(12-28-2017, 10:31 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(12-28-2017, 10:48 AM)UCF Knight Wrote: Finally saw it yesterday and in general everyone we were with really liked it, even my wife.  Were there things that needed explaining, yes, but it was relatively entertaining.

Hated the way Luke died.  The Leia floating in the sky was equally as bad.  Would have been a great way to let her go in the movies.  She should have been let go and kept Luke.  Also, how did Finn go from not knowing how to fly a plane to being one of the better pilots in the crew, especially on an old rickety plane?  I'm easily able to suspend reality in movies so its not a big deal, but the writing was bad in many cases.  Wish he wasn't involved in the future.

I do think the casino scene was a semi political stance, but again, not a big deal.

-I think there was quite a bit of politics in it. I kept thinking, why on earth is this even being addressed? 
-The Leia flying thing was full [BLEEP] mode. Or maybe a "jumped the shark" thing. 
-Finn and Poe being sidelined for unnecessary storylines was equally ridiculous.  Was Laura Dern's character needed? Leia should have done that. But as I said before, Leia's movie (Han's was TFA and TLJ was Luke's) was supposed to be the third one but Carrie Fisher died so....

I read yesterday that the fellow who wrote and directed this film is going to write and direct the next trilogy.

I had a long paragraph typed out about how they cast the movie and which characters they chose for what roles and decided it may have been a little too out there for this section.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/de...chdel-test

That article kind of proves my point for me.  I think the "feminist" approach is what turned many people off to this movie.  The Vice Admiral Holdo that is given credit in this article was hated and a demeaning character by every single character I've talked to.  Rose was another character that I found to be awful. 

The fact that this article says this is "class Star Wars" while killing off the classic character is kind of funny.  Maybe its why the critics had the film graded at over 90% and the actual audience had it hovering around 50%.  If Disney or this director don't figure out what the audience wants, this series is going to fall apart and their goldmine is going to fall apart.

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