re: Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi Discussion Thread ***SPOILERS***

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And it's strange, because after leaving the theater, I thought it was entertaining. But the more I thought about it and read up on it, the more it was obvious how off the mark this movie was.

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Yep, same here.

My rapid reaction overlooked the damage it did to the franchise.

Lea should have died.

Dern served no purpose and could’ve been replaced by many other existing characters.

Snoke? Why? Who? What’s his story? Oh, never mind.

Let’s go to space Monte Carlo. Why? No reason at all apparently.

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And it's strange, because after leaving the theater, I thought it was entertaining. But the more I thought about it and read up on it, the more it was obvious how off the mark this movie was.

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I had a similar reaction.

I thought it had some entertainment value -even as it made no sense at parts - but I was bothered by some things that I was having trouble putting exact thought to as I left.

If you had told me it was like Fifth element - just a crazy space adventure - turn off your brain, ignore Chris Tucker antics and it has no ties to anything else, I would say it was a poorly executed but entertaining enough through action movie.

But its not - its 8 of 9 and 2 of 3 in a group of stories. And it not only actively doesn't add to any of those that came before or it or set up anything of interest for what comes after it, it actively destroys things of value in the ones that preceded it and destroys intrigue in what happens next. It was extremely harmful.