Dear Star Wars

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2017)

Dear Star Wars, how are you? I am doing good. Let's get to the point, I have a problem with you. I can't enjoy you. I was born way after you and saw two of your films A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back during my cynical teenage years, and I admit your movies are entertaining but they didn't live up to the expectation. That's not a bad thing, I still appreciate you for what you are and what you did to the entire industry but unfortunately I can't enjoy you like the fans of the franchises can. I want to, really bad, but your expectations are incredibly high and the pop culture already showed us what you are multiple times. I skipped The Force Awakens for exactly that, less than a week passed and already I was spoiled of the whole thing and already there was a hype, maybe it was a mistake, I don't know, I will probably visit that film when I am less cynical.
However, your new film, Rogue One, seemed like a good gateway for people that want to get into Star Wars but can't because of the situation we are in. It didn't, it was still entertaining from time to time but I can't say I became a fan of your franchise after this movie, here are the reasons.
1. The characters are "cool" but that's mostly it. I like the characters in your movie, they were cool and memorable. My favourite one is probably Chirrut Îmwe as his way of detecting enemies even though he was blind was awesome, and he had a funny side of him. Actually, most of them were interesting but I didn't care about them. Everybody in the movie had a single trait and a skill, because of that feel one dimensional. I don't really know the story behind them and why each of them were so inclined to follow Jyn Erso. (mostly, there's evil and we must stop it) Like at the end of the movie I feel like I learned not that much about the characters and I didn't feel emotional attachment to any of them.
2. Death of the characters were predictable My favourite death in your movie was K2SO's death. His slow death felt was more emotional than the death of Jyn Erso, or any of the death of the Rogue One crew. Because each characters would fulfill their duty and then die immediately. Most of the characters had one thing they had to do and then die. That's why I guess Jyn Erso's death wasn't a big emotional moment for me. In the span of 5-10 minutes all the main characters died. I was tired of it, what's the point? It would be so awesome if one character dies without fulfilling his quest. It would be a emotional moment and as he is dying he would regret it and think that he jeopardized the mission. Even the villain Krennic basically served his antagonist purpose and then died immediately. (I did like how his death was handled, as he is staring at basically his creation killing him).
3. Villains were meh. Krennic was so blend. He could be so menacing, but he wasn't. He was so understated when he could be bigger and when he should be understated he feels caricature. He is ambitious, I get that but he is not that scary. He doesn't have that legendary presence like the Emperor, Vader or even Tarkin has. The second villain Tarkin, other than for one scene when he would give motivation to Krennic, felt useless. Why is he in this movie? I am struggling to remember if his presence shifted the story at all and unlike in A New Hope he doesn't feel like a force to be reckoned with. Part of them maybe due to the CGI character, which sometimes looked like an animated character in a middle of a live action set. Or maybe it's the fact that he feels crammed in to show the connection to the main saga and to please the fans. Finally Vader, who also seems to be a fan service, as in the story he doesn't do a great deal however when he does something it's meaningful. His hallway fight was amazing and he felt like a legend every time he was in the screen. Vader was great and could have been the main antagonist but he was in screen for a such a small time that his character kinda feels wasted.
4. The world. I know that the biggest thing about you Star Wars is the lore and the world, then why the heck did you introduce all the planet's name in the bottom left hand corner? That's so lazy and doesn't tell anything. Also the landscape changes a lot so we can't stay at an interesting place so that we can get adjusted to it.
Those are my main problems. There are some great things about you, the technical aspect of you are amazing, and you aren't using the main franchise to convince the moviegoers to watch this film. I was also entertained here and there but unfortunately your latest film Rogue One didn't convince me to join Club Star Wars. You might say that I am being unfair to your new movie simply because it is a part of you and in some aspect, I am. I am judging this film by high standard because it has your name on it. People flock to the theatres if a movie is connected to you, I get why but you haven't shown me why. This film was average. This film didn't show me why so many people find Star Wars endearing. I want to get to know you, Star Wars but you aren't trying hard enough. Be risky, emotional, great.
Show me you deserve the praise.
Sincerely, an asshole on the internet