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[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

i was shocked to go online and see mountains of hate for The Last Jedi. i thought it was amazing

[-] crimsdings@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You should see a doctor immediately - something is obviously wrong with you.

Jk, enjoy whatever you want, I am not the gatekeeper of your enjoyment but understand you are definitely wrong in this one :)

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

i disagree. everybody is wrong except me. about all things i am opinionated on

[-] chriscrutch@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I never got that either. It's clearly the best of the three from the new trilogy. I mean, low bar, but still

[-] mub@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Funny it was the opposite for me.

Every five minutes I had to stop myself from going "What the fuck?!" Out loud in the theaters.

Like the story is nonsensical, characters go full stupid in every possible scene, there are multiple massive issues with time and character location, the plot breaks the previously established rules of the universe, character development on old and new characters is just dumped for plot convenience, Rey becomes even more of a Mary Sue than she already was. I could go on, it's just a massive shit on the previous films.

Watching it feels like you let a freshman film student direct a plot that was written by a committee of toddlers. I don't see how it's a good movie let alone a good entry into the Star wars franchise.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It was the best of its trilogy and most criticism is complete nonsense, but it still wasn't a great movie. An anti-war deconstruction of Star Wars got made into an actual Star Wars. And that was probably fantastic at one point, but the edit we got was soured by obvious corporate meddling - like the 'whoops, nevermind' ending.

Three simple things would've saved it.

One, end the Rey / Kylo story immediately after their fight together. 'Join me.' Tense silence. No more Rey until the next movie.

Two, have some shellshocked nobody find the crystal fox things and save the good guys. She doesn't need lines. She doesn't need a name. The Force is in all living things. Anyone can be a hero.

Three, don't hand the finale back to JJ fucking Abrams.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

rise of skywalker fucked up everything. they tried to appease the fans and it failed big time

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's a plot faucet. From an old discussion elsewhere:

Spreading 9 across two movies could not have helped. Sudden introduction was not the problem with a rehash of ROTJ and AOTC - quadrupling down on the Death Star lasers while also pulling a secret army out of thin air. Multiple fake-out deaths would be so much worse if they kept happening in two films. Giving people time to think about the macguffin chase could only make it sillier. They need a map in a thing from a guy who's dead but has a knife matching ruins so it's a map to the thing and they don't even get it. But somehow they manage to fly through a rehash of the clouds from Solo, to where a zillion ships rely on one radio tower, and their brilliant plan for a wild-west shootout atop a spaceship - with horses! - completely fails until two zillion ships fly in to help. They just fly in. Through the secret cloud maze. Which is so un-navigable that it's the only thing keeping the bad guys in, because spaceships can't look up.

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