Star Wars Episode 8

[sdp]

Well just got back from seeing it and I'm sad to say that it sucked, are the reviews shill or just that hypnotized by the brand? Best movie since Empire Strikes Back? This could be the weakest movie of them all.

Now I know I've been harsh on Disney Star Wars and I wasn't excited for the movie but I went in as a fanboy expecting to be impressed, I really didn't want to hate it, I wanted it to redeem VII. I don't hate it, it's not a rehash like VII, it's just boring. Mild spoilers ahead but I'm going to be as vague as I can, if I write a real spoiler I'll tag it.




The Good:
Every scene with Luke Skywalker is awesome, every single one, is it the best Luke Skywalker movie? haha no, but he did make the movie interesting. The training was a bit by the numbers but it worked and I feel they handled the character well.

The Rey/Kylo relationship was actually compelling, I actually cared about Kylo who I hated in TFA, Rey is still a Mary Sue but she was interesting. They kind of dropped the ball at the end though, but at least there's something besides Nostalgia from Luke that makes the movie interesting.

The Bad:

The whole movie drags, especially the beginning, and even near the third act when things begin happening it starts to drag again. It's so boring, this will make it very hard to re-watch, especially since I already know the "twists". I think even VII being a rehash will be more rewatchable than this one.

Captain Phasma is treated as well as she was in TFA, Finn, one of my fav. characters from VII was not written well in this movie, they kind of ruined him. All the new characters except for one who was ok sucked. Even Chewbacca felt wasted only used for laughs. Leia sucked, she's not that much different from TFA so you know what to expect.

Too much comedy? Maybe but that's far from the movies problems. We still don't know who the heck is the first order or what the resistance is. And somehow the resistance is now a rebellion and the first order is now almost in complete control of the galaxy? I don't know what's going on except that it really went back to the status quo of Episode IV, some fans tried to justify that VII had a different relationship between the factions but no, this movie confirms it's the status quo of the OT.

They drip fed us through out this long boring movie tidbits of information that should've been explained since TFA, and still it didn't really answer many questions. It's a bad movie that only lives by the "twists" it does, but if you take those away you are left with the only two good points I mentioned.

It's a bit depressing but I just don't like this new trilogy, there's literally nothing that IX could do to fix the damage done by VII and VIII. I can only hope any future Star Wars movies/projects are different but counting everyone is eating it up like they're great movies I'm not counting on it when people say "It's literally better than the ESB"

The Spoilers

Spoiler:

Luke dying worked fine for me, it's sad since he was awesome in the movie but it works.

Yoda appearing? I don't know, it was cool but maybe it'll age just as bad as Lightsaber Yoda from Ep. II did which I loved when I first saw it but now cringe.

Snoke being killed while keeping things interesting, we never learn who the hell he was or how he knew all the things he knew, now that he's dead I doubt it'll be something too important in IX unless he somehow didn't die. ugh.

So Finn isn't Rey's love interest anymore? Way to downgrade the black guy in this movie..

I don't think Phasma died, but if she didn't she will never have any credibility.