Anyone else hate The Last Jedi as much as I did?

[INF Flux]

I went and saw The Last Jedi with a friend. We're both the age that we grew up with it. We just kinda didn't talk about it after the movie was over.
Time went by, Solo came out. Another friend asked if I wanted to go see it. I did not, to the extent that I made an excuse to get out of it. "Why?" I wondered, did I have no desire to see this.
I thought about TLJ and how my overwhelming thing on it was LONG, and the leia scene was weird. Then I watched a few reviews.
WOW, people really hate this movie. And they are right, the litany of flaws is extensive and in a few instances, breaks Star Wars. Holdo's hyperspace maneuver invalidates every other space battle in the series. Why not have a droid do it? Why not do it all the time?
The guy that we loved, a hero and role model, who believed in good so much that he threw away his sabre in the face of the emperor to save THE BIGGEST VILLAIN IN THE SERIES gets a bad feel about his nephew, tries to murder him in his sleep, then quits, hides, gives up hope and "waits to die"
How many plotlines that were set up were just chucked?
How many new story arcs were introduced for no reason that go nowhere and do nothing to advance the story?

Absolute rubbish and should be removed from the story arc.

 

[vostok]

Okay I know this movie is old by now to most of you, but I just got around to watching it on Net Flix. This is one heaping pile of dog shit. I mean one steaming grotesque peanut filled pile of dog shit. I never though that I would say this but I miss Jar Jar lol. I wasn't a fan of the last one, it was a new hope remake for sure, but at least it was bearable. I was wondering if I was all alone or if you all hated this movie as much as I do.

As Spielberg and his cronies say.......... 'they make 'em for 12 year olds'

check out Alpha or Upgrade

good luck

 

[curious2garden]

Anybody got any reviews for 1985?


I saw Jedi 35 years ago ffs.

 

[Fubard]

I went and saw The Last Jedi with a friend. We're both the age that we grew up with it. We just kinda didn't talk about it after the movie was over.
Time went by, Solo came out. Another friend asked if I wanted to go see it. I did not, to the extent that I made an excuse to get out of it. "Why?" I wondered, did I have no desire to see this.
I thought about TLJ and how my overwhelming thing on it was LONG, and the leia scene was weird. Then I watched a few reviews.
WOW, people really hate this movie. And they are right, the litany of flaws is extensive and in a few instances, breaks Star Wars. Holdo's hyperspace maneuver invalidates every other space battle in the series. Why not have a droid do it? Why not do it all the time?
The guy that we loved, a hero and role model, who believed in good so much that he threw away his sabre in the face of the emperor to save THE BIGGEST VILLAIN IN THE SERIES gets a bad feel about his nephew, tries to murder him in his sleep, then quits, hides, gives up hope and "waits to die"
How many plotlines that were set up were just chucked?
How many new story arcs were introduced for no reason that go nowhere and do nothing to advance the story?

Absolute rubbish and should be removed from the story arc.

This is what I don't understand. They could reboot the Star Trek franchise and make not only good movies with clear references to the originals, and then throw us things that go off on a tangent as "prequels" such as Discovery (am looking forward to season 2 of that, and am definitely curious about the Next Generation reboot as well), yet the Star Wars franchise is just a complete clusterfuck and I won't even watch any of them for free on the likes of Kodi.

But, then again, you look at the original Star Wars now and you realise how much they relied on effects as the scripts were not exactly the best so if the original concept was so flawed then there's not much that can be done to repair that without scrapping the whole franchise and starting from scratch.

Of course, the one thing to remember is that no matter how bad the franchise gets there is still an incredible number of people who will complain about every single aspect but will STILL go to see whatever garbage they throw out just because it has the "name", I think it's Disney who own the franchise now so they still get the money and as long as there's enough fools who wonder what shagging a wookie would be like that are willing to part with their money then the disaster will continue.

 

[kushedy]

Agreed, everything since the original 3 has been varying shades of shit. I think it's a case of the new stuff being dumbed down for its target audience, kids.
Story lines are simplified, full of holes & cheesy. I'm guessing Disney it's trying to get each generation hooked on is cgi sugar coated crap. Easily pleased plus kids are great at strong arming their parents into buying them star wars toys.

 

[Singlemalt]

If "they" rounded up some intelligent people, the "Dune"(Frank Herbert) stories, history and offshoots could make for a fantastic and long-lived franchise.

 

[curious2garden]

If "they" rounded up some intelligent people, the "Dune"(Frank Herbert) stories, history and offshoots could make for a fantastic and long-lived franchise.

Indeed!

 

[Fubard]

If "they" rounded up some intelligent people, the "Dune"(Frank Herbert) stories, history and offshoots could make for a fantastic and long-lived franchise.

Well, you had the movie, TV miniseries, the computer games, and in 2016 Legendary Entertainment, the people wot brought us the most recent Godzilla movie, Pacific Rim and Interstellar did announce a reboot with rumours being that the new movie being released at the end of next year.

So it looks like they're a little ahead of you.

Edit: Denis Villeneuve, the bloke behind Blade Runner 2049, has announced plans for at least two Dune movies, first one expected to take 2 years to make so given the date of the announcement we are expecting it at the end of next year or the start of 2020.