I posted this on reddit, but this pretty much sums up my feelings.
So many bizarre decisions with this movie. I am genuinely baffled at what I just watched and the fact that this movie has almost zero negative reviews.
I felt they had so many opportunities to make this trilogy interesting story wise, but botched it every single time. At the end we are basically at square one with the numbers trimmed down on both sides. And what exactly did the tracking device side story accomplish? It basically amounted to nothing because the admiral didn't feel like telling anyone her plan. And why did some random other codemaster happen to just be in their cell?
And Why did Snoke this incredibly powerful Sith Lord die to something so stupidly obvious. I came into this movie thinking he was this mysterious character that could have interesting motivations or schemes or something, anything. But no, he is completely discardable other than the fact that he had gotten into Kylo's head back when he was training with Luke.
And there was so many moments where they pretend like they are killing someone, but don't. Like Leia magically flying, Finn getting stopped at the last second (that entire thing was so comically cliche), Luke getting cut in half, Luke getting bombarded with lasers.
Also, the non stop fan service. Like fucking constantly. I don't need to see cute guinea pig things 20 different times.
Or the non stop comedy, even in supposedly serious moments. I felt like we never went 5 min without some kind of joke. They did have a few that were fantastic, but most of it was just out of place and absurd (ie Lightsaber toss over the shoulder).
I will say this movie is beautiful. It had some incredibly powerful and artistic imagery that I appreciated. I do like some of the plot ideas, such as Luke failing Kylo, or that Rey empathizes with Kylo and may join him. But as I said, they played it safe and left us with very obvious Good vs Bad in the end, moving the plot nowhere. I feel like they wanted to make it crazy and do all these wild things, but in the end it is all for nothing because they are afraid to make the same leap when it comes to the overall story. They chickened out and it sucks.
Also, wtf is with luke disappearing at the end? Fine I'll let him do his force hologram stuff, but just coming to peace with himself and vanishing from existence? Such a strange fucking movie.
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