It's just a movie guys...

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2017)

Hey real quick ...I'd normally give this movie an 8 but with all the rage ratings out there I think it's unfair to tantrum rate this film as anything below a 6...especially giving it a 1 is just silly. So i rated a 10 to just try to offset the unfair 1's out there. Movies that deserve 1's are the films that are fundamentally broken god awful films like: birdemic, incredible bulk, replica etc.
While you may have your issues with this film it's not a fundamentally broken film by any means. I will say it has some pacing issues with the Casino scenes which felt a bit disjointed. Alot of people are angry that this movie shook things up too much while they also ridiculed TFA for being to safe. So what do you want? You'll never get the original trilogy again. The star wars lore needs to be expanded beyond skywalkers. This movie had to be different, It's what the story needed to be. The main theme of this film IS failure. Yoda even says "Failure is the best teacher" basically. Everyone fails in this film and that's refreshing and different. Nothing happened the way the fans expected and that's fun too right? It's nice that star wars can surprise us.
I feel like people put these films on a pedestal. In the end they're just movies. Go to them and just watch. I know it's tough to watch a film that has so much fandom and a legacy of other films behind it to compare it to. But try to watch them as their own films. That being said I do believe this movie is one you have to watch more than once. Because once the dust settles you can watch it again and look at it without the pressure and expectation.
People are angry that Luke was a hermit. Guys he experienced alot and felt betrayed by his own religion. He was a broken man, to me this is realistic and interesting to watch. He had an arc and we can't have luke be exactly the same to have as much of a story arc. He was his normal self at the end of the film. He was the hero the rebellion needed and he was more of a symbol to them. "standing up to the first order with a laser sword." I felt that was fun.
Rey took the texts and Yoda destroyed the tree cuz Luke wasnt going to. isnt the force all living things? Binds the universe together? So why couldnt Yoda do that? Why do we need so much explained to us? Can't the force evolve? Hell we had fast running jedi in Ep1 but we never saw that again. SO many times that would have been helpful but we never saw it again. Do we want midichlorians or something? Why do we all of a sudden want everything explained to us? We complained about these things but then it stops now people are mad again?
Snoke mentions that he warned kylo ren as he grew in power the light would rise to challenge him. But Luke closed himself off from the force so Rey's abilities through the force was created out of necessity by the force for balance. To me, this is fun that the force is this self aware entity.
I can go on and on you guys. Like the movie, hate the movie. But be fair. Does it have issues? of course it does. Every star wars movie has issues. Nothing is perfect. Empire when it came out, had a huge outrage and divided fans. Now it's widely regarded as the best star wars film of all. Am i saying that will happen with the last jedi? I dont know.