My normal process with new releases these days tends to be "Hey, x is at theatres now!" Then 5 months pass, and my wife comes home with the blu ray. So yes, I finally saw The Last Jedi last night. And I...ummm...yeah...I kind of feel like I got saved from watching Attack of the Clones again only because of the big four (Ridley, Driver, Boyega, and Isaac) making the best out of a lousy --script.
The Force Awakens certainly had some faults, but it felt like we had finally gotten another "real" Star Wars movie (meaning IV-VI). With actual acting to elicit real emotion from the crowd (not Hayden Christensen endlessly whining like a little twerp). Heck, when TFA first hit cable TV, I found myself dropping whatever I was doing to watch the rest of it on more than one occasion.
But on first viewing of The Last Jedi, it seems like a movie that was very well premised conceptually, but really poorly executed. Trying to do too much at once, and doing it all at a merely average level (at best). And Luke? Totally botched. I will watch TLJ again, if for no other reason than to fully wrap my head around what I saw, but it definitely won't be a drop everything and watch type of event.
I definitely find myself hoping Disney isn't tied to Rian Johnson and will seek out someone new to helm Episode 9.
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