Never Mind The Genuine Faux Purists

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2019)

Look. I waited five hours in line on opening day in '77 to see the original Star Wars and I had every single original toy they made when I was a kid. So as purists go I'm about as pure as it gets minus the light saber battles and tents at 14:00 on workdays in the middle of Hollywood Blvd. With that said, ignore anybody trying to mega-pan this movie regardless of their logic. As with Game of Thrones, there will always be a contingent of pocket protector wearing nerds who lack the talent to have been employed in a saga like this who will have some problem with it. And I'm a 70's D&D playing kid who was the first in my group to be able to program a computer, at 9 years old. A true TRS-80 4K dork.
This was a really good movie. It was a fitting end to the story, with sadness, loss, triumph, laughter, and plenty of the same action that made the original's breakthroughs in '77 so trademarked. In that combination, I find it more in the vein of Rogue One, which having seen all of them, was the best movie of them all in my opinion from a film making and directing standpoint, without the camp, and with that realism that is necessary even in a fictional story that sells it and maintains the emotion. As a Star Wars film which by definition had to ensure that "good" triumphs over "evil", they managed to mask it in uncertainty well enough to make the story interesting and fun to immerse in. And what more could one have asked?
Can one find things to whine about? Well if you quit your job and devote every minute you have until the power gets cut off watching Star Wars, I'm betting yes. But if you work for a living and actually show up there, aren't paid to whine about things nobody will pay you to do, want to see an entertaining movie that leaves a good feeling without being corny, and have invested in the saga at all to where you at least know where The Last Jedi left off, then you won't be disappointed. Full stop.