I have never cared enough to review any movie on IMDB. This is important

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2017)

I have a lot to say about the last Jedi, and due to my thought process i can almost guarentee i wont list in order. I just want to share my opinion, and I don't care if it's read or not. I don't think I have ever been more disappointed with a movie than I was seeing it yesterday. I almost felt compelled to write this review because i just cant bear the thought of this having higher than a 8.0 on this website, but I can see it is already dropping and for that i am glad. First impressions were okay, as always. But like I always do, I thought about what I had just watched for a full day, and i have realized several things. This was SO disappointing because I can always tell when movies are going to be good, and when they are going to be bad. I fully expected this to be a fantastic movie for a few reasons. I thought Disney couldn't mess up a franchise this large. I was wrong. I thought the studio could pick a director that knows star wars well enough to handle it well. I was wrong. I thought the 2 hour and 32 minute runtime meant it would almost have to have a reliance on plot rather than action alone. I was partially wrong. By this I mean there was a lot of new development in the plot, but not really in a good way. In fact, I would go so far as to say they could have cut an entire short sequence out of the movie without any negative effects. The best way i can describe this scene is like it's another podrace from episode 1. It really had no place in the movie, took up at least a half hour, and was included an overly elaborate solution to an otherwise simple problem that just happens to be solved in 30 seconds after the obvious visual rhetoric of a scene's plan fails. This was a waste of a solid half hour of runtime. A space battle is a pretty great introduction to a star wars film, but not when the cliche literal cliffhanger detonator, and lame "humor" are more memorable than what happens in the real introduction. My introduction to the movie was an intended suspenseful shot that fell flat, a first order general breaking character and turning into an idiot, and Leia turning into Mary Poppins. This was followed by the most disgrace possible to do to one of the most loved characters in star wars. This was Luke. Or maybe it wasn't, as he was literally nothing like the luke everyone remembers from 1977-1983. Mark Hamill explaining how much of a disservice luke was done should have been a red flag. This new Luke would rather squeeze green milk out of an alien tiddy than bring balance to the force once again. Maybe murder his own nephew in the process. Not even the plot twist of Ren killing Snoke to save Rey could save it, but maybe that's because we saw nearly exactly the same thing in Return Of The Jedi. (Think Darth Vader, Palpatine, and Luke) There were probably 2 parts of this movie I liked, Yoda coming back, (and actually talking correctly like the OT), and the 10 brief seconds of that Pink haired lady (shows how memorable of a character she is) blasting through the First Orders fleet at light speed. This silent, monochromatic clip was a thing of beauty, possibly the best part of the entire film. Another part I liked was the cinematography of Luke's death, as it was subtle enough to not be obvious, but beautiful enough to perfectly close out Luke's story in exactly the same way it began in A New Hope. Gave me chills. With that said, I still disagree with the way it happened. I don't think Luke needed to die. With only 3 main original cast members, 2 are now dead on screen, and one can't return because tragically she is dead in reality. I know I had more to say but this is already nearly a mile long and I've gotten my point mostly across, so I'll conclude with this. All things considered, the last Jedi was terrible. Perhaps more disappointing than the actual movie, is not knowing who to blame for it. Disney? Rian Johnson, Perhaps? The writers? Oh that's Rian Johnson. Probably him because Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Frank Oz, Daisy Riddley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac were great.