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re: TLJ wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:23 am to SelaTiger
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:23 am to SelaTiger
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I’m not saying it wasn’t bad. But if they would not have trashed Luke the way they did IMO it would have been an ok movie.
Absolutely not.
It starts off with one space ship dropping bombs on another. In space. I can live with their being some crazy, advanced tech that keeps atmosphere inside ships but allows other ships to pass through, but to completely remove gravity from space is going too far.
Then we have every male character being a fricking moron and needing to be saved by a female character. Every. fricking. One. If roles were reversed on that there would be feminists sky-screaming until their perms fell out. This even went to the point of bringing in a never-before introduced female office who valiantly goes down with her ship in a way normally afforded to only well-established characters.
Then we have the absolute waste of time that was the casino run. They spent ~20% of the movie's time having two characters go out on a mission that was actually useless other than to say "horse-racing is bad, rich people are bad and rich people who race horses are the worst".
Now we get to the Asian chick whose character and acting were both so horrible that I purposely refuse to find out either her or her character's names. I can only believe she won some sort of contest or saved the life of someone high up at Disney to get such a part in a Star Wars movie when she has acting skills that would make her questionable just to be a stand-in in a 7th grade Christmas play.
But wait, there's more! We have the utterly useless setup of Rey going into the cave with all the reflections that accomplished... nothing. It was a shorter and less preachy but it was just as big a waste of time as the casino run.
And then there's Luke. They could have used the wasted time spent on Spelunker Rey or Casino Bore-yal to give his change of attitude more depth, to help bring the audience along. Instead they rushed it, ham-fisting it into the story like a drunk with at half-mast trying to get into a hooker. It was ugly, messy and completely unsatisfying.
There's more but they are small annoyances compared to these glaring examples of true fricktardery in storytelling.
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