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I need leftists to stop incorrectly thinking The Last Jedi was a good moviePermalink On twitter.com
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The film literally starts by fridging a chick, before sending its POC characters on a wild goose chase detached thematically and plot-wise from the story we actually care aboutPermalink On twitter.com
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Finn especially suffers. He's the most interesting character in the series and probably has a lot of personal things to say about the fight against the first order but he's consigned to a second movie straight to just following people aroundPermalink On twitter.com
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Rey's reveal could've been cool, maybe, if it was revealed earlier and we saw how it affected her. But it wasn't and we didn't and it didn't work with what 7 did and got deleted in 9 so that's a washPermalink On twitter.com
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"But it was anti capitalist!" Lol you mean the two lines the film took to say "war profiteering bad" and also "both sides are bad" before not doing anything with it? That anti capitalism? The anti capitalism that could be removed from the film without changing anything? ReallyPermalink On twitter.com
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"But it showed us that anyone could have the force no matter where they come from!" 1. Other series did this better 2. No it doesn't. What would've actually worked is other characters showing various degrees of force sensitivity instead of white girl and white broom childOn twitter.com
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"But the film challenges the legitimacy of the Jedi as an institution!" No it doesn't. It fake questions it, but by the end of the film Rey takes the texts and just does the Jedi stuff again. Luke, the character who actually asks questions, is revealed to be wrong and cynicalPermalink On twitter.com
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There's like one, maybe two legitimately decent movies in the entirety of the Star Wars franchise and none of them are 7, 8, or 9: things that only exist to make a corporate monopoly more moneyPermalink On twitter.com