my hot take is that disney was so scared of Finn/Poe shippers that they invented a love interest for Finn and wrote one of the worst cinematic subplots ever all for the sake of keeping Finn and Poe from interacting with each other.

...wait that's not even a hot take that's just literally what happened lmao

It's OKAY with some cringey lib epic catchphrase moments. The bigger problem the whole trilogy has however is being slop with absolutely nothing to say, it lacks a political message which makes the story not really strike a chord with any of the audience.

It had some really neat ideas buried in all the fan service (that the fans fucking hated anyway, lol, lmao even).

The idea of there being no chosen one prophecy savior hero mega power jedi, and no big bad invincible villain god sith with three boss phases, was pretty cool. The hero is just some random junker born to nobodies, and the villain is just some dipshit that gets Final Destinationed by a kid who's pissed off at his uncle. And the lil slave kid in the final shot, who casually uses the Force to sweep up a bit faster, really sold the idea that anybody has the potential to be a hero.

Anyway that's too brainy, MORE LASER SWORDS PLS!

I liked the red salt planet. Very visually striking.

Its mid slop. Which makes it more baffling that people went to war over it.

it was ok better than force awakens

I think if Leia had done the hyperdrive ram (as I read was originally the plan), it would have made perfect sense.

Jump too early you ghost through them, too late they stop you with shields/mass/tractor beams. Hitting that sweet spot is next to impossible, not even a droid or computer could do it.

Leia who has run from the force, turned her back to it her whole life, in her last moments reconciles and taps into the force, allowing her to perfectly time hitting the hyperdrive.

Then when Luke dies ascending to the force he travels momentarily back in time as a force ghost to guide Leia the way Ben guided him in a New Hope.

TLJ should have been Space Balls II but gay, but Disney were a bunch of cowards as usual so they ruined it

It was decent. Needed a little tightening up

I didn't really care for the Force Awakens, it was fine, but just slop, and it was a tipping point for me in not actually seeing movies in theatres anymore. So I ended up not seeing the last jedi, though from what I've heard I probably would've enjoyed it more than FA.

The script was mechanically flawed but I liked it. It took the entire mess of Star Wars lore and somehow turned into a coherent thesis, setting things up perfectly for the finale. Abrams's retcons were criminal imo.

Of the sequels, it is the only one that even resembles a movie.

Also, the way Luke goes out was fucking epic and anyone upset by it needs their head examined.

I will also reevaluate it as a still flawed, but ultimately consequential piece of fictional media.

Don't ask me to be okay with the death of my father that ended up saving the town.

Not like this.

Equal parts racism combined with equal parts her being the focal point of all the most boring parts of the film.

That's not true! Some people hated her because she is a woman! Some people hated her because she is not rail skinny.

This is misogynist and body-shamer erasure!

Too much subversion and all that. I like riaan Johnson other movies and it works for those but here.... Its meh. A paragon archetype becoming disillusioned usually would need some better writing to make it work otherwise it starts looking as goofy as injustice.