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I'll be the first to admit that "The Last Jedi" is flawed in a number of ways, but I was overjoyed at the amount of new ground that was broken in the film. It seems that the old adage is right that general audiences don't want anything new of sequels, they just want the same "feeling" the got from the first film to be repackaged. |
Literally nothing new was added to Episode 8 though. The entire film (minus the Rey and Luke parts, which took place over like a week) legit took place over the course of one day. The WHOLE movie was one giant slow car chase that didn't advance the plot at all. About 90% of the main characters were on there so the audience knew they were never in any danger. And even when they had the balls to kill off Leia she becomes superman and miraculously still lives, I was willing to accept that part cause maybe in a life or death situation her innate force abilities kicked in.
But still, the whole movie was slow paced, boring, Poe & Finn's side arc had nothing going for it and ended up being completely worthless. Kylo Ren's characterization was cool, especially after he killed Snoke (tbh Kylo matured a bit in this film and I think that's one of the few things that this movie delivered on for the fans) BUT AFTER KILLING SNOKE HE LEGIT WENT RIGHT BACK TO WHERE HE STARTED. You think he's about to team up with Rey? Nope, he's still evil and everything he just did was for nothing. And while we're on that was the laziest writing ever, you take one of the most mysterious characters in Star Wars history (Snoke) and kill him off for a slight characterization of Kylo (which as we just saw, proves to be completely useless) This film destroyed everything Episode 7 worked to create. Not to mention, legitimately nothing happened.
Oh also they destroyed literally all of Luke's characterization in Episode 6. "The Jedi need to come to an end, the force is not there's to keep." -- Umm yeah, that's why the Jedi Order was about keeping the peace and keeping the BALANCE of the force, not only the light side, God it's like Rian Johnson never even watched Episodes 1-3. Not to mention Luke's characterization in Episode 6 is that he's the perfect Jedi, the perfect good, so him thinking of assassinating Kylo is just plain retarded, they changed his character for the worse, also him running off cause he failed after isn't Luke at all. Remember in Episode 5 when he left Dagobah to save his friends? Knowing that he was walking into Vader's trap? Yeah, THAT'S Luke, he wouldn't run and hide after failing Han and Leia's kid, he'd stay there to help his friends. Also if he didn't want to be found why would he leave a map? It destroys the whole point of Episode 7, the rebellion was betting it all on that.
Those are but a few of my complaints. As a whole, Episode 8 is undoubtedly the weakest Star Wars to date, it wasn't terrible, there were like one or two good parts (good, not great) that I didn't mind (The Yoda scene and Kylo choosing not to kill Leia being the two). That being said, this wasn't a good movie, let alone a good Star Wars movie, not even close.
