What i liked
- Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, C3PO, R2, Chewie
- Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver
- the special effects
- Crait the old mining planet
- Ahch-To the island - that was really cool
- the cute animals, all of them - truly, I think they were
genuinely cute and fun
- the moment Kylo Ren decides to kill Snoke - this was great
(even if ripped off Return to the Jedi)
- the urst between Rey and Kylo Ren
- bit of that final battle on Crait with Rey and Chewie
zipping around in the Falcon
- all the broken down ships on Crait
- the character of Rose, except at the end (see below)
- the back story that Luke almost killed Kylo Ren (i really
liked this)
- the casino planet
What I liked in a campy way
- that woman with frizzy hair and long nose who looked like
a uni librarian who played the rebel officer
- all the talk about "turning people" - it was
like the galaxy of the gays (when are Poe and Finn going to get a room, Finn
seems sexually uninterested in any woman) and Rey was trying to lure Kylo Ren
to the joys of heterosexuality
What I was frustrated by but didn't necessarily hate
- no explanation about Snoke's backstory or Rey's backstory
("oh your parents were junk dealers")... we don't know if it's true,
it was so dramatically underwhelming
- Princess Leia suddenly developing the ability to fly
through space
- Laura Dern trying to pretend to be a bad ass admiral (I'm
all for women playing these roles but can they get someone who looks tough eg
Judi Dench, Joan Allen - Dern looked like a mother from Sydney's north shore)
- Rey and Kylo Ren doing most of their scenes by
intergalactic telephone
- John Boyega's bland "I feel nothing" performance
- the fact there was no explanation to DJ (Benico Del Toro)
being locked up in prison when it took him five seconds to get out
- BB-8 suddenly becoming this great fighter and killing all
these people
- Rose somehow knowing to fly when she was established as
someone who just worked in IT
What I hated
- all the repetitive dialogue
- the bad exposition (is it so hard to do?)
- the lack of narrative momentum
- the acting of Domhall Gleeson whose outrageous scenery
chewing threatens Hayden Christensen's rank as the worst lead actor in the
series
- not saying what happened to DJ
- not having Luke in person appear at the end
- not having Luke spend a decent amount of screen time with
other characters
- the fact the entire rebel army is effectively reduced to a
bunch of people who can fit in the Falcon (i got that right didn't I? they lost
all their ships and something like 99% of their fighting force and could fit
everyone on the Falcon? I know it's roomy but it ain't that roomy)
Most of all - the way all the characters acted like
irresponsible selfish illogical idiots
- Poe disobeys orders not once but twice, both times
endangering the fleet - why is he even in the films?
- Poe leads a mutiny against Holdo/Laura Dern - now I
love a good mutiny story but it's so poorly motivated, makes him look like an
idiot - they try to fix it by having Laura Dern go "I like him" but
why should she? Why have Poe keep his
plan to go to Canto Bight secret? Why
have Holdo keep her plan secret? It all felt like wasted screen time - why not
have Holdo as a turncoat villain? Why not have Poe as a villain? I'm not wild about stories stories where all the drama could be resolved by a simple chat
- Why have the plan to go to Canto Bight at all? To liberate a
horse? Give some kids a ring? Why not have Finn and Rose cross with Rey on
Snoke's ship ? Aren't they on there at the same time?
- Finn's going to do a noble suicide run to blow up the big
cannon on Crait - and Rose stops him! He's trying to save the rebellion and she
STOPS HIM because she's in love with him? Her actions endanger the whole
rebel alliance (including their own!!!) - it completely trashed a good
character.
- Luke goes out to meet the baddies - the reason being he's
trying to give the rebels time to get away only he decides not to tell anyone. Poe just guesses Guesses!
- When Luke goes out to fight Kylo Ren - Kylo calls a halt to the entire invading force so they can stop and duke it out
I've read the above being described as "subverting
expectations" and "doing the unexpected" but I think it was just poorly done.
I didn't mind the basic story - the stakes are the survival
of the fleet... Rey tries to get Luke to come out of retirement... there's a
mission to a casino planet... but it wasn't put well together.
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