I think I've seen this movie before (around 9 times)

Rating: 5/10 (5 February 2020)

How many times are we going to let the Star Wars writers get away with repeating the same plots, scenes, themes, and lines before we stop paying to see these movies? Why not just have the fans write them? Princess Leia's lines are so predictable that the writers have been able to complete 2 movies using archive footage of Carrie Fisher. I don't think most of us can honestly match all of C-3PO's quips with the episodes that he says them in. The Emperor's and Han Solo's scenes in this movie could have been pieced together with archive footage as well. Maybe they were.
One story sequence was so poorly constructed that it took the writing to a new low for the franchise. This is when Chewbacca appears alive and well in the custody of the First Order after we have just seen the troop transport ship he entered blown up in a Force duel between Rey and Kylo Ren. Apparently there was a second transport ship that we were not aware of and Rey's Force powers had reached a level where she could inadvertently blow up a ship by aiming her hand at it and thinking but she still couldn't sense the presence or absence of one of her closest friends. Can the writers pull something like this and still expect us to believe any other story line in the movie? Apparently they can.
I guess Disney has figured out that as long as they can piece together some nostalgic tripe into a semi coherent story, it will be enough for anyone 60 and under to go see hoping that this time it might be a good movie. Most of my friends consider seeing the latest Star Wars movie as a duty, to pay their respects to something that once was great. Now with Carrie Fisher's archive footage it is literally like paying respect at a wake.