I just saw it. It was EXCELLENT!!!!
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”.
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.
Is Luke Rey’s father?
Does Rey turn to the dark side?
Rotten tomatoes is no longer reliable. Mostly trolls.
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.
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.
An improvement over The Force Awakens is a low bar to get over.
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.
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.
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.
It wasn’t bad, generally a good movie, however there is a new character that is insanely poorly written and acted... and a subplot in the film involving that same character that is also poorly written and executed.... it comes across as forced.. in fact it’s almost like watching one of the prequels during these scenes...
But overall a good film... but it sadly does seem to generally suffer from trying to push shades of gray rather than absolute and good and evil in the larger context... and that’s just not Star Wars, and probably why it’s not gotten great reception.
The last Jedi?
dead is Yoda?
My kids (10 / 14 ) and I really enjoyed it.
My son said he got annoyed at one point because it seemed like it was a retelling of the same plot from the originals, then it deviates enough to satisfy him.
I kept thinking: this must be the end, so much has happened. Then way more happened.
It was a movie packed with plots, subplots and character development, IMO
Proudly stating that I haven’t seen a ‘Star Wars ANYTHING’ yet, and don’t intend to.
I saw the movie yesterday. Like many Star Wars fans I was really looking forward to it, but I’ve had this increasing sense of disappointment since The Force Awakens and Rogue One came out. All of the movies are visually superb - the special effects are amazing, flawless. I just am not really enjoying the stories that much.
As much as I like Daisy Ridley the actress (she seems like a sweetheard), I just don’t care much about what happens to her character Rey. I’m far more interested in Ben Solo as a character and I’m not exactly impressed by him either.
The Space Vegas sequence was useless and annoying.
I don’t like the character Finn much. I feel no attachment to him at all.
I care nothing for Rose. Her character is nothing but a politically correct affirmative action addition anyway.
Laura Dern was a vice admiral but apparently has an evening gown for a uniform.
The whole “running out of fuel” angle was insipid.
We learned NOTHING about Snoke when he was the only character with any real mystery about him (Rey’s only mystery was the identity of her parents). I realize we learned almost nothing about Emperor Palpatine in the original trilogy but Snoke obviously had even more history to him and we learned none of it! We weren’t even given any hints.
I loved Carrie Fisher but she could barely make it through her scenes it seemed. Drugs, alcohol and cigarettes had devastated her. She was 58/59 and looked 15 years older.
Benicio Del Toro was good but it would have been great if he had not turned out to be a betrayer. He could have been a wonderful addition to the series as a con man type pulling together some of the character traits of Lando Calrissian and Han Solo. But they just made him a bad guy for a segment that was terribly contrived and unnecessary. It was as if they were trying to fill time. Oh, and I guess they needed another Hispanic. Maybe Oscar Isaac isn’t enough these days.
And ENOUGH of the endless “girl power” crap. Please! Enough!
I did enjoy the scenes that were clearly made for fans of the original trilogy: Luke meeting with Leia and R2, etc.
Then there are the really big issues in the Star Wars universe. Everyone thought that the series was movie away from Jedi vs Sith, Light vs. Dark and heading toward the “gray” and “balanced” view of The Force that has been part of Star Wars books since about 2000. But now that Rey is a Jedi - rather than Luke being the “Last Jedi” - I’m not sure where the series is going.
I enjoyed most of the Star Wars movies, especially the earlier ones. But this one sounds too melancholy to see. I think I’ll skip this one.