Okay, I'm gonna be blunt here:
I feel like the backlash against The Last Jedi is a display of autism, the depth and scope of which I find nearly impossible to comprehend. I don't think any one of three new Star Wars movies is a masterpiece (But then... I don't think any Star Wars movie aside from New Hope is a masterpiece period, but I digress) but I will say that they've been getting better with each movie and I will say that Last Jedi is the one that came the closest to greatness.
Force Awakens was, overall, a pretty dull affair. It had decent characters but the story had almost no interesting elements whatsoever, Snoke was a generic menacing figure on a throne, Rey was so obviously implied to be the daughter of Luke that any mystery surrounding her would inevitably end in a letdown and there was no sense of mystery or intrigue that it managed to establish. That Last Jedi managedd to take all of this stuff and make, and I totally stand by that, one of the best Star Wars movies yet out of it is very close to a miracle.
I literally don't get what people are so angry about. In a way it reminds of a smaller, pettier version of GamerGate where all legitimite grievances people might have seem to take a backseat behind a lot of uncomfortably political posturing. There's this hilariously stupid fan edit floating around on the web, someone has probably brought it up by now that... cuts all the female characters from the movie or whatever and while I'm not saying that weird hate campaign against the movie is a sexism thing it certainly seems to be for some people.
I feel like the backlash against The Last Jedi is a display of autism, the depth and scope of which I find nearly impossible to comprehend. I don't think any one of three new Star Wars movies is a masterpiece (But then... I don't think any Star Wars movie aside from New Hope is a masterpiece period, but I digress) but I will say that they've been getting better with each movie and I will say that Last Jedi is the one that came the closest to greatness.
Force Awakens was, overall, a pretty dull affair. It had decent characters but the story had almost no interesting elements whatsoever, Snoke was a generic menacing figure on a throne, Rey was so obviously implied to be the daughter of Luke that any mystery surrounding her would inevitably end in a letdown and there was no sense of mystery or intrigue that it managed to establish. That Last Jedi managedd to take all of this stuff and make, and I totally stand by that, one of the best Star Wars movies yet out of it is very close to a miracle.
I literally don't get what people are so angry about. In a way it reminds of a smaller, pettier version of GamerGate where all legitimite grievances people might have seem to take a backseat behind a lot of uncomfortably political posturing. There's this hilariously stupid fan edit floating around on the web, someone has probably brought it up by now that... cuts all the female characters from the movie or whatever and while I'm not saying that weird hate campaign against the movie is a sexism thing it certainly seems to be for some people.