The TROLLS Strike Back

Rating: 9/10 (4 January 2018)

I too watched this movie the first time and left the theatre with a resounding Huh?
It felt like a series of moments strung together under the guise of a Star Wars film, I just couldn't Find the movie in it.
My heart had started to sink at the Casino section, as most people's do, and it never recovered for the rest of that first viewing.
Now Im an original Star Wars fan, I saw it in the theatre in 1977, and that doesn't make me more of a Fan (it might make me old to some of you rascals) but it does make me someone who has lived with this series for a long time. I watched it in awe, I bought the toys, I grew up and briefly lost it, and rediscovered it, and then been disappointed by it and then redeemed and so on and all the emotions and loyalty wavering that can happen in 40 years.
So after seeing Last Jedi for the first time I discussed it with people and read the user reviews and read critic reviews and watched many youtube videos just waiting till I had a chance to see it again, just by myself on a matinee and to make up my own damn mind. Star Wars always deserves another chance
By the end of the second viewing I had tears in my eyes.
This is a beautiful movie and stands with some of the best Star Wars has to offer.
Once you latch on to the underlying themes this one executes beautifully
Forget your expectations, or what You Think Force Awakens set up, or that this purposely craps on the previous film, it does not. It expands in brilliantly creative ways that Respects its audiences intelligence.
The confusion as to why Luke acts the way he does was gone.Simply, he's had a loss of FAITH.
Like many ancient myths he must go through the loss of this belief before he realizes his true place in this, and his, story
(F%ck me, how would you feel if your nephew and most of the new and only Jedi you were training turned to the dark side and killed the rest)
Finn's adventure with Rose has been tossed off like it was useless, but thats completely missing the point. It's his journey to becoming a True Rebel.
All the clues are there. From Rose telling him to "look closer" (symbolically Finn is opening his eyes)
to when he corrects Captain Phasma's defeated last insult of "you were always scum" to "Rebel Scum"
Also
-Snoke wasn't the true villain of this story, Kylo is. You didn't know the Emperor very long before he was thrown over a railing
-Of Course Rey's parents were nobodies, it would of been stupid if she was a Kenobi or a Skywalker or whatever. Anakin's parent was a nobody too
-Luke's death, or rather becoming one with the Force, staring at the two suns that immediately brings you back to the similar scene in New Hope, is beautiful and completely makes sense as he's completed his destiny.

I could go on and on about how brilliant this is as a Star Wars film, but Im not out to write an essay. I just want to be a supportive voice in this ridiculous wave of negativity.
I can understand if this isn't your taste as to what you think you want out of a Star Wars film, and I will respect anyone with smart intelligent arguments as to why.
But you can't give this movie which had one of the Best lightsaber battles, some of most intense actual Wars in Stars, hands down some some of the most detailed jaw dropping effects and including one of the most incredible single scenes (with no sound even) in any episode, a 1 or 2 rating
So I will say this as an OG fan, if you're burning your star wars t shirts, and saying you won't watch another episode, then please stick true to your word. Honestly I don't want this series to buckle under this Troll session thats taken over the user reviews of this film, and we get some pandering un thought provoking blockbusters to somehow make these "fans" happy
Long Live Star Wars