Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Bagraton1812 — 03 Jan 2018

Seen it opening weekend, the more I think about it, the more I am shocked by what I saw. I understand we all need to move on with the Star Wars universe, it needs to move on from Skywalker, but why the need to destroy the old movies and their heroes. With the millions of dollars available and the "creative minds" in the industry could we not have moved on AND kept the heroes from the past ? Why destroy it all? why burn it down? why alienate half the fan base? Movie was a cool movie, but a terrible, terrible experience. One that gets worse as time goes on. A betrayal of my love of Star Wars. The plot holes aside (which their are MANY), I don't care as much about them. I am OK with Han, Luke and Leia dying off and new people coming in, its honestly OK with me... but why did they have to destroy the characters that made Star Wars they way it was. Why could Luke not have fought Kylo for real and died sparking the light of hope ? what harm would that have done anyone ? he died anyway ? What harm would it have been to have Leia killed in space ? what did she do the rest of the movie ? nothing. It would have ended her arch. Now its going to be done off screen...

What harm would it have done to explain Snoke more ? and how the First order came to be ? It would not have taken much screen time... instead we got horse racing. What harm would it have done to the story to have Akbar so kamikaze instead of a new character who hardly speaks at all ? I doubt anyone would have said after ..."why didn't they invent a new purple haired lady to do that ?... what a waste of a potential story line !" My opinions are my own and I'm the one living with them comfortably. No one else needs to care, I'm OK with that. Life goes on, but I have a hard time explaining to myself why Disney/Rian had to burn down a universe I grew up with to make a new one. They could easily have had both. Instead its divided everyone down lines and helped ruin the Majic of it all. Why ? What for ? A New Star Wars ? I'm ready for that ? but I also wanted Old Star Wars ! Its important to me... I can accept anything, I can accept death of beloved characters... I cannot accept destruction for destructions sake... slightly depressed over this. 0 out of ten is too high... Read the books (the ones about Thrawn) and that was a Star Wars experience... brought life to my ideas of what happened after RoTJ... the Last Jedi was Star Wars murder. Bold, new, and aweful.

Cool effects tho.... hyperspace death was a really cool scene in 3D. I was amazed at the time.... when I got home tho, ... I was like... why didn't the ships that ran out of gas just to that in the first place... the hospital ship captain even stayed with his ship as it was being destroyed ?.. he could have done it. How did the other ships around the Mega ship blow up as well Km's away? but everyone in the Mega ship yards away seemed to live ? How did Phasma end up at the other end of the hanger with more troopers, when Finn and rose were still where they were ? Did she get blown to the other end and just happened to land in front of a horde of troopers who remained on their feet ? So much to think about later on that once the movie ended I started to question things.

People say read the books.. they help explain things. But any movie that requires you to read books to get a movies message, is a BAD movie.... AND any book that requires you to watch a movie is a BAD book. You cannot argue that... even if you want to argue it for arguments sake, you know in your heart your wrong.