Fanboys have ruined Star Wars

Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2019)

Catering to fans is a dangerous way to go.While it may seem to make sense to want to pleas your target audience, in the end though all it does is muddle creative intent, and that's exactly what happened here.
This movie seemed entirely created as a safe space to those fanboys who hated Last Jedi. I'm not talking about those who had legitimate complaints about the movie, I mean those 30+ year olds who were upset because all their fan theories got thrown out and Luke wasn't some big bad ass that they wanted him to be.
For some reason, there's a new narrative that honoring the original trilogy means milking it to no end, and if all you want from a Star Wars film is that then congratulations, you got it. This movie makes all of the nostalgia and fan-service moments of TFA seem tame, to the point where you just are cringing in your seats at the movie theater. Literally every 5 minutes I could count a reference or an over the top throwback, I get this is "the last of the saga" but this is supposed to be its own movie and instead all we get is some fan fiction rewrite of Episode 6 with a new coat of paint... again.
Even as its own movie it has a lot of problems. The plot makes no sense and is entirely thrown out through exposition, and it moves so fast that you can't absorb what happened as characters are racing from one awfully contrived magguffin to another. Characters are reduced to tropes rather than actual people like Rian Johnson tried to do in TLJ. The dialogue is so forced and corny it makes George Lucas's writings in the prequels look shakespearean. Palpatine coming back makes no sense and completely invalidates the efforts of the previous 8 movies combined to the point where you might as well not bother watching them. How did he build a fleet so massive, who was manning it? New characters are introduced but aren't really explored and old characters, such as Rose, get unfairly pushed to the sideline. Rey being a palpatine comes out of no where and clearly an attempt to cater to those hurt about not getting some family theory right about Rey. Finn does absolutely jack squatt, speaking of that what did he want to say to Rey? Oh, and he somehow has the force now, even though Star Wars is now back to saying that the force is bloodline based, lol.
Things happen in this movie so fast and for no reason. Someone died? Just kidding. We're going to this planet now so you don't have to think! Let's chase this MacGuffin! More nonsensical force powers are introduced with no explanation or without reasonable cause for the users to have known them. Leia, though they try their best with her, is at her worst, and Lando shouldn't be in the film. They turned him into a meme.
In fact, this entire movie is a meme, just an attempt to remind the older generation that they're still the best. All of the callbacks were just annoying, yet people still cackled and clapped in the theater as if this was oscar worthy. Instead of creating a movie to move Star Wars into the future, this literally takes Star Wars 3 steps back to the point where the only way it's enjoyable is if all you're looking for is a reminder of the original trilogy, and sadly that will be enough.
I understood some issues with the Last Jedi, but it was a solid film that actually innovated the franchise, but apparently fans don't want innovation, they want their safe spaces and want to be coddled with what's familiar. This movie is an insult to fans who actually think, and leaves Star Wars on such a sour note that I can't bother watching this trilogy anymore.
I give this movie 3 stars for the visuals, the acting (Adam killed it despite being given such a mortally awful script), and for 3p0 as he was the only well writted part of this. Other than that, this movie was just atrocious, and it seems fanboys are ok with it. They can say Last Jedi ruined Star wars all they want, but in truth this is the nail in the coffin because Disney caved to their needs. Fanboys have turned Star Wars away from being a possibly innovative franchise for the future to just be that safe space for them with eye candy. Remember, these are supposed to be for kids, and yet now Star Wars is being adapted for a generation that is far too old to be the target audience and just can't let go of their Luke Skywalker PJs.