LOL
Asked my adult son if he thought the movie worth the price of admission. He was lukewarm at best and said the movie seemed to have about 30 min of ‘filler’ to stretch the runtime.
My grandchildren (age 9 and 13) were less kind.
“it sucked” was one opinion and the other? “Sucked rocks, just stupid, dumb characters and no plot” The funnest comment was the head villain wasn’t evil, just whiny” Harsh.
Nothing like Corporate bean counters to kill any chance at a real story.
The Star Wars franchise is dead. The Last Jedi has the stench to prove that.
The director of TLJ isn’t making Episode IX, so don’t give up hope just yet.
The earlier scenes with Kylo Ren I could forgive as evil in training, waffling. Kill the evil overlord that can sense your actions to save Ren and then having Ren reject him, I expected to turn him totally over to evil.
And he was still a weak, whiny guy! No anger, rage, certainty. He remained a whiny boy-man, evil only in the way liberal racists say all white guys are evil because they cannot distinguish competency from tyranny. Yet they still fail because the “bad guy” is tyrannical but incompetent.
The originals hold a lot of nostalgia for me. I saw “Empire” with my father in the movie theater. He is now 90 in a nearby nursing home. He has always been distant and not a particularly involved father and this is one of the few memories I have of us doing something together. My mother now deceased made popcorn and we snuck it in, just my dad and I watching to see Luke and Vader battle it out.
I read the spoilers and can’t bear to see what Disney has done to this American movie that somehow captures our inner yearning for heroes that channel all that is good to defeat evil. There is real evil in the world and often it seems to win. A movie with a hero that defeats that evil and redeems it makes us cheer. I have no interest in watching 2017 Hollywood decide that in the end maybe it wasn’t a victory after all.