Originally posted by -Pr-
I think anyone saying that this movie is pure, unmitigated shit is overstating it. Anyone saying it's as good as Empire though, is doing the same imo.The truth of it lies in the middle. For me, it was disappointing and had some real issues, but I can see why people would like it regardless. It's certainly not the worst blockbuster this year.
And, let's be fair: It IS Star Wars.
Saw TLJ Thursday, pretty much agree with this TL;DR review. Is it the best Star Wars movie? No. Does it have some bad stuff? Yeah. To me, it was a really good, not great, film to put in the canon.
Jaden also had a post that I agree with close to 100%.
My recap:
Spoiler:
- Visually it was beautiful.
- Plot premise was interesting (slow siege happening while heroes fight against time to rescue everyone), but what happened from VII to VIII that caused the Resistance to go from "we just destroyed a planet-sized Death Star" to "well, this is it. Let's make one last attempt to escape"? Did I miss something?
- The opening bombing run to Leia Superman force pull was good enough to get me invested.
- First half of the movie that concentrated on Luke, Rey, and Kylo = great.
- First half of the movie that concentrated on Finn and Rose in the casino = worst sequence in Star Wars history not involving a character named Jar Jar.
- Second half with Kylo killing Snoke, the escape from the First Order, Laura Dern hyperspeeding the cruiser through the Star Destroyer, Luke vs Kylo final showdown to Luke force ghosting, all of it was sublime minus maybe the shoehorned elements of Phasma fight and Rose/Finn are an item.
EDIT: For dat dere spoilers.
One thing I was wondering, maybe someone could shed some light on it for me: What's with the whole "they tried new things" comments? Because of the Force and the balance and such? Rey's heritage? Kylo not being the new Vader?
I've heard someone say it's the whole "they keep failing" thing, but Empire did that already. I mean seriously, watch it. Han, Leia and Chewie are constantly going from one bad situation to another after the ass-kicking they get on Hoth. Not to mention Luke ****ing off during his training and getting mutilated by Vader.
RT's "Scores" are really kind of Crap.
Originally posted by Darth Thor
Yep. I’ve been trying to convince people who haven’t seen it to watch it today. But they’re all like “after Christmas”But tbf some of them are saying they’ve been put off by bad reviews. Which is strange given it’s RT score.
...wow. That is sad. And kind of points out where your actual priorities lay.