One of the most annoying things was the fact that the best scene - the hyperspace kamikaze - was wasted on the worst character to ever appear in a Star Wars movie, instead of being given to Admiral Ackbar, a fan favourite and established character, who was instead killed off-screen and referenced in one line of dialogue. As terrible as The Force Awakens was, it’s made retroactively worse in the knowledge that none of the mysteries it introduces actually matter, and yet we’re stuck with these godawful characters and status quo. Abrams’ slightly less awful predecessor - Rey the Mary Sue, emo Kylo Ren, the existence of the First Order completely invalidating the defeat of the Empire and the entire original trilogy - but Johnson somehow manages to make everything worse.įrom unceremoniously killing off Snoke to dismissing the importance of Rey’s parentage to turning the ending of The Force Awakens into a literal throwaway joke by having Luke chuck the lightsaber, The Last Jedi is almost painfully self-aware in rejecting the previous film.īut in doing so, it feels like Johnson is rebooting the new trilogy in the second film. To be fair, many of the problems were inherited from J.J. Let’s fly back to the galaxy far, far away where Star Wars movies were good. He called him a crazy old man and laughed behind his back. “I’ve never met a JEDI HERO before!” Oh wait, that didn’t happen either. “I’m just a lowly smuggler,” he giggles nervously.

Or what about the iconic scene in the Mos Eisley Cantina where Han Solo meets Obi Wan for the first time. Owen and Beru get killed, Luke arrives just in time to find their charred bodies, looks sad for a second and tells Obi Wan, “I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.” Then he f***ing gets on with it and doesn’t cry like a for two-and-a-half hours. Today, under the rule of the Disney Social Justice Empire, Star Wars movies feature boring characters standing around giving cringe-worthy motivational speeches and crying.ĭoes anyone remember the scene in A New Hope where Luke Skywalker, sniffling as tears stream down his face, gives a two-minute monologue to Obi Wan Kenobi about his childhood and how the Evil Empire killed his uncle Owen and aunt Beru and how he hates, HATES them and they’ll never get away with it and he’s going to RESIST, as music swells and the camera cuts to Obi Wan’s face beaming with pride? They featured interesting characters doing cool stuff - flying spaceships, shooting laser guns, rescuing princesses from evil space knights. A LONG time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars movies used to be good.

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