme by What a goatfuck. 12/30/2017, 2:40pm PST NEW
    So, I thought this movie was the most acceptable of all the Disney ones by blackwater 01/10/2018, 3:30pm PST NEW
    Is the rest of the franchise going to be like this? by Sfia 01/10/2018, 9:52pm PST NEW
    I love Rian Johnson, but this was terrible. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/02/2018, 3:17pm PST NEW
    TLJ the latest target of Weaponizing The Haters by It's pretty bad 10/02/2018, 3:53pm PDT NEW
        Darn ol' Russians hacked Robert Iger by Damage Control Twitter Analyst 10/02/2018, 10:16pm PDT NEW
            Yes, please, just let Star Wars die. by blackwater 10/03/2018, 5:21pm PDT NEW
                "Don't they have a vault" is truly the best take by Vested Id 10/03/2018, 6:33pm PDT NEW
 
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