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So, I recently had to watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Again.
A lot of the pacing issues disappeared on my second viewing. And that's the only improvement. Otherwise, I consider my relationship with this film to be what Hardcore Final Fantasy fans consider their relationship with Final Fantasy XIII to be. Meaning? It sucks.
It's still a terrible film. Poorly scripted, poorly paced, poorly written. Not a single character works, and the one decent character (Finn) is completely wasted through the Canto Bight arc.
And After seeing this film, Jar Jar's status as the worst character in Star Wars is... questionable. Rose and Admiral Holdo are far worse, because Jar Jar didn't interfere with the plot of the two films that he was in. Rose interfered with a lot of Finn's potential character development, and do I even need to talk about Holdo?
The thing with The Force Awakens was that, while it wasn't exactly a good movie, It actually set up the basis for a sequel that could potentially be good. I don't think The Last Jedi did that. They just contributed to a messy, disjointed, inconsistent mess of a trilogy, and the third film in this trilogy doesn't have much going for it.
The Sad thing, is that there were some good Ideas in this film. Finn might have been a compelling character, and bringing up the failure of the Jedi would have been a decent subject. It's just hidden behind a terrible plot and a terribly made film.
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I prefer characters who actually have personalities.
Rey doesn't exactly have one. In fact, I think she might have worked better as a silent protagonist.
Or, she does, If you consider "Being good at the Force" and "Just being a decent human being" personality traits. But that isn't enough for me. I want real character traits. Not artificial ones from a bad Self-Insert fanfiction.
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I've only watched The Last Jedi once and I thought it was a mess; the only scenes that stood out was the space battle between the Resistance and the First Order at the beginning along with Rey and Kylo Ren fighting Snoke's guards. I would have put Luke brushing off the First Order assault as the coolest moment in the movie as well as one of the stand out moments in the franchise, but it was revealed to be a troll.
I know that the prequels are reviled, looked down upon and I'm one of the few who don't hate them, but they did their job in telling the origin of Darth Vader; I'll admit it was sloppily done (mostly this sloppiness is seen in Attack of the Clones), however, they had the same passion as the original trilogy which is something I cannot say for The Last Jedi.
