Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Malonehart — 22 Dec 2017

My family and I go to Disney World every year. I was extremely happy when Disney obtained the rights for Star Wars because I thought it would be more Star Wars and because Disney usually does an outstanding job with its products. However, I grew up loving Star Wars and Luke Skywalker because Luke would never give up on his father no matter how terrible his father was. But for some reason, Luke no longer had that faithful determination that was the key to his growth in the Original Trilogy. It was obvious that Disney killed off Luke just so they could more easily expand the Star Wars Universe to make more money. They could have done it in a far better way by making him go out showing his true power and saving his friends. How this was not thought of is amazing. Not giving Luke a final amazing lightsaber duel is asinine. The greatest Star War war character ever was treated like a burdensome character to deal with and so they just did away with him unceremoniously. I understand that I am upset because of how they handled Luke Skywalker and not upset with the quality of the movie itself. However, I think that my rating is appropriate because the source material for the movie was almost entirely disregarded (except for the facts that there are outer space scenes and the Force is involved in the story). If the Lord of the Rings was given a new Trilogy and that trilogy made Aragorn a feeble, depressed character then many fans would freak out on that issue as well.

I am so confounded on how Rian Johnson came to the conclusion that Luke Skywalker would act in the way he did in The Last Jedi. Even Mark Hammill thought his character in The Last Jedi wasn't true to form. The worst part of all is that Disney and Johnson are saying that the divisiveness The Last Jedi has caused is a positive thing. If you are losing half of your fan base how can that possibly be a good thing? It may be sad to some people that I can be so upset about a movie, but Star Wars was such a large part of my childhood (and my adulthood) that tarnishing so many of those happy memories for me if hard to move past. I will no longer be going to Disney after this year. The only reason I am still going this year is because I paid for tickets, a room, and a meal plan before The Last Jedi was released to theaters. Even though I love Disney, I cannot support a company that would so recklessly destroy a source of happiness for so many people. Hopefully Luke Skywalker isn't dead and just found a way to transport himself through the Force to different locations. That's the only hope I have that Star Wars may not be ruined for good.