This film is proof

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2020)

Whenever multitudes of so-called critics and fans pan a film hard, that's when you go out and see it. The worse the complaints are, the better that film is when you finally go and see it.
This movie is equivalent to six Star Wars movies rolled into one.
That doesn't make it bad. And people complained about "the last Jedi", which basically took place on a couple of ships and one gambling planet. So here's this film, and it's pretty much like a wild goose chase across the entire galaxy, and there was a reason why the character of Rey became a scavenger because that's what she is good at- and that is also a big clue to the events of this film
I had heard that this film, while tying a bow on several of the plot lines starting all the way back and episode I, also creates new, unanswered conundrums.
Well? So what. Even though the main franchise is finally finished as of this film, that simply means the end of The three principal cast members.
Who's left? Lando, Chewie, four droids. And several new characters that we have picked up starting in episode VII.
So this film wasn't so much about ending the original story but also beginning a new story.
So of course they are going to seed the ending of this story with new conundrums that will have to be answered eventually.
There are also other shows in the franchise... Clone Wars, The Mandalorian, and there are probably also some books. So there is some semblance of a Canon for the ark ending here.
And when you click through the reviews and comments that are allegedly generated by different individuals, we discover verbatim duplicates of the same bulleted list of complaints, why would one person who lives in England write the same exact review as somebody living in South Africa? That doesn't make sense, unless course neither of those people exist.
So we mostly prefer her to make our own judgments. Of course the latest new thing that Trolls do is to assert that we received payment for out positive review. I WISH! That would be nice, but nobody gave me a dime. Think we should flip that question around and ask how many of these identical one star reviews that use the exact same arguments as 1000 others if they were paid to write THOSE reviews? Because generally, when people hate something, they don't jump up and immediately assemble elongated bulleted lists of complaints: they generally don't say anything about it. Unless they had some motivation, to not just post the bulleted list of complaints once, but hundreds of times. But most of the people I know and myself, whenever we don't like something very much we basically walk away from it and never mention it again. So why isn't that happening here?
But this is only me, one person. And my experience with this movie completely disagrees with these thousands of one star reviews.
Because I loved this, this was the perfect end for the franchise. Not only is it an exciting romp through the galaxy, there are also pauses where we get to say goodbye to our old friends. It is seeded with small mysteries that either get answered or leave us lingering hoping that they will be answered in some future entry for the franchise.
Now if I were to say anything negative about this film at all it would be that they changed Chewie's make up. The last time the original actor played the part was in episode VII, and the new person has been doing it for at least two films, possibly three if you count Solo.
And Chewie always looked pretty much the same, even with the change in actors, until this movie.
So that's my one and only issue. If anybody really wants to know The ending of this film, the answer is always a lie in the very beginning of the film. And that is true with this film as well- upon watching this a second time I noticed several things that were referred to in the first scenes that were basically answered in the final scenes.
Every film in this franchise had good and bad things. I don't think people realize exactly how big Star Wars was in 1977? When people go see a film more than once, that is unusual but we had people going back and seeing it 50, 100 times. Myself, I only went twice. And the ratings for this film from 1977 were a lot higher at that time than they actually are right now.
Because this film it and all of the films in the franchise and all of the television shows and specials and one shots are all part of a new mythology.
Star Wars is a franchise that has to live up to its name, which is basically perpetual conflict on a galactic scale. And how people cope with that how the normal people cope with that the things that they do and when they have had enough they will actually gather together.
It's the perfect metaphor for our country during this time there never has been a greater unifying force then having a government that has set rule of law out of the nearest airlock. And that's basically what this film is about, it's about how a few people stand up to oppression, and then more people join them until we eventually have more people then whatever force or army is threatening to blow up our planets.
Because that's one of the themes of this franchise, the proliferation of planet-destroying weapons. It is common to Star Wars, and it is common to our world as well.
So the question comes down to this: what are we going to do? Are we going to not care and pretend that everything is normal, or are we going to do something about it?