re: What scene did the Last Jedi lose you?

The introduction of the Chinese woman who looks like a man

Edit: lol got some triggered people here

Leia in space

There are so many bad scenes and moments where it's impossible to definitively say one lost me. Goddamn it was such a shitty movie.

Luke throwing the light saber away.

The asian chick stopping Finn from sacrificing him thereby dooming them all.

The titty milk from some sort of alien cow.

The 40 minutes wasted on that casino planet that contributed nothing to the plot at all.

Choosing to save some stupid horses over those kids.

Leia somehow surviving in space and flying back to the ship.

Luke dying by astral projection and just fading away.

Rey disapearing for the last 25 minutes of the movie despite being the title character.

Snoke's story ending so anti-climatic and not enough back story about him.

When the bad guys decided to just slowly chase the fleet endlessly rather than have half their fleet hyperspace ahead of them then turn around and crush them between each half. It was one of the dumbest plot points I;d seen in a while and lost me almost immediately.

Mary Poppins Leia pretty much just sealed the deal along with Finn and Rose being able to magically leave and travel back during a neverending chase.

But the dumb stuff was endless.

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The fact that it picked up immediately after the last one ended was a bad sign.

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Yeah, at least JJ can take comfort in knowing that his piece of shite TFA is now admired by comparison.

The moment I saw Laura Dern with the purple SJW hair (the actual regulation SJW haircut), I felt a powerfully sucky disturbance in the force.

But for me, the whole Disney venture ended when I heard "Droid, please!" in TFA. Pandering, stupid bullshite that is ironically more condescending than it is inclusive. That was the last Star Wars movie I paid to see. I don't even feel like streaming Solo.

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What scene did the Last Jedi lose you?

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Leia Poppins when that death scene would have been a great end to her character and add depth to Ben coming back from the dark side/redemption arc. This was where they lost me.

The bad thing is, this might not have been the worst scene but this movie was much like punching/kicking a guy you knocked out with one punch. Yeah, it might look cool but you aren't doing shite but wasting time and energy at that point and can only kill him.

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I held out hope until they killed Snoke. That was dumb and killed off the main villain without one iota of saying who he was. Kylo is a terrible villain. Just awful. And Rey becomes some kind of Jedi master with zero training? The movie is just terrible story telling. Add on what they did to Luke and it’s insulting as well.

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I was so angry at the entire movie at the point when they killed Snoke but I had the faintest hope that Rey would team up with Kylo Ren and really mind frick everything. But no

Also, coming to this board after watching it and realizing there were others who thought the movie was trash was extremely therapeutic to me.

The friend I watched it with liked it and it made me want to punch him in the face.

I think the consensus is that the straw that broke the camel's back was the Leia Poppins scene.

For me it was the beginning bombing run. Yes, the physics were stupid but I will put my disbelief on hold. The pacing was awful for the scene however and it drug out far too long in a movie that was, in Mark Hamill's own words, "the longest Star Wars movie."

Compare it to the space battle scene in Rogue One where the squadron of Y-wings detects a weak point in the star destroyer's shielding and shuts it down with a wave of ion torpedoes. That had crisp pacing, we saw the Y-wings taking heavy casualties to pull it off, and it was acknowledged as a major turning point in the battle.

In TLJ they manage to take out the Dreadnaught that was one shotting Rebel cruisers... and Leia just chews Poe's arse for doing so. It was a horribly dumb scene. Yes, losing their bombers and a good chunk of their fighters wasn't great but taking out the monster ship that could have easily wiped the Rebel fleet away was way more important. Its why you have fighters and bombers... because in the cold calculus of war losing a few dozen pilots and some fighters is cheaper then losing a few cruisers and the thousands of people onboard each ship.

You want to establish dramatic tension between Poe and the Axis of Female Empowerment? Fine, have Poe protest that they threw his friends into the meatgrinder to take out the Dreadnaught while Leia and Admiral Twilight Sparkle stick to the "it had to be done to save the fleet and Rebellion" line. You have believable character conflict that sets up the rest of that arc.

Hell, it even sets up Rose better. Instead of having her guarding the life pods so no one can escape (cringe worthy) have her rope Finn into the whole Casino Planet subplot because she's disillusioned with the leadership of the fleet that sent her sister off to die.

The scene and its aftereffects were poorly paced and written. And all of them were mistakes any half way decent first year film student wouldn't have made.