I liked this quite a bit. Lots of great stuff in it. I loved the character-building, and I liked that the movie wasn’t afraid to break things in the Star Wars universe.
Overall, it’s a thumbs-up from me.
That said, this movie may have one of the silliest and off-putting openings of any Star Wars film, and it has one of the dumbest scenes ever put to the big screen.
Yeah, it starts off pretty rough. It’s like there’s 2 movies happening - the one the Disney focus group assured stockholders would be profitable and another one that was poised to truly fuck your shit up, if only it wasn’t contractually required to include the other one.
Still: so many WHAT?! Moments. Like genuine surprise. Nice to see that Star Wars can still drop my jaw after all these years. And as cheesy as that “appeal to the kids” scene is probably gonna play for many people, I almost teared up.
Interesting to see how this one will be recieved, but it has “divisive” written all over it
So I liked it. I liked Luke’s arc, I liked some of the blurring the lines stuff happening. I have things I thought didn’t work, but in general I rank it well.
The main fleet mid section was awfully convenient, I’d say. Probably my biggest gripe was the logistics of that.
Hah- a co-worker of mine just came back from seeing and said it was great, and the opening showed they had learned from the mistajwd of the last one. Oh, and that Mark Hamil was the worst actor ever. Kinda funny reading what people here think in that light.
Skip this movie, seriously. Just go watch Rogue One (great) or A Force Awakens again (above average fanservice). Imo this is worse than Batman vs Superman AND Suicide Squad. It has so many stupid plotholes and bigger contrivances than even AFA. I am usually easily pleased by these blockbuster movies, but this movie just pisses me off for being a waste.
Well, I liked it as much as I liked A Force Awakens (a lot) and infinitely more than the mess that was Rogue One.
I think they are managing to keep the main new trilogy pretty much well tuned to the original tone. Although I could have done with a couple of jokes less.
Compared with A Force Awakens, I though this was more solid plot wise (less lows) but also the directing is far worse by about an order of magnitude, both in framing and mise en scene and in the directing of actors.