Last Jedi Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Is Lower Than Justice League

Movieweb ^ | December 15, 2017 | Ryan Scott

[EdnaMode]

I just saw the movie and thought it was an improvement over Force Awakens. It was very similar to the recent Battlestar Galactica series at times.

[jdsteel]

I just saw it. It was EXCELLENT!!!!

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe this will force them to reconsider their idea of making parts 10-12 at the non-end of this repetitive space opera.

Lemme guess, time to build another “Death Star”.

[Night Hides Not]

I took my 7 YO grandson to see it yesterday. We saw the 3D version, and he absolutely LOVED it! That's good enough for me.

Rotten Tomatoes is a contra-indicator in my book.

[Boomer]

I thought it was okay. Pretty much in line with many of the other Star Wars movies. I wouldn’t say it was the best or worst. Probably somewhere around a 7 on a 1-10 scale.

[Architect of Avalon]

Is Luke Rey’s father?

Does Rey turn to the dark side?

[Kirkwood]

Rotten tomatoes is no longer reliable. Mostly trolls.

[Ciaphas Cain]

The haters either insist that "It's too derivative!" or that "It's too different!"

There is no winning that game.

Saw it on opening night. The Last Jedi is easily the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back. It's dark and daring, not afraid to defy expectations, and it's also got lots of well-timed humor. This movie rattled the cage hard and maybe that's why some people can't take it.

It also seems to have backpedaled away from the social justice crap. By the end of the film it looks like that "Poe and Finn gay romance" is not going to happen. Maybe Disney got the message: most of their box office is coming from that massive swath of red across America last election. And a lot of them are families who will NOT want their kids to see a "Finn and Poe Husband and Husband 2-Figure Set" on the pegs at Toys R Us.

[Yardstick]

I thought the last one was better than the prequels (which isn’t saying much) but well short of the originals.

A friend of mine is taking his kids to see the latest one tonight. He’s hoping to replicate the 1977 experience he had seeing the movie with his dad. I trust his judgement on movies so will be interesting to hear his verdict.

[Architect of Avalon]

Kathleen Kennedy should give complete creative control of the next trilogy to Peter Jackson.

[freepertoo]

Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker, himself, hates it. Good enough for me.

[xp38]

An improvement over The Force Awakens is a low bar to get over.

[RooRoobird20]

I give it a B minus. For one thing, it was too long.

There are also no really good memorable new characters.

Kylo is 1/1000th the villain that Darth Vadar was. But of course there will never be any villain who is in the same league as Darth Vadar.

Carrie Fisher looked like an 80 year old woman with ill-fitting dentures, very sad to see her that way. Leia was always a feisty spitfire, there was none of that spark in her character.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Never put any stock in rotten tomatoes - entire premise is a joke - you’re right - trolls. I’m no fan of any SW movie made after 1984 (or whenever Empire was made).

[escapefromboston]

The movie was way too long and the entire part with Space Vegas was pointless. Every part with Mark Hamill was great though. Really the RT score is ridiculous...critics have it at 92% (at a 8/10 average) and audiences have it at 55%.
How does a professional critic say “its better than Empire Strikes Back”? Thats absurd.
Just like the audiences hating on it is way overblown. Its an average film.

[EdnaMode]

I just saw on Deadline that some bots affected the score.

[Huskrrrr]

“Lemme guess, time to build another “Death Star”.

Those empire dudes will never learn.

[Scooter100]

I don’t know....is it just me? Or is 7 years old a bit young for such visual mayhem?

[Vince Ferrer]

I saw it on opening day, with a lot of empty seats available.

I confess I am really on the fence as to whether I liked it or not. It is a remake of the Empire Strikes back, with some Return of the Jedi thrown in. It also reminds me of the remakes of both Robocop and Total Recall. The remakes kind of hit the same plot points as the originals, but go off on different tangents, for no logical reason other than to be different from the original. It left me with kind of a confusing blend of nostalgia and boredom.

But there were some good parts, including Luke's opinion the Jedi should just be allowed to end. The opinion that the force creates an endless conflict of light/dark kind of mirrors Disney's decision to pump out Star Wars movies every year. So I guess the dark side is really a metaphor for Disney.

[pcottraux]

It’s a fantastic movie. However, it will divide fans, no doubt about that.

(Just like Empire Strikes Back did when it first came out. It took time for people to realize it was the greatest movie in the franchise).

I think time will vindicate Last Jedi. It’s a controversial movie that challenges Star Wars to go in an unexpected direction. Fans typically don’t like that sort of stuff at first.